JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160796, 2 November 1920, Page 5

JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA

STATEMENT ON EVE OF POLL, \ Received November 2, 11 a.m. - WASHINGTON, November 1. On the eve of the poll in California on the 1 anti-Japanese legislation, Mr Davis (Under-Secretary of State) issued a statement outlining the State Department's disposition on toe law prohibiting Japanese from holding land. Mr Davis said the State Department had had numerous friendly but candid discussions with tho Japanese Ambassador, and "it is believed he realises, as we have sought to make clear, that no outcome of the Californian movement will be acceptable to tho country at large that does not accord with the existing applicable provisions of the law or the national instinct of justice.” BALLOTS TO BE HELD’TO-DAY. \ The all-decisive ballots are to be held to-day. The constitution provides that a number of gentlemen, named Presidential electors, shall be appointed by each State, and these are made up two for the number of Senators, and one for each representative in Congress apportioned to the State, but no Senator, representative, or other Federal officeholder can be chosen. These electors are appointed by popular ballot on the first Tuesday after the. first Monday in November, and it is this State list of dele* gates to an Electoral College which really gives effect to the people’s vote. The electors meet and cast their ballots for President and vice-President respectively on the second Monday in January, but as they pre merely mouthpieces of the popular will there is never any deviation, from the decision arrived at in November. In a word, the Constitution of tod United States intended that a number of grave and reverend citizens should intervene between the public vote and tho final selection of the Chief Magistrate of the Union, but, as in many other instances, the precautions, of the framers "of the Constitution have not been found practicable' in literal fact. To-dayjs vote will decide definitely whether it is to # be Harding, the Republican nominee, or Cox, the Democratic choice, who is to succeed ■ President r Wilson at White House as toe first gentleman in the land.