Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-20
VOTING FORECASTS
RECORD IN FALL
Hoover and Roosevelt Gather
Most of Delegates in Pri-
mary Tests.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The American electorate is saying it
with ballots these days as President
Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt
gather in most of the delegates who
choose the presidential nominees.
The past week gave ample demonstra-
ton OF this in national and local politi-
cal tussleS and President Hoover was
asked to encourage the vote-conscious
movement in getting out 100000
votes in November.
The North Dakota primary, which
brought O rain of 10000 ballots in the
Democratic preference race, or six
times the previous record, furnished
the only big political development of
the week.
Roosevelt's capture of the Demo-
cratic preference vote and nine out of
the ten delegates in that agricultural
state shared interest with the pig
ballot.
Other Voting Heavy.
Atlanta and Milwaukee municipal
voting also brought bullying ballot
boxes, while Chicago registration books
added 23l 900 names to the voting lists.
All OF which may indicate a trend
OO"oAN al dNd1dIlCIlC OI VOCSS on mo-
Vember to top the all-time record OF
100000 in 1928.
The dlSaffection among Republicans
in North Dakota, where many of them
went to the polls in the Democratic
primary, may or may not be regarded as
significant in this connection. But the
Democrats are confident that any in
creased banoting in the Fall elections
Will embrace a protest vote against
President Hoover, just as the big vote
four years ago included protest against
Alfred E. Smith.
Mayor CurleyS invitation to two Re-
publicans to join the Roosevelt pledged
slate of delegates in Massachusetts, is
perhaps part of the Democratic drive
for opposition as well as party support,
which in North Dakota was carried on
not so openly as the Boston mayors
effort.
Hoover managers continue to express
confidence in his reelection.
66 of IS for Hoover.
His denomination is taken for grant
ed by them. OF the SO Republican del
egates chosen to date, the President has
Sc from Kansas, New Hampshire. LOU
isiana, Virginia and North Dakota in
Structed, pledged or claimed for him.
The other two, in North Dakota, are
uninstructed but favor a progressive"
OF the even 100 Democratic delegates
selected, Roosevelt has ST instructed
and pledged for him from Washington
State, New Hampshire, Minnesota and
North Dakota. Gov. Murray of Okla
homa has % from Oklahoma and one
from North Dakota, and the remain
ing 20 are uninstructed from Louisiana.
Tho T1ladOn nf Hnnuor,c nina NORTH
Dakota delegates was challenged yes
terday by Senator Frazier, Republican
independent of that State. He claimed
the primary law makes it mandatory
on the delegation to support the candi-
date getting a majority in the prefer
ence voting, who in this instance
was Joseph I. France of Maryland. Mr..
Hoover was not entered for the pref
erence vote but nine of the II dele
gates elected have Endorsed him.
Frazier in a statement quoted the
North Dakota law and said in justice
to his State 'it should be understood
that the popular vote of the party in
favor of a presidential candidate is
upon the delegates elected in
the primary"
Point for State Officials.
This is point for the State officials
to decide. Calvin Coolidge won North
Dakota's preference vote in 1924, but
supporters of the late Robert M. La
Toilette elected six of his delegates and
they supported the Wisconsin indie
pendent to the last at the Cleveland
Convention. These six and 20 from
refused to make the decision
unanimous for Coolidge.
State Attorney General James Morris,
at Bismarck, refused to rule on the
question raised by Frazier.
Next weeks calendar calls for selec-
ton of so more Republican delegates by
the convention method-16 from Georgia
and from New Mexico on Saturday
and Is from Iowa on Tuesday.
Senator Dickinson or Iowa expressed
the view yesterday that his States 25
would be either instructed Tor or
friendly to Hoover"
No Democratic delegates Will be
chosen next week, although the Georgia
primary on Wednesday will show how
the delegation to be named at State
convention April will line up. A
Roosevelt victory is conceded generally
there.
Gov. Murray's defeat in North Da-
kota apparently has not dimmed the
hopes of "Alfalf' Bill" He said yester-
day he would control the Democratic
National Convention and name the
President "