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5:30 A. M.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1920
Fair and colder to-day. and probably fair
to-morrow.
TWO CENTS I THltEE CENTS I FOCR CENTS
In Grmt??r ?w York | Within 200 Mile? | Ktumwhrntm "
Judge Victor
Bv Plurality
Estimated at
About 54,000
Republican Comes to the
Bronx With Lead of
379,725; Governor
Carries City by 325,227
Albany, Home of
Barnes, to Governor
3,744 Out of 4,575 Elec?
tion Districts Upstate
Give Miller 766,520
and Smith 589.418
Judge Nathan L. Miiler is elect?
ed Governor of New York State.
On the face of returns from 5,99,5
, ut of the 7.308 election districts
in the state his estimated plurality
is 54,498.
Judge Miller la elected by 1U0,000,
? ling t? the claim made by
George A. Glynn, Republican state
airman. ?
'.Mil.er will come to the Bronx
r.-ith a majority of 3G7.000," Mr.
Glynn declared. "All reports from
te exceed my preelection esti
. with the exception of Troy,
whan- the Republican vote fell a]
little short." j
Smith Leads by 30.000
1 .. !?. Smith, secretary of j
Tai u m ..' Hall, claimed the election
r Governor Smith, but offered no'
figures. In this claim he was joined ;
', ;. otl ci ; '? m o :;lic leaders.
TO?latest figures from upstate?!
3.744 of the 4,575 districts?give ?
: g 1)18,82:1, Cox 384,737, Mil
7ti?v>20, Smith -172,348, Wads-i
worth 589,418, Walker 317,706.
On the returns to date Senator;
Harding'? majority over Governor
the state is 1,096,200, an
unprecedented figure.
The next largest Republican ma
oi ';. in this state for a Presiden?
ta! nominee was given to William
McKinley in 1896, when he ran
( 268*169 ahead of William Jennings
Bryan.
While the race for the governorship
. the returns indicate the re
election of United States Senator James
W. Wadsworth jr. by a comfortable
majority and that Harding- and Coolidge
"all carry th? state by a tremendous
vote.
Harding (arries Greater City.
The figures upstate from 1.520 out of
-1.575 election districts give Harding a
Rotentia! olurality outside of the
?rcatar city of 658,800.
In the city 770 election districts out
"' 2773 give Harding an estimated lead
'?" the live boroughs of ?104,484.
If the later returns throughout the
?t?te an- in line with the early figures,
Harding and Coolidge will carry the
state by more than 1.000.000 votes, or
double the highest preelection fore?
cast.
Miller Behind in Cities
The vate for Judge Miller in the up
;''' > ' was below anticipation and
?" >'?'? ibli? *i vote in the rural dis?
tricts was not as big as expected, be
: the heavy rain and sleet which
-<'?' 'u manj sections.
Notwithstanding the falling of? m
. " exp? :ted Miiler vote, the Syracusan
' 'a the larger up-state cities by
orities in excess of those given
governor Whitman two years ago. The
?crease in the Miller vote over Whit
?uti'i's of two years ago In Buffalo was
[5.000; Syracuse, 8,000; Poughkeepsie, I
a1"'- !' ? a 900; Auburn, 800; White
: ?, 800; Ha Ison, 500.
Governor Smith ran ahead of his
national ticket by tnousands of votes!
; almost every Assembly district in;
the state.
Albany Curried by Smith
Smith arrie.i several Republican'
:? state, including the;
City ?a- Albany, the first time it has
?"'!1 carried by a Democrat in twenty I
>ears. j
? The carrying of Albany?the home]
;'? :' feudal seat of William Barnes?'
??? Smith was a complete surprise.
. '? merely meant that tho people of
" '? '?' know me," said Governor
Vi "! ,c?nimenthig on the Albany
"When people know me they
? , .-?
ot. : ? '? -"e were no returns for any
?Wer State offices except that of j
(Continue on -?--?t ma?)
Majority of 300,000
For Anti-Japanese Law ?
