Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1924, Page 2

2 * 2 PERSONALVICTORY FOR COOLIDGE SEEN Faith of People in His Integ-| rity Obliterated Corruption Issue in Fight. TAM WILE, election was ever the islide BY FREDERIC Wi No presidential S0 easy to diagnos which has swept Calvin Coolidgs to | vietory. It is a personal triumnh pure and simple, aimost unparalleled in our modern political history. The recult is immeasurably less a vindi- cation of the Republican party. or| even of Republican principles. than 1t is a stunendous vote of confidence in Calvin Coolidge. That is the long | and short of the presidential election of 1924 There will be arzu to prove why the vi and why the con quished. There will be talk of the wave of prosperity on_the farms which sent the rural West to the polls in an avalanche for Coolidge. There will be explanations that Davis was hopelessly handicapped from the start by Democratic strife and by the Brvan millstone. But when all is suid and done, when the credits and debits have been balanced, it will be | discovered that it was overwhelm- ingly the country’s deep-veated. im- regnable confidence in the President that elected him. Trosperity Was Conw'dered. counted nts in plenty ors conquered ercd were van 1 Nothing else seriously Hardly anything was t voters' minds. Their thoughts were cancentrated on what Senator Moses of New Hamprhire called “the calm d cautious Christian character ot Calvin Coolidge.” That is what the country voted for on Tuesday, Hast and West, North and Southwest. Tha is why, with the exception of the invincibly Democratic South couple of Southwestern border states and La Follette's Wisconsin, the most made the election ge unanimous. There are. of course, co-related reasons for the President’s smashing victory. Prosperity is the foremost of them, but even that reason is d rectly associated with the paramount cause of “confidence in Coolidge Prosperity having arrived, the people determined to risk no of it by a midstream change of administra- tions in Washington. They convinced | themselves that there would be an incaleulably stronger prospect of | ping the times by perpetu- ating Cooldige in White House | than by displacing The Nation dire lin President’s “caln” and prosperity. ¢ landslide pleinly indicates that w out thosc qualities in the leaders of the United States at this juncu the people felt their welfare migh bo in jeopardy. They decided not to make a change. They voted to “let well cnough alone.” Court Isxsue a Factor. Against that stone wall of reason- ing, the attacks of Democratic | and Progressive parties were launcl ed in vain. It was almost a if th:‘ country had shut its collective ear to the pleadings, the arguments and the invectives of the opposition. As for La Follette, his introduction of the Supreme Court issue, with its frontal attack on the fundamentals of the Coustitution, presented the Republicans with defensive material that probably would, of itself, almost have been suflicient to win the coun- try. When La Follette added gov- erament ownership of railroads to his platform, he simply made it e, ier for the Conservatives to rally around their regular ard, the Rapublican party, and for Democratic Conservatives, who are numerou to rally with them as the surest way of warding off the peril of radicalism The inglorious showing of the tbh Party, amounting to a rout, is one of | the glaring results of the election. | Mr. Davis concentrated his fire on | Mr. Coolidge with regard to three| major issues. He stressed scorrup- | tion” in the Republican administra- tion, assailed the latter's “isolationist" | foreign policy and attacked the/ Fordney-McCumber tariff. It is an| amazing fact that the country failed | to react appreciably to a single one | of these issues. Teapot Dome, Fall, Daugherty, Forbes uand he other names under which Davis and the Democrats catalogued Republican “misgovernment” proved entirely in- capable of arousing the Nation's emo- tions. good the him up the | n with | otidee | tr stand {tured, both Demoeratic 1a rd |5 | Wyoming Territory, MRS, THE EVENiNG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MIRIAM A. FERGUSON. TWO WOMEN CHOSEN TO GOVERN STATES OF TEXAS AND WYOMING Mrs. Miria.n A. Ferguson Wants Only One Term to Vindicate Husband—MTrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross Would Prove Feminine Ability. Carrving the banr for the first time in into the motherly American his gubernatorial chair, women, cducated and but with ferent politic thod®, step into posts fo Iy occupied by the Governor Texas of Wyof AL Vers agains the Bands. the or the Governe Miri b “gaod the elcctorate the figh spirited Ku I Kian band's Tex will o hono f the of ha what her husband for vears had failed to do. obtain public exoneration from the stigma placed upon him by hment and removal from offic Mrs. Nellie the late Gov. William B. ming, not only wins the of b ming the first woman gove in the United States b succeeding immediately o the o to fill her husband's unexpired t but she holds the honor, accor to her friends. of being even