I Feel as Strong as a Bull Moose!

[The Govanah Jake]

By the way, expect several more of these short newspaper style posts before i get to the election coverage.

[The Govanah Jake]

The Alabama Baptist
Carter Glass meets top Southern officials as campaign nears a draw
By Luther Goodrick, October 30th

(Birmingham), In a visit on Wednesday, our President Carter Glass meet with top southern leaders to discuss the election as is the official comment. There he meet prominent Alabama leaders and ministers including Senator Underwood who commented "We went into great detail on the situation with the election".

Though there are others who have said that this meeting was secretly to discuss job opportunity for said officials if he is re-elected bringing up some corruption charges but these have yet to be proven. The election against the northern elitist Hughes is in 5 days and anything can make a difference ...

[The Govanah Jake]

The New York Times
2 days before election banking scandal hits the President, November 2nd
By Ari Lowinski

(BIRMINGHAM, November 2nd) Just a little under a month ago we were discussing how the Hughes Banking Scandal could forever ruin his presidential prospects and it showed in the polls. He was down by 13 points at its height. But now he was subsided a little and is down only by 5. However, now quite the opposite has occurred. Later in the day yesterday a scandal broke about the President's mishandling of monetary funds as president in regards to the Federal Reserve.

Coming from a anonymous source though probably working for the Hughes campaign, a document was released claiming that Glass, in his first term as president, after the creation of the newly reformed Federal Reserve funneled congressional money, by lucrative ways, into the new organization in at least 5 locations in order to prevent any collapse of any of the banks which would look bad on his part. A estimated 950,000 Dollars were illegally used by the President or someone close to him to do this. The Glass campaign has just know denied the claims calling it a "Republican hit job" and "disgusting campaigning" and says these claims re absolutely false much to the same way that Hughes denied his scandal in October. It is yet to be known if the scandal is true but it will surely as least partially hurt the president.

[The Govanah Jake]

The Boston Globe
Here is how the races stands 1 day before the election
By Harold McGey, November 3rd, 1924

November 3rd, With the election officially ending tomorrow and with the winner of this election being decided tomorrow going into the next night, the Boston Globe has commisioned a slew of polls to show the state of the race a of the day before the election.

First we asked the people with a sample size of 1600 who they would vote for president and then asked some more questions of the people's opinion on the scandals felt by both campaigns and then finally state polls which are the most important in garnering electoral votes which is the most important in winning the election. We didn't include any of the two socialist candidates because they were, in the newspapers opinion, irrelevant and not polling high enough.

Who will you vote for in this election?

Carter Glass: 44.4%
Charles E. Hughes: 40.3%
Frank Lowden: 12.1%

Do you find Charles Hughes honest?

Yes: 55.3%
No: 43.0%

Do you find Carter Glass honest?

Yes: 51.6%
No: 41.9%

Do you believe the latest Glass scandal to be true?

Yes, It is True: 50.7%
No It is Not True: 48.9%

Do you believe the latest Glass scandal to be true?

Yes, It is True: 39.7%
No, It is Not True: 54.0%

Do you approve of Hughes decision to, if elected, to join the League of Nations?

Yes: 57.3%
No: 42.7%

Do you find Frank Lowden honest?

Yes: 43.6%
No: 21.5%

Is Carter Glass a successful President in your opinion?

Yes: 66.9%
No: 31.7%

Do you know what the American Conservative Party and Socialist Party's are?

Yes: 65.9%
No: 34.1%

(New Yorkers) Who will you vote for?

Charles Hughes: 46.3%
Carter Glass: 39.5%
Frank Lowden: 12.9%

(Massachusetts Residents) Who will you vote for?

Charles Hughes: 50.4%
Carter Glass: 35.7%
Frank Lowden: 13.5%

(Pennsylvania Residents) Who will you vote for?

Charles Hughes: 40.0%
Carter Glass: 38.2%
Frank Lowden: 20.8%

[The Govanah Jake]

The Washington Post
America Votes to Decide the President
By Knut Magnatt, November 4th, 1924 EDITION

It is November 4th and the 1924 election ends today. After months of brutal campaigning, later today this ends with a winner and it will most likely be either Charles Hughes or Carter Glass. Charles Hughes throughout the campaign has been consistently down by anywhere from 1-15% and he has tried to pull pass the popular president but he cant. He has pulled everything from the republican party but still is falling short and his best shot now is to out perform the polls and win the election. The key to the election for him is to hold Pennsylvania and New York, New England, and then hold together the Great Lakes Republican voting block and at least win a couple of states out west.

