Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-11-04

both Democratic and Republican
mana gers have formally placed their
claims of victory
The entry into the situation of the
railroad brotherhoods and the Ameri-
c9n Federation of Labor in support of
Senator La Toilette and their action
at the same time in working for the
election of various members of Con-
gress favorable to labor legislation
is another factor which it has been
hard for the political prophet to
fathom. Both the Republican and
Democratic managers have secuted
the idea that labor would desert the
older parties. Today's results will
throw an interesting light on the
trend of modern American political
thought.
Deadlock Pss~ible.
One possibility, widely discussed
in the campaign, has been that of
deadlock in the electoral vote. The
individual voter does not vote di-
rectly for a President, but for a
group of electors to represent his
State and cast the States proportion
ate vote for President The origi-
nal theory of the Constitution was
that the electors thus chosen would
follow their own inclinations in
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practice. however. it. has become an
unbroken tradition that an elector
votes for the candidate of that party
to which he belongs
Should an insufficient number of
states to choose a President give
their support to any one party, and
should all of the electors follow ira
dition and vote for the candidate OF
their party, the work of the entire
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ing. There would be a deadlock. and
under the Constitution the House OF
Representatives would be called upon
to choose President and the Senate
Vice President. The presidential
election, should it be thrown into the
House. would be delayed under a
Constitutional provision until Febru-
ary.
"a Senators 10 be Named.
The Republicans now have 40 votes
in the Senate, a bare majority of one,
and that number includes the la
Toilette group. The Democrats hold
43 places and the Farmer-Labor party
two. Today nine solid Democratic
States elect Observation-Disclosures, Ar
kansas. Georgia. Louisiana. Missis-
sippi. North Carolina. South Carolina
Texas and Virginia. Others to be
chosen are 1.-TWO in Colorado, two in
Michigan, two in Rhode Island, and
one each in Delaware, Idaho. Illi-
| nois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massa-
chusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Ne
braska, New Hampshire. New Jersey,
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon.
South Dakota, Tennessee, West Vir-
ginia and Wyoming.
OF the "a States where governors
are to be elected 10 seats are held
by the Republicans and Is by0Demo-
Gratis. States which will choose chief
executives are Arizona, Colorado.
, Florida, Georgia, Kansas. Nebraska.
New Hampshire, New Mexico, New
York. North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode
Island, South Carolina, Tennessee.
Texas, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho.
Illinois. Indiana. Iowa, Massachusetts
Michigan. Minnesota, Missouri, Mon
tana, North Dakota. South Dakota.
Utah Vermont. Washington, West
Virginia. Wisconsin and Wyoming.
One of the fighting issues of the
campaign in many of the State con-
tests. and one. which has appeared
| also in the national campaign-that
of the Ku Klux Klan-has played Il
prominent part in a number of the
gubernatorial and senatorial fights.
This. is particularly true in Indiana.
Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas, where
national issues have been more or
less overshadowed by the bitterness.
OF the local feeling on the subject