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Evening star., 1936-11-13
EDWARD ENDS FLEET
VISIT AMID CHEERS
"Splice the Main Brace" Signals
King at Portland Harbor,
and All Hands Drink.
RrttsAssociated Press.

Ey tte Associated Press.
PORTLAND, England. November Is.
Amid lusty cheers, King Edward
today finished his inspection Of the
British home feet by ordering the
signal:
splice the main brace!"
1t meant: Serve o tot Of rum TO
oil hands"
The King had royal weather for
his final day Of visiting the huge
gray watchdogs of the sea, massed
here in Portland Harbor.
After yesterdays stormy winds and
rain, bright sunshine flooded the
waters as the youthful monarch. in
specting the fleet for the first time
since his accession, left the Flagship
Nelson and sped in q fast boat along
the line of battleshipS, cruisers, de-
stroyers and submarines.
The fighting craft were dressed
all over" with bright-colored flags
strung from one end Of each ship to
the next in line.
On his inspection Of the Narwhal,
Britain's newest submarine, the King
discarded his sword and clambered
down the forward hatch into the spot
less, notwithstanding depths of the
underseas ship. He remained below
Is minutes. Returning ashore, he in
spected several hundred men of the
anti-submarine flotilla, also fishery
and mine-sweeping units.
Evening star., 1936-11-13
ERADICATION SEEN
OF OLD AFFLICTI0N
Northwestern U. Medical Group
Announces Treatment for
Syphilis.

By the Associatec Press.
CHICAGO, November l3.-Three
Northwestern University medical men
yesterday announced discovery of q
treatment which they said might cure
syphilis In It's primary stages and lead
to the early and speedy eradication
of the disease"
The method, disclosed by Drs. Clar-
ence A. Neymann. Theodore X. Law
less and S. L. Osborne Of the School
of Medicine staff, involves q combina-
ton Of artificial fever treatment and
injections Of two drugs, eoarsphena-
mine and bismuth salicylate.
AN of the cases we have treated
with combined therapy have become
serologically negative" the doctors re-
ported, "and have shown no clinical
signs Of syphilis for periods ranging
between and Is months. We believe,
therefore, that the early and speedy
eradication Of the disease by this
method seems probable"
The treatments, averaging five ses'
Evening star., 1936-11-13

sions of fever treatments and five In
jections Of the drugs, required an
average Of a days, which the report
said was . shorter period than re-
quired by other methods before OBJ
tanning negative reactions.
Evening star., 1936-11-13
Tea Causes Mutiny.

Convicts battered guard with
their tea mugs during . mutiny that
broke out in the prison at Horsens,
Denmark. The revolt started when
they found that the cook had forgot
ten to put sugar in the tea served for
their breakfast.
Evening star., 1936-11-13
Cheap World Tour Ends.

Edwin Orr Of Ulster, Ireland, started
ON missionary tour with only 0
cents in his pocket. Since. then he
has preached his way around the
world, and sometimes had q little
more than his original capital. He
Is back in London.
Evening star., 1936-11-13
WHISKY VANISHES

Supreme Court Justice Inquiries
About Exhibits.
To a lawyer about to address the
Supreme Court yesterday Justice Nc
ReynoldS put this question:
What product is involved In this
case? What do you sell?"
whisky" replied the lawyer. Irving
Breakstone.
Are there any exhibits?" asked
Justice McReynolds.
There were exhibits in the court
below" (supreme Court of Illinois,
"but they never got up here"
All of the justices smiled broadly.
The case involved validity Of the
Illinois fair trade" act.
Evening star., 1936-11-13
SEAT NEXT ETHIOPIAN
ROLLS ITALIAN CONSUL
Count Mazzolini, Who Walked
Out on British Commission,

