AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3622, 8 November 1920, Page 5

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

ELECTORS’ COLLEGE FIGURES,

CONGRESSIONAL GAINS.

NEW YORN, Nov. 5.

Complete unofficial returns give Mr. Harding 404 votes in the electoral college and Mr. Cox 127. The Republicans have won 59 Senate seats, and the Democrats 3-7. For the House of Representatives there are still "o' ffew dist ricts unheard from, but the figures are likely to remain: Republicans 281, Democrats 153, Socialists 1. The Republicans gained 41 House seats. MANY WOMEN ELECTED. NEW YORK, Nov. 6. Miss Alice Robertson, 65 years of age, is the only woman elected to Congress. When she was offered Republican nomination for Congress she considered it en empty compliment, since her district was normally Democratic. Among the women elected to office in different sections of the country are the 1 Mayoress of Burns (Oregon), a STate Senator and two sheriffs' officers (Michigan, women treasurers and women county clerks in several counties (Michigan), and all municipal officers (Oregon). It is estimated that a considerable number of women candidates of every variety of State office have hern elected.

THE CANDIDATES AND PARTIES. A correspondent has sent us the following interesting references to the candidates and parties in connection with the Presidential elections: Harding, who has just been elected President of the United States, like Mr. Cox is a newspaper man. The career of the two men have been remarkably similar. Each was born on a farm in Ohio, and educated at the local schools. Senator Harding kept himself while at College by working as a boot-cleaner and waiter. Afterwards he became a printer and linotype operator, and buying a little local newspaper, working it himself by writing, setting and printing it, till he became a prosperous newspaper proprietor, a senator of his State, and finally a Senator in the Central Government at Washington. Governor Cox/~6n leaving school, had, like many distinguished Americans a turn at school-mastering, and then became a reporter, editor and newspaper* proprietor. For the last six years ho has been the popular Governor of his native State.