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She Atlanta SrMffletWa Snnrnal
VOL. XXIII. NO. 16
BMI TIMS THAT
WILSOPJ SHOULD OUIT
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"Wilson Is No Quitter,” Is
Statement of Joseph Tu
multy, Secretary to the
President
CHICAGO, Nov. s.—Williamh Jen
nings Bryan here Thursday suggest
ed that as a result of the election.
President Wilson resign immediate
ly, allowing V ce President Marshall
to assume the office.
Mr. Marshall, Mr. Bryan said,
should appoint President-elect Hard
ing as secretary of state and then
also resign when congress meets in
December in order to allow Mr.
Harding to start carrying out his
program immediately.
The laws regulating succession to
the presidency would put Harding
in the president’s chair if the pro
gram was carried out and Marshall
resigned.
“The people voted against the
Wilson league and for the associa
tion of nations, endorsed by the Re
publicans,” said Mr. Bryan in an ex
clusive interview with the United
Press.
“It would seem proper, therefore,
that the president accept that ver
dict and aid in carrying it out by
resigning at once. He surely will
find it no pleasure in combatting a
Republican congress. It would also
enable Vice President Marshall to
become president for a short time,
an honor which he has well earned.
“Mr. Marshall then should appoint
Mr. Harding as secretary of state
and offer his own resignation when
the congress meets in December. The
laws regulating the succession would
then make Harding president and
With a Republican congress to sup
port him he could carry out the Re
publican plan of international co
operation.”
Mr. Bryan declared that/he knew
nothing of any proposed conference
of Democrats to plan a new Demo
cratic program.
“There is no doubt, however, but
that there will be a conference when
the Democrats have a chance to get
together.” he said.
“The Democratic party is and has
been a progressive party,” Mr. Bry
an said. “The San Francisco conven
tion did not represent the rank and
file of the party. It was under a
joint control which had a special
interest other than party reform.
"This joint control represented
three things: *
“First—The wets who sought to
trade the constitution and the ten
commandments for beer with a kick
tn it.
“ econd—Wall street.
and office hold
ers.”
Mr. Bryan explaining why he did
not campaign for Governor Cox said
it was because Cox and Harding
evaded the liquor issue.
“Th wets,” he said, "were willing
to concede the president’s platform
for a candidate,” in analyzing the
causes of the Democrats’ defeat.
“They went before the country un
der a false flag.
“Now that defeat has overwhelmed
the Democratic party, its leaders
must plan for the next campaign
by formulating plans for protection
of th? -people against exploitation.
“In order that this may be work
ed out at once the treaty and the
nation’s part in the world’s peace
must be settled at once so that the
decks can be cleared for world re
form.”
Mr. Bryan then declared that this
could be accomplished by the im
mediate resignation of President
Wilson, followed by that of Marshall,
and Harding’s succession to the pres
idency.
The prohibition election results
from Scotland enthused Mr. Bryan.
“That’s doing well for a begin
ning,” he said. “It is much better
than we did at the start.”
Washington; Nov. <5. —“Wood-
row Wilson is no quitter,” a sentence
spoken by Secretary Tumulty to
Governor James M. Cox over the
long distance telephone, was taken
here today as evidence that the presi
dent had no intention of resigning, as
suggested by William Jennings
Bryan.
TAYLOR LEADS
IN TENNESSEE
OVER ROBERTS
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 4.—On the
face of returns compiled by newspa
pers from practically the entire state.
Senator Harding early today had a
lead of approximately 10,000 votes
over Governor Cox and seemed as
sured of Tennessee’s twelv electoral
votes.
Figures tabulated by the Memphis
Commercial-Appeal from all but fifty
of the precincts in ninety-three of
the ninety-five counties in the state
gave Harding a plurality of 9,977,
and showed Colonel Alf Taylor, Re
publican candidate for governor, lead
ing his Democratic opopnent, Gover
nor Roberts, by 37,197 votes.
The Commercial-Appeal’s tabula
tion did not include Maroin and
Bledsoe counties, both in the eastern
part of the state. Both of these
counties are considered safely Re-
BibUcan.
Commercial-Appeal totals
Harding, 199,759; Cox, 189,782; Tay
lor 198.114: Roberts, 160.917.