Demands Investigation.
BY the Associated Press.
JERUSALEM, November 13.-Count
Quinto Mazzolini, Italian Consul Gen.
eral, WHO walked out Of royal
British Palestine Commission meeting
yesterday, demanded an explanation
today for being seated next to per
son defined as the Ethiopian Consul"
The demand was lodged with Sir
Arthur Grenfell Wauchope. British
high commissioner for Palestine.
Count Mazzolini left the session
after being assigned q place next to
an empty chair reserved for the
Ethiopian delegate, Consul General
Wolbe Gabriel, who did not attend
The Italian declared the seating ar
rangement was "a serious breach OF
respect which is intolerable."
Members of the commission were
to spend today and tomorrow on
sightseeing tours of the Holy City.
Evening star., 1936-11-13

Unemployment in France Is re-
ported to have declined since Sum-
mer. but is nearly 10 per cent above q
year ago.
Evening star., 1936-11-13

Southern Rhodesia Is exporting rec
ord quantities of corn.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
'Sedmnacti rocni" kobylky Sc
chystaji ma mas.

Zaslechnete-li hluboce bas-
sove zvuky We VAST zahrade
koncem tohoto mes1ce, zmocn1
Sc vas treba strach O blaho va
81 zahrady. Rozpomenete Sc,
re at rocn1" kobylky ucinily
yam %navstevu.
Kazdych sedmnact rok6 hmyz
tento v tis1c1ch a tisfcich sc u
kaze z podzemn1ch 1krytI
svych, kde I'll, ably 81 udelal ne
lidem komedii z rostou-
cfch plodin zeme.
Znalci poc1tajf, re pocnou Sc
ukazovati 20. kvetna. Kobylky
tyto Isl Sc v mnohem cd oby-
kobylek, nejv1ce vsak
"v hudbe", kterou provozujf.
Jsou hladovejs1 neil jine. Je-
jich pobyt ma povrchu zem-
skem jest kratky. Pc nekolika
tydnech ulozf vajfcka ma vet
stromG a zemrou.K dyz
vaj1cka vylihnou Sc, spadnou
ku zemi a zahrabou Sc pod tu-
to ma dobu II rokG.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Zvolil nejkratsi cestu
z nernocnice.

Joe E. Brown, akrobaticky
komediant z moovies opustil V
patek Johns Hopkins nemocni-
ci skokem S balkonu skonciv
tax tTfdennf vysetTovan1 lekaTi
nemocnice. S vyse 10 stop sko-
Gil ma travn1k pod balkonem.
"Jdu vzdy tax do a z nemoc-
UsetTf to cas- a trubl,"
vysvetlil. Skocil z jiznfho bal
konu Marburg oddelen1 zatfm
co osetTovatelky praly mu
''stastnou cestu" a on Cd mich
kdyz Sc sebral S travn1ku, priji-
NAL polibky ma rozloucenou je-
mu s balkonu zasflanymi.
Komediant stezoval 81, re
kdyz vessel do hlavnfho ychodu
nemocnice, musel putovati See
lie mile" chodbami teto.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Is policistI pFedvedeno.

Predbeznym snaham pravn1-
XII prot povolanf policistd pred
soud pro pTestoupeni lotern1ch
zakonG, ucinil konec soudce
Stein, jenz neuznal tyto a ma
r1dil pfedvolan1 Is p"olicistd a
petit civilnfch osob ma tento
Cd pondelf do stredy obhaj-
ce, Straus, hled6l zameziti SOU
du.
Obrn6ny devatenacti pray
nickymi svazky Isaac Lobe
Strauss, vrchn1 obhajce, v pom
deli dokazoval, re udanf poll
cistd pro prestoupenf lotern1ch
zakond bylo "nezakonnym" a
re "prohlasen1 jich nevinnymi
je nejvyssfm cflem spravedlno-
ST."
142 statn1ch svedk1 omluve-
no bylo soudcem Stein do ctvrt-
ka.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Pet pred velkoporotou pro
primarily.

