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Show HARDING WINS GREATVIGTORY Republican Avalanche Sweeps Every Northern State. BREAKS INTO SOLID SOOTH G. 0. P. Gets 404 Electoral Votes In 37 States; Democrats Capture but 127 in 11 States-Tennessee, Okla-noma, Okla-noma, Arizona and New Mexico Fail to Turn to Cox-Great Gains in Senate Sen-ate and House Features of the Tremendous Tre-mendous Vote. By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. Harding has won a tremendous victory. vic-tory. Here's the story in brief: Harding carried 37 slates with 404 electoral votes; Cox curried 11 with 17 votes. Kepublicans have margin of 22 in senate and 150 in house. Iu comment, the household word avalanche seems the handiest. The Kepublican avalanche began at the Canadian border, from Maine to Washington, Wash-ington, and swept the country clean clear to Mason and Dixon's line and broke the Solid South. The Hepublicau avalanche swept Tennessee, "Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. Iu Kentucky Richard J. Ernst, Kepublican, is elected to the senate over J. C. W. Beckham. For the first time in history several counties coun-ties in Alabama went Hepublicau. and several precincts in the sixth Mississippi Missis-sippi district did the same almost unbelievable un-believable thing. Harding carried St. Petersburg, Orlando, Daytoua and other oth-er towns in Florida ; nine counties in northern Georgia and a dozen parishes in the sugar belt of Louisiana. The G. O. P. picked up a congressman in Texas; Harry M. Wurzbaek defeated Carlos' Bee, brother-in-law of Postmaster Postmas-ter General Burleson. President-elect Harding, whatever else he does, is going to take a rest. He's already off on a real vacation of a month. His immediate destination is Point Isabel, Tex., via San Antonio and Brownsville. Point Isabel is on the Gulf, 20 miles from Brownsville and six miles from the Mexican line. It has a population of 100 whites and 150 Mexicans. There golf, bathing, fishing and hunting are right at hand. Col. F. E. Scobey, now of San Antonio and formerly sheriff of Marion county, Ohio, made him promise to go, win or lose, the night he was nominated. B. B. Creager, a San Antonio banker, who seconded his nomination at Chicago, has turned over his cottage. Of course, the poor man will be guarded by secret se-cret service operatives and pestered by newspaper men and photographers, but he will have a goodly company of golf buddies and other intimate friends along. And politics and visitors will be barred. Mr. Harding is planning to go to the Canal Zone, after a fortnight at Foint Isabel. He has been preaching that the new American merchant marine ma-rine should pass free through the Panama Pan-ama canal and he wants first-hand information in-formation on conditions. Return is set for December 6. He plans to resign re-sign his seat as senator January 10, when Governor-elect Davis of Ohio will be Inaugurated and Senator-elect Willis Wil-lis will be appointed Mr. Harding's successor. Alfred E. Smith, Democratic governor gover-nor of New York, earned a new title in the election "Miracle Man of American Amer-ican Politics." Why, he almost reelected re-elected himself in the face of a Harding Hard-ing majority of more than a million. The presidential vote was about this: Harding, 1,842,222; Cox, 782,693. The gubernatorial vote was about this: Miller, l,3in,5S6; Smith, 1,200,311. Republicans Re-publicans and Democrats alike say the feat is unprecedented. "Al," as everybody every-body calls him, has come up from an orphan newsboy. Now he is spoken of as the logical candidate for the presidency in 1024. By-products of the election are many and' Interesting. Harding shatters a tradition that no sitting senator can be elevated to the White House. Coolidge, who violates every principle of politics poli-tics laid down by the practical politicians, poli-ticians, wins his seventeenth successive succes-sive candidacy. Oklahoma elects Alice M. Robertson of Muskogee, Republican, aged sixty-six, sixty-six, to congress; she went to Indian Territory by prairie schooner, has taught in Indian schools most of her life would let no soldier or sailor pay in her cafeteria and is a heaven-born cook. California overwhelmingly indorses the anti-alien land law recently adopted adopt-ed by the state legislature. Massachusetts Massa-chusetts approves the act to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer and wines of 2.75 alcoholic content. Wisconsin Wis-consin approves 2.5 per cent beer. New York approves a bonus for soldiers by the Issue of bonds not to exceed $4a,-000,000. $4a,-000,000. |