?ote of Californiens average's
About Three to One for
tho Measure
S;>--ru.i Dispatch to The Tribune
'-'?S ANGELES, Nov. 2, Scattering
,*rl>' returns indicate that the anti- \
^Pa?tese law in California will have
| ? nwjof.ty of .100,000. The vote so far
(,?? ?veraged about three to one in
F?' of the law.
."Y," rar.|s, ,|i?MiieMve. w. ?rr-a.t variet?-. >
?3??'?*" M" >? i ?ae . 7 K 4 i ill s- -JO John tt. ?
The Electoral Vote
(As indicated by the latest returns)
For Harding
California. 131 New Hampshire. 1
Colorado . 6 ; New Jersey . 14
Connecticut. 7 New York. 45
Delaware. 3 North Dakota. 5
Idaho. 4|Ohio. 24
Illinois. 29 ; Oregon . 5
Indiana. 15 Pennsylvania . 38
Iowa. 13 Rhode Island . 5
Kansas . 10 South Dakota. 5
Maine. 6 Utah . 4
Maryland . 8 ? Vermont . 1
.Missouri. 18 Washing-ton. 7
Montana. 4
Nevada. . . . 3
Massachusetts . 18
Michigan. 15
Minnesota. 12 ? Total .376
Nebraska. 8 !
West Virginia
Wisconsin. 13
Wyoming. 3
For Cox
Oklahoma. 10
South Carolina. 9
Tennessee.,. 12
Texas . 20
Virginia. 12
Alabama . 12
Arkansas. 9
Florida. 6
Georgia. 14
Louisiana. 10
Mississippi . 10
North Carolina . 12] Total .136
Doubtful
Arizona .. ..-. 31 New Mexico . 3
Kentuckv. . ? 13
Total. 19
Citv Gives Harding 2 to 1
?o
And Smith Wins It 3 to 1
Republican National Ticket Captures Districts That
Tammany Never Has Lost Before; Governor's
Plurality Is 275,334 in 2,300 Precincts
With only 224 election districts in the entire city to be heard from,
Senator Harding had more than twice as many votes as Governor Cox.
There was every indication that the Republican candidate would
maintain his two-to-one lead and sweep the city. It will he the first time
that a Republican Presidential candidate has carried New York City
since McKinley turned the trick in 1896.
Senator Harding carried the borough*
with largo majorit?s over Cox, accord?
ing to figures that were expected to
'stand up under the latest returns. He
swept the Tammany strongholds in
-Manhattan, even carrying Charles F.
Murphy's own election district. In
Brooklyn he carried Democratic dis?
tricts presided over by such old Tam?
many veterans as Fire Commissioner
Drennan and Senator Dan Carroll.
These Brooklyn districts were never
known before to go anything but Demo?
cratic in all kinds of elections.
In 2,509 election districts in the
greater city Harding polled 714,222
votes, Cox 315,481 and Debs 123,063.
These figures would Indicate a plural?
ity in New York City for Harding of
over 442,746.
The race for Governor in the city
was all one-sided, Smith running ahead
of Miller by nearly two to one. In
2,300 election districts out of 2,733
in the city Governor Smith received
595,439, Judge Miller 320,105 and Sena?
tor Thompson 7,140. This would indi?
cate a plurality in the city for Smith
of 319,761.
Republican leaders in Brooklyn
claimed to have carried Kings County
for Harding and Coolidge by between
150,000 and 180,000 plurality. They
also claimed to have elected six and
possibly seven of the eight Congress?
men, conceding th<? Thomas H. Cullen
Democrat, had won in the 4th Congres
Eional District.
The Republicans also declared the?,
had elected five of the eight State
Senators and eighteen of the twenty?
three Assemblymen. The entire ju
diciary ticket in the 2d District
?Brooklyn, Nassau and Suft'olk coun
ties) was said to have gore through oi
the Republican landslide.