This is easier said then down and even the state of Pennsylvania looks tricky for him and it is close. Glasses strategy is to hold the South, win back the Upper South, and regain the west due to his isolationism and Hughe's internationalism. And this is much more likely to happen as he is leading in many of the states he is suppose to be leading in for him to win. The first polls close at 7:30 PM and we hear at the Washington Post will be watching it closely. We also urge everyone out there to vote and engage in our democratic process ...

[The Govanah Jake]

                                 New York Times - State of the Race 11/4/24





            

                                           BLUE - CHARLES EVAN HUGHES - 225 ELECTORAL VOTES

                                                        RED - CARTER GLASS - 182 ELECTORAL VOTES

                                                        GRAY - NO POLLING - 124 ELECTORAL VOTES

[The Govanah Jake]

Politics in America by KDKA: The Election of 1924

Arnold McDoven - Hello listeners and welcome to the election night broadcast for the 1920 election. I have here to examine and announce the results with me Mr. T. Louis


T. Louis - Hello there


Arnold McDoven - I also have with me the amazing writer Mr. S. M. Kintner


Mr. S.M. Kintner - Hello everyone and i am excited to know who the winner is


Arnold McDoven - That's great to hear. If you don't know how this works then i will explain. This will be the second time we have done this with the first one being the election of Glass to the Presidency in 1920. We will as the night progress be announcing the results as they happen and would won each state. We do this by having connection with hundreds of other radio stations throughout the 48 states who get there results from the counters first handedly. After all the votes and states are counted and called we will call a winner at the end of the night or perhaps morning if you remember 1920...


T. Louis - Man, that was something.


Arnold McDoven - That's besides the point. Anyway lets let this train on a rolling down here and from our station in the great city of New York it is 7:45 PM

[The Govanah Jake]

8:11 PM

Arnold McDoven - Okay guys we have our first projection of the night. Our sister station in Burlington, Vermont says that about 70% of the votes have been counted and of those votes 67% have been cast for Hughes so we can now project that he will win the state, unsurprisingly.

T. Louis - Of course he won it. It has never voted for a Democrat, ever and i don't see why they wouldn't tonight with a Northeastern Moderate Republican against a Southerner Democrat.

Mr. S.M. Kintner - Not a suprise in the slightest

Arnold McDoven - And with that our score card for the electoral college is now 4-0-0-0 Hughes-Glass-Hillquit-Lowden

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[The Govanah Jake]

8:35 PM






Arnold McDoven - And with that thought, we can project two more states. Local networks have reported that with more then half of the vote in New Hampshire and Maine, Hughes will easily win both states with upwards of 60% of the vote. Giving him 14 votes to Glasses, Hillquits, and Lowden's 0.

Mr. S.M Kintner - Again these states have basically never voted for Democrats before, not a surprise and surprised Hughes isn't doing any better here.

Arnold McDoven - You think that's a predecessor for future events

T. Louis - Probably not. A slight dip in the vote percentage does not matter much in such republican states as shown by earlier elections.





9:00 PM





Arnold McDoven - We have three more projections which will complete off New England. From our sister network in Boston we can now project that Hughes will easily win the state with upwards of 50% of the vote to Glasses 40%. We can also project Hughes will win with a smaller margin in Rhode Island. We can also project that Connecticut is too close to call and cant be called. This state voted for Glass in 1920 but with a northeastern Republican on the ticket it could flip back. It is now 37 for Hughes and 0 for everyone else. Thoughts on these?

T. Louis - I totally expected a sweep of New England and it should return to being a Republican Bastion. Though Connecticut is a little surprising. Hughes is such a great pick for the state and should be winning it by double digits

Mr. S.M Kintner - Nah. I don't think Hughes should worry at least for now. Connecticut has for recent history been a Swing state and even if he is from the area, it shouldn't change that.

Arnold McDoven - Agreed.





