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VOLUME XXXI, No. 309
BIG G 0. P. VOTE CAST HERE
DAVIS-BRVAN
LEAD LOCAL
TICKET BY A
SMALL EDGE
About 1,500 votes had
been cast in the city of Au
gusta in the general election
up to about 1 o'clock Tues
day, with every indication
that John W. Davis and
Charles W. Bryan, Demo
cratic nominees for presi
dent and vice-president,
had received about half of
the votes polled, with pos
sibly a shade majority. The
votes included in thy esti
mate include only the
1269th District from the
county boxes, this box be
ing located in the city. Re
ports coming in from the
county boxes indicate that
Davis and Bryan will get a
safe margin outside the city.
FIFTH WARD FOR
COOL IDGE-DAWES
The Fifth Ward, one of the larg
est boxes in the city, will probably
l>o) - between seventy-five and
ninety per cent of Its entire vote
for Coolldge and Daw-es, according
to estimates about noon Tuesday.
The Fourth and Sixth Wards, the
letter of which includes the new
seventh Ward, will probably, give
Davis fifty per cent of ‘.heir Votes,
with Coolidge and LaFollfette split-
Mng the remaining half, while the
First, Second and Third will give
Davis big leads.
The Peach county amendment
appears to be carrying a very
heavy strength all over the city,
active workers being at all the
polls in behalf of the creation of
the new county, while no opponents
are working.
The constitutional amendment
relating to the consolidation of the
offices of tax collector and tax re
ceiver in the counties of the state
Is receiving more than ordinary
notice at all the boxes, and there 1
appears little doubt tha the change
will carry over the county. The .
First and Second Wards are giving .
this amendment a close vote, with
a slight edge in favor of the
change.
G. O. P. WORKERS
ARE ACTIVE
For the first time In the history
of Augusta, since the days of re
construction following the Civil
War, active Republican workers
were at the pollp, their presence
being esnecially felt in the Fifth
Ward. In this precinct, which will
give Coolidge the .heaviest vote in
the city, at least a dozen workers
In behalf of the Republican ticket
are distributing ballots, pinning
badges on the voters and using
every method to get all the Repub
lican voters to the polls who are
qualified to v cast their ballots.
To all appearances, LaFollette’s
vote in Augusta is going to be
comparatively light, except in the
Wards that will go mostly to Da
vis, where he will split about even
ly with Coolidge.
It appears, also, that Governor
Clifford Walker will receive prac
tically the full vote against his in
dependent opponent, C. A. Baylor.
General fair weather prevailed
after ten o'clock, before which it
was partly cloudy. There is no in
dication that weather will interfere
with the vote. However, no one
predicts a heavy poll, unless a
rush, precipitated by the work of
certain partisans, should occur lat
er in the afternoon. Should this
rush occur, there is every proba
bility that the vote as it now ap
pears on the face may be entirely
changed.
Usual Calm At
Washington on
Election Day
WASHINGTON, W. C—The u«ual
calm of votelesa Washington prevail
ed Tuesday at the White House as
the nation went to the polls.
President and Mrs. Coolldge made
out their votes on absentee voters'
ballots and mailed them to Northamp
ton, Mass, their home, last week and
little was left for the President to do
Tuesday except to attend to the rou
tine of his office and await the first
returns.
Most of the cabinet officers were
of of the city, voting in their home
tnv ns. The others had engagements
at the White House during the day
along with a few other callers.
Tuesday night In the early part of
the evening, at last, Mr. and Mrs.
Coolldge with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vi
Stearns, of Boston, guests, will
reoolve election returns sent to the
executive offices over special wires.
It Is expected the radio set In th
White House also will be used for fol
lowing tha count.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
DAILY, sc; SUNDAY, sc.
LEASED WIRE SERVICE.
Democracy’s Leaders Await Decision
Labor Government
of Britain Resigns
LONDON—The cabinet of
Ramsay MacDonald, Great
Britain’s first labor government
resigned Tuesday. King George
accepted the resignation.
The government headed by Mr.
MacDonald, self educated son of
a Scotch peasant, was in power
nine months during which its de
feat was possible at any time by a
combined vote in the house of the
conservatives and liberals who
jointly outnumbered the laborites.
