Election Day
Daily News, 8 November, p. 1. Chronicling America.
One hundred years ago today … It was election day, and the Democratic party swept New York State. Voters, New York City voters in particular, returned their native son Al Smith to the Governor’s seat that he had lost two years earlier, and won fifteen congressional seats away from the Republicans in the state.
Brooklyn Citizen, 8 November, p. 1. Chronicling America.
Suspicions and concerns of election fraud, especially what were called “repeaters,” would prove unfounded.
The Evening World, 7 November, p. 1. Chronicling America.
Smith would become so popular that he would become the Democratic nominee for president 6 years later, the first Catholic nominee by a major party.
– Jonathan Goldman, Nov. 7, 2022.
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