Election Results: Expressions

From the White House a telegram to President-Elect Hoover read in part: "With this endorsement I can now retire from office in contentment. . . . Best wishes in which Mrs. Coolidge joins.

Calvin Coolidge."

From the Vatican, Rome, came a statement: "The election of a Catholic candidate would certainly have been a matter for the greatest satisfaction, but this does not mean that the Holy See is displeased with the success of Herbert Hoover, whose attitude toward the Church has always been highly respectful."

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