silent than President Coolidge self, and of delivering perhaps fewest and shortest campaign sages on record Tavloe Ros Wyoming Helps Women. Thus womanhood takes the two States. a little more. than years after the woman suff amendment became cffective, ust, 1920, and after women in both h of Congre In Wyoming first woman which again prociaims ecr in rights for wo thirty-four years on State, took a long stride forw threw a shock into monwealths by writing women” into the new tution Nellie Tayloe herself. itself a en. 230 becomin rd was “votes Ross a is pio in the sense that it came as a tri to her husband, whose loss mourned during the campaign, w ! running to suoceed him. Faith tn Coolidge Honesty. Perhaps they savored too strongly of ancient history. Perhaps if Fall, Daugherty and Forbes could have been investigated in the closing weeks of the campaign, instead of eight or ten months ago, deficiencies in the Interior and Justice depart- ments and the Veterans' Burcau might have proved the undaing of the | Republican party. But there is now | reason to doubt if even this would have happencd; for people throughout | the campaign, every time Democratic | or Progressive spokesmen brought up Teapot Dome or Forbes, would say: “Well, Coolidge didn’t have anything to do with them. He's honest Noth- ing like that'll ever happen while he's President.” t S0 the clectorate refused to visit upon the present head of the adminis- | tration the shortcomings of a prior regime. It gave Coolidge a clean bill of health. It gave no heed to the opposition’s argument that ours is a system of party government, and that the head of a party, even if not di- rectly implicated, must be held to strict accountability for party deeds| and party misdeeds. The foreign policy and tariff argu- ments of his antagoniste also failed to damage Coolidge. On the contrary, they helped him. In any other foreign policy than the one Mr. Coolidge has pursued, and in any other tariff policy than the one now in force, the people saw a menace (o prosperity. So they voted to change neither of them. They saw no virtue either in larger American com- mitments abroad or in any tinkering with the tari Davis Given Bad Start. It would be idle to deny that, apart from his stranglehold on public con- fidence, the eun shone on Calvin Cool- idge from a variety of other directions. He was peculiarly fortunate in the cir- cumstances under which his chief op- ponent, John W. Davis, was pitted against him. No candidacy, Democratic or otherwise, was ever born under less fortuitous stars. It was conceived in party strife and begotten in incurable rancor. Madison Square Garden with its gap- ing wounds, branded John W. Davis with the scar of defeat in November as long ago as the middle of July. That was disaster No. 1. Then came Davi own choice of Charles W. Bryan for his vice presidential running mate. That was casualts No. 2. Then ensued. in a spirit of ratitude which does honor to John W. Davis' manliness, his selection of his friend, Clem L. Shaver of West Virginia, as his inexperienced campaign wanager. That was misfortune No. 3. Then, as the campaign proceeded, there was revealed Mr. Davis' own in- ability to stir the country into any im- passioned interest in him. That was ill-luck No. 4. Then nature, at home | and abroad, smiled beneficently upon he agricultural situation, obliterating | significantly, there was the astute man- agement of the Republican campaigm. the Western farm “grouch” as if by magic. That was catastrophe No. 5 for the Democrats. There were others, as the doleful months rolled by, but those just named were enough. They proved w be Insurmountable, Hardly, agny * lin en are unfit for shall strive prejudice ters “Of course, T am deeply intere: politics,” Mrs. Re think women are as well qualifie hold administrative places as men, but 1 ne lic office and do so might carry to fruition now only th. the pol and plans of my husband.” Wants to Vindicate Women. She is concerned principally fu o if elected, upon of women in in office, crnor.” she said “If elected gov cently, “I will exert myself to the ut affair: wondueting State never again be said w executive feel very keenly my responsibi toward all womanhood because of position in which I may Just as Wyoming opened the way woman suffrage in other States, to make the pathwa capable woman aspirants elsew easier; to move, as far as I may, ill lingering in some q against electing women to sponsible public offices Mrs, Ross has not pres self into national policies. Mrs. Ferguson, she has no wi ecither for or against most_in hat it may pitated comment on foreign relations. T things are not within her As governor, remove the the rest is in I Keeps Talk to Minimum. id from cderal hands. “A minimum of talk" is one of impressive things which visitor: the new Governor of Wyoming to remember after their confere with her. viewer, she is things in an efficient, thorough ma with & minimum of talk.” She is described as aristocratic in ance, cultured, widely read and informed. Her terseness was demonstrated accepting the Democratic gu natorial