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VOL. XXVII. NO. 12
COOLIDGE AND DAWES WIN TREMENDOUS VICTORY
MOTE-UP
SEEN JT CAPITAL;
. SLEW TO RETIRE
Several Members of Presi
dent’s Official Family
Said to Desire Rest
WASHINGTON, Nov. s.—Several
changes are expected in the admin
' istration personnel when President
Coolidge takes the oath of office
next March 1.
There have been definite indica
tions that certain officers high in
the government desired for various
personal reasons to retire to private
t life, including some membeis of the
cabinet.
About the first break expected in
t the official family is the resignation
of C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to
the president. Mr. Slemp. has played
an important part in the president’s
campaign, as well as handling the
duties of his office, and he is said
to want a rest. It is understood
that he is planning a vacation
which will keep him in the south
for the winter.
Mr. Coolidge, naturally, will be
free to select his own cabinet for
his full term. Those members who
1 desire to leave are expected to com
municate their wishes formally to
him before next March. The resig
nations of cabinet officers are al
ways in the hands of the president,
and although these may be formally
presented by them at any time. Mr.
Coolidge is expected to reiterate the
declaration he made upon assuming
office on the death of President
Harding, that no resignations be
tendered now.
Some changes are expected in va
rious divisions of the executive de
partments to put into effect plans
which the president is understood
* to feel are necessary, but no whole
sale shifting of government officers
is in sight. Such changes as come
about will occur largely in the nat
ural course of events.
Roy Dickerson, Escaped
Convict, Is Sought in
, $200,000 Gem Robbery
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. s.—Police
today are searching for Roy Dicker
son. an escaped convict of Alabama
believed to have robbed Henry
Agate, vice president of the Bonner
Jewelry Manufacturing company, of
New York, of approximately $200,-
1 000 in jewels at the Roosevelt hotel
here last night. The robber overlook
ed $75,000 worth of diamonds in a
handbag in Agate’s room.
Dickerson robbed a jewelry sales
man in the same hotel a year ago
of $30,000 worth of jewelry. The
description of a man who left the
hotel hurriedly while Agate was at
dinner, police say, tallies with the
escaped convict.
DICKERSON HAS LONG
RECORDXV CRIME
Roy Dickerson has Ta lengthy
I criminal record in Georgn, and Ala
bama, according to the Georgia
•tate prison commission.
He was involved in the sensational
hank robbery at Girard. Ala., a few
years ago and was sentenced to
nerve a prison term in Alabama, fol
lowing his capture in that state aft
from the Alabama chaingang some
• timeago and according to the offi
cial records, he has an uncompleted
prison term awaiting him in Cali
fornia.
< Mrs. Ross Leading
Republican Foe for
Wyoming Governor
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 5. —With
President Coolidge apparently as
sured of a large plurality in this
state, interest today centered on the
possibility that Mrs. Nellie Tayloe
Ross, widow of the late Governor
‘ William B. Ross, would be elected
governor of Wyoming.
Early today, with more than one
half of the state’s vote accounted
for, she was leading her Republican
opponent. Eugene J. Sullivan, by
more than 3,000 votes.
Indications were that John W.
Davis would run third in the state,
early returns showing Senator La
\ Follette leading the Democratic
standard bearer by almost 2 to 1.
‘ United States Senator Francis E.
Warren apparently was assured of
reelection.
Sen. Thomas J. Walsh,
Leader of Oil Probe,
Winning in Montana
HELENA, Mont.. Nov. s.—Presi
dent Coolidge increased his lead over
4 I Senator La Follette as returns ar-
* rived this morning from the rural
districts in 42 of the 55 counties.
Unofficial returns from 376 precincts
complete, and 28 incomplete, cf the
1,533 gave Coolidge. 28,889; La Fol
lette, 21,748. and Davis, 13,502.
Senator Thomas .1. Walsh. Demo
crat, had 31.967 votes while his Re
publican opponent, Frank Linder
man, had 27.241.
Congres\?'nn John M. Evans
( Democrat, first district and Con
gressman Scott Leavitt. Republican,
second district, were leading in their
race for re-election by substantial
majorities.