Returns early this morning clearl;
indicated that Senator .Tames W. Wads
worth had carried the city agains
Lieutenant Governor Harry C. Walker
his Democratic opponent for the Unit
ed States Senatership. In 1,075 elec
lion districts out of a total of 2,733 ii
the city Wadsworth had 202,764 vote
and Walker 170,422. This would giv
Senator Wadsworth an estimated plu
rality of 71,990. Wadsworth apparent
ly carried all the five boroughs, with
small doubt about Manhattan, wher
the vote was very close.
There seemed to be a chnnce ii
Brooklyn of Judire Edwin L. Garvlr
Democrat, being elected to the Suprem
Court. He was leading the other can
didates in the late count. It was con
ceded that Justices Aspinwal!. Dik
r?nd Jaycox were elected. The lat
returns indicated Republican gains i
Congress and the State Senate and As
-cmhly among the candidates in Brook
lyn.
? ?- ? -;?
First Montana Keturns
Give Harding Big Lea?
Cox Polls Only 7.786 Votes t
Senator's 11,018; Dixon is
Ahead for Governor
HELENA, Mont?, Nov. 2.- Returr
from 155 precincts out of 1,482 in Mm
tana Hvc Cox 7,786, Harding 14,018?
Returns from 143 precincts give f(
Governor. Wheeler (D.) 7.234, Dixc
(R.) 13,204.
Returns from 45 out of 471 precinc
in the 1st Congressional District gn
Watson i.D.) 12.334, McCormick (R
13,662.
Returns from 72 precincts out ?
ion in the 2d District ?rive McCusk?
(D.) 12,345, Rid?4,ick (R.) 15,220.
Wilson Retires
After Reading
Early Returns
President, With Wife and
Member? of Her Family,!
? Gets Eleetion Bulletins j
Showing Harding Victor
j From The Tritrune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. -Remember- \
ing 1916, President Wilson went to |
bed at 9 o'clock to-night, long before i
any returns had been received from :
the Far West, and it was definitely an- i
nounced a short time later that no '
I ?tateme.nt, not even an admission that ;
it "looked like Harding," would be I
forthcoming from th- White House un
til to-morrow.
Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, the
j President's physician, said that Mr. !
Wilson had stood the ordeal of receiv- !
I ing bulletin returns for three hours !
without any sign of fatigue, and add- !
ed that he was sound asleep before !
? 9:30 o'clock.
Secretary Tumulty made the follow- :
ing statement after the election of
?Harding was assured:
"I was privileged to be associated
1 with President Wilson in all his
triumphs. I rejoice that it is per- ;
rnitted to me, an humble private in the i
ranks, to be connected with him in ,
this hour of Democratic defeat. I am '
I reminded of what the President once ?
?said: '1 would rather be defeated in a;
cause that some day will triumph than
! triumph in a cause that some day will
I be defeated.' "
Tl.e returns continued to pour into
| the White House from three news
j services all night; but after the Presi- '?
dent retired his secretary, Joseph P. \
Tumulty, said that they would simply
'? Le compiled so they can be presented I
; to Mr. Wilson the first thing to-mor- \
i row.
The President received the returns
i :n the privacy of his study.
Accompanied only by Mrs. Wilson,
1 Mrs. Boiling, mother of the President's
wife, and Miss Bertha Boiling, a sister of
Mrs. Wilson, the Chief Executive spent
the early evening reading the returns,
which were conveyed to his study by
messenger from the Executive offices.
There four telegraph operators were!
. ngaged at the special wires over which !
came the complete report of three news ,
services from all sections of the coun- i
try.
The President and Mrs. Wilson alter?
nated in reading the early bulletins.'
and this program was continued untii
the Chief Executive retired for the
night.
Wilson in Fine Spirits
It was said at the White House late
this afternoon that the President was
in tine spirits, and evidenced great in?
terest in the program planned for to?
night. He did not permit the occasion
of the national election to interfere
in any way with his daily routine. After
his customary afternoon automobile
!Cer,t?nu?JJ on pa*? thrw*
\ l '.??? Minutes and h Dollar Op?-n an Ac?
count with our Special Interest I>ep?riment.
Mercantile Trust Company, US Hroaiiw?y.
