Senator Harding, the Republican candidate, was elected President of the
United States on Tuesday by an overwhelming majority. The details of the voting are not known as we write on Thursday, but it is believed that the Republicans have carried all the North, the Middle West, and the West, leaving to the Democrats little more than the "solid South." Indeed, the South may be no longer solid, as the Republicans claim a victory in Tennessee for the first time since the Civil War. They have won in New York State and also in New York City, in Illinois, and in California. Senator Harding is credited with 335 votes in the Electoral College, and his opponent, Governor Cox, with only 149. The Republicans expect a secure majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, so that from March next they will be in full control of both the executive and the legislature. We comment on the election elsewhere.
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