J. E. Erickson, Democratic guber
natorial candidate received 28,358
votes and Gov. Joseph M. Dixon, Re
publican. 22.974.
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j ELECTORAL
VOTE
As the presidential election re
turns stood early today the votes in
i the electoral college, either by defi
nite count, concession by rival man
agers, or indicated trend, were clas
sified this way for the three prin
cipal contenders:
a s s
States 2 .2? o 3
§ . £ « o
Alabama 12
Arizona 3
Arkansas 9
Californial3
Colorado 6 .. ..
Connecticut .. ‘. 7
Delaware 3
Florida 6
Georgia 14 .. . .i
Idaho 4
Illinois 29
Indiana 15
lowa J 3
Kansas 10
Kentucky 13
Louisiana 10
Maine 6
Maryland 8
Massachusetts .. 18
Michigan 15
Minnesota 12
Mississippi 10
Missouri 18
Montana 4
Nebraska ...» .. 8
Nevada 3
New Hampshire .4
New Jersey 14
New Mexico 3
New York 45
North Carolina ... 12
North Dakota 5
Ohio 24
Oklahoma 10
Oregon 5
Pennsylvania . .38
Rhode Island ... 5
South Carolina ... 9
South Dakota 5
Tennessee 12
Texas 20
Utah 4
Vermont 4
Virginia 12
Washington .... 7
West Virginia ... 8
Wisconsin 13
Wyoming 3
Totals 343 136 13 39
Necessary to choice, 266.
NO IM
DAVIS DECLARES. IAI
PUBLIC STATEMENT
Davis Congratulates
. President Coolidge
On Sweeping Victory
WASHINGTON. Nov. s.—John
W. Davis today congratulated
President Coolidge on his election
to the presidency.
“Permit me to congratulate
you,” Mr. Davis telegraphed, “on
your sweeping victory and to ex
press the hope that*'your admin
istration may by its success inure
to the welfare of the country.”
■ Mrs. Davis telegraphed Mrs.
Coolidge a message of congratu
lation on her “husband's victory.”
NEW YORK, Nov. s.—John W.
Davis, Democratic nominee for the
presidency, in a public statement is
sued today accepted the outcome of
the election “without any vain re
gret or bitterness,” and said it was
his honest hope that the “adminis
tration of President Coolidge may
prove successful and beneficial to
the country.”
The statement was issued by Mr.
Davis at the residence of Frank L.
Polk, former under-secretary of
state, at whose home Mr. Davis re
ceived the election returns. When
he had written the statement and
addressed a telegram of congratula
tion to President Coolidge, Mr. Davis
left for his home in Locust Valley.
The text of the statement follows:
“The results of the election speak
for themselves, and the decisive
character renders comment or ex
planation unnecessary. I accept the
outcome without any vain regrets or
bitterness, and it is my earnest hope
that the administration of President
Coolidge may prove successful and
beneficial to the country.
“So far as I am personally con
cerned. I am unshaken in my faith
in tne principles and ideals pro
fessed b.v the Democratic patty.
They will never lack defenders. To
thos ewho supported us so loyally
throughout the campaign 1 am more
grateful than I can say, and I am
glad to march on with them as a
comrade in the ranks, toward the
inevitable triumph of the principles
in which we believe. Greater than
any transient success, is the welfare
of our common country, and to this
is the duty and privilege of every
citizen to contribute, whether in of
fice or out of it.”
Alleged Rum Pirate
Seeks Immunity by
Exposing Others
PARIS. Nov. s.—Max Jerome
Phaff. German-American, who re
cently was released in 5.000 francs
bail from the Brest naval jail, where
he has been confined for seven
weeks, charged with complicity in
piracy on the high seas in connec
tion with the looting of the French
steamer Mulhouse off the North
American coast, arrived here today
to see officials of the American era
bessy.
I’haifs counsel intimated that
Phaff was ready to make disclos
ures of rum-running to New York if
he were granted immunity from
prosecution in the Inited States.
