Show THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE presidential ELECTION to elect tile lie president elioso lose inauguration ni augu augur ration atlon took place pl ce barci 4 t alie le heaviest battle ot of ballot over ever known knon was waged waed thi alv steady drop drop drop ot of tile the s of paper by which tile the american citizen his olce in ili the tha coni luct of arhe he govern finont began on november Nov einor 2 in ili brist nn t port ne ilc in tile hie united suites states anil and continued 1111 until some sixteen hours later when election judges closed booths in ozette wah the presidential suffrage collini community unitY farthest fart liest west welt the hattle was not made greater than filose of 1912 nud by tiny liny increase in tile hie area over it was fought for arizona Arlzo iia find and new mexico casting their ballots for president for the lie illa ill arat A t lime in 1012 completed the hie roster of the states in ili the united states proper and the extension of tile suffrage to every political unit between the two oceans and tile the Cana canadian dInn and mohican borders border except the district of colum bla the battle was increased ina ased in magnitude however by the extension of suffrage e to women in the many states which vill ch did not permit penult them to vote in previous elections this greatest of election struggles lea took place in an area of approximately square nines miles under conditions varying from the frosty weather of the canadian boundary anil and possible e snow storms of the higher aler of the to the burning sunshine of ney key west mid some of the cities a and nd v villages 11 I 1 ages g 0 ot f t lie hie so southwestern u t it we tern border allot boxes emblems of american sovereignty city were sot set up la in the hearts ot of great cities in pillages til Nil lages in wayside school liou houses es on isolated islands in pockets of the great woods woodi far up tip among rough peaks and below tile the level of tile the sou rea in anany cases ca in communities which lie ile behind great natural barriers that bat cut them ofa physically from other settlements and yet because of the telephone and telegraph wires mires that extend into nearly ie anery ery community an and wireless com that it supplements them most Amer american lenn i learned the results from the far hung flung battle line at their breakfast talles tables next morning indeed impatient folloN followers vers of tile the returns knew the results before midnight reading reports flashed on screens before newspaper offices in countless cities and towns it was far different paradoxical is as it may seem at first sight during the early presidential elections in ili which popular voting figured figure in spite of the fact that practically all vo voters were east cast of tile mississippi river arid and most of thern them in the states along the atlantic seaboard lacking electrical means of communication and railroads and having but poor highways and vehicles the country was often in ignorance of the candidates candidate s elected for weeks after the election the contrast cannot be carried bach to elections when the united states was confined to its original thirteen In members embers along the narrow strip of coast country for in those days the te voter and the campaign manager had not come come into their own the choosing of a president was a cam and so far as most of the men in the street were concerned a affair legislatures saved voters from the bother of casting ballots by appointing electors and the latter chose a president |