Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-06
IPOllard's Lead
Passes 10000
. Mark.
REGULARS GET
20 HOUSE SEATS
Cannon Forces Fall
as State Returns to
Party Fold.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va. November O.
Virginia was in the Democratic
solid South" again today with
John Garland Pollard, college pro-
fessor, as her governor elect.
Pollard, until the opening of the
campaign, dean of the Marshall
Wythe School of Government and
Citizenship at the College of Will
liam and Mary, led the vigorous
Democratic party to triumph over
the coalition of anti-Smith Demo-
Gratis and Republicans in yester-
days election. The Democratic
majority reached $3.50 when re-
turns from 1858 of the States
1853 precincts had been tabulated.
Pollard registered 152,086 votes to
88,276 for DR.. William Mosley
Brown, coalition candidate.
Indications were that the total
vote would fall approximately 5O,-
600 short of the record breaking
3O6,000 cast in the presidential
campaign last year, when Virginia
for the first time since reconstruc-
ton, was carried by the Repub-
tlcan party. Virginia was the first
or five Southern Hoover States"
to hold State election.
James II. Price was elected lieutenant
governor and John r. Saunders was re-
elected attorney general in the Demo-
cratic landslide.
Democrats Lead in House.
The Democrats led for control Of the
Virginia House of Delegates continued
to mount today as late returns gave
the victorious party 10 of the 100 seats
ana their opponents, the Coalitionists,
.. The remaining % places were un-
determined.
Thirty-eight contested seats were won
by the Democrats, four Democrats will
NIL the four Senate vacancies. Hill
Montague was elected in Richmond
City over Frank B. Dunford, sr., and
r. II. Langhorne was successful over
w. H. BurrusS in Campbell County and
the city OF Lynchburg. E. E. Holland
and James Easley were opposed in the
fifth and tenth districts.
II. P. Barnes, Democratic incumbent
III Charlotte County, running on. the
coalition ticket, was defeated for the
Legislature by D. c. Eggleston, running
as regular Democrat"
"Raskokism." term used by Bishop
Cannon, jr., of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, one of the organizers of
the Democratic opposition to Alfred e.
Smith, in criticising John j. Raskob,
Democratic national committee chair
man, often was heard during the cam
palgn. Democrats countered with
"Cannonlsm, in criticism of the Bishop.
ShOuse CongratuIates Pollard.
de Priestism," term growing out of
the circulation of pamphlet contain
ing pictures of the colored Representa-
tive from Chicago, Oscar De Priest, and
his wife, also was frequently heard.
Among the Democrats sending con-
gratulations to Pollard were Juett
| Shouse, executive chairman of the
Democratic national committee; Gov.
Harry Byrd, and Senator Carter Glass
of Virginia, Senator Tom Connolly and
Representative John M. Garner of
Texas, Senator Millard Tydings of
Maryland, Senator Burton K. Wheeler
of Montana, Senator A. w. Barkley of
Kentucky, Senator Kenneth M. Nickel
lar of Tennessee and Joseph P. Tumul-
ty, secretary to Woodrow Wilson.
| DIR. Pollard, who vigorously supported
the Democratic ticket during the Vir-
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