The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-09
ENFORCEMENT VOTE
now EXCEEDS TOTAL
FOR MODIFICATION
RepeaI Still Continues to Lead
in Literary Digest Test Of
Nations Desires
100000 MARK is PASSED
Wet Showing Family Dimin'
ished; Kansas Heads Drys,
Connecticut Drips

Three more states vote bone -dry IN
The Literary Digest's main poll on
prohibition, as the total vote tabu-
lated passes the 1000, 900 mark, &C
cording to tomorrow's issue Of the
magazine.
North Carolina, Oklahoma, and
Tennessee are the states which have
Joined Kansas and Arkansas In vot-
ing wei SO per cent for strict enforce
nlent.
Only three states, Connecticut, New
Jersey and Rhode Island, have a ma
jority vote for repeal.
Of the 4,15O,O17 votes in the eighth
and current report Of the major poll
by the magazine, 1,248,589, or 5000
per cent vote for enforcement;
1881 $40, or 1858 per cent register for
modification; and 1859 ,579, or 1923
per cent are for repeal.
While there has been no marked
change in the ratios of the three
groups, it is noted that there is a
general trend in the later reports to-
ward a drier vote.
For the first time since the poll
SvdTUcQ CklG VOUC XOA CAAAVA SCAAAOAAV
passes that for modification.
Kansas continues to lead as the
driest state in the poll and Connec-
ticut also continues to head the wet
column.
Although there is no clear majority,
louisiana and New York each have q
vote of over 40 per cent for repeal.
States For Enforcing Or Repeal
Over 40 per cent of the vote in Ala
bama, Colorado, Iowa, Mississippi,
Nebraska, South Carolina, and Texas
is for enforcement while in Delaware,
Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massa-
chusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Mon
tana, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wiscon-
sin, Wyoming, and the District Of
Columbia over 40 per cent of the bal
lots are registered for repeal.
"The big poll continues to smash
all records for returns" DR.. william
Seaver Woods, editor -in-chief of The
Literary Digest, states. with over
four million individual sentiments al
ready Tailed in this huge undertake
ing and with hundreds Of thousands
of votes yet untabulated, we feel that
the poll must have a tremendous in
terest to the public.
I'VE have been advised by 81 news
papers throughout the country that
they are conducting local polls to
check our returns in their own Sec
ton. Where the check-up has been
at all exhaustive we have been adj
vised that the newspaper returns
vary but slightly from ours"
Three more states go dry in The
Digest Poll" The Literary Digest
states e~ditorially. In other words
they are more than SO per cent bone
dry.
''This rally for prohibition, coupled
with the fact that the vote for en-
forcement has suddenly shot beyond
the vote for modification, gives q
stimulating interest to the eighth re-
port.
"As the repeal Of the eighteenth
amendment would hinge upon the
vote by states, and not upon q popu-
lar plurality, the winning of three
states for the bone-dry column is
not to be sneezed at.
Against the five areas Of aridity
mentioned above, only three of the
wet states show clear majorities Of
more than SO per cent for repeal.
These are Connecticut. New Jersey,
and Rhode Island.
Other States Likely to Tip
Louisiana and New York shoot
very close to the mark-close enough