Evening star., 1926-11-03
Ernst, Harreld
andCanerOn
Defeated.
RITCHIE LEADS
in MARYLAND
C.. o. p. Is Beaten i'm
Nine Contests for
House Seats.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 3.-The
squall that rocked the Republican
brig yesterday washed away most OF
the party's majority in the Senate
reduced its margin in the House and
still was giving a scare today to some
of the crew of stalwarts.
Senator Butler of Massach chusetts
the Republican national chairman
succumbed to a surging billow OF
votes for former Senator David l
Walsh. Senator Wadsworth Of New
York was buried under the same
landslide that returned Al Smith to
the governors chair at Albany by a
quarter of million plurality.
Senator Ernst of Kentucky, Har-
reid of oklahoma, and Cameron OF
Arizona, likewise passed out of the
running, and the accommodating re-
turns told OF Il continuing desperate
struggle for survival by the Republi-
can senatorial nominees in Indiana
Kentucky, Oregon and Colorado,
Steiwer Has Slight Lead.
In S82 precincts out of 1,S47; in
Oregon, the vote stood--Adams, In
dependent, 1854; Bert f. Haney
Democrat, 4o,3S4; Stanfeld, indie
pendent, 24,723; Steiwer, Republican
1914.
In Colorado the vote stood-Sen-
ator: 1850 precincts out Of 1881:
Sweet, Democrat, 94,632; Waterman
Republican, 107,159.
The count in the House as it stood
today, with a half hundred districts
still missing, showed a net Demo
cratic gain of nine. seats, not danger
Gus in itself but likely to give the
Western Republican insurgents the
balance of power should it be much
increased.
The off-year setback that so often
falls to the lot of the party in power
did not take on the proportions of the
midadministration drubbings encoun.
tered by Presidents Taft and Wilson,
but it cost the Republicans some seats
In both Senate and House, narrowing
a margin of control already worn thin
by the operations OF the insurgents.
Smith and Ware Elected.
In Pennsy lvania and Illinois, where
Republican campaign funds We're ar
issue, William S. Ware and Frank L.
Smith, the Republican nominees, We're
swept along to victory. Various Demo
cratic Senators have declared neither
will ever be seated.
A large bloc of seats in the House OF
Representatives still hung in the
doubtful column today, although the
Republicans We're working along to
a{,1n nf
control with only few upsets. With
a dozen or so doubtful districts al
ready tucked away by the majority
party, the Democrats on the over
night returns had hung up a. net gain
of only six. Turnover of 36 would
be needed to boost the Democratic
House strength to majority.
Thirty-three States elected gov
ernors, and, although the returns from
many are far from complete, few
changes Of State administration are
indicated. While Gov. Smith was win
ming his fourth term, three of hi:
Democratic colleagues were likewise
amassing pluralities that promised te
give them new tenureS as head of theil
respective State governments. Ritchie
of Maryland and Donahey Of Ohio
each running for third term, estab
lished comfortable leads as the re
turns came in, and Hunt of Arizona
already five times governor, was ahead
by narrow margin for a sixth term
as state executive.
Gov. Nellie Ross Losing.
The country's only remaining
woman governor, Nellie Taloe Ross
of Wyoming, did not find the going 81
easy, her Republican opponent run
ming ahead of her on incomplete re
turns. South Dakota, indulging il
much understanding, apparently
had elected w j. Bulow as it's first
Democratic governor in a quarter o1
a century Former Gov. Davis made
out poorly in his attempt to come
back as Democratic nominee in Kan
sas. In Nebraska Former Governor
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