Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-12
HOOVER
CUT BY smith
IN Vote POLL
100000 Ballots Ac-
counted For Show
Dems Have Slight
Lead in Big Cities

Smith reduces Hoover's lead more
than z per cent, as the first major
returns are reported from the South
and several larger cities in the
fourth weeks returns OF the Liter
AIRY Digest's 5000 000-ballot Presi-
Dental Poll published today.
With the votes now received from
thirty-nine OF the forty-eight states.
Hoover has 1901 500 votes Of a grand
total of 1926 ta%bulated. while
Smith polls 6ss, s29. This gives Hoov-
er approximately 50 per cent and
Smith about 36 per cen Of the total
vote as compared TO the previous
weeks tabulation when the percent
ages were nearly 6S for Hoover and
3 for Smith.
A new feature Of this mammoth
postcard election is the introduc-
tion Of separate urban returns, in
cluded in the total, from Chicago.
Philadelphia and New York, where
the entire electorate is being poll
ed which show Smith leading in
these three cities with 1s5, GOO
votes to Hoover's I77,404.
-Four for Smith
Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and
South Carolina are the only states
that have as yet given Smith a plu-
rality. Though Hoover has a slight
advantage in the present returns in
Alabama, the vote is practically a
stand-off.
Virginia and North Carolina give
Hoover a definite lead but tie re-
turns from the South, the Literary
Digest cautions, are less than half
completed, and should not be taken
as indicative Of the final returns.
The first separate returns from
New York City. reported this week,
give Smith 02,539 votes as against
o5,2O5 for Hoover. Almost 80 per
cent Of those voting for Smith here
report that they voted the republi-
can ticket in 1924, while Hoover
gains less than Is per cent from
the democratic ranks Of four years
past in the same city.
In New York state as a whole,
where 1t is stated that the returns
are more nearly complete, Hoover is
leading by 170,113 90 1925 This
ratio may be reduced net week. the
Literary Digest points out. when
more votes will be reported from
New York City.
Smith Gets G.. o. p. Aid
A tabulation OF chow the same
voters voted in 1924" shows that
Smith receives nearly one-half Of
his support from those who voted
Tor the republican candidate four
years ago, a slight decrease from
last week when over one-half OF his
vote was from republicans.
Over as per cent of Hoover's vote
comes from professed republicans at
the last election and about % per
cent of his strength is coming from
those who state they voted the
democratic ticket in 1924.
Hoover, it is shown, is receiving
more than one-half Of his support
fom the democratic ranks in the
states of Alabama, Arkansas, Geor-
gia, Louisiana and Texas.
Of the 306,9s7 participating j in this
straw poll" who did not vote in
1924, which includes both those who
have since arrived at voting age and
others who failed to note their pre-
vlous political allegiance. over So
per cent are voting for Hoover and
80 per cent are marking their bal
lots for Smith.
Record Polling Week
Previous polling records Tor the
Fourth week of a national poll. set
by the Literary Digest's presidential
poll Of 1924" the Literary Digest
states editorially. "are left far be-
hind with this weeks tabulation Of
nearly 100000 votes from thirty
nine Of the forty-eight states. ~he
present %tabulation shows an increase
OF almost half a million votes over
the fourth week of the 1924 poll, or
practically SO per cent.
In fact, no Literary Digest poll
has ever stirred such widespread
interest both among the daily news
papers throughout the country and
also, judging by the mass Of uri-
vate correspondence daily received.
among the individual voters them
selves.
Votes from the states in the
Solid South and from New York
City appear for the first time IN
considerable numbers in this weeks
tabulation, with the result that the
Hoover majority is somewhat re-
dueed. The republican lead of
more than two-to-one in last wees
tabulation is cut down to less than
two-to-one this time.
Fences Broken
The breaking down Of political
fences, already noticed in previous
reports on the poll. is even more
plainly evident as voters from the
Southern States come in. Alabama
shows the republican candidate
slightly in the lead, supported by
far more democrats than republi-
cans. While the vote here is prac-
tically a stand-off, both Virginia
and North Carolina give Mr.. Hoover
a substantial lead.
Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and
South Carolina are the only states,
thus far, which have registered a
preference for the democratic can
didate. In all of the Southern
states, however. considering the fact
that the poll is at present not more
than half completed. the vote can
hardly be taken as closely indicative
Of the final returns.
"The Digest's present totals, It will
be noticed, show that 160.3s6 demo-
.~,@f- votax ara now in the Hoover