Returns from ninety-three counties
compiled bv the Knoxville Journal
and Tribune gave Harding a lead of
10,801 and Taylor a plurality of 39,-
The result of the congressional
races in two Tennessee districts the
Third and Eighth—still was in doubt
early today. Complete returns from
eight counties in the Third district
game Brown (R ). 2,275 majority over
John A. Moon. Democratic incumbent.
Republicans estimated that missing
counties would increase Brown s lead
by at least 500 votes.
In the Eighth district. Don A.
• Scott (R.), and Gordon Browning
'(D) were running neck and neck,
unfi’it was believd that the result
ulLzht nnx be known until the official
Count is completed.
Unnamed Mexican Is
Executed for Murder
Os American Citizens
WASHINGTON. Nov. 4. —Summary
trial and execution of an unnamed
Mexican, charged with the murder of
Arthur L. Mosely and Gustave Sala
zar, American citizens, has been re
ported to the American embassy at
Mexico City by the Mexican foreign
tiffice, the state department was ad
vised today.
Alleged King of
Huge ‘Dope’ Ring
Caught by Agents
Federal Agents Seize SIOO,-
000 Worth of Narcotics
When Arrest Is Made in
Atlanta
Arrests in Atlanta and Jack
sonville that broke into the big
gest “dope ring” in the south, and
the confiscation of., fully SIOO,OOO
worth of narcotics, were
Thursday at the federal building, by
D. J. Gantt, federal prohibition en
forcement officer for the gulf dis
trict, with the holding under a bond
of SI,OOO of a young man naming
himself J. A, Jones—a confessed
alias —who had a hearing Thursday
morning before United States Com
missioner Colquitt Carter He made
the bond at once.
“Jones.” whose real name is with
held for the present, lives in At
lanta and. has been plying a gigantic
trade in narcotics, the officers say,
while working as a Pullman conduc
tor, running through Atlanta, be
tween Jacksonville and Chicago. At
lanta was his "district” for the
trade; and the headquarters were
in Jacksonville, where the other ar
rests were made, declare the officers.
“This trade in morphia, cocaine
and other narcotics—including opium
for smoking—has amounted within
this year to more than $200,000 in
Georgia and Florida,” declared Mr.
Gantt. "Our agents, who got into
the confidence of this man ‘Jones’
and his associates, were told that
narcotics of any kind could be had
in -‘unlimited quantities.’ The price
was said to be uniform, at SIOO the
ounce, for cocaine or morphine.”
Drugs Worth SIOO,OOO
Thursday morning Mr. Gantt’s of
fice was the storage place for a vast
assortment of narcotic drugs, said
by him to be worth at the smugglers’
price, about SIOO,OOO,
“This was the stock in trade of
this ‘Jones,’ ” said the officer. “The
procedure in his arrest was approxi
mately as follows:
“W. J. Drautzburg, narytic in
spector, was put on JoneS’ track,
on suspicion. He gained Jones’ con
fidence, and made arrangements to
purchase from him SI,OOO worth of
morphine' Jones told the inspector
boastfully that he could supply him
‘with any amount’ of morphine pr
cocaine, also with ‘smoking opium.’
He appeared to be doing a thriving
business.
“An arrangement was made by
Drautzburg to meet Jones last Sun
day afternoon at Broad and Marietta
streets. Jones told him he had his
stock of drugs in a room in a small
Broad street hotel; but he did not
take the inspector there. C. E. Mil
ler was detailed to follow the pair,
and be in readiness to help Drautz
burg.
“Jones took Drautzberg to a down
town cigar shop, and down into the
basement, where he produced a large
box from which he got ten bottles
of the narcotic in powder form. Mil
ler had followed them unobserved,
and just as Drautzburg was passing
over an envelope supposed to contain
the SI,OOO. Jones was arrested.
Offered Officers Money
“Jones was greatly surprised, and
at once essayed to talk the officers
out of holding him. He was well
and expensively dressed, and 'wore
a diamond stud in his necktie, with
various other pieces of jewelry. He
produced a bank book, showing he
had S6OO on deposit with a local
bank, and also a bank roll, all of
wnich he offered to the officers,
with his jewelry, if they would let
him go.”
