The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-12
Votes Are Received from
About 100000 in Election
Being Conducted by Maya
zine; Fences Are Bein :
Broken Down in Political
Fields

Digest's 10000 OO-ballot presiden
tial poll, published today.
With the votes now received from
80 Of the 4S states, Hoover ha
1901 1863 votes of a grand total Of
1,911,257 tabulated, while Smith
polls 688,S29. This gives Hoover ap
proximately 63 per cent and Smith
about SO per cent Of the total vote
as compared to the previous week!
tabulation when the percentage!
were nearly SO for Hoover and 81
for Smith.
A new feature of this mammoth
postcard election" is the introduc
ton of separate urban returns. in
cluded in the total, from Chicago
Philadelphia, and New York, where
the entire electorate is being polled
which show Smith leading in these
three cities with $4,000 votes t
Hoover's 174,404.
Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, anC
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 ir
Alabama, the vote is practically a
stand-off.
South Votes Incomplete
Virginia and North Carolina give
Hoover a definite lead, but the re.
turns from the south. the Literary
Digest cautions, are less than halt
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 $3.50 votes, as against
62,2O5 for Hoover. Almost 30 per
cent of those voting for Smith here
report that they voted the Repuli-
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 it is stated that the returns
are more nearly complete, Hoover is
leading by '170,113 to 144,276. This
ratio may be reduced next week, the
Literary Digest points out, when
more votes will be reported from
New York City.
A tabulation of chow the same
voters voted in 1924" shows that
Smith receives nearly one-half Of
his support from those who voted
for the Republican candidate four
years ago, a slight decrease from
last week, when over one-half Of his
vote was from Republicans.
Over rs per cent Of Hoover's vote
comes from professed Republicans
at the last election, and about %
per cent is coming from those who
stated they voted the Democratic
ticket in 1924.
Hoover, it is shown, is receiving
more than one-half of his support
from the Democratic ranks in the
states Of Alabama, Arkansas, Geor-
gia. Louisiana, and Texas.
Of the 3O6,987 participating 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 previous political allegiance,
over So per cent are voting for
Hoover and 30 per cent are marking
their ballots for Smith.
Previous polling records for the
fourth week Of a national poll. set
by the Literary Digest's presiden-
tial poll of 1924 the Literary Di-
gest states editorially, "are left far
behind with this weeks tabulation of
nearly 100000 votes from 80 of the
AZ states. The present tabulation
shows an increase of almost half a
million votes over the fourth week
OF the 1924 poll, or practically 80
per cent.
I'm fact, no Literary Digest poll
mas ever stirred such widespread in
terest both among the daily news
papers throughout the country and
also. judging by the mass of pri-
vate correspondence daily received
among the individual voters them
selves.
"Voters 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-
duced. The Republican lead of more
than two to one in last weeks tahu-
iation is cut down to less than two
to one this time.
Fences Broken Down
The breaking down of political
FENCES, already noticed in previous
reports on the poll, is even more
plainly evident as votes from tho
southern states come in. Alabama
shows the Republican Candidate
slightly in the lead, supported by
lar more former Democrats than
Republicans. While the vote here is
practically a stand-off, both Vir-
glnia and North Carolina give Mr.
Hoover substantial lead.
Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana
and South Carolina are the onlv
states, thus far, which have regis.
tered q preference for the Demo.
cratic candidate. In all of the south.
ern states, however, considering the
TACT that the poll is at present not
more than half completed, the vote
I:n nardly be taken as closely in
dlcative Of the final returns.
The Digest's present totals +
will be noticed, show that 16O.386
democratic votes are now in the
Hoover column. while Mr.. Smith
claims the considerably larger figure
Of 259,913 votes from kepub,,can
voters as of 1924. On the other
hand, under the total Of the column
headed No Vote which includes
~; VINO vote tor the first time in
ms election and those who neglect
g state whether they voted or not
" e Hoover I. has the advantage by |
20 O2, to 119,754 for Smith.
IN the final analysis, of course
ne majorities in the separate STATE.
expressed through the votes in ths
!ectcrai college will determine the