nomination with a mes of less than 400 words. to the women of the S wrote less than 300 words. no speeches. . The mother of three sons, Ambrose and George, now 21, twins, and B ford, now 12, Mrs. Ross is in tru motherly woman, full instincts, and a pride in fine ho keeping. She learned housekeeping early, Democratic candidate could have over- come or eurvived them. Incidentally, but by no means All along the line brand of generalship, acumen which stage could match or cope with. 4Copyghl, Lz strategy -r of womanhood her hu @ood . widow of Ross of Wyo- distine! virtue more him- | me: elm Ross breomes the a State For it her sister com- consti- She accepted the Democratic nomination at the last moment, only “and I er aspired to pub- with two things—the welfare of Wyoming {as a whole and the effect of her con- dnct candidacies States. oflice. be placed. | Unlike | the Ku Klux Klan, nothing about Teapot Dome, no province. her husband helped to Teapot Dome— Personally, says one inter-, not have handsome, charm- | been ing, well informed woman, who does |aid me. appear- In an appeal ate, Mrs. Ross | She made of domestic it represented a | the Democrats at no declares she intends to “keep house’ for the State as she did for William ss-—practicing the homely virtues of rigid economy, neatness, orderl ness and perfect efficiency It was in Ehevenne, Wyn. when « d her vou nd, a stru SSoHE T establi that tablished ta v tory two cul- m.’-& the | hus- and & prorei Ross™ {town i “Nellie re as house- “he ha venne And that ever sine Mrs. Ferguson E to he kino ecording <lux been proud Dewn in Sovernor-el. “Ma,” bhut |is a political B icany e e o™ [ er, “she iz attractive | bright and pratty, tho {long years of fighting t | Ferguson name. ot h this t nved who knows Her face i addencd by vindicate the s Her manner, at once |charming and gracivus, is at the same TROT ltime stately, and one feels impeiled mor | to address Wer—not in the pign PMee | vernacular as *Ma,” but as “Madame." " oMM | Mrs. Ferguson is well equipped, ding | montally and physieally, for a suc cessful career as goyernor—born on |a plantation in Bell County, Tex.. | splendidly educated by prosperou | parents, taught first by a governess, wnd later graduated at Bavlor Cot {#ege for Girls, at Belton, Tex | h the in Huxband Enters Polities. four | raze | like Mr in|lawyer. had | the aid was at this jur tnto p agzainst b v real | 1 3 triumpk oppo the race Ir the Her hus 1er governor, d. was also a to pros with H hegan wif s s00 ained a millio 1t ure t for governor. time he embroiled with Legisla ver cducational appropriation: insisted in reducing allotments for the higher institutions ing, which drew the fire of former university students. In return Ferguson opened an tack on the institutions and that w ! the beginning of hig downfall Ult mately he was removed from office because of his personal financial ctions with brewers. Ferguson urged her husband to take his case before the people. But time after time he was repudiated by them when he offered himself for high office. Eventually the State Democratic executive committee re. fused to put his name on the ballot | any longer- had deprived him of citizenship, they told him. Whereupon, the name of Mrs. Ferguson was substituted, and by 100,000 votes she was nominated over the Ku Klux Klan can In her campaign Mrs. Ferguson often appearcd at rallies when the women supporting her wore sun- bonnets and shouted their battle ery. Me for Ma.” Several times she made lons addresses. As a general rule, however, she called forward her hus. band, after speaking a few words. explaining that “Jim will talk for that | 5 a and | for | neer t- bute | he | chile sted d to are at 1 icies ture ther re om- 1 ility the Ferguson is not a politician, she says she is anti-Ku Klux. Her husband is the original foe of the Klan in Texas. He carried the for | so 1| v of here the uar- re- Earl B. Mayfleld two vears ago. The Fergusons realize that their vindica- tion is not all that attracted victory to their side—the anti-Klanners fol- lowed “Ma” by tens of thousands. One Term ALl She Wants. “I told Jim 1 that I liked his platform, Ferguson “One of the condemnation of the Klan. form tells how taxes can be reduced and how the Government can be re- stored to the hands of the people 1 want to be governor for two years {—and then [ will not run again. I “Of course, T will take s advice the | some, but 1 intend to run the office s to|just like I run the home. You know, scem | it takes a newly elected governor two neces | years to position. I will her- ords as going to announce " says Mrs. planks is hesel The plat- learn his thay handicap — Jim has governor before and he will nner| “Both of us know what Texas needs also|and we intend to see that our be- loved State gets it.” The Fergusons have two daugh- ters, one married and a resident of Austin and the other unmarried and bookkeeper at her father's newspaper oftice. RUM CAR CAPTURED. An exciting pursuit of a rum car equipped with a Smoke screen started at Connecticut avenue and Woodley road about 12:30 o'clock today and ended