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Show COMPLEXION OF I NEXT CONGRESS I HALF AND HALF I : i There Is Possibility G. 0. P. Majority May Be Wirjed Out, Claim ;WET WINS IN N. J. : Neck and Neck Race in Wyoming; Pinchot Is Elected ; ' J NEW YORK. Nov. 8. (By the Associated Press.) At nooneast-ern nooneast-ern time, today, 25 states had completed com-pleted their congressional election elec-tion returns but neither Republicans Republi-cans nor Democrats had progressed prog-ressed much further toward control con-trol of the house of representatives. representa-tives. The vote at that hour stood: Republicans, 185; Democrats, 187; Socialists, L . . A-martty to coMroV'ii 213. Iowa was the only state which has returned a solid Republican delegation. dele-gation. It was plain that the deciding figures were to come from the west and middle west. NEW YORK. Nov S. (By The As- I sociated Tress.) Democratic gains in the national elections continued to pile up steadily as the later returns came In from all parts of the country !.aily today. Throughout tho m-lu I I Democratic gains In tho house of rep-Iresentatlves rep-Iresentatlves accumulated without counter gain for the Republicans in Ifl D single congressional district Th J si eat majority rolled up for the ma- H Jorlty m the Harding landslide of two years ago was gnawed Into by tha Democrats In districts In all debatable H I states until there seemed a chance that might be wiped out tor at bast reduced to a slender work-ng work-ng force for the administration. 8ome important figures in the i;e- H Iputdlcan administration went down to j defeat and some members of the sen- ate and house personally close to President Hardin? will re-turn to prl-Vate prl-Vate life with the rising Democratic SOI 1 11 DEMOCRATIC. The Republican forces failed to break into the Democratic ranks in i h- south and lost one congressional district which they have held there for JH i years the Ninth is glnla. Speaker H Glllett was re-elected; Uncle Joe Tan- H non passed on his Seat from Illinois H to a Republican. Miss Alice Robert-.son. Robert-.son. Republican, of Oklahoma, tne. H only woman in congress, was bcatn H by a man the Democrat whom she H defeated two years ago, and the pres-ent pres-ent house got an additional woman H member a Republican. In Mrs. Win- H r If red Huck daughter of the late H William F Mason of Illinois, who had 1 served in both senate and house. CLOSE I N OHIO In Ohio, Represerrat . iv.vs. Re- I publican, was running a close race with and leading Senator POrherensi H Democrat, who bad been counted a possibility for tho Democratic prest- H dentlal nomination In the event of his success this year. Labor votes, it was (Continued on Page Tiro) GOOD FRIENDS OF PRESIDENT AMONG LOSERS (Continued from Page One) aid, wore cast acnlnst Senator Pom-erene Pom-erene because of his Ftand on the railroad rail-road question. , Pennsylvania, going Republican a" usual, sent Glfford Plnchot to the governor's chair, with a Republican administration and re-elected Senators Popper and Reed, tho latter for both a short and a Ion term. Senator Gerry, Democrat, Rhode Island, beat the former Republican governor. R. L. Livingston BeOkman. In Texas, whro a Democratic nomination is equivalent to election Barle B. jMay-fleld jMay-fleld won the election to the senate. Support of Mayfleld hv the Ku Klux Klan was nn Ihsuo. Senator Poindcx-ter Poindcx-ter . . f Washington, Republican, had flKhton his hands. In West Virginia, Vir-ginia, the Democratic senatorial candidate. can-didate. M M Nelly, was leading Senator Sen-ator Sutherland, the Republican incumbent. in-cumbent. Wisconsin roturnvd Senator LaFollette to the senate with a large plurality. ( LOSE WYOMING RACE. In Wyoming whero Representative Mondell. Republican leader In the houeo of representatives was running for tho senate tho ate returns Indicated Indi-cated a close race with Senator Kend-irb-k. a Democrat, who was said to I hav e gome Republlean support. The returns showed the Democrats ; making all the gains and the Republicans Repub-licans suffering all tho losses In the house of representatives and the Republicans Re-publicans taking severe defeats In some places where they had not been expected. Victor L, Berger, tho Socialist, was returned to the house from the Fifth district of Wisconsin and thus offsets the Socialist loss occasioned by tho defeat of Representative Meyor Txn-don Txn-don in New York. Berger was con-i con-i of a ioiation of the espionage law during the war and expelled from tho house, but hlH conviction was reversed re-versed by tho supreme court of the United States He then announr ed his Intention of running for congress again. NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC With the defeat of Governor Miller of New York by Alfred E Smith, the Republicans also lost 13 seats of the Empire state In the houao of representatives, repre-sentatives, and a senator. William A. Calder, who wan beaten by Dr Royal S. Copeland, Democrat, health commissioner com-missioner of New York City. With Democratic victories In other states some national figures closo to tho Republican administration and Prosldent Harding personally went down to defeat. Senator Dodge of Massachusetts apparently was elected but ran far behind the ticket in his state Senntor ProUnghuyaen of New Jersey, one of tho president's Intimates, Inti-mates, who ran on a dry platform in New Jersey was beaten by Governor Edwards. temocrat, who ran no an openly acknowledged wet platform. Senator Johnson. Republican, of California, camo back, as did Senator McLean of Connecticut, one of the administration leaders In tho tariff fglht In Delaware. Senator Dupont was having a close run for both the long and the nhort terms BEVERIDGE IX)sr:ts. In Indiana, former Governor Ralston. Ral-ston. Democrat, was running ahead of former Senator Albert J. Beveridge and thus threatened to remove from the Republican field one who had been counted on as an aspirant for tho Republican Re-publican presidential nomination In 1024. In case President Harding should decline it Iowa Colonel Smith W. Brookhart went through to victory on the Republican Re-publican ticket, although he was openly open-ly frowned upon by some of tho Re-publiean Re-publiean leader-1 and the. platform of the state convention repudiated many of the so-called "radical" principle:! for which he declared. On the other hand. Senator France, Republican, of Maryland churned, with radical ten- uencies. was Deaien ty mo jcniocraie candidate. William Cabel Bruce, prominent prom-inent Haltimoi l.i er WOMAJi RUNS THIRD. In Michigan. Senator Tovnscnd. the Republlcan incumbent, who had fight on his hands over the Newberry issue, was running behind, while in Minnesota where first returns favored Senator (Prank B Kellogg, one of the Republican war horses and a close friend of tho president late returns showed him running second to Henrlk Shlpstead, who ran on tho Farmer-Labor Farmer-Labor ticket. Mrs Annie Olesen, tho IDemocratlc nominee, ran third. Senator Reed. Democrat, of Missouri, Mis-souri, a veteran of many disputes with 'the Wilson administration, was leading his Republican opponent on the re-j re-j turns early today, and seemed assured I of re-election. In Montana. Burton K Wh -el sr, the Democratic candidate. I was running ahead of his Republican 'opponent. Carl Rlddlck frr the m fit ;of Senator Myers. Democrat HITCHCOCK BEATEN Senator Hitchcock, Democrat, of Nebraska, floor leader for the V ll;on 'administration forces in tho peace treaty flpht. was beaten by R B. Howell, Republican national committeeman commit-teeman from the stato counted anions the Progressive Republicans. In North Dakota, where the nonpartisan non-partisan league vas a great factor i J. T. E O'Connor. Democrat. was U tdliijc former Governor Fraser, who had the Republican nomination lost lln the primaries by Senator McCum-bcr. McCum-bcr. another Republican veteran oo |