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GASTONIA, N. C, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 4, 1920
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SENATE IS REPUBLICAN BY 10 MAJORITY, HOUSE BY 1 19
WINNERS ARE ANNOUNCED
IN CORN CONTESTS AT
GASTON COUNTY FAIR
An lounreinent was made Wednesday
of awards in the corn show of the big
Gaston county fair. Premiums aro being
mailed out as fast as tho awards can be
worked out from the judges' books. It
is expected that tho work will be com
pleted within tho next ten day.
Corn awards aro as fololws:
Most prolific and best exhibit, uny va
riety, ten ears accompanied by stalk:
Firs., George Delliuger, Cherry ville; sec
ond, Sid L. Kiser, Hunnyside; third, It.
L. Eaker, Sunnyside; fourth, V. 8.
Eaker, Sunnyside; fifth, Martin Ford,
Sunnyside; sixth, M. H. Eaker, Mutiny -side;
seventh, T. O. Best, last's Chapel;
eighth, J. Pink Allen, Hickory Grove;
ninth, Joseph Dellinger, Chcryville.
Best exhibit ten ears with stalk and
records, Corn Club Poys: Kemp Kiser,
Bessemer City; second, Eddleman Bum
ganlner, Gaston in ; third, Charles Bum
Gardner, Gaatonia.
Com Club boys, single car accompa
aied by stalk and records: First, Kemp
Kiser, Bess-mer City.
Sweepstakes, Corn Club boys: First,
Kemp Kiser, Bcsosmer City.
Sweepstakes, ten ears and stalks:
First, George Dellinger, Cherry ville; sec
ond, Sid L. Kiser, Sunnyside; third, R.
L. Eaker, Sunnyside.
Tea ears, Cocke's Prolific: First. W.
8. Eaker, Sunnyside; second, Sid L.
Kiser, Sunnyside; third, Clyde Ilager,
Sunnyside.
Ten ears, Weekly's Improved: First
and second, C. L. White, Kings Moun
tain. Ten ears, any white corn not named
in premium list: First, T. W. Best,
Best's Chapel; second, D. A. Kier. Sun
nyside; third, S. B. Hovis. Bewseimr
City.
Ten cars, any yellow corn not named
in premium list: First, John W. Rein
hurt, Stanley; second, Ernest Dellinger,
Fairview; third, E. N. Helton, Fairview.
Best single ear, one eared corn: First
nd third, Sid L. Kiser, Sunnyside; sec
ond. T. O. Best, Best 'a Chapel.
Best single ear prolific corn:
0. E. Neil, Cherry ville: second,
f5rigg, Lawndale; third, D. A.
First,
H. 8.
Kiser,
Sunnyside.
Bent ten ears pop corn : First, G. Lee
Beam, Cherry ville; second, Mrs. Sam
Bradley, Gastonia; third, D. A. 8troup,
Sunnyside.
Strawberry corn: First and second.
Elam Houser, Cherry ville; third, J. 8.
Carpenter, Fairview.
Best six stalks prolific corn with ears
attached : W. L. Moes, Panhandle; sec
ond. Sid I Kiser, Sunnyside: third. J.
Pink Allen, Hickory Grove.
The notable feature of the corn de
partment was the wonderful exhibit
brought together aa a result of the First
"National Bank of Cherjville placing all
of its com show exhibits in the county
fair. The majority of the Above awards
are to ofn entered from this source.
HARDING'S LEAD IN
OHIO IS INCREASED
(By Tho Associated Press.)
COLUMBUS, 0., Nov. 4. Later re
turns from Tuesday's election served
Cl&j to increase tho largo leads given
Senator Warren Or. Harding and the en
tiro republican state ticket. With twenty
oae of tho state twenty-twe congress'
' men already definitely republican aad.
tho democratic contestant trailing in the
third district, the only M ia doubt, a
solidly republican congressional delega
tion seemed probable.