In the “cache” in the cigar store
basement, and at the room named
by Jones, the huge supply of narcotic
drugs was discovered: and Mr. Gantt
at once followed the due to Jack
sonville, wheer he was confident the
headquarters of this “ring” would be
found.
"Drautzburg, Y. T. Allen and Millr
er went to Jacksonville, arriving
Monday,” he said. “Tracing the
drug by certain labels of J. H. Dup
erly—a drug manufacturer of Jack
sonville —they found that Duperly
nad obtained a job with the Pullman
company in the union depot at Jackf
sonville. Using tlie knowledge
gained from Jones, the officers read-i
ily got into the confidence of Dup-,
erly.
“He was asked if he could furnish
as much as SIO,OOO worth of narcot
ics. He replied that his stock was
low ‘at that time,’ but that he would
see what he could do. He urged the
officers, as prospective patrons, not
to buy their drugs from anyone else,
as he was the most desirable opera
tor in the southeast. He said he had
made more than SIOO,OOO in the last
year selling drugs and whisky; and
that he was prepared to furnish
either in an ‘unlimited supply.’ He
said he got his stock mostly from
Havana, byway of Key West and
Miami.”
Two More Arrested
The trail then led to a tnan named
J. Schwartz, Mr. Gantt said, also at
the union depot in Jacksonville; and
a purchase was negotiated with him
of twenty-eight ten-gram bottles of
cocaine and one twenty-five-gram
bottle of morphine, at the rate of
SIOO.
“Duperly and Schwartz were then
placed under arrest.” said Mr. Gantt,
"and on their hearing were released
under bonds of SIO,OOO each, which
they made. When arrested Duperly
let fall some remarks about a large
wholesale drug dealer in New York,
who is being investigated now.”
Mr. Gantt said he riegarded the ar
rests as breaking up the “biggest
dope ring” yet established in this
section, which was operating system
atically and in a most businesslike
wav, apparently with plenty of cap
ital, and certainly with plenty of
stock in trade. The officers say that
none of the arrested men is a drug
habitue, and that all appeared to be
“strictly business” in their dealings.
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Send him a card today,—(Advt.)
LEAGUE IS DEAD, .
HARDING SAYS
IN FIRST SPEECH
MARION, Ohio, Nov. 5. —Making
his first speech as president-elect,
Warren G. Harding declared at an
election celebration of homefolks here
last night that the Versailles League
of Nations was “now deceased,” al
though the new administration in
tended to see that the /nation played
its part in a new international asso
ciation founded on peace and justice.
( Mr. Harding also told his friends
and neighbors who gathered around
the front porch in a cheering con
course rivalling the greatest crowd
of the campaign, that he had come
through the fight “without an apol
ogy or a regret,” and that he would
rather not have the presidency than
to win it "by speaking ill or utter
ing a He.”
The celebration, in which many
from other Ohio cities joined, was
characterized by all the carnival fea
tures of an old-time political rally,
So great was the gathering that the
streets were jammed for a block away
and only a small part of those pres
ent could hear the speech. In a pa
rade past the Harding residence there
were many special features, one man
leading a donkey on whose sides was
painted “Jimmie didn’t treat me
right,” while another group carried
a dummy corpse silhouetted against
a red-fire background and labelled
“The League of Nations.”
It was from the latter tableau that
the president-elect took the cue for
the leading thought of his speech.
His reference to it started a laugh.
Blind Negro Is Held
Under Bond of $ 100
On Stabbing Charge
It was fitting that a blind justice
should sit on the case of Weidner
vs. Evans, both blind, in which all
the witnesses were blind, too.
Judge Johnson in the recorder’s
court shut his eyes t o become thor
oughly en rapport with the situa
tion, arid then bound over John Ev
ans m the sumos SIOO to the stare
courts for stabbing Wright Weidner.
The stabbing was merely a technical
name for what Evans did. As a
matter of fact, he whittled on Weid
ner’s head until thirty-seven stitches
had to be taken in it before Weid
ner was at all presenable.
AH the parities to th ecase were
negroes, and it seemed from the tes
timonv that the feud between Evans
and Weidner had started seven years
ago in Jacksonville, Fla., with a
lively fight that ended in a draw.
Evans and Weidner, begging for a
living, then worked |slowly north
ward byway of Mobile. Montgo
mery, Savannah, Macon and Augusta
and finally got to Atlanta, seven
years later.