9:20 PM





Arnold McDoven - We know have results from the crucial Mid-Atlantic swing region. Remember this was a area both candidates were vying for. Hughes has a advantage in this region with him being from New York. We can now give you can results. In our very own New York City we can project that 40% of the votes have been counted in New York and it stands at 43% for Hughes and 35% for Glass with the Hillquit in third place at 7%. In Pennsylvania we can project that Hughes is in a slight lead of 38-36% over Glass while we can project the state of New Jersey will go to Hughes
at 43-33% with 51% in. It is now 51 for Hughes and 0 for  everyone else

Mr. S.M. Kinter - I'm surprised at New Jersey being called very early for Hughes. I'd think it would be a state which would go to Glass in the end

T. Louis - Well it might help that he is from New York

Mr. S.M. Kinter - Yea, definaitly

Arnold McDoven - I'm surprised that New York wasn't called instantly. Wasn't he a very popular governor here

T. Louis - Well New York is still a swing state even if he is from here.


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[Bidenworth2020]

this iss great! love the buildup

[The Govanah Jake]

9:45 PM




Arnold McDoven- Anyway we can now project Connecticut to Hughes

Mr. S.M. Kinter - I knew it!

Arnold McDoven - Now 58-0-0-0

T. Louis - Man the South is going to mess that up




10:00 PM




Arnold McDoven - We can now project most of the South right now

Mr. S.M. Kinter - My guess. Carter, Carter, Carter

Arnold McDoven - Wow, how did you know... Anyway in the state of Maryland, the swing state in 1920 can now be instantly called for Glass. Meanwhile we can call Delaware to Glass too with 52% of the vote. Now for the murderous part. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, and even Tennessee instantly to Carter Glass. It looks like the Solid South is here to save Glass and now has 108 votes to Hughes 58

T. Louis - Nothing here of important. The South is Democratic and will always be Democrat and a Southerner and States Rights man like Carter will have no problems here




10:15 PM




Arnold McDoven - Votes have been counted in Arkansas and Glass wins easily and holds a 117-58 lead




10:30 PM




Arnold McDoven - We can now project that Hughes will win his home state of New York with 79% in and him leading 42-34%. Glass still leads 117 to 103

Mr. S.M. Kinter - As expected. He will win his home state but will it be enough?




...

[America Needs R'hllor]

Rooting for Hughes, as hopeless as it probably is

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Rooting for Hughes, as hopeless as it probably is

[The Govanah Jake]

11:00 PM




Arnold McDoven - The Midwestern states are ready to be announced

T. Louis - Hit us with them

Arnold McDoven - Kentucky shall go to Glass which is a swing from 1920. In another swing from 1920, Glass will also win West Virginia. However in the Home of Harding and McKinley we can project the state of Ohio in what seems like a return to normalcy as it goes by a 49-36% margin. In Indiana we can project that the swing state will narrowly go to Hughes in a swing from 1920 while in Illinois which was won narrowly by Johnson will continue its Republican streak and vote for Hughes too. In Michigan and Wisconsin we can project both historic republican strongholds to continue voting republican while we can easily project one of the most republican states in the union, Minnesota, to Hughes overwhelmingly. However we can project the bellwether state of Missouri to Glass and Iowa is too close to call

T. Louis - Man too much speak

Arnold McDoven - Sorry

Mr. S.M. Kinter - Hughes is doing better then i thought. If he continues to win such big states he has a real shot at this unlike what the polling says.

T. Louis - Though its not like Glass should be worried

Mr. S.M. Kinter - Yes of course he shouldn't be worried but Hughes seems to be doing better then i expected




11:10 PM




Arnold McDoven - Quick little side note. We misplaced Iowa in the 11 PM broadcast. It is actually for Glass and he now has 169 to Hughes 211




11:30 PM




Arnold McDoven - It is now 11:30 PM and we can now project the Plain States. In Texas, the Lone Star state will easily go to Glass while in Oklahoma it is close but goes to Glass. The Socialists here are over performing as usual and are getting about 23% of the vote. Meanwhile in Kansas, the historic Republican bastion shall be named a swing state which it has become over recent years. Meanwhile in the land of Bryan we can project this Lincoln Republican state to fall to the Democrat tonight. Meanwhile North and South Dakota are too close to call. It is now 211 Hughes to 207 Glass

Mr. S.M. Kinter - Glass is doing exactly what he is doing to win. Win the South and West though if Hughes wins Pennsylvania, and then a couple of states out west he may win





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[The Govanah Jake]

12:00 PM




Arnold McDoven - We are in a new day and with that we can project Pennsylvania narrowly to Glass. We can also project South Dakota to Hughes. Carter Glass now has 245 electoral votes and is 21 away votes from a victory
and winning re-election though it is still not over.

