Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1920, Page 1

° ° % ro Democrats Elected to Cor - a a ? ° ° Offices on Face of Partial Returns Lay HALLANDGAY AREELECTED AND (MAJORITY PARK LEADS WHEELER; ALL OTHER ; sree. | oMmiesriLuepsynerue' ears OVER COX d__ 7:35 a.m. 7:55 a.m. 9:20 p.m. 9:43 pan. o'dlock this afternoon from Nichols and ee fligh Schoo! precincts, in both of which No, 30 Eastbound No, 31 Westbound_.10:30 p.m. Stops. eos is leading. Returns indieato the Gopernors and Les- No. 32 Eastbound __Starts 2345 pan. election of Park With prospects that he ;w rr other o p outlyt - . Cale eeoaatheniy = GAN: eehae bat| ser Lights Swept Into Office With National Ticket © $x ~ CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3, 1920 Ph aime ate FORECAST fartly clow toni and Thursday with p shorted in northwest portion tonight; cold- , q The election of two Democratic county officialk—Tom. — couaty commissioner and Lew M. Gay for coroner—marked the.” certain departure from a sweeping Republican’ victory in Natro. % County on the face of incomplete returns today. At the sam time, ~| Albert Park, Democrat, is leading M, N. Wheeler for county earveyee| NUMBER 330/|by approximately 69 votes, which include the total count in six Cas- : per Precincts ‘and partial returns at 2 Sor didates whos@ success is indicated in, jan “appended=tabtilation were elected) by decisive majoritres and complete re turns will not change the result. | The Democrats drew first blood. in| last’ hight’s) returns from) NatPpna} | County, Aleova precinct, a Democratic! | stronghold, being the first to. report. Therrafter the returns with the excep- tian of three candidates, give a steadily! | inereasing plurality: to Republican can- | didates. Ss "he ‘vote! pellad by the Labor and Soest tickets in Natrona County! was negligible’ insofar as results were| coneerned. >In} gixteen “precincts Eu-} gene V. Debs, now a prisoner in the Atlantt™ penitentiary, received 45 votes, while & vote ‘of 280 for the Farmer- | Labor candidate was recorded. * Serf. Warren G. Harding, presiden: | tial candidate, lead the Republican tick- et in this courity, the sixteen precincts siving him a tetalof 2,671, while Mon- dell polled 2,017 against Fowler's ,782 and Morgan's 457," The largest popu- lar vote receiv®d bya candidate for a | county office oh incomplete returns was | the 2,423 showéred on Blizabeth Moc- | Donald, Republican, who was unop) | posed for re-eléction as county treas- ‘urer, Helen Carlson received 2,400 in | the’ same precincts. | The race for sheriff in which local ao | interest was largely. centered, proved (By Associated Press.) an easy victory for Lee Martin, the y | Republican candidate, 16 precincts giv- NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—O me of ing Mis 13. a plurality of Red to! the mest sweeping Republican vie- one over his nearest opponent; jan- Pyar? . nery, Who polled 939 in the same .pre-| tories sa ntan: jiterr bet une cincts: \Porbes finished thing. with a, fo v for ‘presideat and a Re- totat bat, publican congress. Tremendous fat!, Democratic candidate for |reelection a¥ ‘céunty commissioner for and unparalleled Republican pluralities beginning with the first count of bal: the foulyeox term, maintained a safe’ lote, cast, in yesterday’s election con: | lead over W. F. Dunn from the begin- | ning of the connt and is ayer. 40® v: 2 in the lead on incomplete returns. es tihued niouhting. ‘“Déteat in the fight Lew M. Gay, ‘the other’ sucgessffpl both) for\‘the presidgncy jand congress polled a total tas conceded by Democratic national leaders on the basis of a crushing Rg: Democratic candidate, 1,64 cinct: inst Pid ipl Mitaber bt wera publican vote and despite the absence of final official figures. . i” 1,434 credits fo his opponent, ‘Toda ‘W. Bowman. : j é With ‘the presidency and congress Seppe sp ate res ee Sonat went @ loss to the Democrats of guts Wee idee tonke os Sree wi} eTnors, state legislatures and other WV. Johnson, state senator; Harry N-| state and Jocal candidates, the break even threatened to extend iico the bor F nd J. B. Frisby, state represen- der states hitherto part.of the “solfd tatives; Alfred R. Lowey, county and Prosecuting attorney: Lyle E. Jay. / south” with Republican gains in some southern states larger than any ‘sinde jcounty assessor; Charles Anda, county the Civil war. . commissioner for the two-year term,! Senator Harding’s victory in what and W. E. Tubbs, justice of the peace. Counting continued in a majority of; Goverior Cox and other Democrati¢ precincts during the morning hours to-| leaders hailed. as a ‘solemn referén- day, when the general election ‘ballots|dum” on the League of Nations was impréssive. The absence of final fik- were finished in all but the Nichols and} ures. swelling the tide of huge plural- High School precincts. Counting judges ae |itles gave Harding an assurance of 329 (Continued on Page 6) ; Votes in the electoral college against 127 for Cox, with 75 doubtful, inclu’: acta aictcstie es Sraba. ia tive of states where Republicans are running ctrong, Unofficial results presaged a larger majority in the electoral college fy Senator Harding and his running mates Governor Coolidge, than amy singe (By The Associated Press) * NEW YORK, Nov, 3.