The Redwood gazette., 1930-04-16
They Like Clague

TOT only is the Gazette pleased to announce Franz
N Clague's filing for reelection to Congress, but
practically one hundred per cent of the papers
OF his district in the mood The Rock Coun-
ty Herald of Luverne has this to say about the Sec
ond Districts representative in Washington:
Congressman Frank Clague filed last Monday as
candidate for reelection to the House, and is the
first candidate for congress file from this district
Moreover from all Indications he will be the only Re-
publican to ile for there have been rumblngs of
opposition to him heard anywhere in the district. On
the contrary the only thing heard is words of praise,
Of the efficient in which Mr. Clague looks af
ter the interests of his district and the state and of
the fidelity he displays in representing these interests.
"Mr. Clague is serving his fifth term in con-
and his record reflects credit to himself his dis
trict and his state. He is member of the powerful
appropriations committee and is recognized one of
the hardest working members in the House.
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There Is Difference
t<THE Journal Chronicles lead in criticzing the
lack of fairness perhaps unintentional of the
Literary Digest in conducting it's poll of the
prohibition question has been followed by scores of
Minnesota and Northwest newspapers and is spread
ing to wider adeas. Two Minnesota papers which
out during the past week with "lead" editorials
the topic the Minneapolis Journal and the
Duluth Advertiser, while large number of others
The whole, however, tended to indicate that these
newspapers have investigated the local conditions
regarded the Literary Digest prohibition ballot and
discovered them much Journal Chronicle investi-
CATION disclosed here. They evidently found that the
women, natural opponents of the return of liquor and
like US men, fully entitled to the vote, being
given negligible opportunity to express their desires in
in the poll. ',---''s---- ---"--'-"--
''The Digest defends its overlooking of the women
by declaring the poll made up exactly in the
of it's presidential polls which, it cites very judi
iciously, proved emphatcaly exact. AS the Journal
Chronicle pointed out in its original editorial how
ever, and the Minneapolis Journal reiterated in
shorter but very similar editorial last Friday there is
a difference between the two polls-and of vast
Importance Men and women's votes remarkably
similar when it to the selection of party in
poltics-but they vary in most inverse proportion
to that similarity the wet and dry question. The
Minneapolis Journals expressed view the Digest
poll notes.
'The fairness of the Literary Digest prohibition
poll is attacked the ground that the voter
has been neglected in the distribution of the secret
ballots. The Digests is that its lists were
made up in precisely the way as in its Presi-
Dental poll Since the Presidential poll proved amaz-
ingiy accurate in the forecastng the actual results
it is assumed that the accuracy should charact
erze wet and dry poll similarly taken.
"But this does not follow, by any means. 1t is
well recognized that political questions the female
vote divided substantially the same lines as the
male vote. Husband and wife usually vote the same
way Presidential elections. Addition of the votes
of the women doubles the totals without channg
suits. But in the of prohibition this does not
hold good In innumerable where the husband is
wet the wife is dry. The woman vote is doubtless pre-