Prom 6,900 ef the state's 7,143 pre
sets. Senator Harding had a lead over
Governor Cox of 379,892. Tho vote:
Harding, 1.106,324; Cox, 727,432.
The vote for governor for 6890 pre
cincts was: Harry L. Davis, republican,
942,823; A. V. Donahey, democrat. 809,
75.
8,641 precincts for United States sena
tor showed former Governor Frank B.
Willis, republican, 992,857; W. A. Jo
linn, democrat, 666,445:
TENNESSEE REPUBLICAN.
NASHVILLE, Ten a.. Nov. 4. Tho
Banner 'a Bgurea on the for presi
dent in Tennessee indicated Harding had
earned the state by 6,130.
L. L. JENKINS TO CONTEST
ELECTION IN TENTH
lSnTTTMT W C Nov. a Llha
L. Jenkins, republican, defeated candi
. data for congress from the tenth district;
' particularly is tho easting of absentee
votes, Las written the republican heae-
. sartera at Washington intimating that
Is a contest tho election.
FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS
COMMENT ON ELECTIOi
London and Paris Papers De
vote Considerable Discussion
t o American Election
Praise For Senator Hardint
Mexican and Swiss Com
ment. The leading Britmh provincial news
papers consider tlie electiin ui' SonaWd
Harding to the lirehideacy art an in. lira
tiou that the electorate is tired of what
the journals (all ''cue man rule." The
Liverpool Post says: T it)
"Senator Harcung goes to tho white
house as the representative of a pro
found belief, long maturing among the
larger part of tho nation, that Wilsonu
isni is alien in American traditions and
that America should not entangle herself
in tho affairs of distracted Europe."
The Yorkshire Tost considers it a
good thing in the proent .litlicult phase
of its national history that the United
States should have elected the candidate
it did.
"Senator Harding 's aim, at leant, is
already defined; he wishes to help the
world so far as he ran honorably do with
tho approval of congress and without
compromising American interest. " says
this newspaper.
"We believe we interpret Eurocnn an
well as British opinion," it adds, "when
we say that an American governnn tit
which stands for its own country firs;,
last and for all time will be under u"!
and appreciated iu this old world of ours
which has lost its illusion and is no
longer in a mood to strain after visionary
polities. ' '
The Manchester Guardian says:
"The main politieal motive for the
electors' choice is by general assent,
cumulated dislike of Wilsonism and not
l-.vr t Harding ami his plirt.v. " '
Tnc national repudiation marks a tragic
change from those weeks in the nunum
f ISMS when the material power of
Vmerica was deciding the Wtulil war '
her foremost mind was lending the
world towards such a pence as might
have given us a tranquil, swiftly con
valescent world instond of tho present
world's fair of spites, greedh ami sus
picion between nations and disunion in
side each of them. The soiled, scarred
o. w irhl of international politics
seem Oil to le on the eve of redemption
on the day when the news came that
ilerinany would surrender on the basis of
Wilson 's It points.
' ' In what proportions a want of dy
namic genius in President Wilson and
an irredeemable viciousness of spirit iu
other politicans contrbuted to darken
that openng prospect we cannot tell yet.
It is gone now. Europe is snarling,
grabbing and jockeying in the old slime,
while all the remaining effect of Wilson
Lun in America is toe decision of the
presidential election by an overwhelming
balance of antipathy to it. The story
is that one of the most pitiful of all fail
ures in the execution of a task nobly
conceived. ' '
LONDON.
LONDON. Nov. 4 The London
morning papers devote considerable edi
torial space to tho American elections.
They dwell on what they characterise as
decisive, rejection of tho present govern
ment's policy and express the opinion
that the turnover gives prospect that
whatever policy President-elect Bard
tar and 'his cabinet may adopt . will at
Wat have; a: chance of acceptance by a
congress strongly republican T
The American elections on this occas
ion have n much greater interest for
Europe than has usually been tho ease.
Tho Times thinks there is no reason to
doubt that Harding win have a food
working majority in both houses of con
gress, and ia "pleased to think that Mr.
