Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-21
F D I'D LEADS
HARDING IN
FIRST RETURNS
More Than $4,000 Ballots Received
First Week of Nationwide Presi-
dental Voting Test Conducted by
The Leader Enterprise
SMITH STRONG IN NEW YORK
Political Leaders Interested in Poll
AS 1t Indicates Small Town Senti-
ment. Have You Voted Yet?

Some mighty startling figures are
presented as ballots of the first weeks
voting in the Leader-Enterprise ma
tion-wide Presidential Voting Test are
tabulated. These early returns are from
fourteen states and are an authorita-
tive indication of Eastern, Midwest
ern and Southern State presidential
choice in small towns and rural Amer
lea
A total of 55,5ol votes had been re-
Henry Ford isFiesdufg the field with
1878. And here is . be surprising ang-
lie to the first returns Governor Al
Smith of New York, who last week
signed the state prohibition repeater is
running ahead of President Harding
and second to Ford with total of a.
4o3. Harding is led by Ford by about
5000 votes. The presidents vote is
11,471.
Smiths vote however is virtually
all from New York state AS
matter of fact he is running ahead
of Ford in New York by more than
1000. Smiths heaviest vote out
side his own state was from Pennsyl-
vania, although he collected votes in
Florida, Oklahoma, Maryland. South
Dakota, Illinois, Kansas, South Caro-
lima, Ohio and Massachusetts.
The real voice of the voters is heard
in the Ford and Harding votes. The
Detroiter seems to be equally popular
in all sections of the country and is
piling up small majorities in virtually
every community.
Illinois, Marylandand Ohio give
Harding and early lead over Ford, but
New York, Florida, Oklahoma, South
Carolina, Missouri, Michigan and Mass
achussetts give Ford majorities.
Harding leads Ford in Ohio, the
Presidents state, 1,417 to 1916. Ford
leads Harding in Michigan the Detroit
-ers state 1924 to SCI.
Of the fourteen states, many of
which are in the democratic south, vot-
ers seem quite divided: Cox is run
ming ahead a@NcAdoo, 2,4l2 to 1900
Hiram Johnson is running next to
the President in the Republican pos
sibilities with 1919 votes. Then comes
LaFollette with o05
BRYAN received 663 votes, Underwood
549, Pinchot of Penn. 524, Hoover
480 and Hughes ST..
In Golfers Weekly Straw vote, fifth
week of voting as announced in its
issue this week, June 1923, Ford leads
with 54257 to Hardirlys 1924
The ollier face-to-face straw vote
is representative of the city and larg-
er town choices. Both Hughes and
Johnson show remarkable strength
there. Cox and McAdoo are running
far ahead of the field in the big city
Democratic ranks
The Collier vote this week, with
total of 165,514 votes counted, shows
Ford 54,257; Harding 1924; McAdoo
1908; Cox 11,044; Johnson 1885,;
Hughes 9,453; Smith 1875; Hoover
6,541 LaFollette 4,480: Leonard
Wood ',432; Underwood 2,318. Borah
1929 and Davis 1900
In the Leader-Enterprise poll, many
- favorite sons showed surprising
strength in their own commonwealth
but could only be tabulated in our scat
tered votes column inasmuch as they
received no votes. outside their own
states. For instance: In Missouri Sen
ator James A. Reed leads Ford 5l2
votes to 407. In Pennsylvania Govern
or Pinchot who stands as DRY"
polled 465 botes. Senator Capper poll
ed ia votes in Kansas and Owen 81
in Oklahoma
The ballot for Ben Hill County now
stands, Ford $40; Nc Adoo 20; Hughes
10.
Have you voted yet? The Leader
Enterprise polls do not close until
July LIST, but we urE you to vote to-
day
The voting is entirely non-partisan.
Party lines are down. Just pick out the
man you think best1Gitted to be our
next President, be he epublican Demo-
crat, Socialist, Progressive, or Farm
Labor, clip the ballot below, write in
your choice and mail or send it to the
Leader Enterprise office. You do not
need to write your name, because the
voting is just as secret as when you
enter the election booth.
First returns from Fourteen states
in Leader Enterprise Vote Test: