Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-06
KENTUCKY FAL TIERS,
BUT TEN|vE|: sSEE IS
RESTORED To FOLD.
G. @. P. Nominees Assured
343 Electoral Votes.
La Toilette Bad Third

NEW YORK, Nov. Shy 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 Toilette had expected
would give the independent candi-
date their electoral votes.
With eight states excluded, Cool
idge had 346 electoral votes. Davis
1856, La Toilette Is and 80 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 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 reelected
as has Representative Finis ]. Gar
rett, of Tennessee, the Democratic
house leader.
The bugaboo of throwing the Dresi-
Dental election into congress was
chased away as large blocks Of cleo
toral votes either fell into the Cool
idge column or gave seemingly I'M
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
lucky, on the face of the incom-
plete returns, although Cox had car
ried it against Harding in 1920. The
same returns indicated that he had
brought back into the Democratic
fold two of the states taken away by
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Tennessee.
La Toilette Poor Third
j.
ing a popular vote of about 4,000,000,
which approximates Roosevelt,s to-
tai when he led a third party move
ment in 1912, was assured the cleo
toral vote of only one state, his own,
Wisconsin. Roosevelt captured
eighty eight electoral votes in 1912
enough to defeat his Republican OPP
ponent, Taft, and elect his Democrat
ic adversary, Wilson.
1t was estimated that Coolidge
polled 1S,OOO,O00 popular votes-two
million more than were given Hard
ing. Davis, it was estimated, had
5000 900 as against 5000 600 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 seconds
in Idaho with La Toilette second; in
Minnesota with La Toilette second;
in Montana with La Toilette second;
in Nevada with La Toilette second;
| in North Dakota with La Toilette
second; in South Dakota with La
Toilette second.
Piles Up Big Majority
! Should the Coolidge lead in these
states be sustained by the final
count, it would add SO 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 Davis
1
Mexico, the addition of whose elec-l
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 100000 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-
Gated the Republican margin there
will be more than $1,000.
| 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 had been
confident of election, but in New
York Governor Alfred r. Smith
withstood the handicap of a sweep
for the Republican national ticket
TX
| for reelection, Theodore Roosevelt,
| by an estimated 100000 plurality.
Roosevelt came down from the up
state districts with a lead thar
seemed for time to make his cleo
ton certain, but the metropolis rose
to the occasion and repealed the in
vasion at it's door steps.
Mrs. Ferguson Leading
In Ohio another Democratic gov
ernor, Vic Donahey, battling with
similar handicap, was about hold
ing his own today in a nip and tuck
race for reelection against the Re-
publican nominee, former Governor
Harry J.. 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 gubeInatorial cam
didate in Indiana, in the governors
chair at Indianapolis.
In Texas, MA" Ferguson, wife
Of an impeached governor. who won
her nomination on the Democratic
ticket in Texas after furious bat
tie against khan sympathizers and
secured place on the ballot only
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