Hungry Horse news., 1948-11-05
More on Democratic Sweep
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(Continued from page II
in this section of Montana car
ried the Flathead 6,146 to 2,79e
and in all but "a precincts of his
district trounced Judge Angst
man SO, 383 to 29,481.
President Harry S. Truman re-
ceived 4,537 Flathead county votes
and 111,202 in Montana. For Dew
ey it was 4,132 in the Flathead and
90,6O2 in Montana. All election re-
turns are somewhat incomplete
and unofficial. The Wallace Flat
head vote was 304, and GALS in
the state.
Truman apparently has 304 ell
ectoral votes; Dewey 189 from Is
states; the Dixiecrats took Louis
lana, Mississippi, Alabama and
South Carolina. Henry Wallace
gained no electoral vote, and his |
something at 100000 support
ers indicates his progressive party
was not particularly a popular
cause. 1t did however, apparently,
deliver New York, Connecticut,
Maryland and Nevada electoral
votes to the Republicans.
Congress will reflect the Demo-
cratic landslide with apparently 81
Democratic senators to ~ Republi- !,
cans and house majority of about ,
100. Out went most of the senators !,
and representatives who were up
for reelection and had been sup o
porters of legislation such as the A
Taft Hartley bill. E
Wrong were commentators, poll r
sters, big newspapers, most little G,
and virtually every p
!,
They recognized that President y,
Truman was a better crowd at G
-racter than Governor Dewey dur r
ng the campaign. They reported cs
he good-natured and increasingly n,
popular reception given the pres 1r
dent. However, about two years ca
lgo they uniformly come to the
onclusion that President Truman
ould not be reelected. The cour- n
ry and people changed their 80
minds. They didn't. 1a,
A humble newspaper and only II.
ocal, the Hungry Horse News So
lst week headlined Democrats IN
lave Edge Here" in big type, and 90
8 a newspaper we are neither to
epublican nor Democratic. We th,
a much more vague pre- Nc
ction about the county outcome,
nd were generally wrong. How ID
yer it was clear to us and so ,oo
ated last week, that the ener 90
etic campaign of President Tru- OF
an was putting life into his az
1rly even ililo THESE Pieciilc.s' i'o ste
d, and apparently into a lot more I.e
lbeknoWn to the national poll Sv
.kers. %
Veteran editor, H. J. Kelly, for an
er publisher of the Flathead am
.onitor and head of the Demo- Re
ATTIC county headquarters, be- rer
re the election said the Demo- e-iv
ats would win. They did. n
Flathead county cast a near re- 40,
rd vote. In 1910 it was FDR ~
,53 to Wilkes 1857; in 1914 o.a :
'wey won the county 4,O48 10 Da,
)R's 3.608, but lost the state, !
d now the unofficial figure, ex- H.,
1ting one small precinct is Tru- str,
N 4,537 to Dewey's 4,132. R,,,
County races were close; Willis Rro
n 1858 to 4,283 over Mrs. T.ul
ooner for clerk of court; Len Ref
lost to Luke for county COM apa
ssioner, 4,167 to 4,814; Measure, Gro
Democrat, eked out 1852 vote ~
r. Sykes 1896 and the public =
race was 4,313 for
Cabe, Democrat, to Fisher dloa
Is. Colt
he referendums carried by cons
Ill majorities, and Kalispell clud
apparently get its long over prec
new gym. -
hese county returns are from relat
Daily Interlake. and