Harding Is
Not Exultant;
Mood Rather
Is Prayerful
President-Elect Says He
Does Not Regard Vic?
tory as Personal, but a
Solemn Call to Duty
Old Employees Are
First to Greet Him
Senator, Greatly Moved.
Makes Initial Speecli
After Election to Bear
j ers of Birthday Gift
-
From ?i Stuff Correspondent
MARION, Ohio, Nov. 2.?Senato
; Harding received word of his elec
j tion in the quiet of his home. A
i 9:40 o'clock, when returns showe?
i the Reppublican victory, the Sena
tor, seated in an armchair, his leg
i crossed and an unlighted cigar be
j tween his lips, penciled the follow
j ing:
''Assuming that the early return
| are wholly dependable, [ do not he?
j itate to say that I am pleased. O
! course I am happy to utter my grat
: tude. But I am not exultant. It i
not a personal victory. It is a n
newed expression of confident Amei
icanism and a national call to th
Republican party.
"It is all so serious, the oblig*
tions are so solemn, that instead c
exulting, I am more given to prayt
to God t omake me capable of pla;
ing my part, and that all those cal
to responsibility may meet the asp
rations and expectations of Americ
and the world. I am sure the pe?
pie who have voted the Republicn
ticket will understand my feelir
that I should make no unstudie
statement of policies at this tin
beyond the expression mac
1 throughout the campaign."
Mrs. Harding Happy
Pacing in and out of the rooms <
the lower floor of the Harding hon
while Senator Harding wrote his stut
ment was Dr. George Tyron Hardin
his father, seventy-six-year veteran
the Civil War. In the front room
that which Marion calls the parlor
Mrs, Harding was radiantly acceptji
the congratulations of a group of loc
friends, but her eye-lids were a tr?
inflamed. She had been weeping.
Mrs. Heber Votaw, young of fa
but white-haired, the youngest sist
of the Senator and who was a inis.iio
ary in Burma for eight years and mo
recently a policewoman in Washin
ton, I). C, was also there, now smilii
now urging her father to sit down ?
fore he worked himself into a fever.
"I'm a doctor, ain't 1 ?" protest
"Dad."
In the dining room, Frank Blackst?
who has been the Harding chauffe
for twelve years and is almost as mu
of a politician as his employer. *vi
studying telegraph returns fresh fr?
the wires in the backyard bungal
that serves as press headquarters.
Other Guests Rejoice
Others who stood about and grinr
and slapped each other on the b?
were Fred \V. Upham, treasurer of i
Republican National Committee;
bert D. La-sker, head of the Lord
Thomas Advertising Agency; Mr. s
Mrs. William C. Wrigley 'the chew
gum man ) and Colonel James C. D
den. All of these had arrived early
the evening from Chicago, and
?Continued an page four)
In Their Home Towns
MARION. Ohio, Nov. 2.?Senator Harding* won in his own pre?
cinct over Governor Cox by 373 votes to 7(5. Four years ago Senator
Harding's home precinct went Democratic. Since then its boundaries
have been changed.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Nov. 2.?The vote of this city, Governor
Coolidge's home, was: Harding and Coolidge, ?397.''!; Cox and Roose?
velt, 2,094.
SYRACUSE. Nov. 2.? Governor Smith carried the home ward of
his opponent, Nathan L. Miller, in this city, by 242 votes, although Mr,
Miller carried his own election district.
PRINCETON. N. J., Nov. 2.?Harding and Coolidge won by a
5 to I vote in President. Wilson's home district, according ?to a preliminary
announcement made by officials.
HYDE PARK. N. Y., Nov. 2.?This town, the home of Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Democratic candidate for Vice-President, gave Harding
and Coolidge a plurality of 86 votes.
DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 2.?Governor Cox carried neither his home
city, Dayton, nor his home county, Montgomery, according to the early
returns. The Republicans claim Dayton by 1,800 and the county by
3,000 votes. Two years ago Montgomery County gave Cox a plurality
of 2,500 for Governor.