Harding will not bo his own prime min
ister and foreign minuter. "
It regards tho elections as a distinct
warning to bohhevists and extremists of
all kinds.
PASIS.
PARIS, Nov. 4 Newspapers of this
city give great prominence to reporta of
the American election, and publish many
pictures of Senator Harding, the Ex
celsior giving ks entire first page to the
successful presidential candidate and his
family. Ia their comments, tho news
papers declare the election of Senator
Harding was a triumph, give high praise
to his personality and recall ho has al
ways asserted groat sympathy for France.
Editors aro onaaimoun in remarking
that ' the election clearly condemns the
policy of President Wilson, and settles
definitely the situation existing between
tho administrative and legislative de
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MAJOR A. L BULWINKIE, NEVT CONGRESSMAN FROM NINTH DIS
TRICT OF NOTH CAROLINA.
V CTORY SO GREAT SENATOR
LODGE CANNOT
i!0.sT(.. Vv I Senator Lodge, in
commenting upon the election today, naid
the republican victory was so large hr
eoukl not grasp it .
"It is distinctly an American vie
tory, " he said. " W fhall not lrin
any millenium to the countiy," he .-ui
ded. "We don't promise it. One thing
we can do is to bring the government
back to its constitutional form and limi
tations under which we have lived and
progressed. We con remedy the present
ta laws and we can revise the tariff so
that duty on imports will be made to pay
for some of the taxes which they don't
L!!UEH DEFEATS SMITH
Br OYER 60,000
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Nov. 4. Revised re
turns from all except 121 of tho 7,308
districts of the state, tabulated early fcv
day, gav Nathan L. Miller, republican,
a plurality of 63,275 : over .Governor
Alfred E. Smith in the gubernatorial
contest. The vote was:
Miller (R.), l.r. 19,586.
Smith (D.), 1 ,236,311.
All of the mitMing dLMtrieta, are ;.n up
state counties. It Miller 'a ratio of gain
is maintained, he will have a total plu
ral ty of nearly 75,000.
Returns from all but 143 districts give
Seaator Harding a plurality of li?29
over Governor Cox. The returns tabu
lated give:
Harding. 1.S42.222.
Cox. 782,693.
Related figures from upetate districts
have increased the plurality of United
States Senator James W. "visworth,
over Lieutenant Governor Harry C.
1 Walker above the 400,000 mark. The
returns, with 2,076 districts still mios
ing. give:
I Wadsworth. 1.014,390.
I Walker, 403,074.
If Wadsworth 's ratio of gain is main
tained his total plurality ia the state
, will exceed 550,000.
I Word received here today from Mr.
Andrew E. Moors, who k very serioa'lv
m at Appalachian HalL near Asheville,
Ia to the effect that ho rested better last
might bat that he is still nnabla to taho
any nourishment.
3
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do now .
"We can mike peace with Germany
and remove what is technically a state
or' war.
"Latly, we have brought to an end
the attempt to enter into the league of
nations which Mr. Wilson brought back
from I'aris.
"That is ncrt the only league that can
be made to promote the peace of the
world. One of the first duties of Mr.
Harding will be to draw up an agree
ment looking to the preservation of the
peace of the world. Call it 'entente,'
'association,' or what you will not an
alliance. "
WILL INVESTIGATE
PItlJER'SCinECTEIVrTH
COAL tllERS CASE
INDIANAPOLI8, Ind., Nov. 4
Attorney General Palmer was advised in
a telegram from United States District
Judge A. B. Anderson today that an in
vestigation of the attorney generaHs con
nection with the case against 125 'coal
mine operators and miners would be made
when the case is called for trial in tho
federal court here on November . Mr.
Palmer was invited to be present on that
date.
