就在《时代》关注远东这次选举的同时,美国也经历着一场总统的更替,总统沃伦·哈定逝于任上,副总统卡尔文·柯立芝就是当然的继任者,一年后,柯立芝又通过竞选赢得了下一个4年。但美国是两党制的国家,他们的选举法并不适于北洋军政权下内阁制的民国。另外一个离中国最近的内阁制国家日本,在1923年也有一场首相 Just as the “time” has paid attention to the Far East this election, the United States has also undergone a presidential change and President Warren Harding passed away. Vice President Calvin Coolidge was an ex-officio successor. A year later, Coolidge won the election again through the next four years. However, the United States is a two-party state and its election law is not suitable for a cabinet-based Republic under the Beiyang military regime. Another Japan, the cabinet-based country closest to China, also had a prime minister in 1923