Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-11-12
KeXall Vote
Was Accurate
PLACES FORTY SIX STATES OUT
OF FORTY-EIGHT CORRECTLY
WRONG ON TWO STATES

NOW that the smoke of battle ha,
ilIted, the ballots counted and tn,
told you SOS" settled down tc
Ihelr customary avocatiohs. one can
not fall to view in retrospect the al
most infallible forecast the Rexall
Stores Straw Vote gave as to how
the nation would vote on Novemhe,
2, 1920.
With a total of 1,239.6sO ballots
recorded in the Rexall Straw Vote
on November 6, as early as October
10 1t was shown that Senator Hard
ing would sweep the ountry and
roll up an unprecedented plurality
over governor Cox. Figures told
this story. From every state in the
Union the ballots rolled in each day
and as the date of the election an
preached, it was plainly evident
that this plurality, hourly, was in
creasing.
The Rexall Poll showed that Sen
ator Harding would nave 379 votes
In the Electoral College to 152 for
Governor Cox. The actual figures
as based on the concensus of news
paper opinion to date, show that the
Rexall Poll was short two states in
the Harding column Tennessee and
Oklahoma-both of which had
shown strong democratic sympathies
from the first. These states appear
in the Rexall's Democratic column.
while both are now claimed by the
Republicans.
In the case of Tennessee, this Is
easily explainable. The mountain
districts of Tennessee are strongly
Republi an, in fact the bulk of the
Republican strength in that state
lies in these districts. These noun
taineers rarely visit towns and cities
1t is only when they come to the
polls or to attend court that they
are lured from their mountain re-
treats. Few if any had an oppor-
tunity to register their presidential
preferences before the election and
in consequence. this Republican
strength was not recorded or shown
in the Rexall Poll.
In the case of Oklahoma, Senator
Harding demonstrated strength
and popularity in that state which
was not reflected to the full in the
Rexall figures. But the vote In
this state was close at all times. In
Ternesee's poll few votes would
have swung OF the other way.
The honesty and accuracy Of the
Rexall Straw Vote has unquestion-
tv-six states out OF possible forty
eight correctly placed Is ample proof
that such n poll taken under such
far-reaching conditions. has won its
place in the limelight OF accuracy.
honesty and usefulness and that 1t
achieved what no other similar at
tempt even approximated.
In few days an analysis OF the
popular vote taken in the Rexall
poll. as compared with the official
count In the states, will be made.
It IL confidently believed that the
proportions thus reached will be
Just as accurate and just as convinc-
Ing as the comparative table on the
electoral vote.-Lewiston Tribune.
90 RPUBLICANS IN LEGISLATURE
The 10th session OF the Idaho
legislature meets for the frst time
on January 1921. The republi-
at the general election. divided as
follows. senators Al; representa-
tives So. The total membership of
the legislature will be 9S The dem
ocrats elected five members, three
senators and two representatives.
They have chance to gain one
more senator in Adams county,
where up to the present time the
count has been so close that an Of
ficial tabulation will be necessitated
to determine the result. There will
not be Nonpartisan with that title
seated In the upper house. J. Loe
Reed, elected as democrat from
Gem county is, however. a Nonpart-
isan. The league had five senators
and six representatives in the legis-
lature last year and expected to
elect Is members in both houses OF
the 1921 legislature.