Twenty-ninth President of the United States
From, an etching by Edwin Megargee. Copyright, 1920
Warren Gamaliel Harding
Republicans Strengthen Grip
In Both Houses of Congress
Gain of Ten in Senate Will Give Them a Majority
of 22; Lead They Will Have in the New
House Estimatefi at 75
The Republicans have increased their control of both Houses of
Congress. In the Senate they have gained possibly ten votes and in
the House their majorities has been increased from 39 to about l'i.
The Republican National Senatorial Committee early this morning
claimed a net Republican gain of eight, and possibly ten, seats in the
United States Senate, on the basis of early reports from the various
states. The Republican leaders claimed accessions in South Dakota, Idaho,
Maryland, California, Nevada, Oklahoma, Arizona and Colorado.
"Should the actual results bear out
the early indications giving the Re?
publicans a gain of eipht seats," said
the committee's statement, "they will
have at the next session 57 seats to the
Democrats' 39, a majority of 18. Should
they win all ten seats they will have
a majority of 122."
United States Senator Reed Smoot,
of Utah, probably is re?lected. Re?
turns from 106" out of (541 districts in
the state at midnight gave Smoot,
19.483; Welling (D.), 13,067.
Samuel M. Shortridge, Republican
candidate for United States Senator in
California, and Samuel D. Nicholson,
Republican, in Colorado, were elected,
thus fulfilling the prediction of Chair?
man Hays, of the Republican National
Committee, that these two states would
be carried.
Senator George H. Moses was re
elected in New Hampshire. At mid?
night, with but. little more than one
third of the districts in, he had 25,994
to 15,(534 for Stevens, his opponent.
Early morning returns continue
United States Senator Uenroot's lead
in the three-cornered fight in Wiscon?
sin, the returns from 8(5 precincts giv?
ing Lenroot, 3,730; James Thompson,
indorsed by La Follette, 3,330; Reinsch,
Democrat, 1,067.
Among the more conspicuous mem?
bers of the House of Representatives
re?lected are "Uncle Joe" Cannon from
i Continue?* on pas? tlx)
Harding Will
Win Ohio by
About 400,000
Republican Majority Mav
Reach 500,000 ; Regarded
Principally as Repudia?
tion of Whispered Lies
Sprcinl Dispatch to The Tribune
DAYTON, Ohio. Nov. 2.-On the face
of returns compiled from all sections
of Ohio up to midnight Warren G.
Harding will have a majority of 404,
275 in Ohio. This unprecedented ma- |
jority, exceeding even that of Theodore
Roosevelt in 11*04, may be increased to
nearly 500,000 when returns are in from ;
rural districts, where Harding is con?
ceded to have greater strength than .
Cox.
Ohio's swing back Into the Republi?
can column, which was anticipated by
: all astute observers, exceeds every ex?
pectation. It is attributed more to per?
sonal repudiation of Governor Cox and
the "whispering campaign" against |
: Warren G. Harding than to direct op?
position to the League of Nations.
Opposition to the League of Nations
?' is indicated, however, in the substan?
tial majority given to Frank B. W??a
tor United Slates Senutor. So meagre
? are the returns in this contest that
? it is impossible to estimate Willis's .
majority at -this hour, but it will un?
doubtedly reach 150,000 and may go
higher.
Close Race for Governor
An indication of the strength he-id by
Harding in his home state is to be
?found in the close race for Governor
Harry L. Davis, three times Mayor of
Cleveland and very strong among labor
forces, is running only a little ahead
of Victor Donahy, State Auditor, whose
greatest strength ij expected to be re?
corded in rural districts, from which
only meager return* have been re?
ceived. Although Republican headquar?
ters claims the election of-Davis, this
is' by no means certain on the iace of
returns. If Davis is elected it will
he by ?: majority much lower than that
given to Harding, and there are strong
chances Donahy wit' be elected.
The electicn of Roy G. Fitzgerald
in the 3d District (which includes
Dayton) is an indication of opposition
to the lea-rue. Fitzgerald made his j
campaign solely upon opposition to the
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Yuri.. ? Adv..
iggest Popular Vic?
tory in History
Is Recorded
. Y. by a Million
Senate Majority Likelv To
Be 22 ; Lead in House
Probably 75
Harding and ( oolidge have swept the country by the larg
i est popular majority ever given a national ticket. Their elec
! toral vote probably will be more than 870.