Ma udanf, re prohresili Sc pro-
ii statnfm volebnlm zakondm
pfi poslednfch primarnich vol
bach, pet osob zadrzeno bylo
We vychodn1m policeman dis
triktu pro velkoporotu.
Vsichni obzalovanf jsou z
tfetf wardy tTetfho distriktu,
kde bojovano bylo prudce me-
ri pTateli Palmisano a pTateli
Pohlhause.
Pro velkoporotu drzani jsou:
Walter a Walter Andryzsew-
ski, Helen Harnek, Edward Gil
bowicz a Irwin Friedman. Vsi-
chni krone tiskafe Friedmana
nafceni jsou re "podvodne da-
Ii Sc zanesti do volebnf listing
pro primarn1 volbu." Fried
man naTeen, re "radil" Harne-
kove hlasovati nezakonne.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Utonul.

Zatim co tricet nebo ctyricet
vyletnik1 necinilo mic jineho v
nedeli u jezera Roland krone
pokriku a volani Pc pomoci. u
tonul 10 rokG starry hoch, Ri
chard Fennelly vzdor pokusu
sveho 12leteho bratra a hlfda-
&c jezera.
Richard a Robert, bratrf z
York road, "ztratili Sc" v ne
deli z domova odpoledne, ably
81 hrali u jezera, jak udal otec
JeJich Lawrence A. Fennelly.
U jezera nalezli piknikujfcf
mestaky a jine koupajfcf Sc v
jezeru vzdor zakazu. Richard
sklouzl do jezernf hlubiny.
Bratr jeho, Robert, volajfcf O
pomoc, skocil "a MIN. Tonoucf
uchopil jej Ia kirk. Robert Sc
odtrhl cd neho a vratil sc ma
breh.
Piknikujfc1 mnozf z Mich mu-
Ii, krone volanf O pomoc, neu-
chill zadneho pokusu hochu
pfispeti XII pomoci.
Hl1dac jezernf, Harry Robert
Huber, 31lety, ktery "bral" O.
brazky sve rodiny a peti dftek
ma druhe strane jezera, zasle-
chnuv volan1, vskocil do lodky
a plul pres jezero ku mfstu, kde
hoch tonul. Pc skoku do vody
ash v Is minutach vytahl utonu-
leho z vody a privezl jej ku
brehu.
Hlldac pc utonutf hocha ste
zoval 81, re nem1ze v TUE do
bu hlldati ma obou stranach.
Kdyz zabranf ma jedne strane
koupani, skacou do jezera ma
druhe strane.
" Baer Creek utonul Is
lety John Klippi, {. 812 S. Pom
ca ulice.
= Abraham Apiki, 37lety.
zemrel v nedeli v nemocnici
podlehnuv zranenf nozem "a
sazenym mu v hadce jinym mu.
Fem v patek pTfzemi DON'T
We 200 blocku S. Caroline ulice
Andreas Martinez, 39letJ
Izatcen byl v ned6li a udan ze
zavinen1 smrti zraneneho. Eat.
cen byl bl1zkosti domu Apiki
jak udal policista, John Panus.
ka. V kapse jeho nalezen by.
nGz, jfmz Apiki bodl.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Novy druh zlodsje " severe
vychodni sekci.

