The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-31
COOLIDGE VOTE PLACED AT BY
 IN DIGEST POLL
Final Figures Give Davis 165 And La Toilette 39
 In Electoral College

President Coolidge seems certain to receive more than enough electoral votes to retain his office for another term on the basis of the final returns of The Literary Digest's non-partizan national poll which will appear in to- morrow's issue of that periodical.
 Of the grand total of 2.3S0, ,052 bal- lots recorded, Coolidge receives 1,34o,- O33 votes. La Toilette, 50S,510, and Davis, 5O5,41O. The balance of 24,O93 votes arc scattered among the other five regular candidates.
 Wisconsin. casting 13 electoral votes, is the only state which accords Sena- tor La Toilette a plurality Tn Ihe Digest poll. The states credited to MT. Davis include Virginia, North Caro- lima, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama. Tennessee, Kentucky, Mlssls- sinni Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, ranrpsenting a total electoral vote or 139.
 Strong In California
 Rut according to The Digest's fig. ures Senator La Toilette has eyidenceo considerable strength in Callfor1na' Nevada, North Dakota, and Soutn | Dakota. which if he gains on elecuon day would increase his electoral votes to total of ,39.
 The Digest states that in pursuing this policy of giving the benefit ol doubtful states to vigorous contendef for leadership in the state, MT. Davis might be credited with Oklahoma. West Virginia, and Maryland, which would increase his electoral poll 70 votes, making him total of 160.
 Granting the democratic and pro gressiye candidates these states, where President Coolidge is leading by mar row plurality, it would leave the presi- dent 327 electoral votes, with 266 re- ouired for election to the executive chair.
 Here are the final figures" states The Digest, in summation ot its poll, ''presented in that spirit ot non partizanship of honest desire to get Ut all sides of a complex question, which The Digest, among other American periodicals, has made peculiarly its own
 Briefly, Mir. Coolidge receives more votes than all opponents put together, and MT. La Toilette receives slightly larger popular vote than goes to Mir. Davis.
 'There are strong claims that Mir. La Toilette will carry both Minnesota and Iowa, but The Digest's figures do not indicate this. Minnesota's bal lots have shown a consistent majority, of considerable margin, for MT. Cool idge. throughout the balloting. Iowa | seems to he even more strongly for the president.
 California, however, has, from the first, shown a strong sentiment for the Wisconsin candidate, and there fore, in spite of the fact that the pres ent vote. is 76,730 for President Cool idge to -65, 5,169 for Senator La Toilette, the state is marked doubtful.
 Ut must be emphasized, as has ire quently been pointed out, that The Digest did not ask about the politics of l its poll voters, but only how they voted in 1929. 20.-a.s--a-v-s.---.-- -s--s-.-s..-.-
 Hundreds of thousands of demo- crats voted the republican ticket in that year. Therefore, it can not be said that, on the basis of The Digest's figures, so many votes went to re- publicans, so many to democrats, but only that the distribution was between those who voted the democratic and the republican tickets in 1920, what ever their essential politics.
 "It appears, also, that, in the i'm portant matter of drift, as between republican and democrats since 1920 there has not been a great deal of change