near Rodman and Thirty-fifth streets, where two colored occupants abandoned the car and escaped. The car, containing 113 half gallons of corn whisky was seized by Motor Cycle Sergt. S. J. Marks and Motor Cycle Policeman J. T. White of the Tenleytown district, whose eyes were badly affected by smoke thrown from the screen. The pursuit was south }on Connecticut avenue, west on Cath- edral avenue, rear Wardman Park Hotel, and through the Massachusetts Avenue Heights section. Identity of the owner of the car was cstablished “through the license numbers (3 well in ber- sage rad- th a use- and in- and [ iy of learn- | the stain of impeachment | anti-Klan banner in the fight against | CABINET GATHERS IN JUBILANT-M0OD {Some Members Due Here To- day After Going Home to } Cast Ballots. Victors with the national Repu- blican ticket, members of President Coolidge’s official family, widely seattered order that they might record their choice at the polls in their own States, were gathering again in Washington tod: Secretaries Mellon, lwmvis, and Wilbur, and Attorney General Stone, were the Cabinet officers in Washington today, and only Secretz ries Wilbur and Davis issued state ments. Seerctary Mellon arrived in the city this morning from Pitts burgh, and did not go at once to his office at the Treasury Departme Secretary of War Weeks was con- fined to his home with a slight cold, but his secretary said he might issue a statement later in the day | Hughes Due Tonighs | Seceretary of State Hughes, who went to New York to vote, will be {back in Washington before night, {and Postmaster General w. who went to his home in Indiana, is ex- {pected back this afternoon. Secre- tary of Commerce Hoover is in { California and will be back in the City next week, while Secretary of {the Interior Work is in_ Colorado, fand is expected in Washington the first part of next week Secret of Labor Davis, who re- | cently returned to Washington from |a campaign trip around the country, i congratulated I'resident Coolidge by {letter on his clection today and issued | the following statement “The American people can always be depended on to do the right thing. Sees Trust in Coolidge. “The strong national fecling in Amer- ica now and the American people by their expression at the polls yesterday said : *We can trust Coolidge.” “He is sufe, sane and, above all, he is progressive. When he starts up a adder he goed up one step at a time, instead of up one and back three. His | goal is a happy. contented America, {and 1 am sure we are good for four years more of it The eclection news the wish of the American worker, t he thinks for hineelf and is a free man in a free Nation. Losers Maintaln Reticence. the side of be located for the purpose Week the this of those on (rties o At least etting an exp heir viewpoir | Few losing morning of Democrat Ruiidin:s o abo floors, and OF w busy mighe . ind pa Ther verenity ¢ and even a noticeabic lack of i . o king time i condc Statement. president of of Labor, Gompers' the in Samuel Gompers, merican Federation ement today said W protost vote against ies, their platforms and andidates, and our will live | and find ‘its fruition.” Wilham H. Johnston. president the International Association *Machini took an eptimistic iof the vote for the party La Follette-Wheeler faction, has its headquarte n the Buildi | LA canuse ot of view the r thir Ma Sees “Great Moral Vietors.” the are not yet nd it would be result at this teht it will be xamin Liter returns however, he showing [T ¥ returns, that we moral victory. O1 ourse, weo didn't expect much from an organization that had been func for about three months. Loos in various parts M alt n, Ay 2 I ssibly tor lieve trom evon have won a great 1nd then oty the country “I believe that the vote will have a Ty etfect on the other two parties, and will be an indication to {them that they will have to mend ! their ways if they want to continue ito be the dominant parties of the country. The final vote will show jthem, in my opinion that if they ex {pect to live they will have to discon- |tinue those men in office who have |been prostituting their trusts. The | vote will show up as a great protest vote, and it came despite the warn- ings of panic and ruin which would appear in its wake if our candidates ere elected Wheeler Ix Silent. Senator Wheeler could not be seen this morning, but Mrs. Wheeler sa | that the Senator would have no com- ment to make at this time, and cer- tainly not until the full returns from the west were in. of =L STRENGTH OF COOLIDGE EXCEEDED FORECASTS ntinued from First Page.) began to diminish early in the cam- | paign Democrats found themselves | facing the alternative of their votes being valueless or aiding in the pre- cipitation of a situation which would spell disorder in Government. No- |body will ecver know how many i Democratic votes swelled the Cool- | idge landslide.. Appreciation by Voters. In a brief address at the Union 1‘1’;\;.’