Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-03 | Page 1 | Socialists Pleased with Election Results

SOCIALISTS PLEASED WITH ELECTION RESULTS CHICAGO, Nov. 3. Socialist headquarters head-quarters today expressed satisfaction 'over tho showing the party nind,. In its effort to Hect Eugene V. Debs .president, although he Is in Atlanta Iprison for violation of the espionage act. They said reports indicated that not only had th vote been increased I for the national ticket, but that In some precincts Socialist candidates had run even with Republican and Democratic candidates while in New York they elected four Socialist members mem-bers of the legislature, who hud been ousted or resigned, anil had added a I woman member to that body. Otto Branetetter. national secretary, last night sent a telegram to Debs, estimating es-timating that the total vote for him j would be nearly 3.000.000 The Socialist vote was heavy in Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, giving Victor Berger a lead for congres-s. from which he has been twice expelled. I Davenport, Iowa, reported that the j Socialist vote had been almost quadrupled quad-rupled over four years ago.