Nynl kdyz "Black Lightning"
a pc mem Phantom" zavTeni
byli Ia mTizemi, v severovycho-
dnl sekci mesta objevil Sc novy
druh zlodeje Shadow. V no
CT z patku ma sobotu Shadow"
.spachal dive kradeze. Deset j.
nych pred tim provedenych,
stoj1 prot nemu.
Poslednf dive kradeze Sc mu
zdarily v apartmentech Willis
E. Gross a Benjamin Yeomans
" c. 3053 Mayfield avenue. Po-
liciste, Stanley Ritterpush a
Edward A. Rytina, uznali re
kradeze proved Shadow, je-
hoz specialitou jest dlatkem
vypaciti okno v pozadf domu.
= Diva mladfci vloupali Sc
do domu We 200 blocku E.. Bar
ney ulice a ukradli z neho sper-
ky v Gene $38.
Harry Cook, 19lety, zadrzen
pro vyslech ma JIM policejni
stanici a mladsf jeste druh pro
soud mladistvych prestupnfkG
zakona.
= Ku soudu ma den 20. kvet-
ma zadrzeni byli vladimir komi-
sarem tTf, kteT1 kradli cigarety
z vlaku Pennsylvania drahy
Zatceni byli v sobotu kratce pc
tom, kdyz shodili sest velikych
balfkG S cigaretami z jedoucf-
no vlaku v blfzkosti Edgewood
arsenalu. Zatceni byli: Mike
Royce, Adam Sibinsky a Fred
McClelland z 800 blocku N.
Chapel ulice.
= B%altimorska policie pra-
cuje S policif New Yorskou ma
vyhledanf rGznych sperkG, KITE
re Earl Elder, zlodej zvany
shadow, ukradl S pomoc1
dvou svych druhd: James All
ken, 27letym a Eugene DiCarlo
SperkG ukradl i v Gene pres
$4,000. Cast z Mich jiz naleze-
ma byla, vetSinou to lacinych
hodinek a sperk1, ktere zlodeji
neodvazili sc prodavati.
Elder z 1000 blocku N. Gay
ulice spolu S druhy svymi Eat
cen byl ma 81. ulici a Hillen
road. Ederovi "a vinu kladeno
% kradez1, Carlo devatenact a
Aiken pet.
Mezi okradenymi byl IA.
dubna James Primus, 1900 Car
denas avenue, jemuz ukradeny
predmety v Gene 1920.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Toxoid proti zaskrtu.

DR.. William K. Shilling, re-
ditel odboru detske zdravove-
dy, jenz ridf kliniky m6stskeho
zdravotn1ho odboru ma prede-
jitl zaskrtu u ditek, udal, re v
pondel1 toxoidem ~osetreno bylo
149 d1tek, cfmz pocet ockova-
nych ditek toxoidem prot "a
skrtu cd pocatku nynejsl kam-
pane do ponedi, dostoupil vyse
935 d1tek.
DR.. Shilling doufa, re pred
ukoncen1m kampane pri nej-
menslm $4,000 d1tek ochrane-
no Dude prot teto zhoubne ne
mOci.
Ockovan1 toxoidem provade-
no byti ma v 6 mesicich start
ditka anebo tax rychle jake
mono.
Mattel d1tko nechranene to-
xoidem, porad'te sc S vasfm le-
karen. Nem6zete-li, obratte
sc ma nekterou z klinik zdra-
votnlho odboru.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Valka napadena.

V divadle Lyric konana byla
v utery sch1ze pTatel miru. We
schGzi Rev. Reinhold Nieubuhr
redaktor a professor, prohlasil:
"Nemnzeme ffci, re vtlaceni
budeme do budoucf valky lako-
tou obchodnikG. Bude to lako-
ia milion1 jednotlivcI re vsech
vrstev spolecnosti lidske."
Rabfn, Stephen S. Wise 2
New Yorku, slibil: "Neschva-
linn, nepodporfm, nepomohu ku
valce jakymkoliv zp1sobem
vstoupf-li do nj vlast ma" Slib
svGj koncil slovy: "Valecnl
chrti, vyrabitele munice, tt vsi-
chni budou ukazovati prstem
ma mne a Teknou: "To je to, co
cd zid1 ocekavati muzeme."
Predsedou schdze byl Rev. T.
Guthrie Speers z Brown pres
byterniho kostela. Modlitbu
pronesl Rev. Msgr. Hugh j.
Monaghan, farar ST. Ambrose
katOlickeho kostela.
Kampan mfru konana jest
We 800 mestech Spojenych Sta
til. Mimo reci proti valce ra-
bin Wise 81 styskal ma Baltimo-
rany, kterf pfatelsky byli ma
kloneni pobytu nemecke valec-
ne lodi v Baltimore.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Sebevrazdy.

