WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1928.
U.S. ELECTION
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tional capitol under the direction of the President of the United States sonate and in the presence of the members of the senate and of the house of representatives. ̧'
Originally the electoral college was designed as an institution whose menibera should meet and deliberate
among themselves in the selection
the 13 Individually by stamping, an X after ench name. 'But many voters, on account of indifference or, carelessness, do not vote all the way. down the ballot for the 13 presid ontial electors of their party group while others "scratch" their ballots and vote for one or more electora of the opposing party or parties.
MEXICO'S DEBTS
SECRET CONFERENCES RECENTLY HELD
, MEXICAN BONDS RISE
London, Yesterday, Thus it comes about that one or
Mr. T. Lamont, Chairman of the more electors of great Individual
International Committee of Bankers popularity in the minority party may, "run ahead of their ticket" on Mexico, has issued a statement revealing that secret conferences and thereby receive a total vote auficiently high to displice a cor. have been held during the past of a President and a Vice-President responding number of electors on of the United States and, technic-what is otherwise the winning ally, presidential electors may vote ticket. This results fi splitting the for whomsoever they wish. Practic-state's electoral vote. ally and traditionally, they vote, as pledged in advance of the election;
The Popular Vote
weeks between the Mexican Minister of Finance and the Committee's re- presentatives at Mexico City with a view to the conclusion of an en- tirely new agreement for the repay-
It is the electoral vote and not ment of the Mexican debt to foreign
investors.
Mr. Herbert Hoover, of California, the Republican can-
didate, who holds a commanding lead.
for the candidates of their respec- the total popular vote of the nation tive partics. Thus presidential elec- that decides a presidential election, tors constitute a tabulating device The winning candidate may have whereby the votes of their states and usually does have a plurality are recorded. The counting' of the and sometimes a majority of the electoral volen at Washington, D. C., popular vote, but he must have a in February, is a mere formality, majority (266) of the electoral vote! inasmuch as the country knowa three to be elected. But all that a presi- months in advance what the result dential candidate needs to obtain of this count will be.
the full electoral vote of a state is a plurality, however amall, of the
Without Majority
The announcement was followed by a rise in Mexican bonds of a quarter to seven-oighths on the New York stock market-Rauter's Ame- rican Service.
TWO DAGGERS
BROTHERS BEFORE THE COURT
HEAVY SENTENCES
W.
T'wo Magistrates, Mr. Schofield and Major C. Willson, O.B.E.. heard a case at the Kow loon Magistracy yesterday after- noon, in which two brothers (Chinese) were charged with the unlawful possession of two daggers at No. 23, Battery-street, second floor.
The daggers were found by the police in a paper parcel under the bed in a cubicle, which the prin- cipal tenant of the floor said was occupied by the first accused.
The accused claimed that the parcel was left in the cubicle by a friend.
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Mrs. R. Moor, wife of the Deputy Public Prosecutor, Johore, is re- turning from England by the 3.8. "Lalandia."
Mr. J. Strachan, General Manager,
The Hunan authorities have
Malaya this month. Mr. A. placed the men of the 24th army FMS.R., is leaving London for corps on the construction of, a new
Palmer, who is at present Acting highway between Sinfeng and Heng-General Manager, is then going on chow, reports the Chinese press.'
leave,
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An Ipoh (Malay States) message
Prizes were awarded last week This the police found was true, by the Chinese, Commission for the the friend having disappeared and Study of Treatles for essays on the states-What was probably the not been seen again since the ac-unequal treaties submitted by stu-first news in Malaya of the landing cused's arrest.
dents in various parts of China.
of the Graf Zeppelin was picked up by Mr. F. Bulten, a Taiping plantor, The raid on the floor was car-
by radio. He got the full story of ried out on the afternoon of Communists are reported again to the landing from the lips of the October 25, as the result of in- be active in Huangan, Hupeh, Dur-broadcaster at Lakehurst, even hear- formation the police received ing the past month, it is said, they ing naides. from a man who had overheard a
got fire to nearly 100 houses and conversation between the bro-murdered more than 30 people in thers.
