The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-05-16
.rur p,crsrso pnrsiprSrIAL POLL


The Literary Digosts presidential poll con-
tinues TO grow IN both number Of votes cast
and popul.r interest. with upwards Of n million
votos cnst the current weeks tabulatiun shows
GenoraI wood stiil In the lead among upwards
OF 400 candidates all told. though only ~ appear
On the official ballot; with Senator Johnson the
runror up The wood total In 202 03o against
is71A0 for johnson.
Hoover tho no-party man, comes third with
1se,b29 votes while William O. McAdoo leads
the democratic candidates with 63.9SS votes
Wilson second with i53G9 and Edwards third
with 461i6 By this time the vote has become
general over the nation. each state being tairly
well represented in the totals.
IL is not, however. the comparative standing
OF the candidates that stands out with especial
significance, but the great disparity between the
total number of republican and democratic
votes. Although the southern states have par
ticipnted heavily In the voting, the first tend
ency of large numbers OF democratic voters to
vote for republican candidates IL maintained.
In the state OF Georgia. for instance the dem-
ocratia candidates are but n slight lead ahead
of the republican candidates In the south At
lnntlc states. composed OF Delaware Maryland,
District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia,
North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida the total democratic vote Is only 2l,327
as against 2t,324 for the republican candidates,
a majority OF but three votes for democracy.
Manitestiy something has been taking place
I'm the old solid south. The east, fouth central
and the west south central states evnce slight
ly more democratic leaning, but even here the
figures sufficiently startling. In tho latter
group the total democratic vote is 3o2sS as
against a republican total OF 25.5s5 Another
| l,t.
| IN tho fact that McAdoo who leads the demo-
| cratic candidates in public favor with total
OF 63.oss Is supported by less number of
| democrats than Mr.. Hoover who Is favored by
| 67,O7i democrats In his total OF 169,552.
Verify party lines are falling lightly on an
exceedingly large number OF voters
The total vote cast by Oklahoma is given ms
1905. This, In "A million votes in the nation,
is approximately oklahomas proportlonatc
share. OF this number 5.s7S cast for demo-
cratic candidates, 24A for the socialist and 12,-
794 for republican candidates The three high
men among the republicans are Johnson, with
2,761 Wood. 2,l75. and Hoover. 1,s9S, Among
the democrats tho three leaders Bryan,
| 1893 Wilson, 1895, and McAdoo 1887,
The disproportion OF votes as between demo-
Gratis and republicans, measured against tho
voting record OF the state. s sufficient to arouse
! speculation as to the manner In which the vot-
| ing lists were made up, suspicion that an unfair
| proportion OF ballots were mailed republican
! voters. We are unable to say how the lists were
| made up, but the tabulation throws some light
on the subject, since Oklshoma's proportionato
share OF the 14S.12i democrats who have thus
far In the voting east their ballots for re-
publican candidates accounts for the discrep-
| ency noted,
The fair conclusion is that oklahoma, In this
| national campaign at least, Is very much debat-
able ground IL not actually predisposed towards
! republicanism. And II 14S,124 democrats out OF
a total OF 345.294 are predsposcd towards re.
| publicanism this year. and the ratio thus dis
| covered holds good throughout the nation, II
is not difficult to answer the question we asked
not long ago to-wit: where have the demo
Gratis OF 1915 gomez" They have left the
party. for the time being at least
But there has also been a drift Of repub-
lcan voters, indicating strongly that the
DRIFT" both ways is because OF the league of
nations issue. While the democratic party was
losing i4S,l2i voters TO the republican cnndi-
dates the republican party was losing 2t,2l5 to
| the democratic candidates