I ALL AMENDMENTS
SEEM TO BE SAFE
IN STATE ELECTION
Davis and Walker Given Big
Majorities by Georgia
Voters
The majority for John W. Davis
continued to mount today as addi
tional returns came in from yester
day's general election in Georgia.
At 12:30 o’clock returns from 854
precincts out of approximately 1,735
| in Georgia for president gave: Davis,
I 70,702; Coolidge, 16,120; La Follette,
■ 7,098.
These returns represented figures
from all parts of the state. One of
the counties reporting this morning
was Gilmer, in North Georgia,
which gave President Coolidge a
majority of approximately 100 votes.
Senator La Follette continued to
run a poor third in the state, Tl\e
precincts reporting today added only
a few votes to the Wisconsin sena
tor’s total.
The eight constitutional amend
ments increased the majorities by
which they were adopted as more
figures were received. When 580;
precincts had been tabulated, the
city-county government amendment |
had chalked up 33,147 favorable]
votes to 9,447 unfavorable. The same]
returns gave the counties which will I
be permitted to group themselves |
into a unit for the issuance of paving
bonds an affirmative vote of 35.790;
to 7,271 against. The Savannah
bonds on the same compilation poll
ed 35.807 favorable vote to 6,876
against.
Peach County Popular
Voters in 666 precincts gave the
amendment to create Peach county,
the 161st in the state, 40,313 favorable
to 15,031 against, reversing the ac
tion of two years ago» Fort Valley
will be the county seat of the new
county.
The biennial sessions amendment
rolled favorably onward with an in
creasing number of voters in its af
firmative column. Gilmer county
reported that this was the only one
of the eight constitutional amend
ments to be voted on there yester-
I day, and that at only one precinct
I which returned a majority in its
' favor. This amendment provides for ]
I the general assembly to meet once ]
every two years, beginning in 1925,
| instead of annually, as at present. '
I The vote on this amendment in 666 I
i precincts was: For, 39,103; against, i
I 9,824.
Other Amendments Win
The other amendments received I
i majorities of about equal propor
tions. They were Brunswick bonds,
exempting certain industries and
manufacturers from taxation for a
period of five years, and consolidat
ing the offices of tax receiver and
tax collector’.
■ While Gilmer county reported a
majority for Coolidge, a Democrat,
I R. L. Miller, was elected to the leg
; islature. He defeated two oppo-
I nents, both Democrats.
In the race for state senator from
' the Thirty-fifth district, Shirley R.
i Boykin, Democrat, was- in the lead
lover 11. O. Lavvorn, Republican, on
the face of incomplete and unoffi
cial early returns. Heard, Carroll
i and Troup counties comprise this '
district.
; More complete returns will be
I needed to decide the senator in the
Fourth district, where W. A. Town
send. Republican, is opposed by E.
C. Welborn. Democrat. Townsend,
I Rabun and Union counties make up
this district.
Governor Clifford M. Walker and
j the entire state ticket were elected, ■
as was United States Senator William j
IJ. Harris. Twelve Democratis were i
elected to congress, ten without o>- ;
i position.
Tn the Ninth district. Representa
tive Thomas M. Bell had a large ma
jority over his Republican opponent,
I while in the First, Charles G. Ed
i wards overwhelmed the two aspi
] rants for his seat. Herbert G. Aaron.
Republican, and Don H. Clark, inde
pendent Republican. John M. John-
Ison, Republican, ran against Repre
] sentative Bell.
Davis got more than four times
ins many votes as President Coolidge
- and more than three times as many
i balots as La Follette and Coolidge
combined, when returns from 799
i precincts of approximately 1,735 in
the state.
Four years ago, Georgia gave
.Tames M. Cox, Democratic presiden- I
jtial nominee 107.162 votes, and War
ren G. Harding, Republican, 43,720;
votes.
Governor Walker swamped his op-
I ponent, H. Bedinger Baylor, intie- I
| pendent, the returns from 641 pre-]
] cincts being Walker. 63,000; Baylor.
1.927. Governor Walker was the only
state house official with opposition.
I Among the constitutional amend- ]
I ments apparently adopted were those i
I providing for biennial sessions of th*: i
legislature; creation of Peach coun-I
jty; exemption of certain industries]
from taxation for a period of five j
years, and consolidation of the of- i
fives of tax receiver and tax col
lector.