cold blood-Eastern Times."
sen-
Mr. George Fleming, of North Taiping Tin Dredging, Ltd., who recently left for Australia, was en-
The first defendant was tenced to five years' hard labour, whilst his brother, whom the Mr. H. H. Fox, C.M.G., H. M.tertained to a farewell dinner at police said had lived in the cubicle Commercial Counsellor, is at present the Perak Club, Taiping, by his
a visit to Shanghai, having friends. for only two days prior to his ar-on rest, was sent to jail for 18 travelled from Tientsin by the months with hard inbour.
S. N. S. Shuntien." He expects to be in Shanghai for two or three weeks.
STILL SOARING
HOME UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES
His friends will be sorry to know that Judge Milton D. Purdy, who has been Indisposed for some daya, has had to enter the Shanghai Sanitarium, being admitted last The weekly return gives the Sunday, says the "N. C. Daily
of unemployed as News" of 30th elt.
London, Yesterday.
more
If no candidate for President re-popular vote in the state for each of ceives a majority (266) of the clee- his party's presidential electors. toral vote, the House of Representa-
A smail plurality of the popular total number tives proceeds to elect a President, vote in a state with a large electoral 1.374,700, which is 20,513 confining the choice to one of the vote may contribute heavily, if not than a week ago and 268,643 more three highest. Euch state in such decisively, to carrying the election than a year ago-British Wireless a contingency has but one vote, in the nation at large. Thus a
Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith, of New York, the De- mocratic candidate, "strong" in his own state.
Service.
The freedom of Aberdeen was conferred upon Earl Jellicoe, Sir T. Jaffrey, a benefactor of the city, and Dr. Laws, of Livingstone, mis- sionary pioneer.
eland had 100,000 more popular votes than Harrison in the nation at large.
Mr. R. R. Bullmore pre- aided, and Mr. Fleming was pre- sented with a silver and enamelled cigarette case.
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Prior to vacating the Ministry of Interior to take up his new appoint- ment as Minister of Public Health, Mr. Haueh Tu-pl addressed the members of his staff and exhorted them (1) to carry out their duties conscientiously; (2) to remember
that they are public servants; (8)
to work for the people; and (4) to reform when they make mistakes.- "Shuapao."
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The "Shunpao" (Shanghai) says that, in accordance with a decision reached by the Kiangsu Provincial
A Chinese patient committed. Government, benevolent homes for suicide at the General Hospital, the aged, orphans, destitute and un- Singapore, recently, by hanging The deceased had been employed are to be established in himself. the various districts of the pro- sent to the hospital for medical {vince.
observation and was under police custody. He was arrested some. time ago after a knife attack on some other Chinese. He used his clothing with which to hang him- self.
The S.M.R. Co., has decided to establish a sanatorium for tuber- culosis cases in commemoration of the Imperial Enthronement at the outlay of Y. 600,000, to extend over A spot in Kuantung Leased Territory has been selected A more recent illustration of the for the site. Work will be begun difference between the "electoral at the next thaw. vote" and the "popular vote" is.
An Illustration
two
years.
At the last mesting of the Chinese Swimming Club, Penang, fixed for the November 24 was
Club official opening of the new premises. The Secretary has, how- ever, since discovered that the tide on that particular day will not be favourable to aquatic demonstra-
The Pre-
found in the election of 1912. In The engagement is announced of that year Wilson's six million popu. Miss Etta Moore, daughter of Mrs. lar votes were so distributed as to B, F, Moore, of Tules, Oklahoma, to win for him the 435 electoral votes Capt. Coleman Driver, USA., attions which, it is stated, will be the of 40 states, while Roosevelt's four present attached to the American event of the occasion, million votes, bringing pluralities in Embassy in Tokyo. Capt. Driver issident's attention has been drawa aix states, won but 88 electoral well-known throughout the Far to the matter. His opinion is still to be knows, says a Penang paper votes, and Taft's three and one-half
to hand million popular votes, accounted for but two states, with only eight elec- toral votes.
