The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-31
COOLIDGE HAS
GOOD LEAD IN
DIGEST'S POLL
President Shows Well in Final
Vote From North Dakota
In Magazine
ALSO N NATION ALL Y
Digest Says That Final Poll
Indicates Election of
Coolidge Easily
ALSO N ALTON A LII Y

The final push in North Dakota
will win in the presidential election
is the conclusion reached in "The
Literary Digest" poll. announced to-
day. While Coolidge has a marked
lead in the poll from North Dakota
the state, with a few others, is
marked doubtful because Of the CON-
paratively few ballots from the state
The final Digest poll shows fo,
North Dakota: Coolidge 1882; Davis
1,433; FaFollette 4.s21; Faris S;
Foster %; Nations Al; Wallace 2;
Johns 81.
The vote shows 1882 for Coolidge
as compared to 1857 for Harding in
1920, remarkably fine comparison
from the Coolidge standpoint, since
Harding carried the state in 1926
by a majority of over 10000 votes
the largest in the history of the
state.
Coolidge Trend
For the last week reports have
been coming in of general trend
toward Coolidge in North Dakota.
President Coolidge seems certain
to receive more than enough elec.
torial votes to retain his office fol
another term on the basis Of the
final returns of The Digest's non.
partizan national poll.
OF the grand total Of 1856, ,05z
ballots recorded, Coolidge receives
l ,348, ,O33 votes, LA Toilette, sos, SIG
and Davis, sos, 4l0. The balance
of 24,O93 votes are scattered among
the other five regular candidates.
Wisconsin. casting 13 electora
votes, is the only, State which ac-
cords Senator LaFollctte a plurality
in The Digest poll. The States Gre
dited to Mr.. Davis include Virginia
North Carolina, South Carolina
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tenne.
ssec, Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkan-
sas, Louisiana, and Texas, represent
ing a total electoral vote. Of 139.
But according to The Digest's fig
ureS Senator LaFolIette has cvi-
denced considerable strength in Cal.
ifornia, Nevada. North Dakota, and
South Dakota, which if he gains on
Election Day would increase his
electoral votes to a total of 80.
Davis Vote
The Digest states that in pursu-
ing this policy of giving the benefit
of doubtful States to vigorous
contender for leadership in the
State, Mr.. Davis might be credited
with Oklahoma, West Virginia, and
Maryland, which would increase his
electoral poll 2G votes, making him a
total of l65.
Granting the Democratic and Pro-
gressive candidates these States,
where President Coolidge is leading
by narrow plurality, it would
leave the President 1927 electoral
votes. with 266 required for election
to the executive chair.
On special map which The Di-
gest has prepared from the final
figures of its record-breaking poll,
28 States are marked Republican,
IL Democratic, l Progressive. and 7
doubtful. A special table showing
the official returns by States in the
Harding-Cox election of 1920 is also
presented.
"Here are the final figures" states
The Digest, in summation of its
poll, presented in that spirit Of
nonpartizanship, of honest desire to
get at all sides of a complex qucs
tion, which The Digest, among 9th
cr American periodicals., has made
peculiarly its own.
Briefly, Mr.. Coolidge receives
more votes than all his opponents
put together, and Mr.. LaFollette re-
ceives slightly larger popular vote
than goes to Mr.. Davis. go