President Coolidge in the Lead, Nov. 5, 1924

Coolidge in the Lead. . . President Appears to be Elected Now Over John W. Davis. . . Has Big Lead in East and Middle West and Early Returns Indicate He Will Carry the West. . . Daivs Optimistic at Midnight Hour. . . Expressed Opinion That the Election Would Go to Congress—Smith Elected Governor of New York

By the Associated Press

New York, Nov. 5—At 2 o’clock this morning President Coolidge was maintaining his advantage in the east and middle west and had established leads in the country beyond the Mississippi which if maintained, would give him an overwhelming majority in the electoral college with a total running over 300 votes, John W. Davis had to his credit only the states of ultra-democratic south, but was leading also in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Tennessee, all carried by Harding in the 1920 republican landslide. He also had a slight margin in New Mexico, but had surrendered the lead to Coolidge in Kentucky in a nip and tuck race.

Senator LaFollette was leading in his home state of Wisconsin, although his managers insisted that his full strength would be developed only after the still missing vote of the rural districts of the west had been counted.

Iowa, which LaFollette had hoped to win, had been conceded to Coolidge by LaFollette headquarters in Des Moines.

In Minnesota with only a small proportion of the vote reported Coolidge was leading the Wisconsin Senator by 10,000. The President also had a lead of more than 100,000 over both Davis and LaFollette in California with about one-fourth of the state reported.

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From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Nov. 5, 1924

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