!1:\ Club in this city last night, | pending receipt of eclection returns, William* A. Prendergast, a Republi- can, expressed the thought that the Republican victory was due to appre j ciation by the voters of the constru {tive genius of the Republican party and of its leaders, the latest being Calvin Coolidge. Every one's thoughts will now turn to what the lessons of the elections taught and they spell for the future. “Four years of sunshine on both sides_of Prosperity street,” is what the Republican leaders think is the country’s future. The Democratic party seems to have been pushed back below the Mason and Dixon line for the present. The radical party has been discredited and re- pudiated in a most startling degree. When the popular vote of candidates is counted it will show just how many of the radicals there are and their regional location. May Awaken Radicals. Then it will be up the two old parties to take measures to deal with i them, to placate their demands with wise policies of partial response, and not let their grievances fester and infect the body politic. It is likely that the repudiation of the radical policies in this election will be cal- culated to awaken an element of the radicals to realization that they are on the wrong track and to sober up. hene Slemal defeat of John W. Davis and the sweeping victory of Gov. Alfred E. Smith leaves the latter the most prominent figure in the Demo- cratio party. He has a following of votefs in a potential mass in a pivotal State. The Democrats of New 'York recbuked the Democrats of the whicn | WONANNARRATES LEISINGER KILLING Colored Girl Passenger in Death Car Tells of Police- man’s Slaying. Helen . Jackson. a young colored woman, testified today for the prose- cution " at the trial of James T. Holmes, Harry W. Freeman and John A. Gross, all colored, who are charged with murder in the first degree In connection with the death of Police- man Raymond C. Leisinger, August 28 last. The trial is in progress be- fore Chief Justice McCoy and a jury in Criminal Court. The witness was in the automobile on which Leisinger had jumped and where he received the fatal wound. She has been held In jail in default of $5,000 bail since the homicide as a government wit- ness. The girl has a weak voice and much difficulty was experienced by the court and counsel in understand- ing her testimony, much of it having to be repeated. Assistant United States Attorney Burnett, who, with Assistant United States Attorney Neudecker, is conducting the prose- cution, took a position at the farthest point of the jury box from the witness in an effort te have her speak loud enough to be heard by the jurors. The chief justice asked the audicnce to keep as still as possible 8o that the testimony might not escape the jury. Tells of Ride. |, The witne after identifying | Holmes, Freeman and Gross said she was at Seventh and S streets north- west on the night of the tragedy when Holmes drove up in his car. After the cntered the car with the three men, she said, the vehicle was driven into an alley on P street near North Capitol where Holmes and Freeman left the car and entered the alley. They returned shortly with a pint of whisky, which was drunk by the three men and the car was started down North Capitol street. As they turned the corner, the witness aver- {red. she saw a policeman attempting {to jump on the running board and failing in this jumped on the bumper in the rear. Holmes was notified | that some one was on the car, the | witness said, and Holmes reaching for his gun gave it to Freeman who fired three shots through the back of the car. The shooting did not take place until r Leisinger, or the min on the car, as she expressed t. had fired twice as the car turned into Eye street. Holmes again in- quired if the man was still on the car and Ireeman looked out and an- cun was no longer there, The then driven rapidly awav, to a garage at Pourteer 5 where it was parkes a taxi cab and “3 to her home by Freeman ! PRESIDENTVGETS 7379 ELECTORAL VOTES TO 152 FOR TWO RIVALS (Continued from First Page.) 000 more than were given to Harding. Davis, it was estimated, had 8,000,- 000, as azainst 9,000,000 for Cox. More voters treoped to the polling places and dropped their ballots yes- terday than cver before in the history of the Nation Coolidge was leading with Davis second i Folietta La 1'oilotte in Arizona, in Idaho, with La Minnesots, Montana, with Nevada, with @ i Foilette sevond; in North Dakota, with La Follette nd; in South Dakota. with La Folleite sccond. Should the Coolidge leads in these States be sustained by the final count it would add 36 electoral vetes (o th' total, and he would hav 9. ing, in 1 had 404 Davix Leads in New Mexico. In only one of the States remain- he doubtful column did Da maintain a lead. That was New Mex- the addition of whose electoral would give him 139. Cox had La second vote 127. In many of the States carried by { Coolidge his majority over both of his adversaries was overwhelming. In i New York State, where the Republi- can national ticket made a clean sweep both in the metropolis and up- State, the plurality over Davis was more than 800,000. In the New Eng- land States Mr. Coolidge’s one-time neighbors piled up a lead for him which