Samuel Fisher, 4Olety mali
tel obchodu, spachal sebevraz-
du stTelenfm Sc do hlavy v kou-
pelne sveho domu We 1000 bio
ku N. Mount ulice, v nedeli ko-
lem IL. hodiny dopoledne.
- Charles Ramsey, 81 rokG
starry, byvaly usedllk v Allan
ia a pc diva roxy stravnfk v
1900 blocku E.. Paramount ave-
nue., otravil sc v nedeli svftiply-
mem. Nalezen byl lezfcl mrtvy
ma podlaze kuchyne. Plyn wy
chazel re tri otevrenych bora
XII plynovych kamen.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Pc claimant nosu zavTen.

Joseph johnson, 32lety GER
noch, chtel v pondel1 vytrhnou-
ii revolver policistovi Bernardo
Kube z vychodnfho distritku,
kdyz Jim dopaden byl We skle-
pc domu v 1. blocku S. Caroline
ulice, kan policista volan byl
udelati poradek. Kdyz Sc pri-
blizil ku cernochu, rozehnal Sc
cernoch pc opasku straznlkove
v nemz mel revolver. Policista
se-ohnal sym policeman obus-
KEN a cernochu s prerazenym
nosem presla chut ma straznl-
XIV revolver. Pc osetTeni pre-
razeneho nosu v nemocnici, byl
zavTen.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
CtyTi hosi zraneni " nehodach
We stredu.

Joseph Camiaioni, 13lety, pri
hrani 81 ma vagonu ma Pratt a
9. ulici, pTi hnutf vlaku dostal
Sc palcem pod kolo. Palec mu-
sci mu odr1znut byti v nemoc-
nici.
Robert Novotny, 11lety, IRA
men byl, kdyz We stfedu skocil
behem hrani 81 re strechy pr1-
stavku ma Ellwood avenue a
Boston ulici. Byly mu zlome-
ny ODE ruce.
Jedenactiletemu Hermann
Heinlein, kdyz spadl do stoky
ma Vesper avenue, Dundalk,
zlomena byla noha. Hoch chtel
preskociti stoku tn.
Pr hire baseballu v Riverside
parku zlomena byla kl1cn1
kost 16 rok1 staremu William
Kahn.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
TIL popaleni pri haseni hofici
lodi.

Ohen povstal v pondelf ma
dopravnf lodi Studerus, jez ma
lozena byla gasolfnem u pieru
v Curtis Bay.
George Rogers, superinten-
dent spolecnosti vlastn1cf LODI,
John Pulcky, dobrovolny hasic
a Raymond Bland, superinten-
dent American Oil spolecnosti,
popaleni byli. Clenove lodi Sc
skakali do vody pTi vzniku O.
hne a snazili Sc uhasiti ohen ma
lodi nezli hasici prijeli.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Martin obdrzel kontrakt ma 13
aeroplanHE.

Glen L. Martin spolecnost
obdrzela kontrakt ma Is aero
plant (bombuj1cfch) pro vladu
v Nizozemsku, jez uzfvati jich
Dude veevychodn1ch Dutch In
ditch. Naklad ma tyto obnaSe-
tt ma $780, 600.
Spolecnost PRAGUE ma nedo-
koncene dosud objednavce ar
mady Spojenych StatG v obno-
SUI dvou milionG dolarG. Toto
jest cast kontraktu, jenz incl
ma $3,500.000 Cast kontrak-
tn tohoto jiz dokoncena byla.
Spolecnost zamestnava nyni
1880 osob. Pocet pry zvysen
Dude ma 1000 pTistfm meslci.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
President obdrzel 1896 hlasI

V Baltimore meste pri nedav-
nych primarnlch volbach dano
bylo 1896 HAST. Jeho proti-
kandidat, kolonel, Henry Brec-
kenridge. obdrzel 1882 HAST.
Vice neil 5000 demokrat1
hlasujicich pfi primarkach, O.
devzdali volebnl lfstky bez u
danf pro koho volili jake kan
didata presidentskeho 1fadu.
Jinych 663 demokrat1 hlasova-
Ii pro delegaci ku narodnf de-
mokraticke konvenci We Fila
delft bez urcen1 pro koho hla-
sovati mali.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Hoover oslovil Suddenly.

