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Atlanta StMlWfcfo Warnal 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. How to Stop Fit Attacks If you haw attacks of Fits. Epilepsy or FalliUß S I will t<!l >ou how to secure FREE • treatment which I >s stepped the attacks n hundreds of cas;-. It cir.-x immediate relief. >.ah . IX.t it. Station Milwaukee, Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 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 ofVote r wppl 'r J““l ~ \k\ x 1 I PLAN. black -republican x a l \ U////ZT -DEMOCRAT \ / \ 1 ffllHI -Progress 1 ve| v< \J 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 (Continued on Pago 3, Colujxqi 7)