The vote from 641 precincts on the
biennial sessions amendment gavel
1 37,139 for and 9,599 against.
Peach County Favored
Peach county, when the votes were ]
pounted in the same number of pre- ;
cincts, was favored b.v 37,6-11 votes ■
to 15,492 opposed.
j A total of 32,525 voters, in 607 pre- j
cincts, approved exempting vet tain
industries from taxation, while 10.- I
j 522 voted no.
The consolidation of the offices of
tax receiver and tax collector got .
2’5,629 affirmative votes to 12.784 neg- I
ative ballots in 607 precincts.
The same precincts gave the city
county government amendment 31,-
514 favorable votes to 9,226 unfavor
able.
Several counties along the coast i
in south Georgia will be empowered I
to issue bonds for paving purposes,
, according to the votes of 55S pre
-1 cincts, which gave the amendment
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Calhoun County Site
Ordered Moved From
Morgan to Arlington
ARLINGTON, Ga., Nov. s.—The
final action towards moving the
county site of Calhoun county from
Morgan to Arlington was made yes
terday when the board of county
commissioners adopted a resolution
at their monthly meeting naming
Arlington as the Calhoun county
capital and ordering that the county
books and records be moved from
Morgan to Arlington as soon as a
suitable place was provided' for them.
It was also ordered that the chair
man, R. 11. Bostwick, begin the
erection of such a place at once,
and this, Mr. Bostwick states, will
be done. A vault will be built in the
building now used as a justice court
house, where the records will be
kept and the offices of the county
officers will be temporarily located.
Judge Custer, of the superior court,
in his Older to the board of commis
sioners, instructed that the Decem
ber term of Calhoun county superior
court bp held at Arlington, the first
Monday in December. Mr. Bostwick
states that, the new theater building
will be used for the holding of both
city court and superior court—tne
theater will be used as the audito
rium and the office rooms upstairs
will be for the juries. It is believed
this arrangement will prove very sat
isfactory until a court house can be
erected.
34,311 for and 7,220 against.
These same precincts favored
permitting Savannah to issue bonds
b ya vote of 34,706 to 6,720.
The Brunswick bonds amendment,
which would permit the city to in
crease its bonded indebtedness to
improve its port facilities, registered
38,506 affirmative votes and 9,33 J
negative ballots in 607 precincts.
Republican Elected
In the race for the state legisla
ture in Chatham county, three Dem
ocratic candidates ran away from
their Republican opponents. A Re
publican, Henry M. Stanley, will
sit in the next legislature as a rep
resentative of Fannin county. Re
ports from (inion county indicated
that the entire Democratic local
ticket, which ireluded a candidate
for the state legislature, was elect
ed. The races for the legislature in
Gilmer and Towns counties still were
in doubt early today.
Canton reported that Cherokee
county had elected Lee Spears, Dem
ocrat, over D. T. smith. Indepen
dent. In Bibb county, where Sheriff
James R. Hicks was opposed by an
Independent opponent, Carlton C.
Jones, the former won.
Polk county’, the home of United
States Senator Harris, went Demo
cratic for the second time in sixty
years. Senator Harris was active
throughout the day in support of
the Democratic ticket.
Pickens and Fannin are two of
the Coolidge counties, both being in
the Republican stronghold in Geor
gia—the northern section of the
state.
La Follette Vote Small
La Follette did not get as many
votes as some observers had pre
dicted. Not a single county in the
state was recorded in his column
in returns tabulated at this time.
Athens reported that Governor
Walker was scratched b.v some vot
ers in Clarke county and that the
Peach county amendment was run
ning ahead.
The city-manager commission form
of government measure in Savannah
was reported badly defeated.
The Democratic congressional
nominees in ten districts were elected
without opposition. They are E. E.
Cox. Second; Chas. R. Crisp, Third;
illiam C. Wright, Fourth: W. D.
Upshaw, Fifth; Samuel R. Ruther
ford. Sixth; Gordon Lee. Seventh; C.