Judge Anderson assured the attorney
general that the case of the eoal miners
and operators would be called on the date
set, although to date only the Indiana op
erators and miners and those of western
Pennsylvania who voluntarily surrender
ed are in tho jurisdiction of the Indiana
district court.
iNo indication aa to the scope or na
ture of the investigation to be made was
given in the telegram, but it was believed
Dan W. 8imms, special assistant coun
sel for the government, will be called to
explain an alleged proposal in regard to
the evidence in the ease said to have been
made by Mr. Palmer and which resulted
in Mr. 8inuna' withdrawal from tho
ease. It was expected that United States
District Attorney Fred Vaannya, District
Attorney L. Ert 81aek and department of
justice agents would also be called.
An eleetria fan and lamp havs boon
combined by aa inventor in each n man
ner that both can bo operated from n
aiagle oskot. : , -
GRASP
DEMOCRATIC TRADITIONS OF
THE 'SOLID SOUTH' SHATTERED
BV 0. 0. P. WIN UN TENNESSEE
Several Southern Towns and Counties Break
Precedent by Piling up Majorities For Hard
ing Republican Majority in Congress Will
Be Large, 254 Seats in House and Majority of
at Least Ten in Senate - Champ Clark Defeated.
NEW YORK, Nov. 4 Tennessee has
swung into the swelling republican col
hiis, shattering democratic traditions of
i "solid south," unofficial, but nearly
omplete returns from the Volunteer state
mowed early today.
Her shift from the democratic ranks,
'oupled with a similar upset in Okla
homa, reported last night assured Warren
;. Harding, of 386 electoral votes as
igainst 127 definitely in the James M.
Jox column, and left in doubt 18 seats
in the electoral college, divided among
Arizona (3), Montana (4), Nevada (3),
New Mexico (3), and North Dakota (5) .
In all of thene states save New Mexico,
Harding was in the lead on available re
urns and even in New Mexico republican
managers were claiming a Harding
plurality though available returns showed
1 Cox lead. (Later: Montana is in the
Harding column, giving him 390 instead '
of ::sr.)
Tennessee, on the fac of returns tabu
lated by the Memphis Commercial-Appeal,
from 93 or 95 counties, with fifty
precincts missing, gave Harding 199,
759 votes and Cox 19,782, a Harding
plurality of 9,977. Governor Roberts
(democrat) was swept out on the re
publican tide ami Alf A. Taylor, un
successful candidate for governor against
his brother in lsfi, wa.s elected.
No further actual upsets were report
ed from the "solid south," although
several towns in Florida and Iouisiana
and several counties in Georgia and .V'a
bama broke precedents by piling up
Harding pluralities.
The republican congressional sweep as
sumed larger proportions as belated re
turns continued to come in. The vic
tory of Samuel D. Nicholson, republican
candidate for the senate from Colorado,
assured President-elect Harding a ma
jority of at least 10 in the upper house,
and of five states where senatorial choices
had not been determined, tho republican
candidates were in the lead in four
Arizona, Oregon, Nevada, and North Da
kota. In the Fifth, Kentucky, republi
can leaders still clung to the hope that
late returns would overcome the ad
vantage held by Senator J. C. W. Beck
ham, over Richard P. Ernest, his republi
can opponent.
The republicans had secured 257 seats
in the house of representatives to 132 for
the democrats and four for other par
ties, giving them n lead of 119, with 43
contests in 16 states undetermined. Thir
ty seven of these contests were in states
which give Harding pluralities or whose
uncompleted vote showed the republican
candidate in the lead.
Late returns also indicated possible
turnovers ia eases of some democratic
representatives reported elected. A
notable instance was in New York, where
three republican candidates reported de
feated Ryan in tho 15th district,
Ansorge in the 21st and Roeesale ia
the 23rd forged ahead of Dooling,
Donovan and McKinry, earlier reported
elected.
The house will have one socialist mem
ber, Meyer London, of New York, who
defeated Henry M. Goldfogle, fusion
candidate in (the twelfth. The prohi
bition party lost its Jone representative,
but an independent prohibitionist, Mil
ton W. Shreve, was elected from the' 25th
Pennsylvania district.