in some cases ran up to 10 to 1. In Ohio and Illinois the majorities likewise were tremendous, and out on the Pacific Coast the tale of the bal- lots was almost the same. Latest re- turns from California indicated the Republican margin there will be more than 100,000, Smith Beats Roosevelt. heavy undertow of this roar- ing tide of Coolidge strength pulled down to defeat a number of Demo- cratic State tickets and .Democratic members of Congress who had been confident of election, but in New York Gov. Alfred E. Smith withstood the handicap of a sweep for the Republi- can national ticket and bested his Re- publican opponent for re-election, Theodore Roosevelt, by an estimated 100,000 plurality. ~ Roosevelt came down from the up-State districts with {a lead that séemed for a time to make his election certain, but the me- tropolis rose to the occasion and re- pelied the invasion at its doorsteps. In Ohio another Democratic gover- nor. Vic Donahey, with a similar handicap, was running well ahead of the Republican nominee, former Gov. Harry L. Davis. The sweep of the Coolidge slide appeared, on the other hand, to have reversed the expectation of the wiseacres and to have landed Ed Jackson, the Republican guber- natorial candidate in Indiana, in the governor’'s chair at Indianapolis In Texas “Ma” Ferguson, wife of the impeached governor, who won her nomination on the Democratic ticket in Texas after a furious battle against Klan sympathizers, and se- The South and West for their rejection of Gov. Smith's presidential candidacy. It is openly said in New York that he will be a candidate for the nomi- nation four years hence, and his friends contend that as he is the only living Democrat with an actual vot- ing following he will have to be reckoned with, which means that the same elements which defeated his nomination this year will begin work now in opposition to him. See Roosevel{ Hurt. Theodore Roosevelt's defeat for governor is believed to eliminate him from Republican politics. Many peo- ple believe that he was put up for that purpose, to extinguish the Roosevelt tradition, as personified by him. The accepted belief in these parts is that a steady move toward better times for all classes will set in at once, based on the feeling of safety and assurance in the conduct of gov- ernment and the policies of the Re- publican party as they work out. There is intense relief over escape from the menace which would have followed an indecisive result at the polls yesterday Everybody will be waiting now to see these “four years of sunshine on both sides of Pors- perity street.” WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER h| with | Hard- ' 5, 1924. SUCCEEDS HUSBAND AS GOVERNOR | MRS. NELLI Adm The trial of the first breach of promise cage against a woman in the District is in progress today before Justice Stafford and a ury in Circuit Division 2. Manuel Herrick, former Representative from Oklahom plaintiff and he is ing a ju [men to former st her, M n_ Chrane she Ethe because s changed nd Misg Chrane admits that she prom d to wmarry Herrick. but later be ame dissatistied with his actio and de ed procced with the mar- riage. Herrick appeared as his own lawyer. Miss Chrane is represented by Attorney Andrew Y. Bradley A jury in the same court yesterday afternoon gave Miss Chrane a ver- dict for $7.500 damages against Her- rick for alleged libelous statements concerning her in a paper filed in court in support of his breach of promise case. ives Spectators Laugh. < took the witness stand and the crowded courtroom into Herr! threw cured a place on the ballot only after a further fight in the courts, appar- ently has been rewarded with the distinction of being the first w ever clected to pre { tinies of a State, lana inconclusive [ming gmive the ¢ State, too, Neliie F ! whos his d Vers retur 1 fragmentars from Wyo woman. 3 DEs, {1 Drern Lusband was a few wecks Thirty-four States in wovernors yesterday, but in { them the returns remained ! complete today to indicate a result First reports indicated that | George W. P. Hunt, the grand oid | Democrat of Arizona, seeking his fiftk term chief executive of his Sta | was_trailing behind the nominee the Repuhblicans. The stage at which the collection of returns stood today would not per- mit of analysis of the vote with any degree of certitude, but it was ap- | parent on the surface that unless | Coolidge received a very great num- ber of Democratic votes in doubtful States the strength of La Follette must have been taken very largely from the Democrats. To what desree L known, but the appeared to see their work vote will never be La Follette leaders some evidence that not been in vain. that their organization kept intact to carry on 1928 the objects they at the polls. AL for Mr. La Follette himself, he said he had no statement to make, but might have one when the returns were complete. John W. Dzl\h. like- wise went to bed last night without public comment on the showing of his party or the possible consequences, President Coolidge, receiving the returns at the White House, staved be and this would in 1 sought gratulatory message to his campaign field marshal, Republican Chairman Butler, and retired with the remark that he had expected it all along Yesterday, while the voting was in progress, he told those about him 350 electoral votes. 