V College Park, Md, mluvil
We stredu reditel vladn1ho vyse-
trujfcfho vyboru, j. Edgar Hoo
yer, ku student1m Maryland
ske university. V adrese sve
pripomel studentGm, re jejich
povinnosti je upozornovati svet
re zlocin "je nestydaty a spina-
W.. Vice nez 1000 studentG
naslouchalo vyvodGm jeho.
"Vynucovani zakona nynl,'
Tekl mezi jinym, "je bahno po-
litiky'' a %"politika ma znameni
to ma sobe nasledkem lidl v nj
jsouclch."
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Student spadl Sc 4. poschodi.

Levin Wethered Wickes, 20
lety student z Chestertown, po-
ranen byl v nedeli padem S O.
kna 4. poschodf v Pinkney
Hall, dormitari ST. Johns ko-
leje v Annapolis. Jest synem
zesnuleho soudce, L. w. Wilkes
Udal, re nestestim stfzen byl,
kdyz Sci I've spanku."
Nalezen byl peti jinymi stu
denty lezfcf v bezvedomf v po-
zadf budovy. Stav jeho nen1
nebezpecnym.
Brectan, jlmz kryty jsou zdi
budovy, jak sc soudl, zmfrnil
pad jeho.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Sluzebni medaly so z pateho
pluku.

Pro Vernon a trvalou sluzbu
odmeneno bylo sluzebn1mi me-
daily We zbrojnici pateho pluku
v pondell 60 clen1 pluku. Pc
odevzdanl medalu odhaleny
byly podobizny sesti prominent
mich MarylandanI a Virginia
MI. Mezi temi byl obraz zesnu-
leho byvaleho governera, Rit-
chic.
Medaly rozdeloval brigadni
general, John Philip Hill.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Dozorci komise zrusena
governerem.

Governor Nice We stredu uci-
nil konec dozorcl komisi, ably z
fond1 ma jejf vydrzovanf do
konceny byti molly prace ma
statn1 budove v Annapolis. Tfi
1rednfci, kazdy z Mich maj1cf
$4,000 rocne sluzn6ho, ztratili
postaven1 sve.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
trestancH omilostneno
goVernerem.

Governor Nice udelil milost
sestnacti trestanc1m. Mezi o.
milostnenymi je Michael l..
Stefanski, jenz usvedcen byl v
zarf roku 1884 z podvodu a
odsouzen do vezeni ma ctyTi ro-
ky. Governor ukazuje ma to,
re zdravotn1 stav Stefanskiho
je Spatny.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Pocet delnikI We vyrobs pie
chovek zvvSen.

Vice nez LOO osob pTidano
Dude ku nynf pracujfc1m 1000
deln1kGm V rGznych tovarnach
vyrabejic1ch plechovky ma ma
lozen1 ovoce a zelenin.
Zvysovan1 poctu zamestnan-
eli pocato byti ma pc 1. cervnu.
NejvysSfho poctu dosazeno bu-
de v srpnu, jak zprava d1.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-05-15
Potvrzeni ~postmistrv.

Senatem potvrzeni byli diva
Ia ~postmistry v Marylandu.
Potvrzenymi jsou: w. George
Miller v Accident a Earl T.
Kelbaugh v Thurmont.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-11-02

tightly bound by their instructions for
Greeley that they voted for him any,
way.
1t was objected at the joint session
that Greeley was dead. Doubt was
expressed. in spite Of this, that Con-
gress could take cognizance Of tbs
ineligibility Of q presidential can.
didate.
The two Houses ended their joint
session to consider separately that and
other objections. The Senate voted
to accept the votes for Greeley. This
House voted to reject them. They
finally were thrown out. Grant had
won the election anyway.
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Election Machinery Framed
Before 1887 Is Little Changed
Only TwO alterations Made in Original
Rules for Selecting President
of Nation.

