The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-08
HOLSTERS VOTE
81 FOR REPEAL
IN DIGEST POLL
131 ,040 Want Change,
61,262 Say No, New
Report Shows.

Indianians favoring repeal of the
eighteenth amendment hold a ma
iority Of more than 2 to over those
urging its retention as the Literary
Digest this week tabulates 1872, 1902
straw votes from the Hoosier state.
The Indiana figures, to be an
nounced in Saturdays issue Of the
Digest, are: Favoring repeal, 131 GAO;
favoring continuance, 81, 1852.
Thirty-two states representing a
combined population Of over 85,-
100000 are voting within a frac-
ton Of 3 TO / wet, as more than
100000 ballots are tabulated in the
current report.
Nine states with total popula-
ton OF more than 100000 register
q dry sentiment of 40 per cent or
more. OF these states Kansas alone
gives definite majority for con-
tinuance of the prohibition amend
ment, while North Carolin Is almost
dry.
Northeast Wettest
The wettest section of the United
States as evidenced by the poll
figures extends from the Mississippi
river to the Atlantic ocean above
the Mason-Dixon line, with the
dampest concentration in the group
OF states Of New Jersey, New York,
Connecticut and Rhode Island.
The dryest sector is the belt of
twelve states extending from Texas
and Oklahoma to the Atlantic ocean
including Kentucky and Virginia
and excepting Florida.
The Pacific coast states are vot-
ing slightly over three to one wet,
about the same as those states in
the upper Mississippi valley.
The Rocky Mountain section reg
listers approximately three to two
sentiment for repeal.
4 Million Votes Counted
A total of 4,009, 400 ballots are
tailed this week of which 1,046,113,
or $500 per cent, vote for contin-
uance of prohibition and 1858, 1856,
or 1891 per cent, are for repeal.
AS an answer to charges that the
poll does not represent the women
Of the nation, The Literary Digest
tomorrow will publish returns of
special referendum of all registered
voters of Portland Maine, which
was selected, it is stated, because it
was one of the oldest prohibition
centers in the whole country.
The canvass was so arranged, an
nouncement is made, that the
ballots returned by women voters
could be distinguished from those
returned by men voters and still re-
main secret ballots.
1883 ballots we're mailed to men
and 1883 ballots we're mailed to
women, the total of which con-
stituted the entire registered cleo
torate of the city.
OF 1881 replies returned by men
$40 or 24.36 per cent, voted dry and
BOIL, or 1854 per cent voted wet.
Women Favor Repeal
OF the 1883 ballots mailed to the
women 1,126, or 38.45 per cent, voted
for continuance of the prohibition
amendment and 1902, or 6155 per
cent, voted for repeal
DR.. William Seaver Woods, editor
in-chief of the magazine, states that
he has received number of COM
plants from people who claim to
have received more than one ballot.
This he accounts for by the fact
that the Literary Digest is conduct
ing supplementary polls of lawyers,
bankers, doctors, and clergymen
concurrently with the main referen-
dunn and the letter of instruction
that accompanies the ballot in each
of these minor polls informs the re-
ceiver that the additional ballot may
be duplication, but that it will not
be counted in the main poll.
The vote by states in the new tab
ulation: