The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-05
COOLIDGE KEEPS
WINNING STREAK
in THE WEST
La Toilette Runs Second
In Many Coast
States
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situation. The first hundred districts
failed to show single upset.
Early in the evening the reelection of
Senator Borah of Idaho, the republican
gadfly, was conceded by his opponent.
The Omaha World Herald, which sup
ported Davis and Bryan, conceded Ne
braska to Coolidge and also announced
the reelection of Senator Norris, re-
publican who has been foremost among
Senator La Follette's supporters in the
senate The reelection of Senator Cap
per, republican of Kansas, chairman of
the farm bloc, also became certain.
The early concession of Iowa to Pres
ident Coolidge by La Toilette headquar-
tiers at Des Moines, came as a surprise
to many political observers, who ex-
pected Iowa to be one of the states pos
sibly found in the La Toilette column
if the senator won the electoral vote
of any state beside his home state, Wis
consin, and possibly Minnesota and
North Dakota. The returns from North
Dakota up to midnight necessarily came
from the cities and towns and were only
a very small percentage of the voting
strength of the state. The gave Presi-
dent Coolidge a big lead. If they ran
true to precedent, the Presidents lead
would be reduced and Senator La Fol
lette's vote would be increased as the
returns from the country districts were
tabulated.
The outstanding indication at mid
night was that the much discussed the
possibility of throwing the election into
the house of representatives had been
wiped out by heavy vote for President
Coolidge.
NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-Coolidge and
Dawes have rolled up overwhelming
majorities in the east and middle west
on the basis of incomplete returns from
the general elections.
In all of New England, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West
Virginia, Maryland, Indiana and Illi-
nois the lead of the republican nomi-
nees was mounting steadily at II p. M,
eastern standard time, and both the
New York Times and the New York
World, supporters of John w. Davis,
had conceded his defeat by Mr.. Cool
idge.
Still Hope
At democratic headquarters, however,
party leaders still chung to a hope that
the west would turn the trick as it did
for Wilson in 1916. Reports from most
of the sections beyond the Mississippi
river were at that time of the most
fragmentary character, but they gave
President Coolidge the best of it in sew
eral of the larger states.
"a Governors Named
In all, "a states were electing COVER
nors, but in most cases there were local
complications and cross-currents of po-
litical opinion which led sophisticated
politicians to withhold predictions on
the basis of the fragmentary early re-
turns.
Encouraged by the vote polled by Sena-
tor La Toilette in the east, Chicago head
quarters of the La Toilette Wheeler
movement announced that their politi-
cal organization would be kept intact
for another try in the congressional
elections of 1926 and the presidential
contest in 1923.
In some parts of the country the
drift to Coolidge was so overwhelming
that it threatens to rival the Harding
landslide of 1920. Mr.. Harding's own
voting precinct in Marion was carried
by his successor by larger majority
than it gave its native son four years
ago.