On the road it seems they were
at least reasonably friendly, and
when they encountered each other
they were peaceable. But Thursday
evening there was a little party at
the home of Weidner, at 24 Kerfne
saw Alley, and Evans dropped in.
There were seevral other blind men
and women present; and in the
course of the festivities the old war
in Jacksonville came up between
Evans and his host.
Evans told the court that Weidner
threatened to shoot him and that tie
knew Weidner had a big stick in his
hand.
“How did you know it?” asked
the court.
"Felt it,” explained Evans, simply.
The carving followed; and the tes
timony was mostly to the effect that
It was not in self-defense, as Evans
asserted. He was bound over to the
state court.
Farmer Found Dead,
His Leg Entangled
In a Buggy Wheel
GREENSBORO, Ga.. Nov. s.—Coun
ty authorities have given up as un
solvable the mystery surrounding the
death of Mr. Oscar Edmunds, Green
county farmer who was found dead
at his home here Thursday morning,
under circumstances which seem to
indicate that he had been dragged
four miles when his right leg became
entangled in the Wheel of his buggy.
When his family went to the barn
early in the morning. Mr. Edmunds’
lifeless body was found near his
buggy, the horse being hitched to
the vehicle. One of the dead man’s
feet was entangled in one of the rear
wheels, the ankle being broken.
A traveling man coming from
Bairdstown found Mr. Edmunds’ coat
and hat by the roadside. There is
considerable mystery as to how the
young man met his death. The gen
eral belief is that he alighted from
his buggy for some purpose, taking
off his coat. The horse, it is thought,
started off and the young man made
an effort to stop the animal by first
jumping into the vehicle to gather
up the lines, his foot becoming en
tangled in the wheel. He was dragged
something like four miles.
The coroner’s is that Air.
Edmunds’ death was accidental. He
was aribut thirty years of age and
the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ed
munds. Besides his parents he is
survived by several sisters and
brothers.
$1,000,000 Reported
Pledged to Cotton
Export Corporation
COLUMBIA, S. C., Nov. s.—The or
ganization committee of the Ameri
can Products Export and Import cor
poration met yesterday in Columbia
for formulating definite plans for
completing the orgalzation with a
number of members present.
The committee by unanimous vote
instructed the special committee to
proceed to obtain a charter at an ear
ly date, and it is understood that this
will be done within the next few
days.
Chairman Alanning reported to the
committee that subscriptions in ex
cess of $1,000,000 had been received
to date and that large subscriptions
were daily being received. A tenta
tive proposition from expert cotton
men was read and the committee re
ferred the proposition to the direc
tors soon to be selected. The com
mittee adopted the recommendation
of the special committee, including
the co-operative features of the com
pany, as follows;
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1920
BnS CONSIDER
HUGE EXEDRT FIRM
FDR COTTON STATES
Plans for $12,000,000 Cor
poration to Be Furthered
at New Orleans Meeting
on Saturday
The projected foreign trading cor
poration, which had its incipiency
at the recent conference of bankers
at Washington, has taken definite
shape, and the enterprise will be
formally organized at a meeting to
•be held in New Orleans Saturday.
The corporation will be organized
under the provisions of the Edge act
and will lend financial aid to the
development of business relations
between the southern states and
foreign countries. Obviously, for
jthe present, the chief activity of the
mammouth concern will be the fi
nancing of the cotton crop, and its
operations are expected confidently
to improve materially and perma
nently the cotton business.
The corporation will have a capi
tal stock of $12,000,000, fifty per
cent of which will bei paid in and
from the fund for the’active opera
tion of the business. The stock will
be subscribed by southern business
interests, being allotted to the sev
eral states on the basis of cotton
produced. Thus Georgia interests
will be the second largest in the con
cern, since Georgia is the sepond
largest cotton growing state.
The new Orleans meting was
called by Robert F. Maddox, of At
lanta, as chairman of a special com
mittee appointed at the recent con
vention of the American Bankers'
association. The committee has
made a thorough investigation of
the plan for financing southern
products, chiefly cotton, and has de
termined that the scheme is feasible.
The report of the committee has im
pressed bankers favorably, and the
organization meeting for New Or
leans is the result.
