The Washington times., 1932-10-17
COY. ROOSEVELT
LEADS POLL IN
TENNESSEE
By COLE E. MORGAN

The Democratic regeneration OF
the South, after the Republican
debacle of four years ago, has
gone apparently even farther than
the most optimistic Democrat
could hope for.
Take Tennessee, for instance.
There is a State that always main
tains a militant Republican party
organization. Since Civil war
days, except once when "Fiddling
Bob" Taylor fiddled his way into
Congress as a Democrat from the
Republican mountains, the VO!un-
teer State always has maintained
two or more Republicans in the
House.
Sweep Seen for Roosevelt
Returns in the nationwide post
card presidential poll of The
Washington Times and other
Hearst papers shows signs that
Governor Roosevelt may accom-
plish the unexpected and carry
every Congressional district in the
State.
The first District, to which Pres
ideht Hoover went for his Eliza
bethtown speech in the 1928 cam
paign, has returned 426 Roosevelt
ballots to 406 for Hoover.
The second district, the balll'
wick of Republican national COM
mitteeman J. Will Taylor, has
sent in SIC for Roosevelt to 482
for Hoover, with Knoxville, the
key city of the district, voting
172 to 101 in RooSevelt's favor
HustOn's Home City
The third, the Chattanooga dis
trict, has lined up 381 to 268 on
the Democratic side, with Chatta-
nooga going 220 to lis. That is
the home city of former Republi-
can national committee chairman
ClandiuS Huston.
Westward through the State the
Democratic tide rises higher until
it is at flood stage like "Ole Man
River" gets now an then at Mem
phis with 10 to l Roosevelt poll
response.
Losing WOmen'S Vote
The Republican campaign man
agement's fear of the woman
vote of California going against
President Hoover appears to be
wen grounded. It is not sur
prising, therefore, that the Re
publican high command, follow
ing the visit to the State of
Secretary of the Treasury Mills,
has become so alarmed over the
California situation as to lay
plans for virtual house-to-house
appeal to women in behalf of
President Hoover's candidacy.
Latest returns from California
in the Hearst poll reveal the
tremendous influence the woman
vote is going to play in the cleo
ton results in that State.
OF the 30,339 California ballots
recorded, 7.167 have come from
women. This is 2312 per cent of
the total, a sufficiently large pro-
portion to give good line on
how the California women are
thinking politically this year.
Active in Politics
California women take an active
part in politics, perhaps to as
great a degree as women of any
State in the country, the State
having given women the franchise
many years before the adoption
OF national suffrage.
1t is not overestimating tn
credit the women with 40 per
cent of the one and three-ouaI-
ter millions of California votes
On that basis the women vote
OF the State should reach around
100000. ''->
The California poll replies to
date show that of the 7167
women recorded, 81 per cent are
1avoring Governor Roosevelt, This
would indicate a Roosevelt woman
vote of approximately 425. 900 to
275,0OO for Hoover, giving Roose.
Ve!t woman majority of 100000.
Since IS per cent of the men
poll ballots from California are
leaning to Roosevelt. he stands
TO draw around 100000 majority