their first and second choice for Presi-
dent. But almost from the beginning
they we're subject to such moral stress
that they did not dare the stigma of
political traitors that would be laid
upon them If they separated from
their fellows and voted for any but the
candidate of their party.
Just one instance Is recorded OF an
elector who voted contrary to the in
structions of the ballot. In the third
election. one chosen on the Federalist
ticket in Pennsylvania voted for
Thomas Jefferson instead of John
Adams. Adams got in by three votes.
An irate Pennsylvania burst into print
about the elector who had exercised
his own free will:
What? Do chuse Samuel Miles
to determine for me whether John
Adams or Thomas Jefferson shall be
President? No, I chuse him to act,
not to think"
The fourth election demonstrated
that under a party system, for which
scanty provision had been made, it
was necessary for one candidate to be
tagged President" and the other
Vice President"
Originally, with each elector voting
for two persons, the candidate getting
the highest number Of votes was Presi-
dent provided the number was a ma
jority); the one getting the second
highest number was Vice President.
Adams Drew Jefferson.
George Washington had his fellow
Federalist. John Adams. for Vice Pres
ident. But Adams Drew Thomas
jefferson, the Republican, and when
Jefferson and Aaron Burr were teamed
together by the Republicans, they
drew the same number of votes and
thus were tied for President. It took
SO ballots in the House to straighten
out the tangle and give the presidency
to Jefferson. Some Of the Federalists
preferred Burr to Jefferson.
So in went the twelfth amendment
to specify that first and q second
PAoNC oAAVAaA W pAofAoCA Oh AAS
ticket.
Arguments arose over this change,
however. In Congress, some said 1t
would degrade the vice presidency
and invite the nomination TO 1t Of men
who would not be thought Of for the
presidency. One House member put
1t this way:
What will be the effect Of this
principle? The office of Vice President
will be carried to market to purchase
the votes of particular States
In the beginning, most Of the States
that had popular elections put be-
fore the voter the choice of Just three
electors, two for the State at large
and one for his congressional district.
This gave split electoral vote for
many States. The politicians soon dis
covered that 1t was worth more to
a State to put its whole electoral vote
on one side or the other. Maryland,
the last State to give up the district
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'ystem, did 80 after the election Of
All Bpt One Vote.

system, did 30 after the election Of
1892.
Received All BRt One Vote.
Aside from the two elections of
George washington, when he got the
full electoral vote of every State vot-
ing, only one other President came
near getting unanimous election.
James Monroe, up for reelection in
1890. got every electoral vote but one.
Many historians say that william
Piumer, the New Hampshire elector
who voted against Monroe, did so be-
cause he felt that to Washington
should be reserved the honor of be-
ing the only President to be elected
by the voice Of whole people. One
close and generally accurate student
says. however. that Plumer distrusted
Monroe.
It was not until after the Civil War
that every State put the choice Of
presidential electors to q popular vote.
Through the election of 1850, South
Carolina chose its electors by Legis-
lature. All the other States had
abandoned that method long before.
South Carolina and 10 other South
ern States were too busy with guns to
think much about elections in 1864.
In 1868. Florida, Mississippi and Texas
in the grip Of econstruction-re-
vived the practice of choosing electors
by Legislature. The election Of 1872
was the first in which the whole Union
participated by popular vote. Colorado
chose by Legislature In 1876 but, be-
ginning with 1880. all States have held
popular elections.
Two elections have been decided by
the House of Representatives. They
were the Jefferson Burr contest in
1900 and that OF John Quicy Adams
and Andrew Jackson in 1924. jackson
had a plurality of both the popular
and the electoral votes Henry Clay.
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Election Data at a Glance


md
United Senators.
thirtytwo members the
baloing
which elected Senator and three House members Spember)
three
officials
membership the present lineup being
(Democratic).
House-Full membership 435 lineup being Democrats
$685.
II Democrats 10: Republicans. A.
MISUNDERSTANDING
increase Of 8,527
Voting IN o over
etc-62Ooo
reported
to