Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS what wat the great democratic cratic landslide means and what caused it by EDWARD W PICKARD depression hard times BUSINESS u n employment t dissatisfaction of tile fa I 1 win farm relief local political conditions find list but not least tile wet find and dry isice till all con tributes trl tri buted to ta the democratic landslide on election day the L democrats declared the people of the nution lind ill thus us registered their disapproval prod I 1 of tile the administration of dent alno hoover cr tills this the atie republicans denied take your sour choice in ili the no new NY Con congress dress it appears neither party will wll hayo a constitutional majority A t y in III tho the senate nil and the anine cond condition won may prevail in the lower house the republicans will have 48 49 senators ena tois the democrats 47 find and tit the 0 fanner 1 if tile the la last st men roen i tinned n d of s t tile inep 11 erivn xa 11 liley ey call ca s libi fa li enate otherwise it nv would id I 1 take the deciding vote of vice president curtis I 1 unless a recount gives the eighth indiana district to vestal rep hep instead of to ball dem Dc ra tile membership of the house will stand republicans lic tins democrats farmer labor 1 A constitutional majority ta in both houses the progressive or radical republicans will hold the balance of power in matters of legislation and by coalition with the democrats cati can continue successfully their habitual course of the ho national policies of thele their party NINE gains of senate seats which the democrats are sure of fit at ahls writing vere mere roade made in acus west Vir virginia girda ohio illinois Xen kentucky tucky kansas cansas oklahoma south dakota and colorado they lost one baat beatin in lown iowa where dickinso n defeated senator stock three administration senators who were viera benneh were allen alien of kansas of kentucky and mcculloch of ohio however two antl anti trafton senators lost out pine of oklahoma and mcmaster mcallister of south dakota two administration senators who hero victorious in ili liard hard tights wets 0 SIet calf of rhode island and Ila hastings stings of bf Delaw delaware hastings ran as ft a dry in fit a notoriously wet state and against him was nil the influence tile the auti could muster b ut lie fie decisively beat thomas V F hayard ila d former senator wet and a democrat bere iere was vas much rejoicing among the wets they elected four new we ve senators lewis lewin of illinois of ohio coolidge of massachusetts and floie gore 0 io o oklahoma and they claim metcalf of rhode island will voto vote wet 1 however three drys replace leplace as many wets welb dickinson of iowa cluey long of 0 10 lo louisiana and alto of maine As i or alie e lowerhouse lower aliouse the wets claimed a kaan gan of about 70 members of 01 1 course the 06 drys will continue to control both li houses buses by heavy but the pleaders plea headers Je ders aders of the wets assert the elec elocution presages the eventual repeal of the iho amendment heavy wet majorities were shown in rench each of the lie three states illinois rhode island massachusetts glicr e 1 ftc lre o were vero referendum votes on oil barlous araus I 1 of the prohibition question S of the result were spectacular aror instance in new dorb stated franklin D democrat was reelected elected re governor by the unprecedented plurality of votes completely swamping his republican p rival charles N tuttle the cho happy warrior thus thua becomes tile the out outstanding it anding figure of tile tho democratic party and a potential candidate for the presidential nomination in 1032 he fie supplants al smith ns a getter of bf empire state voted vote both metropolitan and rural there was a tammany tidal wave in tew new york city but mrs airs ruth pratt republican was reelect re elect ed to congress defeating her tarn many rival and broun col and socialist and Ile representative presenta la Ou ardla also republican retained ills his seat ja james illes li hamilton amilton lewis picturesque and lid able democrat swept illinois like a prairie lire fire having havin a plurality for tbt ho of about over mrs airs ruth alanna mccormick McCorm lck republican who straddled the liquor issue and airs independent dry who wits was a very poor third this was tile the climax of one of the most interesting te campaigns in III the coull country try the democrats also capaul ed almost all tile offices in the file state and in CM 0 county which includes cag att u ig 1 go art frt to I 1 its ts r rock ock ched republicanism and giford pinchot bacal racal radical and ai ardently dently dry re for the governor filp was wa elected despite the defection of many of the party leaders and the adverse vote of philadelphia ohio seemed to indicate its wetness by electing robert J wet democrat to tile tho senate but on the other hand george white democrat who was chosen governor la Is a dry wisconsin as usual went la follette electing young philip F of that family amily its governor like his brother senator La lafollette he fie Is nomina nominally liy it a republican democrats of indiana elected nine congressmen to four republicans public ans among the lie latter Is the veteran will R wood who has represented the tenth district for many years mrs otis oils T wingo 0 f arkansas easily won the seat scat in congress held by her late husband HERE will bo be no sorrow in wash THERE