H. Brand, Eighth; Carl Vinson.
TenthAV. C. Lankford. Eleventh,
and VV . W. Larsen. Twelfth.
Boykin Leads Lovvorn
Early reports gave Shirkv R.
Boykin. Democrat, a lead over H.
O. Lovvorn. Republican, in the race
for the state senate in the Thirty
seventh district, which is composed
of Heard, Carroll and Troup coun
ties. In the Fourth district, where
E. C. Wellborn, Democrat, was op
posed by W. A. Townsend. Repub
lican. the result was in doubt in
the face of early reports. Union,
Rabun and Townsend are the coun
ties In this district.
■KING MIR
INDICATED FOR GIF.
IN NEXT CONGRESS
NEW YORK, Nov. s.—(By the As
| sociated Press.) —With returns In
. from 346 of the 4.35 congressional
districts and 19 of the 34 senatorial
contests, uncertainty continued today
as to whether the sweep for Coolidge
and Dawes would carry with it
enough Republican gains in the two
houses to give the president a full
working majority in congress. With
| 183 Republicans and 163 Democrats
| elected to the house, the net turn
i over had been only twelve in favor
I of the Republicans, or five less than
would normally enable the majority
j representatives to control over oppo
; sit ion by the La Collette bloc.
Nine Democratic senators have
! been re-elected and ten Republicans
I with only one upset, that in Ken
i tucky, where Fred M. Sackett, Re-
I publican, won over Senator A. Ows-
I ley Stanley. The Republican nomt-
I nees are leading their Democratic op-
I ponents in several other states, in
cluding Massachusetts, Oklahoma
and Delaware.
One of the outstanding surprises
of the senatorial contests is the sit
uation in lowa .where Daniel F
Steck, Democrat, has a lead over
Senator Smith W. Brookhart, who
bolted the Republican organization
during the campaign and declared
for Senator Da Follette. Senator
Brookhart, however, did not concede
defeat.
Senator Magnus Johnson, one of
I the two farmer-labor senators, was
trailing Representative Schall, Re
publican, in Minnesota, but still was
claiming that late returns would
bring victory to him.
After rolling up an early lead in
Wisconsin, Victor Berger, socialist,
was in a neck and neck race at the
finish with Ernest A. Braun, his
Republican opponent.
Democrats Re-Elect erf
Democratic senators re-elected in-
I eluded Heflin. Alabama: Robinson,
I Arkansas, the minority leader in the
| senate; Harris, Georgia; Ramsdell,
j Louisiana; Harrison, Mississippi;
■ Simmons, North Carolina; Sheppard,
i Texas, and Glass, Virginia, while
Cole Blease, a former Democratic,
governor, was chosen to fill the seat
from South Carolina now held by
Senator Dial.
In addition to Fernaid, who was
returned to the senate in the Maine
election in September, Capper, Kan
sas; Keyes, New Hampshire; Edge,
New Jersey, and McNary, Oregon, all
j Republicans, were re-elected. Charles
I S. Deneen, a Republican, was the
I senatorial winner in Illinois and Du
i pont, also a. Republican, the victor in
j Delaware.
I In Massachusetts, Speaker Gillett
had a lead over Senator David I.
Walsh, Democrat; in Oklahoma, W.
B. Pine, Republican, was ahead of
J. C. Walton, Democratic senatorial
nominee, and avowed foe of the Ku
Klux Klan; in Rhode Island, J. H.
Metcalf, Republican, led Governor
Flynn, Democrat, for the seat made
vacant by the death of Leßaron
Colt.
Incomplete returns also showed L-
D. Tyson, Democrat, leading in the
Tennessee senatorial race; Senator
Couzens, Republican, ahead in Mich
igan; Fred M. Sackett, Republican,
■ leading Senator Stanley, Democrat,
i in Kentucky, and Senators Phipps,
j Republican, in the lead in Colorado.
I Senator Warren, Republican,
j Wyoming, was leading his opponents,
’ while G. D. Goff, Republican sena
! torial candidate for the senate in
West Virginia, had the edge on Wil
i liam E. Chilton, Democrat.
In Montana. Senator Thomas J.
