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Show SOLID SOUTH unffilS; G. B. P. m GAINS Big Surprise oi tlection is Vote Piled Up For Senator Sen-ator Harding ATLANTA. Ha., Nov 3 A real surprise sur-prise in the presidential election in tbe souih has been furnished in Ten-neasee Ten-neasee and Louisiana. Relurns from 66 of the 95 counties in Tennessee and newspaper estimates for the remainder of the counties give Harding a lead of ZC8 votes and Re publican state lenders expressed hope of breaking the 'solid south" for the first time since reconstruction days Democratic h .id-rs. however, said they were confident that later returns would give Tennessee's electoral vole to Governor Cox and keep the state in the Democratic column Election of a Republican governor in Tennessee appeared probable, returns re-turns at noon showing Alf Taylor. Republican, Re-publican, leading Governor Roberts, Democrat, by approximately 15,000. While Louisiana apparently was safely safe-ly Democratic, the size of the vote polled by Harding came as a distinct surprise to leaders on both sides He carried ten parishes, apparentl) was an easy winner in the Third congressional congres-sional district, and received majorities in eight New Orleans precincts, mostly most-ly in the uptown residential section. All of the other southern states appeared ap-peared today to have rolled up the traditional tra-ditional Democratic majorities. rw-i |