T. Louis - Pennsylvania just killed alot of hope for the Hughes campaign i bet.




12:30 PM




Arnold McDovern - We can now call the rest of the western states situation's. In New Mexico, the only 12 year old state will give its electoral votes to Glass like in 1920 while the extremely close state of Arizona in both 1920 and 1916 will comfortably go to Glass by about 5%. In Colorado
he will win the state by about 15% while in Wyoming, Glass wins narrowly with a strong ACP performance there. In the Republican Bastion of Utah, it is too close to call, In Idaho yet another bastion of Republicanism and a large Mormon population is too close to call. In Montana it is too close to call though the few samples taken so far has shown a slight Glass lead. Now for the West Coast. Glass will win Nevada easily and the state of Hiram Johnson which went 70% 4 years earlier, the state of California, is too close to call. And finally to top it off, the states of Washington and Oregon are too close to call. It is now 263 votes for Glass, 216 for Hughes, and 52 too close to call and we go into 1 PM ...

T. Louis - How are the third party's doing

Arnold McDoven - Not good. I heard reports that they are down up to 250% from 4 years ago and it shows. No third party yet in this election has won a state and most aren't even close to doing so.

Mr. S.M. Kinter - I heard the Socialists and the ACP had high hopes too and look where that got them..




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[The Govanah Jake]

1:15 PM




T. Louis - Wait hold on Arnold. On that thought i think we have a winner in this election

Arnold McDoven - Why. What do you have

T. Louis - Our affiliates in Montana have 79% of the vote counted and i just got a telegram
announcing the winner of the state.

Arnold McDoven - Ok then, tell us then..

T. Louis - It says here after almost 80% of the vote counted, the Montana State Government can now tell you that Carter Glass will win the state with 42% of the vote to Charles Hughes 35%.

Arnold McDoven - Is that offical?

T Louis - Yes, its from the state government

Mr. S.M. Kinter - I guess we know what that means

Arnold McDoven - Yes. We here KDKA can know project Montana to Glass and with that we can project the Carter Glass will win Re-Election with 267 electoral votes...



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[The Govanah Jake]

3:45 AM





Arnold McDoven - And to top it off tonight the final state to be called which was Kansas will go to Glass by a extremely small margin. The Final map stands at 310 electoral votes for Glass and 221 for his Republican challenger.





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[The Govanah Jake]

[The Govanah Jake]

Just some county maps because i like county maps -

[_]

Can you post IL?  I want to see if the American Conservatives won any counties there.

[The Govanah Jake]

(The colors are swapped so instead of Glass being red he is blue and instead of Hughes being Blue he is Red)

[The Govanah Jake]

Can you post IL?  I want to see if the American Conservatives won any counties there.

[The Govanah Jake]

(Just a Run down of the major international country's in 1924)

United Kingdom -


The United Kingdom was know ruled by the first Labour led government in its history after the 1923 elections. They forced a coalition with the waning reformist Liberals to form a left wing government in the parliament overtaking the conservatives for the first time ever and the still young Labour party was led by Ramsay MacDonald who called himself a reformist within the party taking the party from its socialist roots and establishing the party as one of Social Democracy.

In his first year of the 1923-1924 government MacDonald created many new social programs that continued off the old new reformist liberal government of Asquith in the early 1900s including finally setting a higher minimum wage, creating new and improved educational programs, and most importantly the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1924 which led to improved government funding towards rent based housing program designed for low wage holders. First proposed in the early part of MacDonald's ministry, it was put into law on February 8th, 1924 and was widely praised for his administration.

His pragmatic socialist so far had proven successful. Meanwhile on the international scale, MacDonald internationalism was showing. He had always been a ardent internationalist in the Labour party and when he became Prime Minister showed that. In his first year of ministry he firstly decreased troop levels from French soil near the German border to decrease tensions but soon after started to hold diplomatic talks with Germany creating many Trade and Border treaty's being the First major European power to open up the country since its formation in 1921-22 though Germany still held major Isolationism as a main foreign policy. His main other area in foreign policy was with France and that showed with the Dawes Plan.

This Dawes plan faced the problem that the allied powers held with Germany in regards to reparations after it defaulted on its debt. MacDonald and his ministry were supportive of the plan and though successful diplomacy was able to successful win over the French and the plan was enacted of which Germany would be 200 Million dollars in order to rebuild the crumbling German economy so they can pay the reparations. The German Socialist Government accepting to the plan was able to end the economic depression in there country by 1925. This was a major successful for MacDonald and all in all his first ministry had been proven a successful. The Times newspaper in London had gotten upon the habit, like in America, of polling there leaders and a April 1924 poll showed the Prime Minister with a 63% rate of approval.