■ Walsh, democrat. the Teapot Dome
investigator, had a lead over the
' field, and in New Mexico, Senator
i Bursum, Republican, was having a
1 hard battle with Sam G. Bratton.
I Democrat. In the eight-cornered
• senate race in South Dakota, Gov
i ernor McMaster, Republican, led
with U. S. G. Cherry, Democrat,
I running second.
Democratic Losses
I In the contests for house seats,
i (Continued on Page 3, Column 5)
Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, November 6, 1924
Third Man Is Dead
As Result of Battle
At Tennessee Polls
LEXINGTON, Tenn., Nov. 5. j
Prof. W. W. Rogers, who was I
wounded yesterday when he at
tempted to adjust a dispute between !
G. W. Bartholomew, 70, and Dan
Powers, 50, at a polling place at
Middleburg, Tenn., died of his
I wounds last night. Bartholomew
; and his son. J. 1,. Bartholomew, 40,
also were killed.
Powers left the scene shortly aft
er the shooting. He .was trailed for
some dstiance by officers but so far
as can he ascertained has not been
captured.
harry woodruff
WOMBS TOOT
■ ACCIDENT INJURIES
ATHENS. Ga., Nov. s—Mr Har
•; ry Woodruff, prominent ’nsurance
man of Columbus, Ga., and one of
■'University of Georgia’s greatest foot
( ball players, died here this morning
• following an automobile accident
I last Friday night.
I Mr. Woodruff, in company with
> I
, his brother Jim, Alfred Young and
i Jim Kelley, all of Columbus, were
j driving to Athens from Columbus
I for the annual ’‘Homecoming” foot
ball game, and when about 12 miles
, from this city, the car turned over
■ - rounding a sharp curve, and Mr.
1 i Woodruff, who was driving, sustain
ed a broken spine. The other occu
pants were not seriously injured.'
| The victims were rushed to a local
hospital, but the former football star
. never showed any improvement un-
I til the end came.
Mr. Woodruff was known as the
I original “Kid,” Woodruff, of Geor
' gia football fame, having played
I quarterback on the Georgia teams
from 1902 to 1905, making a run
against Auburn for 105 yards in At
lanta that made him famous. Weigh
ing but 130 pounds, his courage and
ability won him the eternal admira
tion of Georgia fans everywhere. He
was 39 years old and in 1912 mar
ried Miss Frances Henley, of Ath
ens, who survives him-
Coach Woodruff Deeply Grieved
He is also survived by two
brothers, Jim and George, the latterj
being head coach of football at the
university, one sister, Mrs. Clifford
Swift, of Columbus, his mother, Mrs.
Henry L. Woodruff, of Columbus
and a number of other more distant
relatives, including several in Atlan-
I ta. He was a member of the Kappa
I Alpha fraternity and the Presby
j terian church.
1
J. E. Skaggs Heads
Express Company as
Hockaday Successor
J. E. Skaggs, general manager of |
the Southeastern Express company, i
and one of the prominent figures in I
the express business in the south- j
east, was elected Wednesday to the ;
presidency of the Southeastern Ex- [
• press company, succeeding the late I
Mr. J. B. Hockaday, who died recent- j
ly at Asheville, N. C.
Mr. Skaggs lias been identified I
with the express business for more I
than 31 years, beginning with the ■
Southern Express company in a [
humble capacity and winning sue- 1
cessive promotions. He was a high
official in the American Railway Ex
press company until the organization
of the Southeastern Express com
pany about two years ago, resigning
then to accept the post of general
manager of the new enterprise.
It was announced by company
, officials that Mr. Skaggs will con- |
tinue to make Atlanta his headquart- j
: ers, where the main offices of the '
I company are located.
Sanders McDaniel, a prominent
; member of the Atlanta bar, was
I named vice president and general '
counsel of the company at the same ,
| meeting of the directors at which Mr.
j Skaggs was elected president. |
WOMAN ELECTED
TEXAS OOVERH
FOR FIRST TIME
DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 5. — (By the
Associated Press.)—For the first
tim» in history Texas elected a
woman, Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson,
governor, yesterday. Distinction of
having a woman chief executive of
ficer may be shared with Wyoming,
however, where Mrs. Nellie Ross
was a candidate fdr governor.
