The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-09
Watson, Glenn, KohIer, Brook
hart and Small Among
Poll Victims

Chicago, Nov. 9.-(F-The historic
Republican great divide Of the mid
ole western states stood stormed We'd
nesday by Democratic hosts.
Victory banners of Governor Frank
lin D. Roosevelt fluttered over corn
belt states whose presidential poYlti-
cal history showed never a previous
Democratic plurality and beside them
whipped the pinion of democracy's
candidates for the congress and state
offices.
It Is something for the record
books, this central section sweep of
the Jeffersonian presidential candi-
date against President Herbert Hoo
yer, carrying Republican stslwarts of
years before it and placing Demo-
Gratis in state and national offices al
most universally.
Republican Senator "Jinl" Watson
fell in Indiana. The Democratic
votes moved down Senator Otis F..
Glenn of Illinois. Conservative Re-
publican Walter j. Kohler, candidate
for governor of Wisconsin, failed to
repeat his stunning victory over Gov
ernor Philip LaFollette in the pri-
mary.
Picturesque Senator Smith w.
Brookhart, seeking reelection as an
independent in Iowa, polled only a
fraction of the total vote cast for
the office
Len Small Buried
Len Small of Kankakee, Republic
can power in Illinois, was buried un-
der an avalanche of votes for his
Democratic opponent, Judge Henry
Horner of Chicago's probate court.
For the second time since the Civil
war, Wisconsin went Democratic.
For the first time since the birth
of the Republican party, Michigan
voters turned their faces to q Jeffer-
sonian.
Thus the Democrats marched, state
by state across the plains and prai-
ries of the populous middle west.
hurdllng precedentS, shattering and
making political history.
Electoral votes to the total of 1877
rolled to Roosevelt from Ohio, ILL.,
poiS, Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana.
South Dakota, North Dakota, Wis
consin, Iowa and Nebraska, and the
popular pluralities reached imposing
totals.
Unless there is a distinct unset
from the figures now available, the
United States senate will, welcome
Democrats from middle western
states where few have trod before.
Senator Peter Norbeck of South
Dakota and Gerald P. Nye of North
Dakota, the returns show, were the
exceptions.
The Democratic senators swept in
to office include - Illinois, William
H. Dieterich, congreSsman-at-lar
now; Indiana, Frederick Van Mugs:
Iowa, Louis r. Murphy: Ohio, Rob-
ert j. Buckley, incumbent; Wisconsin,
F. Ryan Duffy.
Schmedcman Is Winner
WiSconsin'S next governor will be
A. G. Schmedeman, Democrat. DEM
ccratic William A. ComStock was well
in the lead for the governorship in
Michigan against Governor Wilbur
M. Brucker. Republican. Governor
George White of Ohio, Democratic
national chairman when James M.
Cox sought the presidency against
Warren G. Harding in 1920, was in
the van, understanding David ingalls,,
the flying ex-assistant secretary Of
the navy.
Congressional results, always slow
in being determined, seemed to bear
out the Democratic landslide.
The expected proportionately heavy
vote for Norman Thomas, Socialist
candidate for president, apparently
was polled, but slow counting OF the
ballots for the minor parties held UP
any definite final figures.
The midwest listened to Demo-
cratic chanting past tense version
of the well-known song, and it went
Republicans, here We are"