The labor prime minister’s foreign
policy, envisaging resolution of the
entente cordiale with France, close
co-operation with the league of na
tions and settlement of the repara
tion question met with general ap
probation but was on his attitude
toward Russia that he first faced
the wave of disapproval which
culminated in his defeat.
Fulfilling what amounted to a
campaign pledge he extended recog.
nition to Russia and concluded a
preliminary commercial agreement
with the soviet government which
has not yet been ratified.
Then the case of James R. Camp
bell, editor of a communist pe
riodical prosecution of whom on
sedition charges was dropped by
the attorney general, brought to the
fore the opposition in the house to
the premier’s attitude toward com
munism in Russia and out. After a
vote had been carried calling for
an inquiry into the case. Mr. Mac-
Donald brought about the llssolu
tion of •parliament and went before
the country.
Public interest seemed somewhat
apathetic at first as to the outcome
of the general election, but at the
eleventh hour in the campaign the
Zinovieff letter incident arose, fo
cusing attention on the communis
tic program issue and labor went
down to defeat under a conservative
landslide.
FOUR INDICTED
For Using the Mails to De
fraud
NEW
1,800 amateur scenario writers had
paid $52,000 a year to the Bristol
photoplays studio here, the federal
grand Jury Monday Indicted members
of the firm for using the malls In a
scheme to defraud. The Indictments
named William Hallemore, Philip
Kunslnger, Leopold D. Wharton and
Vernon Hoaglund. It was charged
they solicited scenarios from amattir
authors on false representation that
the Bristol photoplays studio could
revise and fit the scenarios for pro
duction and influence reputable mo-
I tlon picture concerns to produce them.
THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES.
MRS. HARD! IS
BETTER, SHIS
PHYSICIAN
MARION, Ohio.—Mrs. Florence
Kling Harding, widow of President
Harding, who has been seriously ill
for the last two weeks was better
Tuesday. Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, her
physician, said in a statement is
sued Tuesday morning. Mrs. Hard
ing had a fairly good night's rest
and ate a hearty breakfast, Dr.
Sawyer said.
MARION, O.—New complications,
yet undefined, are causing consider,
able apprehension Tuesday to phy
sicians attending Mrs. Florence
Kling Harding, widow of the late
president, who was taken ill Mon
day at the Sawyer sanltarivn here,
where Mrs. Harding makes her
home.
Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, who in
charge of Mrs. Harding'* case, an
nounced Tuesday that the disease
is a recurrence of the same malady,
kidney trouble, which almost caus
ed her death early in the sprtog'of
1922, while she was mistress of the
White House. A statement Issued
Monday night by Dr. Sawyer said
Mrs. Harding was ‘'some better
after resting W< II Monday, but that
“new complications have develop
ed which are yet undefined.”
N. Y, VOTERS
Pile Up Heavy Early Bal
lot
NEW YORK-rWlth prospects of
rolling up an unprecendented vote.
New York state voters Tuesday be
gan a steady pilgrimage to the
polls as soon as they were opened
at 6 o'clock. A heavy early vote was
reported In all sections of New
York City. Clear cool weather pre
vailed throughout the state presag.
Ing an approximate vote of well
over 3,000,000. '
More than 3,858,000 citizens are
entitled to vote. In addition to keen
Interest In the three cornered I'.' .t
for the Tiresldency, unusual Interest
centered on the gubernatorial fight
between Governor Alfred E. Smith
and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.
AUGUSTA GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 4, 1924
Davis Casts His Vote
and Takes a Holiday
LOCUST VALLEY, N. Y.—
John W. Davis in Glen Cove
shortly before noon Tuesday.
His ballot was number 232 and
he said when he stepped out of
the booth it might safely be
assumed he had voted the
"democratic ticket straight.”
NEW YORK. —John W. Davis took
a holiday Tuesday. To visitors who
called at his home In Locust Val
ley, Mr. Davis appeared obviously
gratified that the campaign grind
was over. He expressed confidence
in the decision the electorate wits
making at the polls but was equally
relieved that his personal role had
come to an end.
Even the task of the citizen voter
rested hut lightly upon him. He mo
tored to Glen Gove early In the day
to cast his ballot. Then within a
short time he. was out on the golf
course at play.
