The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-15
North Carolina And Kansas Only
2 States Voting Dry In Semi-Final
Returns OF The Literary Digest Poll
Nevada Is Wettest State
With Over Z to / Major
ity for Repeal 81
States and District of
G olum b ia BalIOting
More Than 2 to | Wet

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North Carolina joins Kansas in
voting an outright majority for
continuance of the eighteenth
amendment in the sefni-final re-
turns of The Literary Digest's ma
ton wide prohibition poll as an
nounced in tomorrow's issue of the
magazine.
North Carolina goes bone dry by
a majority of 81 votes out of 81, 463
reported returns from the Tar
Heel" state and, in Kansas, the
drys have a lead Of 272 votes from
Il total Of 1873 poi1ed.
IA total Of 4,32s.416 ballots are
reported in the ssemi-finaI returns
of which 1.137,287, or 1921 per
cent, vote for continuance of the
prohibition amendment and 3,192,-
129, or 1913 per cent, register
their sentiments in favor of repeal.
The dry vote shows a seventh
consecutive gain during the poll
rising from 1886 per cent of the
total vote of the initial returns in
this straw referendum.
Nevada casts vote of over to
l wet.
The returns from Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New York and New
Jersey show a majority of over 5
to 1 for repeal in each of these
states.
Illinois, Louisiana and Montana
each show sentiment of more
than 4 to i wet.
Nine other states are voting bet
ter than 3 to l for repeal of the
eighteenth amendment and IA
more states show vote of 2 to l
or more wet making total of 80
out of the as states in which the
wet vote is more than double the
dry vote.
The District Of Columbia is poll
ing a vote for repeal of more than
8 IL to over that for continu-
ance.
The geographical section show
ing the heaviest wet vote is the
Middle Atlantic States of New
York, New Jersey, and Pennsyl-
vania which show combined per-
centage of 1913 for repeal and the
dryest section of states is the east
south central group of Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama. and Missis-
sippi where the combined dry vote
is 40.77 per cent of the total for
the four states.
The states nearest approximate
ing a dry majority include Tennes-
see with $3.50 per cent of its bal
lots for continuance: Arkansas
with 47.54 per cent for continu-
ance; and Oklahoma with 1923
per cent of it's total vote dry.
Newspaper check-up polls con-
Quoted independently in several
sections of the country show a
close parallel of The Literary Di-
gest returns in each given local.
ity, the magazine announces.
"Once more out of clear sky"
The Literary Digest will state in its
issue tomorrow, "emerges sudden
testimonial Of facts to vindicate
the 100000 ballot referendum.
Facts all the more impressive
because not always, perhaps, from
approving sources.
I'm some cases, for instance,
they have been gathered by news
papers in politically dry territory
incredulous Of The Literary Digest
wet totals.
Local polls, launched by such
newspapers in different parts of
the country, have been going on
for days, some for weeks, but re-
suits to date have been a strik-
ing confederation of our poll fig
ures.
I'm no case has local poll I'M
covered a dry majority where The
Digest sets down to wet one. All
are wet SO far and the degrees of
wetness correspond remarkably
with those indicated in The Di-
gest's tabulations.
I'm some cases a local poll runs
a trifle less wet than our poll-5
or.6 per cent.
t'On the other hand at Rich
mond, Virginia, the local poll at
this writing is about IL per cent
wetter than The Digest's figures
The ninth report in the 1890
! Literary Digest poll giving three
options on the ballot instead OF
two showed a total tabulation OF
4,567,761 votes of which 1886, 216
or. 30.38 per cent, were for strict
enforcement while 1,340,441, OF
1884 per cent, voted for modifica-
ton to admit light wines and beers
and 1,836,104, Or 40.24 per cnet
registered in favor of an outright
repeal of the eighteenth amend
sment.