Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-11-04
RECORD VOTE IS
MADE CERTAIN
Campaign to Get Out the Vote
Is Sure to Get
Results
PLEA BY CANDIDATES
Both Coolidge and Davis Are
Heard-Many Contests
in the States
PLEA BY CANDIDATES


WASHINGTON, Nov. (By The
! Associated Press) The largest cleo
torate that ever cast vote in any
nation undertook today the task of
unraveling the most puzzlipg tangle
in modern American political his
tory.
With three major candidates IN
| the field for PRESIDENT; with a full
mem bership of the House to be
chosen: with thirty-four senators
and thirty-four governors to be
! elected. and with thousands of less
er offices to be filled. the twenty-odd
million qualified voters of the ma
ton began their march to the polls
at dawn and throughout the length
and breadth of the land, under gen.
orally fair weather conditions. they
continued all day to record their will.
Four months of fervid oratory.
] charges recriminations. accusations,
claims, predictions and warnings
were stored in the thoughts of the
voters as they marked their deci-
sio1s on their ballots.
| Ringing in their ears 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
political campaigning by addressing
an eleventh hour radio appeal last
night to an audience that reached
FROM coast to coast. Senator Ia
Toilette. the independent candidate,
! closed his case with a statement to
! the voters.
! President Coolidge's plea was one
to urge every qualified citizen to vote
TODAY.
I'VE shall always have with u.s."
he said. IAN element of discomfort,
an element inspired with more zeal
than knowledge. They are greatly
| in the minority. But their number
Is large enough to be a decisive fac
| tor in many elections unless it Is
offset by the sober second thought
! of the people who have something
at stake whether it be earnings from
! investment or from employment,
/, who are considering not only their
own welfare. but the welfare of their
children and coming generations"
Mr.. Davis again recited the poll
cies to which he has devoted fight
ing campaign.
Every one of u.s." he said, '1f we
will but listen to the voice of con-
science. can say what is right and
what is wrong. we owe it to our
selves and to our country: we owe
/ it to our children and those who
shall come after us, to vote accord
ingly. Will the fathers and mothers
of the country be satisfied to set be-
! fore their children who are to take
| up the burden of citizenship any
| lesser standard than one of common
honesty?"
Senator La Toilette challenged
again this time-honored threat of
Industrial depression" as a factor in
the election, and charged that Presi-
dent Coolidge had authorized the
Republican national committee to
run an elect me or starve" cam
| paign.
! THE American people" he said.
"have learned their lesson and will
| not be whipped into line with this
stone-age propaganda. Neither will
they permit the boodling of the cleo
tion by a huge slush fund"
In addition to the urgings of the
presidential candidates for the citi-
zens to go to the polls, intense effort
was made by hundreds of organiza-
tions to "get out the vote" Repub-
| licans, Democrats, Independents,
women's organizations, almost every
variety of Political group exerted IT.
self to swell the total of ballots be-
yond anything ever seen in an
American election.
The central figures in the contest,
their arguments ended and their
| claims submitted, waited in their
homes for the verdict.
President Coolidge passed the day
in the White House, silently await
! ing the returns; confident, and even
planning for his new tenure of Office
He and Mrs. Coolidge had mailed
their ballots to their Northampton.
Mass, home.
Mr.. Davis. declaring the Demo-
cratic ticket would be returned be-
cause 1t deserved to win, voted at
Locust Valley, L. l., and prepared
to receive the returns in his home
there.
Senator La Toilette, after an in
his home town. and he, too, express
ed his belief that his cause had won
, the favor of the voters.
The vice president candidates, all
of whom have been under the strain
of weeks of campaigning. found
themselves adjacent to voting booths
on election, except for Senator
Wheeler. the Independent candidate.
who took advantage of the mail vot-
ing privilege to send his ballot to
Montana. Charles u. Dawes, Presi-
dent Coolidge's running mate, voted
In Evanston. Ills. and Governor
Charles w. Bryan. the Democratic
choice for vice president. returned