Among the prominent financiers
who will attend the New Orleans
meeting are: Governor Al. B. Well
born, of the Sixth district federal
reserve bank, Atlanta; H. Lane
Yound, vice president of the Citi
zens’ and Southern bank, of Georgia;
Robert F. Maddox: R. S. Hecht,
president of the Hibernia Trust and
Savings bank. New Orleans; J. Pope
Mathews, president Palmetto Na
tional bank, Columbia, S. C.; Tom
O. Smith, vice president Birming
ham Trust and Savings bank, Birm
ingham, Ala.; Moorehead Wright,
president Union and Mercantile
company, Little Rock, Ark.;'J. El
wood Cox, Commercial National
bank, High Point, N. C; J. A. Pond
som, first vice president South
Texas Commercial National bank,
Houston; S. J. High, president Peo
ples’ bank, Tupelo, Mis.; D. M.
Armstrong, vice president Commer
cial Trust and Savings company,
Memphis; John K. Ottley, president
Fourth National bank, Atlanta:
Haynes McFadden, secretary Geor
gia Bankers’ association, and many
others.
Riot Threatened as
U. N. C. Students Egg
Hilarious Republicans
DURHAM, N. C., Nov. 5. —A riot
was narrowly averted at Chapel Hill,
N. C., seat of the University of
North Carolina, near here, Thursday
night, when a body of from 600 to
700 university students halted a pa
rade of Republican celebrators from
Carrboro, a nearby town, and egged
the victory procession.
Enraged, the members of the
tory parade resorted to strong lan
guage and a general free-for-all was
imminent when Afayor W. S. Rob
erson stepped in and stopped the fun,
persuading the Carrboro Republicans
to return home and leave Democratic
Chapel Hill in peace.
The parade was led by Louie Cole
Lloyd, defeated Republican candi
date for the state legislature. When
it entered Chapel Hill close to 9
o’clock it was headed by a brass
band, followed by men on horseback
and automobiles Assembling in the
tow i square, the Republicans gave
ve it to their war cries, bringing half
the Carolina students on the run to
return- the compliment w’ith a Cox
salute. The egg-shower followed,
and though greatly outnumbered, the
Republicans were about to seek sat
isfaction in personal encounters,
when the mayor arrived.
65-Year-Old Woman
Elected Sheriff, Not
Afraid of ‘Bad Men’
ROSCOMMON, Mich., Nov. 5.
Mrs. Jane Johnson, sixty-five years
old, mother of three children, and
of Roscommon county,
today outlined the platform on which
she will go into office next January.
“I can land a bad man, or a bad
woman, myself, if necessary,” sne
said, ‘*but as a matter of precaution
I will appoint my husband deputy.
In the intervals between searching
for and caring for prisoners, I will
look after my children—two girls
and a boy—and the domestic duties
in the county jail.”
Mrs Johnson added that in case it
should become necessary for her "to
arrest a bad man, he will know some
one has been after him.”
The *sheriff-elect gained her expe
rience from her husband, who has
been sheriff for the past six years,
and whom she married forty years
ago. ~
Wilson’s First Speech
In More Than Year
Made at White. House
WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—President
Wilson made his first public appear
ance last night in more than a year
when he was lifted in his wheeled
chair to the east portico of the
White House while hundreds of
Washington League of Nations ad
herents gathered upon the White
House lawn to do him honor.
The crowd of men, women and
children bearing state banners and
the national flag, under the leader
ship of John F. Costello, Democratic
national committeeman for the Dis
trict of Columbia, assembled at
Democratic national headquarters
and marched to the White House,
where the gates were open to the
.public for the first time since the
beginning of the war.
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Governor Cox Wires
His Congratulations to
Harding on Vicory
DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 3.—Governor
Cox. the defeated presidential candi
date, today wired his congratulations
to Senator Harding, the president
elect, pledging support "as a citizen
tq the executive authority in what
everi emergency might arise.”
His message, the first act of the
defeated candidate today, read:
"In the spirit of America, I ac
cept the decision of the majority,
tender. ,as the defeated candidate, my
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U. S. Sugar Control
Removed in Formal
Wilson Proclamation
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—The last
vestige of government control over
sugar has been removed through sig
nature by President Wilson of a proc
lamation providing for i evocation No
vember 15 of licenses held by whole
slaers, refiners, exporters and im
porters.
congratulations, and pledge as a citi
zen my support to the executive au
thority in whatever emergency might
arise.”