With this the Prime Minister though this was a perfect time for him to increase his majority in the parliament  and called a election for October of 1924. The Conservatives unprepared elected unknown wildcard George Lane-Fox to be there nominee after the former Prime Minister Baldwin resigned in February of 1924 due to increased demand within the party. The campaign was uneventful and in October when the election hit, MacDonald won a true mandate and his Labour/Liberal coalition won 396 seats combined with 329 for Labour and 67 for the Liberals with the Conservatives down to 191 seats.

His new majority didn't even need the Liberals and could govern with just Labour for the first time in the United Kingdom's history but they still held a coalition with the Liberals with there majority still thin. Going into 1925, the second MacDonald ministry could now govern with a Labour majority and with that that much of the opposition 1923-1924 brought would now be diminished or even gone.

[The Govanah Jake]

A Nation Divided

President Alexandre Millerand at his desk

Alexandre Millerand led a country going into 1924 that was on the brink of civil war. The previous year brought a new divide in the country as radicals lead by a newly formed united French Socialist Party swarmed the city's of Paris, Nice, and the Metropolitan areas of the poverty striven Occitan lands demanding better living conditions and better wages.

They demanded a end to the depression which had held the French lands by its grip and would not let go as its neighbors including the British and Germans were able to elect new governments and were able to avoid financial bankruptcy. However unlike these two neighbors, the French decided not to turn to new governments and instead kept its Pre-War Republican Democratic and later National Republican League. Both of these were of the center-right and lead a Laissez-faire and Economically Liberal party ideology promoting republicanism and free markets. These two party's very much despised the growing radical tradition many union members and those of the left wing were showing and when riots by these radicals popped up they put them down.

After the Great Parisian Riot of 1923 which was sparked from the killing of 2 protesters by Parisian Police, 19 people were killed and the whole city of Paris was on lock down which forced the Parliament and the President to relocate from Paris to Versailles. This Government knew very well that the protests would not end without a end to the economic recession and the current president Alexandre Millerand, elected in 1920, tried his best to spur economic growth in the economy. Alexandre unlike most of his party was a former Socialist himself. He had been a Independent Socialists and was a member of the Republican-Socialist Party up until 1919 when he joined the more economically right wing Republican-Democratic Party which led him to victory in the September 1920 election off the backs of tradition Republican-Democratic conservatives and also of the urban left wing who liked his somewhat Social-Democratic policy's.

However he knew very much that he held no place in the Republican-Democratic Party with his left wing views and after using the party as a vehicle for victory, he created a independent alliance of moderates and those on the left called the National Republican League and ditched the Republican-Democratic Party in exchange for this. This new independent league though held very little representation in congress and in exchange relied on the support of the Left Wing party's in the Senate and National Assembly combined with the few votes he could muster from the Republican-Democrats who as a party officially blocked whatever the new president proposed calling him a traitor to the party.

This led to very little being down and he could do little to stop the recession which had entered its 4th year going into 1924. Even if he was of the Left, he still needed to govern and wanting to appeal to the Right to get some support from them he took a hardline approach to the Socialists and the Riots that plagued 1923. Do too this he was often called by socialists in France
"Traître au Socialisme" or traitor to socialism due to his past socialist views and present compromise with the right wing which was to the Socialist Party's eyes against the workers interest. This plan of appealing to the right for support was successful in some ways while not at all in others.

It was successful in the fact that the appeal allowed for some Republican-Democratic congressional officials to support his plan to increase the power of the Presidency to allow the president to take active role in the state of the economy and allowing for the President to have increased levels of power in deciding the foreign and domestic policy of the country. His plan also included to power of the president to hold a suspensive veto which would, when presented with a law, allow for the President another reading of it by the Parliament.

It also made clear that the President held the power of authority over the French armed forces making that person the official overseer of the French military. This plan was supported by most Federalists and Republicans and only faced the stiffest opposition in the radicals and socialists who called the plan authoritarian and un-democratic. The Plan was easily passed by the Parliament and became effective immediately under Alexandre. However like said earlier he was successful in part though limited in success in other plans or policy's. For one the Republican controlled Senate and National Assembly in January of 1924 passed a comprehensive cut to the welfare programs of the French Republic to reduce debt and increase national revenue to the government.