14 SEATS ARE GAINED BY G. 0. P. IN HOUSE (Continued from First Page.) both of whom usually lined up with the Republican insurgents, were re- clected, while in New York, Jacob- stein, a Democrat with La Follette indorsement, was a winner. Government employes are gratified to learn that Representative Fred- erick R. Lehlbach of New Jersey, chairman of the Civil Service com- mittee in the House, has been re- turned, as have also most of the other active workers for Civil Service reform. Postal employes are pecially well pleased with the re- House appropriations committee, Rep- resentative Clyde M. Kelly (Repub- lican) of Pennsylvania and Repre- lican) of Illinois. mittees returned for another term were: Madden, Illinois, of the ap- propriations committee; Graham, Pennsylvania, judiciary; Butler, Penn- sylvania, naval; Snell, New York; rules; Porter, Pennsylvania, foreign affairs; Lampert, Wisconsin, patents; Lehiman, Maryland, labor, and Mac- Fadden, Pennsylvania, banking and currency. GARRISON REVOLTS. BUENOS AIRES, November 5.—The garrison at Pernambuco, Brazil, has revolted, according to La Nacion’s Montevideo correspondent, quoting a !dispatch from Melo, near the Brazil- jan fromtier, .| Dr. his campaign managers succeeded in | their efforts to keep in line the labor | had | They announced ! up until after midnight, sent a con- | that he would look for no less than | es- | election of Chairman Madden of the sentative Elliott’ W. Sproul (Repub- | Chairmen of important House com- | TAYLOE RO: itted. roar by his o evidence. 'What of V name i the eng he fus Larry headq ofiice a pri witness for | frequent visits rick and Miss forts to patch The case m this afternoon. ev O'Dea arters your name?” had sustained by who Mr, Herrick His Own Lawyer in $50,000 ; Heart Balm Suit Against D. C. Girl: iner of inquired Vitness Herric Manuel Witne a detective formerl vate d Herr to his Chrane tective, ck. He tc office b and of h Herrick 1 of th was First Breach of Promise Action Brought by Man Here May Go to Jury Today—Engagement I introducing Law- H d of Her- is ef- up their differences to the jury DR. MALVERN H. PRICE DIES IN CAPITAL HOME . hom terd Death Dr. Pr ¥ Mona: Dr. nig ™ of the 1 n N son I' Com Price was at Thirteenth cast for sever: | entered the m | Columbian | Washington 1 | graduated in | practice medic Columbia in th Dr. Price w ational Medic: Southern which organiza interest. He is Fdna Reed sie Cornwell, P. engaged in mis; ingham County | McKenney of Va.; also thre. of Iloren Tyler, Tex., in_the West. *uneral scrv an at the residence tomorrow at 3 o'clock. rector of the will officiate. Congressional « YOR FIRST RACE dens; 515 furlo Panis . Rruns . Danby Danifold iNorth Pole + Marshall Ficld 3 Gifford A. SECOND RA¢ and up: claiming; atellite Pathan . Dr. Maser. . War Vietor. *Venal Joy.. *Tribute Wracklorn THIRD RACE- all ages; claiming Cockney ....... *Marsdale . Harlan ... | | | | Flying Cloud. FOURTH RACE Singlefoot Gold Piece Aimedel Slow and tH FIFTH RACE ico handicap; & New Hampshire. tHeelt. tEdward F. Whi SIXTH Demijoha RBees Pensive 15000 *Dum founder *Trappean Red " Wine *Tell Me. Laoil SEV Country Clubs Priscilia Rule Princess Dore: * Five Weather cleug 3. ng to this city as a v Col Medical survived Queensberry, two other sisters North Breeze (.11 S0 RACE—Purse and up; claimiog; 1 mile and @ furlong. RAC pounds apprentice B. K the drug and H al vears. nedical ge. niversity 1903 and ine in th e same year as a member al Association Ass bu In school 18 He admitt ciation tions by his and a both Miss sionary YA, 5 brothers, C. AYa: B P nd John I'rice, Hattie work in nd Mrs I afte Enoch Thom “hurch of the Interment Cemetery. will PIMLICO ENTRIES Py ngs. ran entrs ~Purse, $1.300; miie and a fu ks . *0ur Sta Salmon Rechubite *North Wales Coweds Stormalo 10 i 106 ‘103 105 Purse, 118 {108 1.300 ie and 70 y *High Prince Tsosceles *Goldrock Skirmish *Quotation 109 Do ‘ut —$2,500 added t homebred; 2-year-olds; 6 furlongs. tOverall Chrslasis 3Faddist Senaldo Crump : Qv ress. entry. _Purse, §2,000; sear-olds ‘and the ups Osprey HET Abu Ben_Ah Roman Bache| tnes entry. $1.300; ng ma of now G District wife, Price: a nicce, Miss Jes- Waters. north- 39 he the Wis ed 1 of the and ti n, in he took an active Mrs It Ro. T Price reted noon hpson, Nativity, *Tom Cassidy . the Potomac; 1 Waiter J. Salmon-R. T. Wilson entry. Wico. 6 fur- .16 107 ‘104 1105 m or 3-year-olds Dr. Chias. Wells..103 oyal Queen.. Attornes Muir Cote D 0 Frosty B Bounce *Better Times *Stevens -Purse, searold filies Sunayr . $1,300; 1% claimed. track fast, Cex 100 an 190 miles, -108 COMPROMISE LIGHT RATE S ADVOCATED i Clayton Wants Utilities Body to Halt Fund Impound- ing by Pepco. The hearing called by the Public Util- ities Commission today to consider @ re- duction in electric light rates took an unexpected turn when William