To those who' greeted him at the
club house, the candidate remarked
that he hoped he would prove a bet
ter golfer than he had been a cam
paigner. He admitted the need of
physical exercise anil recreation and
declared his Intention to make up In
the days ahead for the neglect he had
I .con guilty of In this respect du ring
Watson Home Sold for $16,000
“Hickory Hill” Bought By Thomson Man
FloridianPaysss,loo for Library
IHOMSON, GA.—The handsome colonial residence
of the late Senator Thomas E. Watson, together with 171
acres of land, was sold here Tuesday to J. E. Wilkinson,
local capitalist, for the sum of $16,000. The bidding start
ed at $5,000 and was run up to that figure. The other
bidder was H. T. Clary, also of Thomson.
The Watson library, consisting of around 10,000 vol
umes, covering a wide range of subjects, and from which
Mr. Watson drew much of his information for the histories,
essays, and novels that he wrote was sold to U. D. Thomp
son of Miami, Fla., an ardent admirer of the Georgia sena
tor, for the sum of $5,100. Mercer University representa
tives, who are said to have Recently inspected the library
with the idea of purchasing it for that institution, made no
efforts to secure the library at the sale, it was said.
Odd pieces of furniture in the Watson home .were
sold to various individuals. A large number of people
from all parts of this and other states attended the sale.
the past several months.
Later he returned to his home to
spend the remainder of the day with
Mrs. Davis and his family. He plan
ned In the early evening to motor to
the home of Frank L. Polk In New
York city, to receive the election re
turns in company with a few inti
mate friends.
GEN. JAS. A. THOMAS
ASSUMES COMMAND
THIN LINE OF GREY
DUBLIN, Ga,—Gan. James
A. Thomas, of Dublin, Ga.,
Monday iaauad order* that ha
had asiumed command of tha
United Confederate Vatarana
following th* death of Gen. W.
B. Haldeman, commander, last
week. General Thomaa is th*
senior lieutenant-general of
the army of Tennessee end has
served a* commander of the
Georgia brigade.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS.)
Race Being Decided By
Largest Electorate In
History of the Nation
COOEIOEE LOOKS
FOR ISO VOTES
111 ELECTORAL
COEEEGE
WASHINGTON —President
Coolidgn expects a, vote in the
electoral college of at least 360
and a republican working ma
jority in the house next ses
sion of twenty or more, it was
announced at the White House
Tuesday.
The estimate Is based oft re
ports from Chairman Btuler of
the republican national commit
tee. The working majority er
poctod|tt was said 1h ercluslve
of teh insurgent group.
Friends of the president who
visited the White House Tues
day said they found Mr. Cool
idge well satisfied with the con
duct of the campaign and feel
ing that no npologles were
necessary regardless of the out
come. The president also be
lieved expenses had been out
down and scrutinized more
closely than ever before.
GIVEN REPORTB
ON EARLY RETURNB
President Coolldg# slept until 8
o’clock Tuesday morning, a much
later hour than usual. Soon after
rising he was handed pews reports
of early returns received from New
England.
A veritnble flood of messages
greeted Mr. Coolidge_ upon his ar
rival at the executive office, many
from those who had already voted
and who said they wanted to extend
congratulations. Others gave ap
proval of his address dellevered
Monday night over the radio.
Among the telegrams was one
from Chauncey M. Depew of New
York, veteran republican leader, ex
tending "cordial congratulations on
an unusual victory.”
Mr. Coolldgo replied that the rues,
sage brought "cheer nnd added con
fidence on this morning of election
day."
"Let my good wishes be express
ed,” he said, "Is the hope that you
may add many more to the long Hat
of presidents you have helped to
elect”
The usual conference with Di
rector Lord of the budget, was held
by the president, more than an hour
being devoted to n discussion of
next year's appropriations.
SENATOR WHEELER
Issues Final Statement on
Election Day
WASHINGTON—One final state,
ment was Issued Tuesday by Sena
tor Wheeler, of Montana, whose
quiet arrival at his home here ter
minated a 16,000 mile campaign tour
as Independent vice-presidential
candidate.
