Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-11-14
COOLIDGE SWEEP
BREAKS RECORDS
President Assured Of 379 and,
With New Mexico, 1872 Electoral
Votes, and Congress Control.
MANY RADICALS ARE BEATEN
Regular Republicans Have Won Ma
jority Of 2 to In Senate and 80 to
70 In House, shearlns La Fol.
lette Of Balance Of Power.

New York.-By the greatest popu-
lar vote ever given leader in the
worlds history, Calvin Coolidge has
been elected President Of the United
States.
With 379 electoral votes assured,
and at least three more. those Of
New Mexico possible. his ballot in
the Electoral College may reach ss2.
Robert Marion La Toilette. whose
popular uprising" had been counted
on by the radicals TO throw the cleo
tion into Congress. Is sure only OF one
State, Wisconsin. and he carried that
by a much reduced majority as com
pared with the votes rolled up when
Battling Bob" was running on the
Republican ticket.
La Follette's total popular vote will
probably not exceed 100000, though
II is difficult to estimate accurately
with such a vast number Of precincts
all over the country unreported. In
deed. only two or three States have
given final returns
Coolidge's popular vote will be sp-
proximately 100000.
With his party crumpled In the
West and completely smothered by
the Coolidge landslide in the North
and East. Davis carried only the old
Solid South, losing every one Of the
so-called border States - Kentucky.
Missouri. West Virginia and Mary
land.
He may have carried New Mexico.
but has not a chance in any other
State.
Davis popular vote probably will
be about 100000,
La Foliette's high hopes for Mime
sofa were dashed by coolidge's plu-
rality Of $4,000; in Iowa by a. land
slide which swamped La Toilette in
the State.
President Coolidge swept into Of
fee, because OF his own strength with
the voters, so many Republican mem
bers Of the House that it now seems
assured the Republicans will have a
bona fde working majority over the
Democrats and the radicals combined.
this including the ten so-called Re-
publicans from Wisconsin. who are
actually La Toilette men. and several
other radicals who wear the Republi-
can label.
Coolidge has carried, in giling up
37s electoral votes. the following
States: Maine. New Hampshire, Yer
mont. Massachusetts. Connecticut.
Rhode Island, New York, New Jer-
sey, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio. West Virginia, Kentucky,
Indiana, Illinois. Michigan, Missouri,
Kansas. Iowa. Minnesota, North Da-
kota. South Dakota, Montana. Wyom-
ing. Nebraska, Colorado. Utah. Ari-
zona, Nevada, California, Oregon.
Washington, Idaho-t thirty-five OF the
forty-eight States. He may also have
carried New Mexico. which would
make thirty-six, leaving only twelve
to be divided--eieyen to Davis and
one to La Toilette.
Revision OF returns from the vote
for Governor in New York State re-
duced Smiths lead over Roosevelt to
approximately 115.000. The figures.
with less than 100 precincts missing.
stood.
Smith .................l l,6l7.654
Roosevelt ........,.-..'b boOl,95z
The remainder OF the Democratic
State ticket, however was lost to
the Republicans IN the landslide scor-
ed by President Coolidge.
Governor Smiths plurality in New
York City reached the unprecedented
total of $4,000. President coolidge's
plurality in the city was 1s7,S67.
Eighteen States elected Republican
Governors and thirteen Democrats.
Two women were chosen for Cover
nor-Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson. Dem
ocrat. in Texas, and Mrs, Nellie Tay-
lor Ross. Democrat. in Wyoming. In
Utah a Democratic Governor was
elected for the second time in the
States history. The rest Of the State
ticket Is Republican.