Evening star., 1924-12-17
BINGHAM IS winner
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Connecticut Elects Repub.
loan to Succeed Brande-
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gee by 10000 Majority.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. tta-
NEW HAVEN. Conn, December IT,
Hiram Bingham. Republican. long q
professor at Yale, now Is lieutenant
governor. governor-elect and United
States Senator-eiect. In a special
election yesterday he defeated Hamil.
ton Holt. Democrat, by more than
10000 votes for the seat made vacant
by the death OF Frank b. Brandegee
Republican, who represented the State
In the Senate for nearly 20 years.
After being inaugurated next month
Col. Bingham wiN resign as governor
take the oath as member of the
Senate. The ofice Of governor auto
maticaliy will fall upon the newly
elected lieutenant governor. John H
TrumbuH. During. the brief period
that Col. Bingham holds the ONCE OF
governor he will be ex officio a fellow
Of Yale University, from the faculty
of which he resigneda month ago.
Man of Many Honors.
No man in the political history OF
Connecticut has had 50 many honors
placed upon him in so short time
as Col. Bingham. After two years
service as lieutenant governor he was
nominated for governor and on the
ticket with President Coolidge last
month he was swept into office by the
largest plurality ever given a guber-
material nominee in Connecticut.
With the State organization behind
him, Col Bingham. within three
weeks after he had been elected
governor, was named by a convention
as the Republican nominee for. Sena-
tor over Representatives Tilson and
Merritt, both veterans of the lower
branch of Congress.
Holt carried only 8, of the 81 cities
In the State and few of the towns.
His home town Of Woodstock was in
the Republican column. Every
county showed a plurality for Bing-
ham. The total vote was about one
half of that at the presidential cleo
ton.
Col. Bin@ham's Statement.
In a statement on the election
Col. Bingham said: '-a -
Il realize that the votes which /
have just received have come to me
not as a personal tribute but as an
expression OF faith in the Republican
party and a desire to see the hands
OF it's great leader upheld. Person
ally 1t is keen disappointment to
me not to be able to carry out my
term as governor, I must now look
forward to being the Junior member
of the greatest deliberative body in
the world, a position requiring pa
tience and self-restraint, rather than
action or oratory. - -
'In the words of our great Senator
Platt. I am going 20 listen and
learn The happiest aspect of the
II gives me to aid President Coolidge
in carrying out those sound princi-
pies of political economy which have
endeared him to the hearts of the
American people" ---a-
Holt Advocated League.
Mr.. Holt. who as a magazine editor
in New York, was an ardent advocate
of the League of Nations. in congrat-
ulating Col. Bingham, expressed his
best wishes for the success of Col.
Bingham's work in the Senate "for
the welfare of our State and our Ma
tion and for. the maintenance OF
peace throughout the world"
President Coolidge is much graft
fed over the victory of Col. Bingham
according to telegram sent by Sec
reary Slemp- to j. Hensy Roraback,
State chairman, who was largely re
isponsible for the coloneIs nomination.
Mr.. Roraback wired the President
that the colonePs majority was the
largest ever received by. any candi-
date in Connecticut at any election
not q presidential one. H- 90,
Resigns From University.
Col. Bingham resigned as Townsend
professor OF Latin American history at
Yale shortly after his election as gov
ernor in November. having held the
chair since 1915. He was a graduate of
Yale, 1898. He was born IN Hawaii In
1878, the son of Rev. Hiram and
Minerva C. Bingham. He holds degrees
from Harvard and the University of
California He was a preceptor in his
tory at Princeton in 1905. -
In 1906 Mr.. Bingham began a series
of explorations into Peru. and South
American countries, and was director of
Peruvian expeditions Ia 1911, 1912, 1914
and 1915 under auspices of Yale and the
National Geographic Society. "a.
During the. World WarMr. Bingham
commanded the largest allied aviation
instruction camp at Issoudin, in France
He was elected lieutenant governor OF
Connecticut IN 1922.
G. o. P. LEADERS PLEASED.
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