AMERICAN ELECTION RESULTS.
DEMOCRAT VICTORIES. Br Telegraph—Prcea Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, November 7. Tho election results are differently interpreted, although the Republicans are on the defensive, while the Democrats claim a sweeping majority and allege that the Democratic wave is growing. The Slate Governors of Kentucky, I Mississippi and Maryland are DemoThe re-election of Gover*or Ritchie, of Maryland, is considered to bo a “ wet ” victory, since he advocated revision of tho Volstead law The now senator from Vermont is a Republican, giving the Republicans a majority of six ui the Senate, three j being Republicans, forty-three Democrats and two Farmer-Labour mem--1 bers. Democrats were elected to four of the vacant seats in the House of Representatives and Republicans to two. The Republicans have a majority of seventeen in the House, there being 22*5 Republicans. 205 Democrats, one Socialist, one Independent, and one Farmer-Labour member. Two vacancies are to be filled at byelections. The Ku Klux Klan, strangely, won a rictorv in Ohio, the greater number of the candidates for local offices that it endorsed, being elected.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17193, 9 November 1923, Page 4
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