FRANTIC SEARCH
REVEALS RADIUM
IN LINEN PILE
A tiny cylinder of lead containing
an infinitesimal quantity of radium
valued at $4,000, created consterna
tion at Grady hospital on Thursday.
Or rather, the loss of the radium cre
ated the consternation, which was
very real and very prononnjced while
it lasted, which was something over
three hours. ’
Science came to the rescue, how
ever, 'in the person of Professor J.
B. Edwards, head of the department
of physics at Georgia Tech. Armed
with an electroscope, Dr. Edwards
joined the searching party and after
a nerve-racking period, discovered the
precious metal in a huge pile of soil
ed linen that had been made ready
for laundering
The radium had been loaned to the
hospital by Dr. J. J. Martin for use
in treatment of a cancer case. Since
Grady hospital does not own any ra
dium, on account of its enormous
cost, several Atlanta physicians who
are fortunate enough to possess
small quantities of the element have
been kind enough to. loan it to the
hospjtal for the treaAnent of charity
patients.
On Thursday morning Dr. Martin’s
tiny piece of radium, encased in its
protecting cylinder of lead, had been
placed upon the cancerous portion of
a patient in the charity ward. When
it came time to remove the radium
the attendants were horror stricken
to discover that it had disappeared.
Nurses, doctors, orderlies and other
attendants were enlisted in the
search and the entire hospital was
given a thorough going over, but to
no avail.
A reward of SIOO was posted for
the discovery of the little tube and
everybody bent" to the task of locat
ing the missing radium, not only to
obtain the financial remuneration,
but to uphold the reputation of the
institution itself.
Finally somebody remembered that
an instrument, called the electroscope,
had been invented to register the
strength of radium rays. Hurried
telephoning developed the fact that
Dr. Edwards, at Georgia Tech, had
such an instrument in his physical
laboratory. He was located and
came to the Grady hospital post
haste with his electroscope.
The electroscope is so delicately
constructed that two small needles,
which constitute the registering de
vice, vibrate violently when the in
strument is brought into proxmity
to radium.
After searching all over the hos
pital for about three hours, carrying
the electroscope around to the places
where the missing tube might have
been inadvertently deposited, Prof.
Edwards noted a movement of the
needles in a room where soiled linens
were piled up waiting to go to the
laundry. He finally centered his at
tention on one particular pile, where
the needles of the electroscope show
ed more violent agitation than at
any other point in the room.
Down at the bottom of the pile,
concealed in a fold of a sheet, was
the vial containing the radium. It
had been lodged there when in some
manner it became detached from its
wrappings on the cancer patient,
and had been removed with the bed
linens.
Palmer’s Connection
With Coal Conspiracy
Will Be Investigated
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 5.
Investigation involving Attorney
General Palmer’s connection with
the conspiracy case of 125 coal op
erators and miners will be made by
Judge A. B. Anderson in the federal
district court here next Monday, the
date set for beginning the trial, ac
cording to a notice sent the attor
ney general today by court officials.
Judge Anderson declined to dis
cuss the notice which said “certain
matters” would be inquired into, but
it was understood that the attorney
general had been invited to court be
cause of his orders that certain evi
dence should not be submitted at the
conspiracy trial. These orders, the
attorney general has said, conform
with an agreement made during the
coal strike last year in Judge Ander
son's presence. Dan W. Simms, who
resigned as special assistant attor
ney general in charge of the con
spiracy case, has said that the at
torney general’s order "cut the heart
out of the case.”
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TENNESSEE LEAVES
SOLID SOUTH; G.O.P.
CARRIESJMTATES
Republican Landslide Gives
Harding 401 Electoral
Votes; Democrats Lose In
Congress
NEW YORK, Nov. 4. —Tennessee
has swung into the swelling Repub
lican columns, shattering Democratic
traditions of a "solid south,” unof
ficial, but nearly complete returns
from the volunteer state showed
early today.