Several notable upsets occurred in the
congressional race among them the re
tirement by Missouri voters of former
8peaker Champ Clark, of the house, and
the election by Texas voters of a republi
can representative Harry Wanrx
bach. Post-election developments within the
ranks of tho beaten democratic party in
eluded a tart statement from W. J.
Bryan in which he divided blame for the
defeat between President Wilson and
Candidate Cox, asserting that tho former
had "laid the foundation for the disas
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MAJORITY
ter ' ' and the latter had "completed the
structure."
Wayne B. Wheeler, legislative eomsasi
of the Anti-Saloon League of America,
issued a staement declaring a cheek of
the congressional election in 40 nfatsr
showed a "substantial majority," n
both houses against any beer or wine
amendment.
Returns early today showed the folhn
ing states had given their electoral uvtsa
-a total of 390 ot Harding;
California, 13; Colorado, 6; Connecti
cut, 7; Delaware, 3; Idaho, 4; njiaoin
29; In linna, 15; lown 13; Kaasaetl&
Maine 0; Maryland, 8; Massaebueetto,
1H; Michigan. 15; Minesota, 12; Mi
souri, IS; Nebraska, 8; New Hamp
shire, 4; Now Jersey, 14; New York, 45)
Ohio, 24; Oklahoma, 10; Oregon, 5;
I'l'misyUania, 38; Rhode Island 5;
South Dakota, 5; Tennessee, 12; Utah.
4; Vermont, 4; Washington, 7; West
Virginia, S; Wisconsin. 13; Wyoming, 3.
Montana. 4. Total, :".90.
'. ! vernor
ing :
A'alia rea,
6 ; Georgia
I'm had safely the follow-
12; Arkansas, 9; Florida,
14; Kentucky, 13; Iooiai-
ana, 10; Missisippi, 10; North Carolina,
12; South Cnn-lina. 9; Texai, 20; Vir-,-ii.Ti.
12. Total, 127.
States still in doubt, lacking suflfieiewC
returns were :
Ariziina, .'! ; Nevada. 3; New Mexico
.!; North Dakota, 5. Total, 14.
HARDING LEAVES SATURDAY
FOR MONTH'S VACATIOTI
President - Elect Will Spend 12
Days on Gulf Coast Hontimff
and Fiahing and Then Ge to
Canal Zone.
(By the Associated frei)
MARION, O., Nov. 4 WKh) onry
two days remaining before he leaven
Marion for a month 's vacation trip Pres
ident elect Harding went to work today
clearing, up his desk of the final left
over details of his campaign.
With Mrs. Harding he will start at
7:30 Saturday morning for Point
Texas, where he will spend 13 days !
ing and fishing prior to an oo
to the Panama canal tone. Be ntana to
be back in Marion December 4 and) af
ter that may go to some gulf
sort for a winter to be spent ia
his cabinet and formulating the
of his administration.
Except for an engagement made i
mpnths ago, to speak on Deo em hey 0 in
Bedford, Va., at an Elka Memorial ser
vice, Mr. Harding has no appeiatsisnfs
for public speeches between now and lav
auguration. Ho may make short taXhe
from his train along the way sooth, '
ever, and may also deliver one or
addresses on particular subject
March 4.
Tonight Marion is to celebrate
ally his election to the presidency, and
several hundred people from ether cities
are expected to join in the eeeanlonv
There will bo all the noise and red Ire
that his loyal neighbors and friends can
produce, and many special features '
give the Harding front poreh and
one final baptism of campaign glory.
VOLCANO ACTIVE.
(By Tho Associated Press,) ''
SAN 6ALVAD0B, Nov. The ooleaae
of Isaleo, 10 miles north of the city of
Sonsonate, has broken forth ia new
eruption. Great quantities of lava are
being discharged on the northern slope
of the mountain. The first known erup
tion of Isaleo was in 1770, sad since that
time it has been active for hong periods.
The latest important erupti.n be '. ia
1902. The mountain ia abotit 6jT 1 J f
in, height.'