Chairman George White of the Democratic National Com
; mittee conceded Harding's election at 11:15 o'clock last night.
\ The Dayton News, owned by Governor Cox, got out an extra
?about the same time announcing Harding's election.
The tremendous majority tor the national tiekel in all the
so-called doubtful states has carried through the Republican
vSenatorial and Congressional candidates to such an extent that
the Republican majority in the Senate may reach eight or ten.
and the majority in the House may be increased from about
forty, which it is at present, to between seventy-five and 100.
Harding's majority in New York State will exceed 1,000,
000. He has carried greater New York by more than 400.000.
Senator Wadsworth \s majority probably will reach 500.000.
New York is not exceptional in giving Harding a tremen?
dous majority. Its majority is merely proportionate with tin
size of its electorate.
The majorities in Massachusetts. Illinois, Ohio. Kansas
and other states show the same determination of the voters to
put the Democratic party out of power.
Even the Solid South, while not splitting its electoral vote,
felt the influence of the Harding landslide. Harding carried
two wards in the city of Atanta and two parishes in Louisiana.
These parishes of Louisiana are in the' sugar section,, where so
far as the tariff is concerned the people are really Republican
in principle, although yesterday's vote there indicates a sur?
prising weakening of the opposition to the word "Republican."
Governor Smith made a wonderful race against the over?
whelming Harding current, but has apparently been beaten by
a majority in the neighborhood of 54,000. He carried New
?York City by more than 800,000, thus running something like
700,000 votes ahead of Governor Cox, and considerably more
than half of that ahead of Harry C. Walker, Democratic nomi?
nee for Senator against Wadsworth.
The Socialist vote was very heavy all over the country. Debs
apparently having polled more than two million votes in the
country, and having run up nearly 140,000 in New York City.
The increase in the Socialist vote came largely from the Wilson
vote of four years ago.
Democratic Hopes Dashed
Early in Crucial States
Harding's tremendous victory was evident from the very
first returns.
Every one of the New England states and New York, Ohio,
Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and others about which there was
really no doubt, but on which Democratic National Headquar?
ters pinned its hope to the last, began coming through early in
the night with returns from precincts so scattered that there
could be do doubt they showed the drift all over the country.
Connecticut in particular dashed the hopes of Governor
Cox's supporters,?such towns as New Haven, which Wilson car?
ried in 1916, giving a majority l'or Harding in excess of 10.00??
and Bridgeport rolling up 9,000, The big Republican majority
in the Nutmeg State is pulling Senator Frank B. Brand-.-gt-?
through by a handsome majority, thus dashing one of the big
hopes of the Democrats for gaining control of th?* Senate.
Harding Sweeps Connecticut
Two of the old pivotal states on whose electoral voie every
Democratic forecaster pinned his hopes this year are Conn?ecti
cul and Indiana Connecticut's majority for Harding is tre?
mendous and the state was placed firmly in the Republican
column early in the night. Returns from Indiana up to a .'arc
hour were confined to Indianapolis, but. Indianapolis is the
center in the state of the sentiment for the League of Nations,
so that the majority given Harding in this pro-treaty hotbed
was very encouraging to the Republicans.
The reelection of Senator James E. Watson, in Indiana,
over Tom Taggart marks the failure of the Democratic S< ?i
atoriai hopes in a state they had counted en more than an:,
other save Connecticut.
Illinois, whose electoral vote put Cleveland back in the
White House in 1892, is going for Harding by a majority thai
may reach 400,000. Cook County, which the Democrats must
carry by more than 100,000 to have a hone of overcoming the
down-state Republican iead, is giving Hording a three to one
majority over Cox on the early returns.
West Virginia, another state on which the Democrats ha<l
pinned their hopes, and which Governor Cox toured twice in
his campaign, indicates a majority for Harding of about three