The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-06
Late Returns May Cut
Down Apparent Work
ing Majority
ID SEATS GAINED
BY REPUBLICANS
T. J. Walsh Slated To
Win-WaltOn Is
Out
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and Senate. But it appeared
that final reports from all
districts would be necessary
before there could be a deter
mination whether President
Coolidge could expect a real
working majority in the next
Congress.
Returns from 800 of the 435
congressional districts gave
the republicans an actual ma
jority-218-but in this total
are included nearly a score of
the La Toilette insurgents
The democrats, meantime, had
made certain of ITO seats and
the Farmer-Labor party of
two.
On the basis of these returns the re-
.publicans had made net gain of III
over the democrats, recapturing 70 seats
as against four now held by republic
ans which were moved over into the
democratic column.
lineup was republicans, 225; democrats,
POI, and three scattered.
Br0Okhart Admits Defeat
In the senatorial contest the most
surprising result was in Iowa where
Smith W. Brookhart, republican, who
publicly repudiated his own national
ticket, had conceded his defeat at the
hands of Daniel F. Steck, democratic
lawyer of Ottumwa. Mr.. Steck was
generally credited with receiving sup
port from many regular republicans.
The republicans, however, apparently
had gained three senatorial seats on the
basis of returns received early tonight.
These were in Massachusetts, Ken
lucky and Oklahoma.
The democrats had elected IL sena-
tors, while IL republicans had been
chosen or had such leads as to make
their election practically certain. In
the six remaining contests, all in west
ern states where returns still were COM
ing in slowly, the results were uncer-
tain.
In Minnesota, Representative Thomas
D. Schall, republican, had what his sup.
porters regarded a commanding lead
over Senator Magnus Johnson, farm
er-labor. Johnson still insisted, how
ever, that missing rural precints would
return him a winner.
Walsh In Lead
Senator Thomas j. Walsh, democrat
ic prosecutor" in the oil investigation.
was leading the field in Montana with
a sufficient margin to make him appear
reasonably certain of reelection.
The result in both New Mexico and
Wyoming was surrounded with much
of the slowness in gathering of returns
In Colorado where two senate seats
were at stake, Senator Phipps, repub-
hcan, was leading Senator Adams,
democrat, and Rice w. Means, repub-
lican, was ahead of Morrison Shafroth
democrat.
In gaining a seat in Massachusetts
the republicans elected Frederick HI
Gillett, speaker of the house, over Da'
Vid /. Walsh, the democratic incumbent
In Kentucky, Fred NJ. Sackett, repub.
lican, won over Senator A. Owsley
Stanley. democrat, while in Oklahoma il
appeared that w. B. Pine, republican
\ had defeated j. G. Walton, the demo
cratic candidate who ran on an anti
Ku Klux Khan platform.
Dupont Returned
Other republicans elected to the sen.
ate or who had substantial leads over
their democratic opponents were L,
Coleman Dupont of Delaware, who de-
feated James NJ. Tunnel, democrat
Charles S. benson, who came in ahead
of field of six in Illinois; Senators
Capper of Kansas, Borah of Idaho
Couzens of Michigan, for both the short
and long term; Norris of Nebraska
Reyes, New Hampshire; Edge of New
Jersey and McNary of Oregon; Jesse
ell
Master of South Dakota and Guy d
Golf of West Virginia.
Democrats elected are: Helm, Ala.
bama; Robinson, Arkansas Harris
Georgia; Ransdell, Louisiana Harrison
Mississippi; Simmons, North Carolina
Blease, South Carolina Tyson, Tennes-
see; Sheppard, Texas, and Carter Glass,
Virginia.
The upsets in the house were widely
scattered over the country. The demo
Gratis lost the six seats they now have
in Pennsylvania, but they elected their
candidate over his republican opponent
in another Pennsylvania district. They
lost four of their six seats in New Jer
sey; two in Indiana; one in Illinois
one each in Ohio, Michigan, Delaware
Connecticut, New Hampshire, Oregon
and in Nevada. They gained a distric
in Maryland, one in Kansas and elected
their candidate in the Eighth Ohio dis
trict over the republican incumbent.
Leaders Returned
Returns to the house of both the floor
leaders-Longsworth Ohio, of the re
publicans, and Garrett, Tennessee, of thu
democrats was assured, while it ap
:, peared that there would be no uE,sets il
The New York delegation, the largest il
the house, despite the heavy Coolidge
plurality in the Empire state.
Among those returned in New Yorl
was Representative La Guardia, of thu
Twentieth district, an avowed La Fol
lette supporter, who ran as an indie
pendent, and Jacob Stern, an upstate
democrat, who had La Toilette indorse
ment. The La Toilette forces held
their strength in Wisconsin and severa
of their allies in nearby states, among
them Sinclair, North Dakota; Clagut
and Keller, Minnesota; Reid and Mich
aelson, Illinois, and Woodruff anC
James, Michigan, who ran as republican
and Kvale and Wefard, farmer-labor
Minnesota, were reelected.
Langley INDICATED
Representative Langley, republican
Kentucky, who is under sentence to thu
federal penitentlary on charges or nav
ing violated the prohibition law, OBJ
tanned a vote of confidence from thu
voters of the district, who returned
him for another term, while in the Sixth
Maryland district, Representative Zihl
man, republican, who was exonerated y.
a house committee, which investigated
charges that he used official influence
improperly, won additional vindicatioI
from voters in his district.
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