Charles Curtis marched down the street in Topeka, Kan. with his unpublicized sister, Mrs. Jerome Calvin. He was offered an automobile ride but declined it. To the polling place he marched and waited his turn to vote for himself and Herbert Hoover. That night, listening to returns before entraining for Washington, he learned that 50,000 too few Kansans had done likewise for him to save even Kansas' 9 electoral votes for his party. Said he: "This is the first popular election I have ever lost."
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