—The Repub; Tican landslide continued to roll alone in even greater proportions today #9 belated election returns came front the West. Besides electing | Harding president, Republicans were assured, they would increase their margin nm both houses of congress and in the senate in particular would change # precarious control by one te a sub-; stantial working majority. Congres- ¢ sional returns from many states: were slow, as was the vote for Unless some sudden change were to appear, it seemed that refurns\ wet) ~ making good the Republican ie 8 tion that Cox would not carry a wést< ern or northern state. In many aspects the election was. very unusual. It developed.what may be the greatest Republican victory ‘in the history of the party. Both the Democratic candidate and his man- augers coneeded defeat before enough. returns were actually in to show It in figures. Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, Whose Election Yesterday Is Indicated by an overwhelming ma-| jority with a greater vote in the electoral college than that given a national ticket since | \ oar 1888, with the exception of the year of the Republican “Split” . MONDELL AND|PUBLIC ENJOYS “BIG” } HARDING POLL a ee osmren Bia MAJORITY, EVENING AT TRIBUNE wstaraen > eure | rests up till 4888. except alone the vote for Woolf | | wt Wilson in 1912 during the Repub: eee | Phe police blotter showed three drunks,| * , piacere : C Giévies Foul Appreciation Shown When Thousands of | rr. wisi case ant two arrests tor) (By Associated Press) rite Feeble’ sommtexaiotat ‘atta y an arrtes owler . . disorderly conduct. Three meh have| WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—President! was as strong, increased majorities { Republican ongressm People Throng Building for Election {Ween arrested here and are being held | Wilson was up early today enjoying his|poth the senate and house helng marke f 1 breakfast in the sun " r Iowa officers where they are charg Officials did not! prith burglary. ‘expect him to make a statement. 4 (Continued on Page 4) Stronghold; Kennedy Claims State . News and Enjoy Entertainment i by 12,000 Plurality onCount .. | : ——. From 6:30 eal after widest peaieds and Harte thevszads of i ‘ f 3 ; > . . isit ew un i ond street, 4 At 2 o'clock this afternoon, with returns in from 345 of the vie aoe wae td tha publie list sight. Wal Cord weve. 625 in Wyoming, the indications were that Harding’s | “’ 2 - J “4 Sava Soul ht , or more than 3,000|ciated to the fullest extent the election return service provided by iN ae Hf H oagbeasis Oy nereetiee aren a presidential The Tribune management as well as the hospitality of the Women’s Re- candidate in this state. publican Club, and the dancing which took place in the composing \ Congres: with the Harding vote and his majority probably |will.be as great as that of the presidential candidate. Harding and Mondelt garried every county in the state, the legislature is overwhelmingly Bepublican: and in only a relatively féw scattered instances did the Demo- crate succeed in electing county officers. “Three hundr and forty-five pre- cinets “give: ing, 20,540; Cox, 10,- sman Mondell in these precincts ran about even 944; Mondell ,20,260; Fowler, 11,271. The vote for Morgan, Farmer-Labor, for congress in these precincts is not com- plete. As far as compiled, it gives him 2,394, Morgan ran best in Lincoln county, a so-called “coal country.” .On thesface of returns to date there he received (Continuea on Page 6), HEARS room of the building until 1 o'clock. The room, Which will be the business office of the’ new Tribune, was most beautifully decorated last evening with baskets of American beauties, chysan- themums, Killarney roses, and Rich- mond \roses, which expressed the con- gratulatiuns of local business houses and firms aid of newspiper men in various parts of the state upon the completion of The Tribune's new home. J. BE. Hanway was also the recipient of numerous letters and telegrams “of office ‘building. many of the principal workers in this club, assisted Mrs. J. E. Hanway and Mra. BE. B. Hanway in receiving the visitors to the building and explaining| ito them the uses to which the various rooms will be put when The Tribune is published from the building. J. EB. Hanway's private oMce was) used as the wire room