Both are Democrats and the hus
bands of both had been governors
of their respective states.
Mrs. Ferguson generally was call
ed “Ma” by reason of her initials.
Her opponent was Dr. George C.
Butte, Republican.
Mrs. Ferguson went through three
bitter campaigns, not front a desire
to hold office, but in an effort to
vindicate the Ferguson family name.
Her husband, James E. Ferguson,
was impeached when governor and
was unable to get his own name
on the ballots as a candidate. She
had to survive two primaries and
the final election to win.
Her opponents charged that if
Mrs. Ferguson were elected her
husband actually would be bovernor.
The charge was denied vigorously.
During the most of the campaign
Mrs. Ferguson remained in Temple
caring for her home and doing her
accustomed household work. She is
the mother of two daughters, one of
whom is married and lives in Aus
tin. She has one grandson’. Her
neighbors vildly acclaimed her elec
tion last night, escorting her from
a newspaper office to her home.
The only exception to the Demo
cratic victory was in the fourteenth
congressional district, where Harry
Wurzbach, Republican, was re
elected.
I nited State Senator Morris Shep
pard was re-elected by a good ma
jority.
The race between Mrs. Ferguson
and Dr. Butte was the closest of
any between a Republican and Dem
ocrat for governor for many years
in the state.
The final tabulation gave: Mrs
Ferguson 140,824; Dr. Buttte, 104-
683 Although the tabulating agen
cies announced Mrs. Ferguson a vic
tor, Dr. Butte refused to concede de
feat on those figures, which was esti
mate at about half the total cast. He
declared many ballots had been
thrown out illegually and that he
would take the lead when these were
counted.
For presiden. Davis received 122,-
018; Coolidge 32,873, and La Follette
7,442.
White Falls Flat in
Kansas Governor Race;
Republican Is Leading
TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 5. —(By the
Associated Press.) —William Allen
White, who entered the Kansas
gubernatorial race as an independent
on an avowed anti-Ku Klux Klan
platform, ran far behind the suc
cessful candidate, Ben S. Paulen,
Republican, and this morning with
half the state’s precincts reported
was trailing Governor Jonathan M.
Davis, Democrat, by’ 15,000 votes.
Returns from 1,282 precincts out
of 2,591 gave Paulen 155,783; Davis,
88,049; White 73,076. The Emporia
editor waged a campaign unique in
the annals of American politics. Be
fore the balloting he expressed
“fear” that he would be elected, de
claring he made the race as a
"duty” and preferred his editorial
desk to the governor’s chair.
Mr. White remained at home last
night, retiring early and announced
he would not examine the election
returns until this morning.
In closing his campaign he de
clared he had accomplished his pur
pose. “I was sure to win,” he
said. “I started out to prove there
was a tremendous anti-Klan senti
ment in Kansas. I ran to give men
and women supporting that senti
ment a chance to vote for some one
not tainted with the endorsement of
Klux Klan.
i CENIS A COPY,
SI A YEAR.
KEmiLTEUS.
BUTTEKSSEEIS
RESTORED TO FOLD
G. 0. P. Nominees Assured
343 Electoral Votes.
La Follette Bad Third
NEW YORK, Nov. s.—(By the As
sociated Press.) —As returns from the
states continued to roll in today they
served only to swell the tide upon
which Calvin Coolidge is riding to
an apparent and overwhelming vic
tory over his two opponents in the
1924 presidential contest.
In eight states, all of them in the
west, the result still was in doubt
at midday, but the president had a
lead in seven of them, including
Minnesota, North Dakota and South
Dakota, which followers of Senator
Robert M. La Follette had expected
would give the independent candi
date their electoral votes.
With eight states Cool
idge had 346 electoral votes, Davis
136, La. Follette 13 and 39 were in
the doubtful column.
Returns in the congressional con
tests were slow and at noon they
still were insufficient to show wheth
er Mr. Coolidge will have a real work
ing majority of his party in either
the house or senate. The Republic
ans had made a net gain of twelve
in the house and apparently of three
or four in the senate.
