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Show ; -1" " ' ' ix :-V ' J Berber ClfooVer Charles Curiis ; ' ; ' - ' , ' 1 - 1 1 11 1 " . . m Li sentiment made the result doubtful, apparently swuny to tho Hoover col-i col-i umn. 1 Hoover's Mother Received No Regular Compensation for Hwvteea. She received no regular compensa-1 compensa-1 tlon for this. Her industry and economy, econ-omy, however, would no doubt . have sufficed to keep her little family together had it not been for her untimely un-timely death. " ' The first child of Jesse and Ilulduh Hoover was born in 1871 and was named Theodore. Herbert Clark Hoover, Hoo-ver, the second child, was born August Au-gust 10, 1974, and a little girl Mae, came a few years later. Iluldah Hoover's Hoo-ver's maiden name was Minthorne, and it was to her brother Dr. John Min-tborno, Min-tborno, of Salem, Ore., that Herbert was finally sent when he" was a boy of 10. But for year after his mother's moth-er's death he lived on a farm near west Branch with his Uncle Allan and Aunt Millie Hoover. . . Everyone around West Branch who i knew Jesse Hoover recalls him as a sunny,, jovial man, much given, to pranks and to teasing his serious-minded serious-minded Quaker wife. He, too, was progressive, although devout Quaker, and his experiment of adding a line of farm machinery and Implement to his blacksmith shop was looked up-1 up-1 on by some of the conservative bus-1 bus-1 iness men of West Branch rather dubiously, du-biously, Jesse Hoover used to paint 1 wagons, too, and do odd jobs of carpentering. car-pentering. I When Herbert Hoover was in West Branch in August 'or his canpaign speech his voice choked with emotion as he recalled hia boyhood days here and the brave little mother who had ' ..t,ilTI 11 I. .. hoped such great things for her children, child-ren, even when she was struggling hardest to keep a roof over their 0,ds- . ..J.-..-., On the basis of incomplete returns, Hoover carried 36 states, Smith seven and five were still in doubt. Hoover appeared to have defeated Smith by a majority of 245 electorial votes. Within four hours after the closing of the polls in the east, the New York Times and NewvYork World, leading pournalistic supporters of At Smith, conceded the election of Hoover, Shortly Short-ly before midnight John J. Raskob, Democratic national chairman, threw up the sponge in the Smith corner. Hoover Triumph Biggest In History Republican Candidate Defeats Governor Al Smith of New York by Large Majority of Electoral College r f ... :. K .. ; ''.,, " . ...... CHICAGO Herbert Hoover was swept into the peatdency In the national election Tuesday, by one of the greatest landslides of vot.es in our political , annals. t The Republican candidate defeated Govern ?r 11 3m',':n of N:w York, the Democratic candidate, by an overwhelming majority of ,the electoral vote. . He received more electoral votes than any can.Utoto for president ex ccpt Woodrow Wilson, when the Republicans were dividqd. The Hoover landslide threw Harding landslide into the shade. v,,,,,.. jj,e Republican candidate defeated Governor Smith of New York, the Democratic candidate, by a majority of not less than 317 electoral votes. It is not unlikely that the Hoover majority will go even higher with the receipt of complete returns. : . ;I . , Governor Smith bid fair to go down in history as one of tho worst i beaten candidates for the presidency. His electoral vote is below that of Cox ' in 1920 and Davis in 1924. Not since Governor HonHo Seymour of New York was beaten by General Grant in 1868 ha.i a car.diuae for presidency been 1 so disastrously routed in a straight two-sided coalaSv aj was Governor Smith. Representatives Tilson of Connecticut, Connecti-cut, the Republican leader in tho house, was among tho first whose election was assured. - Two other Republican stalwarts of the house, Snell of Nw York, chairman of the rules committee, commit-tee, and Dempscy of New York, chairman chair-man of the house rivers and harbors committee, also were reelected. In Indiana, Louis Ludlow, the Democratic Demo-cratic candidate, defeated Representative Representa-tive Updike, who sought reelection, and in New York, James L. Whitley, Republican, successfully contested with Charles Stanton, Democrat, for the seat now held by a Democrat not up for reelection. " Three Republican senators had been reelected : Reed of Pennsylvania, Johnson John-son of California and Greene of Vermont, Ver-mont, . , Two Democrats were returned without with-out contests Swanson of Virginia and Stephen of Missippi. California thirteen electoral votes were added to the Hoover column, and incomplete returns from the other ten Rocky mountain and Pacific coast states indicated that the Republican candidate would sweep this section of the country. Incomplete returns at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday, Pacific ccsst time, gave Hoo-' Hoo-' ver a lead of nearly three to one in California, his home state. Hoover had polled 443,257 votes ta Governor Smith's 19&412 votes when returns from 3232 of California's 9086 pre- I cincts had been counted, ' 1 Oregon, where Herbert Hoover spent hia boyhood, gave the Republican Repub-lican candidate a two to one majority. Hoover ran away ahead In Washington. Wash-ington. Idaho, home state of Senator Borah, who campaigned for Hoover, rooled up a staggering Republican majority. ; 11 In Montana and Nevada the vote was closer, but in both states Hoover apparently had a safe majority. Hoover Hoo-ver was ahead in Wyoming. ,-.. Hoover was leading in New Mexico and Arizona. Colorado, where considerable wet" ' Prospects that the . Republicans j would increase their present meager j plurality of votes in the senate and j retain a working majority in the house I Were evident as returns from the elee- on slowly followed the presidential 1 results. ' s . , ' ' ! - At one time an upset in favor ofi the Democrats' had been registered for 1 the house, but it was offset by the! election of a. Republican to a seat , now held by a Deaioeiat. . , j Of the twenty Democratic senate 1 seats involved in the election, the Re- 1 . publican candidates vera ahead, in five states. These included the seats now held by Bayard of Deleware, Kdwards of New Jersey, Neely of West Virginia, Vir-ginia, Gerry of Rhode Island and Lo-cher Lo-cher of Ohio. The latter is not up fw reelection. Four other Democrats,, however, King of Utah, Bruce of Maryland, Walsh, of Massachusetts and Pittman of Nevada, were ahead on the early returns. 'w In the case of most of the thirteen Republican seals, the candidates of that party wsra leading their Domo-cratic Domo-cratic opponents. |