Evening star., 1936-11-04
V|RC|N|ANS ELECT
ALL LLCONGRESSMEN
Democratic Sweep Includes
Flanagan in Fighting
Ninth District.
Ev the Associated Press.

RICHMOND. Va. November A.
Virginia returned a solidly Demo-
cratic delegation to Congress in the
Roosevelt landslide yesterday that
brought out the heaviest vote in the
history Of the State.
The Democratic sweep included an
unprecedented majority of nearly
$4,000 on the basis Of incomplete re-
turns for Representative John w.
Flanagan in the fighting NINTH"
which ordinarily polls one of the
States heaviest Republican votes.
With additional precincts to report
from five counties. Flanagan led
Luther w. Fuller. his Republican
opponent, 26,298 to 14,410.
Voters Of the fifth, sixth and sew
enth districts, other vigorous cam
paigning centers, also approved the
record of Democratic incumbents by
almost to l majorities.
Results in the other five districts
found Democrats running far ahead
with the result never in doubt.
Coincident with the selection Of the
slate Of Democratic Congressman, the
Old Dominion reelected Senator
Carter Glass by an overwhelming ma
jority over his two minor party oppo-
nents, George Rohlsen, Socialist. and
Donald Burke, Communist,
The senior Virginia Senator, once
given the sobriquet of watchdog of
the Treasury" polled 191,035 votes in
1.498 reporting precincts out of the
States 1.704. His opponents together
secured only a small fraction Of that
number.
New Deal Supporter.
Representative Clifton A. Woodrum
of Roanoke, who based his campaign,
like Flanagan, on an Endorsement Of
the New Deal defeated T. X. Par.
sons, Republican, his former law part.
ner, by approximately 5000 votes.
Parsons, former assistant United
States attorney, made spirited fight,
and Republican leaders had counted
the district among those in which they
saw possibility OF capturing con-
gressional seats. The vote, with four
Bedford precincts missing, was Wood
rum, 25,160; Parsons, 1876.
Despite similarly aggressive Re-
publican campaigns in the fifth and
seventh, Democrats rolled up nearly 2
to-1 leads. Representative Thomas g.
Burch of Martinsville was given
1869 in 210 precincts out Of 236,
compared with State Senator Taylor
G. Vaughan's 1856. Representative
A. Willis Robertson topped J. Everett
Will, Luray Republican. by almost the
same count in the seventh, 24,242 to
1858, with II precincts yet to be
heard from.
Remaining districts went over
whelmingly Democratic, in some in
stances by even greater majorities
than their supporters had predicted.
Representative s. Otis Bland Of New
port News was returned to Office over
William A. Dickinson, Cape Charles
Republican, 20,151 to 1898, with q
number of polling stations yet to re-
port.
Norman r. Hamilton, who will be
the only new Virginia Democrat in
Congress, rolled up 29.268 votes to
Gerould Rumble's 1912 in the Sec
ond. Representative Andrew ]. Nom
tague defeated Charles c. Wilson in
the third by more than $4,000, with
one precinct unreported; Represents
tive Patrick H. Drewry was swept to q
new term by almost 15-to-1 edge in
the fourth, and Representative How
ard w. Smith of the eighth had little
dificulty piling up lead Of 21.097 to
6.702 for John Locke Greene, his Re
publican opponent.
Minor Parties Vote Light.
The vote for minor party congress
sional candidates was light. Addison
Gayle, Communist. collected 136 votes
In the FIRST; Alexander Wright. Conn
munist, secured 398 in the second;
Winston Dawson, Socialist. received
400 In the third; Dan KiIlinger. So
cialist. l29 In the fourth; Lester Run
ner, Socialist, % In the seventh, and
F. A. Shelton, Socialist, 241 in the
eighth. Returns were not altogether
complete, but unreported precincts
were not expected to change the totals
appreciably.
OF the acossve,t vcke morn tinan