Her shift from the Democratic
ranks, coupled with a similar up
set in Oklahoma, reported late last
night, gave Warren G. Harding 401
electoral votes as againpt 127
definitely in the James M. Cox col
umn and left in doubt three seats
in the electoral college, from New
Mexico, where Cox is leading. Hard
ing probably has carried thnrty-six
states.
Tennessee, on the face of returns
tabulated by the Memphis Commer
cial-Appeal, from 93 of 95 counties,
with fifty precincts missing, gave
Harding 199,759 votes and Cox, 189,-
782, a Harding ’of 9,977.
Governor Roberts, Democrat, was
swept out on the Republican tide and
Alf A. Taylor, unsuccessful candi
date for governor against his brother
in 1886, was elected.
No further actual upsets were re
ported from the “solid south,” al
though several towns in Florida and
Louisiana and several counties in
Georgia and Alabama broke prece
dents by piling up Harding plurali
ties.
Congress Majority
The Republican . congressional
sweep assumed larger proportions as
belated returns continue to coms in.
The victory of Samuel D. Nicholson.
Republican candidate for the senate
from Colorado, assured President
elect Harding a majority of at least
ten in the upper house, and of five
states where senatorial choices had
not been determined, the Republican
candidates were in the lead in four—
Arizona, Oregon, Nevada and North
Dakota. In the Fifth, Kentucky, Re
publican leaders still clung to the
hope that late returns would over
come the advantage held by Senator
J. C. W. Beckham over Richard I’.
Ernst, his Republican opponent.
The Republicans had secured 257
seats in the house of representatives
to 132 for the Democrats and i’ou.
for other parties, giving them a lead
of 129, with forty-two contests in
sixteen states undetermined. Thirty
seven of these contests were in states
Which gave Harding pluralities or
whose uncompleted vote showed the
Republican candidate in the lead.
Late returns also indicated pos
sible turnovers in cases of some
Democratic representatives reported
elected. A notable instance was in
New York, where three Republican
candidates reported defeated—Ryan,
in the Fifteenth district, Ansorge in
the Twenty-first, and Rosedale in
the twenty-third—had forged ahead
of Dooling, Donovan and McKinry,
earlier reported elected.
The house will one Socialist
member—Meyer London, of New
York, who defeated Henry M. Gold
fogle, fusion candidate, in the
Twelfth. The Prohibition party lost
its lone representative, -but an In
dependent-Prohibitionist, Milton W.
Shreve, was elected from the Twen
ty-fifth Pennsylvania district.
Several notable upsets occurred in
the congressional race—among them
the retirement by Missouri voters of
former Speaker Champ Clark, of the
house, and the election by Texas
voters of a Republican representa
tive —Harry Wurzbach.
Post-election developments within
the ranks of the beaten Democratic
party included a tart statement from
William Jennings Bryan in which he
divided blame for the defeat between
President Wilson and Candidate Cox.
asserting that tne former had “laid
the foundation for the disaster ami
the latter had “completed the struc
ture.” .
How States Voted
Wavne B. Wheeler, legislative
counsel of the Anti-Saloon League of
America, issued a statement declar
ing a check of the congressional
election in forty states showed a
‘‘substantial majority” in botn
houses against any beer or wine
amendment. . .
Returns early today showed the
following states had given their elec
toral votes —a total of 386 —to Hard
ing: ..
Arizona •’
California .....13
Colorado"
Connecticut J
Delaware
Idaho. 4
Illinois 23
Indiana
lowaJ"
Kansas I”
Maine
Maryland "”.5
Michigan —ls
Minnesota 1"
Missourilß
Montana 4
Nebraska 8
Nevada .. I 3
New Hampshire 4
New Jersey *’ * 14
New Y0rk.....45
North Dakota 5
Ohio 24
Oklahoma 10
Oregon 5
Pennsylvania3B
Rhode Island 5
South Dakotas
Tennesseel2
Utah 4
Vermont 4
Washington 7
West Virginia 8
Wisconsin 13
Wyoming 3
Total 401
Governor Cox had safely the fol
lowing:
Alabama 12
Arkansas 9
Florida 6
Georgial4
Kentuckyl.3
Louisiana -10
Mississippilo
North Carolina 12
South Carolina ...'9
Texas 20
Virginia 12
Total 127
Still in the doubtful list, lacking
sufficient returns, was:
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