angton or tile the country at larg tile tho elimination of senator J chounis of alabama Alaba mn forced from the no democratic party arty because he opposed ed al smith two years ago lie ran for reelection election re as an independent find was thoroughly benten beaten by jotin john bankhead the democratic nominee ills pec peculiar tillar role in the senate na its tile the source of son sensational news stories 4 may inny be partly y taken by bluey 11 long iong of louisiana mr me long intimates that he will complete ills term us as governor of ills state before taking ills his seat scat in the hie senate A among mong the hie new senators of quite different caliber will bo be devight IV V morrow who was vas elected by new jersey leans secretary of labor davis sent to tile the senate by republicans of pennsylvania and robert 1 the choice of ohio democrats mr air morrow and mr me baumey nul hley are lockel on an ns as tini possibilities two years hence thomas J walsh Val sli veteran senator was returned tn ta the upper house lionso I 1 buthe but he had find no easy time defeating judge albert conlen the republican ca if aspirant california escaped tile the democratic lood flood and james rolph jr known so itle times as sunny jim and so sometimes me times as sun Francis cos perennial mayor cap tho the governorship w with ith little dini culty braskas nebraskan Ne new governor Is charles W bryan brother of william jen pings bryan lie ile held tho office one once before nod and was the democratic vice presidential nominee in 1921 ne ile defeated gov arthur weaver lr by if a rather narrow margin senator george W 1 won re cloctt U without great difficulty di C COMMENT by some of the party leaders Is interesting as representing widely divergent views depending on party aff affiliation illation chairman fess of the republican national committee sal said d no outstanding issues controlled the results res aits nits which he viewed as a crazy quilt 1 it was to be expected lio lie added that the 11 republicans republica fis would lose 35 seats even without the disturbance caused by tile the economic depression john J raskob democratic national dional chairman ter tinned ined tile democratic sweep a notable victory on jean clean cut but political politic 11 Is issues sIles he an announced lie would do everything every tiling in ills power to hare ila the democratic party view the farlly as an all economic rather than a political qui question tion thus removing from business husi liess minds till all cause for ularm alarm find and u as to how busill business c ss atu vi LI be t treated in the event that tills this elect election I 1 oil find and future at tir e elections give control of congress coll gress to our party robert 11 II lucas executive director of the 1 r tee iraq if alb t Aart ahat lt everything consid tred e 1 id the result must lie ile taken its as it a vindication of the tion lion explaining tills hebald lie said no aid administration lint ever eer gone into n congressional election under such adverse conditions alie tile resu results its tie ile added were evidence of tile abiding falth faith of tho thin thirkill kill people of the country in the leadership of herbert flooder fl the view of jouett shouse chairman of the alie democratic mo batic national executive committee was tile the democratic campaign was conducted on tile issue of alie failure of the administration to meet Us responsibility und find carry out the promises on oil which it obtained election two years ago embraced in ili at 11 subsidiary to tills this main theme were such items as aa the enactment of an indefensible tariff fand and tile the breakdown of the farm relief plan of the administration tion which had pledged itself to rehabilitate tile the agricultural industry 14 FORMAL ceremonies lasting bill bi I 1 IN if a few minutes dr gerullo assumed office us its provisional lonal president of and immediately announced the members of af ills ids cabinet nil all the factions of the revolutionary move movement ident being represented ted ills minister of flin finance trice Is jose marla maria whitaker of descent who has been a strong bp of washington luls luis coffee marketing scheme sc lieme ills appointment means the certain reorganization of the governments financial policy find and especially tile the revocation of artificially sustained coffee ye values S C Amer amerlean lenn novelist lias has been awarded the nobel prize in ili literature specifically for its novel which la Is ro regarded warded in blidt n its HS ills the money value of the file award is and mr air lewis interviewed interview d in fit new york said lie would accept it with it feeling of hie file hi Klipst honor hanor cation find and OL iasell c lie ile intimated lie would spend the money on nn himself and ills family the presentation ceremony lakes 1 ales alsic eln in stockholm on oil december 10 gf GAS AS explosions ns and alre in a mine of til the snoday sunday creek coal company tit at olito ohio entombed OC men of whom 70 76 were killed the others were brought out alive ind and taken to hospitals many of them seriously flur burned ned the disaster occurred just after nn nil inspection party lind d descended to tile the lower levels and lid nil all its members were among the lent they included william tytus president of tile the coir cow company pany howard upson field manager hubert lancaster engineer and other olli chils t ac 1920 newspaper union |