Representative Nicholas, Long
worth, of Ohio, the Republican lead
er in the house, has been re-elected
as has Representative Finis J. Gar
rett, of Tennessee, the Democratic
house leader.'
The bugaboo of throwing the presi
dential election into congress was
chased away as large blocks of elec
toral votes either fell into the Cool
idge column or gave seemingly un
mistakable evidences of going there
as the returns continued to come in.
John W. Davis succeeded in cap
turing certainly only states gener
ally reckoned as irrevokably Demo
cratic. Even at that he lost Ken
tucky, on the face of the incom
plete returns, although Cox had car
ried it against Harding in 1920. The
same returns indicated that be had
brought back into the Democratic
fold two of the states taken away by
Harding—Oklahoma and Tennessee.
La Follette Poor Third
' Senator La Follette, although poll
ing a popular vote of about 4,000,000,
which approximates Roosevelt’s to
tal when he led a third party move
ment in 1912, was assured the elec
toral vole of only one state, his own,
Wisconsin. Roosevelt captured
eighty-eight, electoral votes in 1912
enough to defeat his Republican oj>-
ponent, Taft, and elect his Democrat
ic adversary, Wilson. ‘
It was estimated that Coolidge
polled 18,000,000 popular votes—two
million more than were given Hard
ing. Davis, it was estimated, had
8,000.000 as against 9,000,000 for Cox.
More voters trooped to the polling
places and dropped their ballots yes
terday than ever before in the histo
ry of the nation.
Among the states in which the re
turns were not sufficiently compre
hensive to permit of definite classifi
cation in the columns of any of the
three candidates, Coolidge was lead
ing in Arizona with Davis second:
in Idaho with La Follette second; in
Minnesota, with I-a. Follette second;
in Montana with La Follette second;
in Nevada with l>a Follette second;
in North Dakota with La Follette
second; in South Dakota with La
Follette second.
Piles I p Big Majority
Should the Coolidge lead in these
states be sustained by the final
count, it would add 36 electoral votes
to his total, and he would have 379.
Harding, in .1920, had 404.
In only one of the states remain
ing in the doubtful column did Davi«
maintain a lead. That was New
Mexico, the addition of whose elec
toral vote would give him 139. Cox
had 127.
In many of the states carried by
Coolidge his majority over both of
his adversaries was overwhelming.
In New York state, where the Re
publican national ticket made a clean
sweep, both in the metropolis and
upstate, the plurality over Davis was
more than 800,000. In the New Eng
land states, Mr. Coolidge's one-time
neighbors piled up a lead for him
which in some cases ran up to ten
to one. In Ohio and Illinois the ma
jorities likewise were tremendous,
and out on the Pacific coast the tale
of the ballots was almost the same.
Latest returns from California indi
cated the Republican margin there
will be more than 100,000.
The heavy undertow of this roar
ing tide of Coolidge strength pulled
down to defeat a number of Demo
cratic state tickets and Democratic
members of congress who haxl been
confident of election, but in New
York Governor Alfred E. Smith
withstood the handicap of a sweep
for the Republican national ticket
and bested his Republican opponent
for ' re-election, Theodore Roosevelt,
by an estimated 100,000 plurality.
Roosevelt came down from the up
state districts with a lead that
seemed for a time to make his elec
tion certain, but the metropolis rose
to the occasion and repelled the in
vasion at its door steps.
Mrs. Ferguson Leading
Tn Ohio another Democratic gov
ernor, Vic Donahey, battling w’tih a
similar handicap, was about hold
ing his own today in a nip and tuck
race for re-election against ths Re
publican nominee, former Governor
Harry I>. Davis.
The sweep of the Coolidge slide
appeared, on the other hand, to have
reversed the expectations of wise
acres and to have landed Ed Jackson,
the Republican gubernatorial can
didate in Indiana, in the governor’s
chair at Indianapolis.
In Texas, “Ma” Ferguson, wife
of an impeached governor, who won
her nomination on the Democratic
ticket in Texas after a furious bat
tle against klan sympathizers and
secured a place on the ballot only
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