Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1920 — WHOEVER IS ELECTED MUST LEARN FROM PRESS [ARTICLE]

WHOEVER IS ELECTED MUST LEARN FROM PRESS

If a president-elect of this country didn’t read the newspapers he might never learn he was elected. Although all other ceremonies and formalities are carefully taken care of by the law, no way is provided for the formal notification of a candidate that he has been chosen president _ , , . . When the vote of the electoral college is canvassed the result is spread on the journals of both houses of congress but there is no formal announcement to the cand,<HeP finds out that he is elected the best way he can and then drops in at the White House on March 4 for inauguration.