AMERICAN ELECTIONS

Southland Times, Issue 19394, 7 November 1924, Page 5

AMERICAN ELECTIONS

MR COOLIDGE’S VICTORY VOTING FOR CONGRESS. REPUBLICANS MAY GET MAJORITY. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association). WASHINGTON, November 5. With the returns far from complete, the indications point to the Republicans commanding a working majority in the next Congress. In Texas Mrs M. A. Ferguson, wife of the impeached Governor, who won her nomination by the Democrats after a furious battle with the Ku Klux Klan sympathisers, has apparently been elected. She will be America’s first woman Governor. In Wyoming fragmentary returns indicate that Mrs Nellie Ross (Democrat), whose husband was Governor until he died a few months ago, has been elected Governor. Mr Coolidge expressed him simple thanks to the American people for their vote of confidence. He said: “No honour equals the Presidency and no responsibility approaches it. When it is conferred by the overwhelming choice of the American people and the vote of the Electoral Colleges it is all the greater.”