returns of the American presidential election are as yet incomplete, the indications are clear that President Calvin Coolidge be returned by the electoral college with heavy plurality, and that, moreover, he will have a fair working majority in the House of Representatives for his legislative programme at the next session of Congress, Latest reports give the Republican candidate an apparent total of 270 electoral votes, four more than required for election and state that he is leading in 13 other states controlling 88 v tes.
Mr. Coolidge's victory, is mentioned in the telegrams, is in the nature of a triumph for the country's conservative clement and indicates that little weight was given the eleventh hour campaign of graft charges and reference to the 1 scandal The election of Mr. Smith to the governorship of New York was evidently due to the vote of New York City, as Col. Theodore Roosevelt, the Republican nominee, is reported to have been leading in the districts outside the city.
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