The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-07
Roosevelt ! Leads Hoover
Nearly $4,000 Votes In
Literary Digest's Poll

2l7, Roosevelt g,s57; Georgia:
Hoover 3S9, Roosevelt 2,317.
Illinois: Hoover l3,901, Roose-
! welt 2s, ISL; Indiana: Hoover g.
533, Roosevelt 1898; Maine
Hoover 4,795, Roosevelt 1878;
Massachusetts: Hoover 1920,
Roosevelt 1890; Mississippi:
Hoover 1914, Roosevelt 2,1g9; Mon
tana: Hoover 2,210, Roosevelt
8, 1859; New Hampshire: Hoover
3,011, Roosevelt 2,0s6; New Jer-
sey: Hoover 43,864, Roosevelt ST.
TO.
New York. Hoover 106,7OS,
Roosevelt 1l7,282; Ohio: Hoover
14,976, Roosevelt 22,854; Peerl-
sylvania: Hoover 46,173, Roosevelt
SO, gGg; Rhode Island: Hoover 81
325, Roosevelt 1888; South Caro-
lima: Hoover 805, Roosevelt T.
1897; West Virginia: Hoover T.
1904, Roosevelt 11,742 and Wiscori-
sin: Hoover 1850, Roosevelt TO-
O84.
Twenty states are included In
these incomplete early returns, :
The Literary Digest viii state edi-
| toriaIly. Nine Of them are maxi
| ing their first appearance In this
| tabulation.
THE presidents Old Guard at
the present moment are the New
England States and New Jersey.
They give him six Of the twenty
states SO far.
Roosevelt is ahead in the other
fourteen.
.'And what Of the presidents
home state? Has California also
opened her arms to her own son!
No such maternal gesture has es-
capped her, according to these un-
compromising expressions Of her
attitude toward the candidates:
Hoover 16,402; Roosevelt 35,s73.
But it may be that California will
be piIiHg up a record poll-vote for
Mr.. Hoover before many weeks are
over.
1.-THE nine new states in this
tabuIation are Alabama. Colorado,
Georgia, Mississippi. Montana,
New Hampshire, Rhode Island,
South Carolina and Wisconsin.
"The last name catches the eve
because Of the defeat Of the La
Toilette organization in the Wis
consin primaries. That event was
widely heralded as 'Wiseonsin's be-
lated return to the fold of con-
sentative Hooverite Republican
ism. But what do the Digest bal
lots from Wisconsin say? Only
this Hoover 4,T50, Roosevelt To-
O84.
"A fine chance for the political
| prophets to do some explaining
should the return from Wisconsin
continue TO show that complexion.
"Only two Of the nine newcom-
ers prefer Hoover so far. These
are New Hampshire and Rhode Is
land.
THE seven which fall into the
Roosevelt column are well scatter
ed over the mapAlabama. Col
Dorado, Georgia. Mississippi. Mon
tana, South Carolina and Wiscon-
sin.
's0f last weeks alinement OF
eleven, New York is the only one
to shift candidates. The others
are still going strong for their first
choices.
Massachusetts, for instance, Is
still pihng up q majority for Hoe
yer 1t about the same ratio as be-
fore. while Pennsylvania. Ohio, II
illinois and the others, now Joined
by New York. are swelling the
Roosevelt bag of ballots.
And again the interparty drifts
declare themselves, especially the
drift u former Republican voters
as Of 1928. into the Democratic
columns.
A. We have already suggested,
many Of these Republican Roose,
veltians may be simply Hoover
Democrats hopping over the fenss
again. bus some political observ.
ers think the movement u toe
strong 10 be wholly explained IN
that wy"