Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1920 — THREE SEATS IN DOUBT [ARTICLE]

THREE SEATS IN DOUBT

/ Missing Districts in Minnesota, New York and Missouri. Republicans Claim All and Also Prodiet Two in Tennessee Will Switch in Final Election Roturns. Chicago, Nov. 8. —Results of last Tuesday’s election in three of the nation’s 435 congressional districts re-ma-ined undetermined, as the tabulating of the Republican party’s tremendous sweep was begun. The missing districts were the Twen-ty-Third New York, Eighth Minnesota and Fifth Missouri, in all of which the vote for the representath es apparently will be close. The Republicans, with? 290 members in the house of representatives already assured, to 138 Democrats, one socialist,, one Independent. one IndeProhibitionist anu one Indet>endent Republican, were claiming success in ail three of the undetermined districts. They’ also were predicting upsets in the Fourth, and Eighth districts of Tennessee, which had been placed earlier in the Democratic column. Victories in all five of these districts would give the Republicans a total of 295 seats and would cut the Democratic total'to 136, while the best possible results for the Democrats would give them- a total of only 141 to 290 for the Republicans.