These cuts including the Bismarkian style Universal Healthcare System France held since 1870. These cuts made the agency significantly underfunded and in June of 1924 declared bankruptcy unable to pay for itself. It wasn't until September of 1924 in which the Agency was lifted afloat due to a bailout by the Government after rigorous campaigning by the President to the Senate and Assembly. These cuts were heavily opposed by the President and the left in France however the country began to see a economic uptick around the Spring of 1924. The economy began to rise again and with that so did wages and the living standards of workers. It was unknown if this uptick was permanent but it was noticeable. The cause for this was unknown and disputed by both sides.

The right claimed the uptick was due to the cuts in social programs that occured while the Left blamed the bailouts sent to France by nations like the United Kingdom and the United States starting in Late 1923 too try to revive France and to make sure that mainly, France didn't fall to communism like its neighbors which both Anglosphere country's knew would be a major victory for the communists if it did happen. France would still be in a recession for know but France was for the first time in 2 years economically going up. Meanwhile the key to political power in France, the Legislature was holding elections in May of that Year.

The Legislature was controlled by the Right up to that point. The Republican-Democratic Alliance while a leader of the Senate was barely much of a force in the Legislature. The main power in the Legislature was the parliamentary Republican Federation or RF which espoused National Conservative and Traditionalist views. And in a climate like 1924 France, Traditionalism wasn't going to win the day.

The people demanded change in Government and they got it with the Socialists who called for mass reforms in government to suit the needs of the workingmen and women and France. In coalition with the Communists and the Republican Socialists the newly formed Socialist Alliance or SA was born from the mess and ran its first candidates in 1924. They ran unknown government minister Édouard Daladier as there head and his fiery speeches soon turned him into a popular figure with the Urban crowds.

The new SA dominated the election and crushed both of the old FR and Republican-Democrats. They were able to secure a majority in the House of Assembly. Daladier was now the Leader of the House and with him the first Left Wing government in the House in decades. The new coalition promised to end the depression, fight welfare cuts, and protect the common man from there enemies. With a new Left Wing House, the disgruntled President had one less thing to worry about. However the SA was still not friendly with Alexandre.

Still remembered as the Traitor to Socialism he had a hard time winning over many socialists and SA representatives over policy's. He failed to get the Leader of the House to support him too and the House Leader was Center-Left and was in no way a real socialist. The only major agreement they could agree on was against the cuts to the welfare programs the Republican-Democrats did earlier that year. In June Alexandre raised the issue again and campaigned rigorously to end the cuts and to restore the National Health Insurance Agency from bankruptcy.

He could never do that after months of trying with a Right Wing House but he could now with the opposite. He was able to win over the SA and his plans to restore the National Health Insurance Agency were successful in he House. He held more trouble in the Senate but with a overwhelming push for its reinstatement and mass public support some moderates were forced to move and so the plan passed the Senate too. By September the National Health Insurance Agency was restored and increases to welfare programs effected by the cuts would occur gradually until May 1925 when the increases were to stop as according to the bill.

By this time Alexandre himself grew to be a controversial figure. He held mixed approvals and was both hated by the Left and loved at the same time. The feeling was mutual on the right too. By 1924 Alexandre personally had began to grow irrational. After a failed assassination attempt on his live in June of 1922, he had become paranoid for his own safety and after that occurrence rarely after went into public. There was calls for a coup de tate to overthrow him but with Alexandre now in control of the Army per his executive plan, that option was severely dangerous. He received a good bump from the end to the welfare cuts in the polling but that soon receded.

Knowing nothing better to do and risking another assassination, Alexandre Millerand resigned effective immediately on June 11th, 1924 after his announcement for a push against the welfare cuts. Most already saw this coming and his prime minister Raymond Poincaré took the post as President. A member of the Democratic-Republicans Raymond was a needed moderating figure for a wrecked nation.

However Alexandre Millerand would not go away and stayed as a member of the Senate of France until 1940 and then died in 1943. The New Presidents first task was to face the September 1924 Elections. He would face opposition in various Left Wing party's.

[The Govanah Jake]

France would see its closest election since 1906 as the Socialist Party took 40% of the vote for the first time ever while the Communists took more then 5%. The Socialists were able to make Paris its stronghold and this with other Northern Industrial city's was able to make this possible.

However the new president prevailed off the backs of the rural vote and the South and so was elected by the people for a term officially. Raymond Poincaré would now rule a recovering country in a ever hostile world.