"I have tried during the last six
ty dnvr <o give a true p‘ lure to
the people of the country of how
their government In Washington
operates" he said. “If they approve
of conditions In the national'capital
as they are, they will Tuesday
vote to obtain four years more of
republican administration. If not,
they will vote to repudiate the ad
ministration that now governs.
"It Is now up to the electorate of
the country to say whether corrupt
business Interest shall continue
their hold upon the government at
Washington.”
Senator Wheeler came to Wash
ington from Baltimore, where he
delivered his last campnlgn speech
and was met by his family. He ex
pects to return to his home state
when the results of the election
have been recorded.
First Two Towns Heard
From Go For Coolidge
NEW ASHFORD, Max*.—The
vote of thin town, the first to re
port 11m presidential election, gave:
Coolldge, 20; Davie, 4; LaFollette,
0.
In 1920 vote wag;
Harding, 28; Cox, 6.
The decrease In the total vote
of New Ashford, a little Berkshire
settlement Is due to a decline In
population since 1920. The town has
30 registered voters of whom 24
went to the polls this morning.
Three remained away because of
Illness: two Old not care to vote
and the sixth, who was absent frorn
the town, mailed his absentee bal
lot too late to be received before the
18 CENTS A WEEK.
WEATHER
WASHINGTON.—The largest electorate that ever
cast a vote in any nation undertook Tuesday the task of un
ravelling the most puzzling tangle in modern American
political history.
With three major candidates in the field for presi
dent with a full membership of the house to be chosen;
with 34 senators and 34 governors to be elected and with
thousands of lesser offices to be filled, the ever increasing
millions of qualified voters of the nation began their
march to the polls at dawn and throughout the length and
breadth of the land under generally fair weather condi
tions they continued all day to record their will.
Four months of fervid oratory, charges, recrimina
tions, accusations, claims, predictions and warnings were
stored in the thoughts of the voters as they mnrked their
decisions on their ballots.
EARLY REPORTS
SHOW HEAVY
VOTING IN
GEORGIA
ATLANTA, Ga.—Reports from
ssverat sections of Georgia Tues
day indicated citizens wars taking
mors interest in the general elec
tion than four years ago and that
as a result greater numbers of
votsrs would be polled. Fair weath
er prevailed generally throughout
the state, and this, with urgent ap
peals of party leaders for every citi
zen to cast his or her ballot, served
to bring many voters to the polls.
A large number of women were
voting, thie being especially no
ticeable in Atlanta, Many of the
precincte here were crowded during
the early hour as men and women
stopped to vote before going to
work, *
In several precincte more women
than men were present during ths
early hours.
LAFOLLETTE STRONG
AT MERIWETHER
A dispatch from Jeffersonville,
Twiggs county, staled the county
would probably poll Its full vote of
approximately 990 votes before the
day ended. John W. Davie, democra
tic presidential nominee, was re
ported the favorite in the voting
In this county. In Meriwether, how
ever, reporta indicated Robert M.
LaFollette. progressive, was giving
Davie a close run.
In 1920, Meriwether gave C 0...
democrat, 1,099 votes and Harding,
republican. 186 Twiggs gave Cox
273 votes and Harding 4.,
Five presidential candidates were
before Georgia. In addition to Da
vis and LaFollette, there were Cool
idge, republican. Nations, Ameri
can, and Farls, prohibitionist. Sena
tor William J. Harris had no op
position. Neither did the state house
democratic nominees, with the ex
ception of Governor Walker. 11.
Redlnger Baylor, Independent, whs
on the ticket as the chief execu
tive's opponent.
In the first congressional district
Charles O. Edwards, democrat, was
opposed by Herbert G. Aaron repub
lican. and Representative Thomas
M. Bell, democrat, ran against John
Johnson, republican.
Four races for the state house
were before the voters. In Chatham,
C. E. Alexander, Kemee L. Den
mark and Alexander L. Lawton, Jr„
democrats, were opposed by C. L.
Htookesberry. Frank B. Brooks and
Charles P, Rosslgnol, republicans.
B. If. Stone, democrat, and Augus
tus Brackett, republicans were op
ponents In Union. A. M.Johnson, O.
R. Milton and L. D. Chastain, all
democrats, were seeking Gilmer
county’s seat. Ed Kendall, democrat,
arid J. E. Barnard, republican, were
the candidates In Towns.