MeK. Clayton, representing the Fed- eration ~of Citizens' Associations, [ proposcd that some effort be made to |bring about an agreement between the commission and the Potomac Electric Power Company that would stop the continued impounding of |large sums of money while the value of the property is being fixed in court As the situation now stands, the | company and has been since 1817 hour. The rate regarded ax by the commission is only ted out that dur- vears of litigation. |$5,959,510 has piled up in the funds |representing the differsnce between two rates, and declared that the |prospects are’ that this impoundi# fwili o indefinitcly unless soma, {settlement can be arrived at. : Suggestion of Mr, Clayton. | Cl gestion i t i tentative’ rate somewhere between the Commission's rate and | the 61 10-cent rate be agreed upen' i ding the final fixing of the valua which would mak possible immediately 1poun the past seven t mone William . Ham, president of thd ght Company, when ask Chairman Bell what 1~ though suggestion, replied that he c not speak for the company on o in matter without « director. Personall ied, on’ ir bility consultini g." Mr. Harl unfortunate to litigation if there is a po: of an agreement that woulc} to the company and resuid | direct benefit accruing to the | g There is nothing facing us | but_years of litigation | Evan M Tucker of the Northea:ff zens' Association said it woul unfortunate as a re 1t o pres litigation, the Commis n wouid ave to RO bac to Congress nd ask for a larg {fund to revalue the electric lighr property completely. He said tha- a4 comprom possible he be-® th: generally wou speak 1 think it public, now : ns » I"lan Tentative Order. Bel? noon ement that order et rat s deemed advisabic able, they would tentative order be worked out flayton's sugges- order, he said considered by the @ future public en Commission hearing. Maj. Bell said he clear that the Comm not attempt would con wanted it made ssion itself would reach an agreement er at the next hear- proposals that might be put forward, the suggestion of Mr. <ort of settlement i put a stop to the impound- anding feature of to- s the contention of R. Bowen that the sion would be in de- trict Court of Appeals fix lower electri the commission property. ared that the has he to b te order of 1 that valuatior 1 and void als 1 erro sis Is Opposed. contended Supreme Court tion dispute value as o the date used the electric light 1 have to contend not now be fixed uch a valuation company would contend, he a revaluation of the com- property as of present day prices would be necessary on which ie rates for current. At of the hearing Earl V. utive secretary of the took the stand at the j. Bell and testified as to the earnings of the company Tor veamwending July 31, and on which s it was decided to hold a hear- er testified that he found earncd a return of 9.69 the ssion’s valua- vear ending July 31, amounted to $611,191 the 7 per cent return., lculation on a ition of the company’s 3 as of the amount on_the R jation fund was not deducted from this valuation further T The said, th exc request of M sher. com the Wants Compromise Rate. Mr. suggestion : 5 his idea w and the c for curre; ton, in discussing later the he made, explained that s to have the commission mpany agree upon a rate somewhere between the 7.67 cents fixed by the commission and the 10 cents which the company ‘tually collects. It was his thought he said, that this agreed rate would be only for the period that will elapse before a final value of the company's property settled, and would have the effect of climinating the present ! process of piling up in an impounded fund a part of the money paid by | consumers every month Mr. Clayton stated that this could be done without attempting to de- cide at this time how tho $5,000,000 already accumulated should be divid ed. That money, he said, could re- main in the fund until the courts have finally disposed of the valuation In View of the events which transpired at the hearing today, the company did not present any evidence as o itS present earnings in answer to the figures submitted by the com- ssion. When Mr. Fisher what the comm testified as o sion found the com- wa earning, Attorney Bowen ved that ail of the testimony be stricken from the record, because it was based on the valuation declared by the Court of Appeals to be er- roneous Maj. Bell took the motion under advisement without ruling on it at the time. The company noted an | exception. . FAIRFAX COUNTY SLOW. Special Dispateh to The St FAIRFAX, Va., November 5.—With { five precincts lacking out of its 23, Fairfax County was confident today of comparatively large majorities for all Democrats in yesterday's election. ' Davis was 715 to Coolidge’s 593 and La Follette's 161, in the first 14 pre- cincts counted. Glass was far ahead of Doak for the Senate, and Moore far ahead of Dudley for Congress. Hooker, Democrat, will win the contest for State corporation commis- sion. It ‘was apparent on the face of the partial returns that the road bonds Issue in Falls Church and Dranesville districts carried by a large oo