The most stunning surprise of the elections came with the announcement from Baltimore that Mr. Albert C.
Ritchie, four times Governor of Maty-land and long regarded as "pres dential timber," had been defeated in the gubernatorial race by Mr. Harry Nice, Republican. The Democratic incumbent lost by a margin of only 3800 votes.
"Apparently sounding the keynote of the post-election recovery drive, the Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Daniel Roper. in a speech here, pledged the Administration to follow "the over the Republican candidate, Mr, William Schrader, In New. York, Governor Herbert Lehman, Democratic incumbent, was resgleeted by a. substantial majority.
California, cynosure of all evea because of the bitter gubernatorial fight between Mr. Sinelsir and Mr. Mer= am, defeated the radical Democratic nominee. Although the voters) gave Mr. Merriam a substantial margin of victory, the triumph was by no means the landslide which It had been pre= dicted would bury Mr. Sinclair.
Sinclair supporters' charged that their candidate had been "robbed" of 125,000 votes in Los Angeles, alone." really a victory. We have built a machine that polied more than three-artery of milieu votes" ne de-
Florida, Nebraska, West Virginia South Dakota and "Wyoming voters repealed their state prohibition acts, while Kansas voters decided that the state should remain dry—United Press, jaw alt Blects Japanese Honolulu, T.H., Nov. 7. middle road.
Mr. Roper said that the return of care of the unemployed to the states; should be the immediate objective of the Government, His speech was generally regarded as highly reassuring, in. view of ap-Drehensions concerning the possible radicalism of the newly-elected Congress. of Representatives of the Territorial Legislature and six became county councillors as the result of the biggest Democratic landslide in' the history of the Inlands, a traditionally Repubican" electorate, 'Thirteen Japanese: Americans had' been nominated Rengo.
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