PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 6059, 4 November 1920, Page 2

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

REPUBLICAN CAMDDATE RETURN CONSIDERED SAFE. LETTER FROM PRISONER CANDIDATE. (Australian and S.Z. Cable) (Received November 4, 5 a.m.) NEBW; YORK, November JJ. The New York Times thai twelaty States will give Mr Harding 284 electoral votes', and that fourteen will give Mr Oox 152. ITlio New York Times and Oliioago Tribune estimate that the Semite iwili be composed of 52 Republicans a,nd 44 Democrats, and the House of Representatives 254 Republicans and 178 Democrats. NEW YORK, Nbvembcr 3. The Harding plurality appears to be more than five million. The Democratic newspapers in NewYork city have conceded Mr Harding's election. NEW YORK, November 2. According to a message from Atlanta, Georgia, Mr Debs, the Socialist candidate, from within the prison has issued this statement: "I shall not bo disappointed over the result of the election, as the people will get what they think they want in so far as they flunk at all." Mr Debs received the election returns in the Federal Penitentiary, a warder having arranged to obtain the results from the Atlanta- newspapers.