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East. He was formerly Inspector for Military Selence at McKinley: High School In Honolulu.
A mass-meeting was held in the Hence the effort put forth in a in a
Word has bean received from Port Swettenham Recreation Club presidential campaign to carry doubtful states, especially those Victoria, BC. of the death in a Hall recently under the Presidency whose large electoral vote will mate- motor car accident of Mrs. A. C. R. of Mr. Tan Chat Ee. The meeting rially contribute to running up the Portway, who was well known in was consequent upon the reported candidate's total to the requisite North China and, in the Yangtaze withdrawal of the existing Anglo- 266. Nevertheless, the electoral voto Valley. Her husband (who until Chinese School from Port Swetter- After some dia- of any state in the Union, regardless about two years ago was with the ham next year. of its size, may prove to be the de- Salt Gabelle) and his daughter Ruth cussion as to the importance and ciding factor in the election when were in the car at the time of the necessity of having an English the votes are counted as was the accident but escaped with slight School in that locality, a strong. case in the presidential election of injuries. 1910 when California's thirteen votes turned the scale in favour of Wilson.
Miss Reah H. Cain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Cain," for merly residents of Yokohama, and Forecasting the Election Predicting the result of an elec-now of Victoria, B.C., was married tion is largely a question of per- on October 27 at the British Con- which is bestowed as the majority plurality of 100,000 in the popular sonal equation, for in matters poli-sulate General In Kobe to Mr. of the state's representatives in the vote of California would give a tical as in other affairs, it may William Cantlay. The civil cere lower house of congress may deter candidate only 13 electoral votes be said that one man's guess is as mony at the consulate was followed mine. If no candidate for vice- while a plurality of 1,000 popular good as another's. Yet if prefer by the religious service at All president obtains a majority of the votes or even of one voto in New ences are laid aside and reasoning Saints Churchy, where the ceremony electoral vote, the Renate the mom York would give the candidate New is applied to forecasting the result was performed by the Rev. John C berg voting as individuals chooses Yorld's 45 electoral votes.
of an event of this nature, it will Ford. The church serv from the highest two and a ma- The outstanding historical flius certainly take into account past his place at 2.30 o'clock fority elects.
tration of what it means for a candi-tory as well as present day factors, and was followed by It is possible for aetate's elec-date to carry a big state in a close In this process numerous ques- the home of Mr. and toral vote to be split. In California, election dates back to 1884, when tions will occur? What are the "rock-Thorn, at for Instance the presidential electors fewer than 600 popular votes swung ribbed republican states 7 What Chome, Mrs. Thora
with the 86 states nted by each party are ar- the State of Ne anged in groups on the ballos, with electoral votes which it then had, to What
prise the "solid South? the bride. Mrs. Cam
the
Stes are pivotal or doubtful? lived with her parents In
Committee was formed to make a representation to the Government in the matter.
$43,200 ESTATE.
Ee-sealing of letters of adminia-
Mr.
the estate of Ernest Cald-
rip of Creekhaven, Bt who died intestate been, granted to son, lawfulate
took torney of 74% Armstrong Ma
donald, deceased's sister. Estate in Hong Kong, comprising shares in CH. the Union Insurance Society of Can- ton, It was sworn under $28,200. Deceased left personal estate in Britain valued at £15,484 0A. 5d.
erly
An application is to be made in the law Courts for a directions to the disposal of £5,9507 the unex the pended balance of the Westminster
Flood Relief Fund
designation stated after Cleveland, thus making him victor What is the electoral vote of the but went to Kobe following the
vote over. Blaine, Walthe
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