Shirley C. Boykin, democrat was
opposed for the state senate In the
37th. district by H. O. Lovvern, re
publican.
polls opened. New Ashford Is In the
northwestern part of Massachusetts
about 15 miles north of Pittsfield.
SOMERSET, Vt—The vote of
this town for president was:
Coolldge 8; Davis 0; LaFollette,
0.
The vote four years ago was:.
Harding 20; Cox, 5.
Four men and their wives, the
sole voting population, cast their
votes for Mr. Coolldge. This second
announcement by any town In the
country was made possible by
agreement of all the voters to cast
their ballots the first thing Tues
day morning for Vermont's native
son.
HOME
EDITION
Auuusta and vicinity, Generally fair
tonight and Wednesday,
FINAL PLEAS MADE
OVER THE RADIO
Hinging in their care were the
final pleas of the three major as
pirants for the presidency. The re
publican and democratic standard
bearers, Calvin Coolidge and John
W. Davis, established a precedent
In the political campaigning by ad
dressing an eleventh hour radio
appeal last night to an audience
that reached from coast to coast.
Senator LaFollette the independent
candidate closed his case with a
atatement to the voters.
President Coolldge's plea wee
one to urge every qualified citizen
to vote Tuesday.
"Wo shall always have with ns,”
he said, "an element of discontent,
an element Inspired with more
zeal than knowledge. They are
greatly in the minority. But their
number Is large enough to be a de
cisive factor In many elections un
less It is offset by the sober second
thought of the people who have
something at eteke whether It be
earnings from investment or from
employment wlio are considering
not only thglr own welfare but the
welfare of their children and com
ing generations.”
Mr. Davis again recited the poli
cies to which he has devoted a
fighting campaign.
DAVIS APPEALS
TO CONSCIENCE
“Every one of us." he said, “If
we will but llsteu to the voice of
conscience, can say what is right
and what is wrong.
We owe it to ourselves and to
our country; we owe It to our child
ren and those who shall come aftei
us, to vote accordingly. Will tht
fathers and mothers of the country
be satisfied to set before their
children who are to take up the
burden of citizenship any lessor
standard than one of common
honesty 7”
Senator LaFollette challenged
again ‘tills time honored threat of
industrial depression” as a factor
in the election and charged that
president Cooltdge had authorized
the republican national committee
to run an "elect me or starve"
campaign.
“The American people,” he eald.
“have learned their lesson and will
not be whipped Into line with thl*
stone-age propaganda. Neither will
they permit the hoodllng of the
election bv a huge slush flund."
In addition to the urglngs of the
presidential candidates for the citi
zen to go to the polls, Intense ef
fort was made by hundreds of or
ganizations to get out the vote.”
ORANIZATIONS TRY
TO SWELL BALLOT
Republicans, democrats, indepen
dents, women's organizations, al
most every variety of politics:
groups exerted itself to swell ths
total of ballots beyond anything
everything ever seen in an Ameri
can election.
The central figures In the con
test, their arguments ended and
their claims submitted, waited In
their homes for the verdicts.
President Coolldge passed the day
In the White House silently await
ing the returns; confident and even
planning for his new tenure of of
fice He and Mrs. Coolldge had
mulled their ballots to their North
ampton. Mass., home.
Mr. Davis, declaring the demo
cratic ticket would be returned be
cause It to win, voted at
Locust Valley and prepared to re
ceive the returns in his home
there.
Senator LaFollette, after an in
tensive drive. vo»ed In Madison,
Wls., his home town, and he, too.
expressed his belief that his cause
had won the. favor of the voters.
The vice presidential candidates,
all of whom have under the strain
of weeks campaigning found them
selves adjacent to voting booths on
election day except for Senator
Wheeler, the Independent, candidate
who took advantage of the mall
voting privilege to send his ballot to
Montana. Charles G. Dawes, presi
dent Coolldge’s running mate, voted
In Evanston, Ills., and Governor
Charles W. Bryan, the democratic
choice for vice president returned
to Lincoln, Neb., In time to cast his
ballot.
TICKET-SPLITTING
CAUSES A TANGLE
One of the most tangled aspects
of Tuesday's balloting which will
not be solved, probably for several.
Continued on page twe *v'