Inst night and from this room the election bulletins were projected by stereopticon upon a) screen. fastened to the wall of the pos A crowd whieh. Mnedj School—is expected to give him an even ARE VOTED. Fears from early tabulations that the. city improvement bonds would fail in the election yester- day proved to be unfounded when the first of the later returns started coming in. Interest in the election of new city councilmen centered in the contest between W. W. Keefe and Ernest G. Trager in the second ward. Mr. Keefe carried the South Casper precinc:, 324 to 92, while his home precinct—the High larger maiority and return him to the council with ease. John M. Whisenhunt in the ‘First Ward and J. J. Giblin in the Third Ward, were elected without HA DING Congratulation. yesterday. upon the, Second street in front of the building|OPPosition. Mr. Whisenhunt will take the place of W. F. Dunn while Mr. Giblin will supplant Mr. { ritiecdy Soto oie Rhee: ppening of the building from other ite filled Wolcott strest, watched thp| Bishon om the city council. : PPON ENT bale > woken; Se aera a caoih eam r gt intaty butlaing| Mr. Keefe had no desire to run again for council, but when his most ardent friends’and supporters : “ S i | sacle’ of tbe. Caknee: BIOPl Company,|204 lstoned tothe reading of the re- signed a petition entering him in the race, he consented to run. Mr. Keefe is senior member on the _ who added a horseshoe of yellow: chrys-|#™s- ~|council and has made an enviable record in conne:tion with the city water work and in serving on the anthemums to the array~-with his The Tribune received hearty congrat- \police committee. 7 a“ % ¥ hes of good luck. |ulations upon the election return serv- jand amendment vote was counted after|}1nd the Powder River precinct went (By Associated Press) er a party nominee but, president-elect) wishes -of & lee from many of the visitors in ad-| The vote on the improvement bonds/the city, county and presidential vote| strongly in favor of the good roads ‘ Ohio, Ni 3.—Gov. Jas. I var- Large framed pictures of Harding | | i DAYTON, ) Nov.) 8.-Slov. of- the “United States, Senator War Ld dition to conératulations upon the con-| in the city with only two precinéts com:! had been tabulated amendments, The majorities given ait M. ©ox, defeated presidential candl, and Coolidge were also displayed in the} ? pon. th * “ ; . 1 giver 9} ” 7 ireéhis congratilations | T°? G, Harding turned his thoughts tunities Oftios. jvenient and up-to-date arrangement of! pleted showed a majority ranging from| With three precincts in the county|thes@/two precincts in favor of the date: today. wi G. Handing, preek, | toward test and recreation today’ be |Dustn e. : Nix ‘nai ‘cticad jtwo and three to one for all five bondjreported in, the vote on the state|two gaod roads amendment more thin ai pledging his support. The | fore approaching a formulation of his ‘The composing room, where cee | > | issues, amendments appeared to he extremely| counterbalanced the Big Muddy vote, i ee be comb Rariniatveticd saae ang’ pol- |ments were served, and where dancing) | South Casper voted heavily in favor|doubtful in Natrona County. The Big|leaving @ majority of nearly two to (" be te ie spirit of Ammeciée, accept |" loles. © Hie’ = oe ora be a. two han hepato cota oh ai fase:| MANY ARRESTS Jof all bond) issues, this precinct going] Muddy. precinct opposed every amend-|one in favor of these and practiéally all yunting: # publican the decision of the majority, = eels Ies a 6 hie os 8 to ceecuive authority in emergency may arise.” Ohio, Nov. 3—No long: \ | | | | tender | weeks’ séclusion on the Texas coast and a week seauting in the Panama canal ,zone before he goes seriously into the work of ehoosing a cabinet candidates, and these decorations were carried out by” Miss Pauline ‘Wick- strum, who was chairman ‘of the. decd- rating committee of the Women's Re- I pnbitean Club, . Tho officers, committee chairmen ana % Whoop’ this ‘month “with twelve ar-, REPORTED HERE Police business in Casper started with in favor of the water lprovement bonds, 360 to 77, } In Rast Casper the vote was two to. of one In favor of all the bond issues and went In some instances. greater than that. In practically ail instances, the bond. school buildings. This improvement/ment save that authorizing school dfs-| other amendments. jbonds, 379 to 81, and the cemetery im-| tricts to contract additional indebted-| Returns from these three precincts ness for the erection and enlargement|indicate that the first amendment ail- iprdeinct| thorizing an against the good roads amend-|cities and towns might fail in the coun- ment® 12 to -2, and 14 to 1. increased tax levy for ty. The vote against this amendment However, the South Casper precintt|was 471 aginst and 196 for. “