Evening star., 1932-10-12
REPUBLICANS SAY
UTAH IS DOUBTFUL
Indications at Present Show
Roosevelt Leading Hoover
in State.
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the voters of the entire State. The re-
suit of the poll as it will appear on
Thursday gives 1896 for Roosevelt and
2,452 for Hoover.
Tor Senator Smoot and his Democratic
opponent, Prof. Ebert D. Thomas.
The polls show Thomas running
ahead of Smoot, with 3,577 for Thomas
and 2,461 for Smoot. In the guberna-
torial race, the poll gives Blood, Demo-
crat, 3,073 to 2,9l5 for Seegmiller, Re-
publican. The voters were asked to in
dicate how they voted in 1928, and
1884 now supporting Roosevelt re-
porttd that they voted for Hoover, while
139 supporting Hoover said they voted
for Smith.
The Hoover and Smoot totals in this
poll, while still far behind those OF
Roosevelt and Thomas. are gaining. and
the percentage of votes cast for them
now is greater than the percentage IN
the first announcement of the poll.
Throw the Ins Out"
Unemployment and low prices are
the chant of the Republicans and
Democrats when they are asked to ex-
plain why the Republicans are not do
ing SO well this year. There seems 10
be a desire to throw the ''ins out.
The poll now taken by the newspapers
here seems to indicate such a desire,
for the voters are registering resent
ment against the State government,
now controlled by a Democratic Gov
ernor, Dern, and the Republican candl-
date for Governor is running neck and
neck with the Republican candidate
and far ahead of Hoover and Smoot Ia
the straw ballot.
One reason for this. however, may be
the fact that the name OF the Repupn-
can candidate for Governor IS placed on
the same line as that carrying the
names of Roosevelt and Smoot. Whlle
the name of the Democratic candidate
for Governor falls on line with the
name of Roosevelt and Thomas, voter
not familiar with politics of the guber-
material candidates, wishing to vote the
Democratic ticket straight. might vote
by mistake, under these conditions, for
Seegniller. the Republican. Utah IS
the greatest silver producing State In
the country; it has copper, lead. gold
and coal mines The mines today are,
generally speaking, at stanostlll,
though here and there few are op-
Grating. The prices OF farm prooucts
are low, as in other States. The crops,
however, nave UetIl WOlluCi1uiiy SoON'
and the sugar beet farmers may realize
on their crop. Wool is another great
industry here. and the prices Of both
sheep and wool are far too low to please
the farmer. Under these conditions the
people are not happy. There is lot
of unemployment and distress. The
principal chance for the Republicans
lies, it is believed, in convincing the
voters if the Democrats are placed in
power the sugar tariff will be reduced
and the sugar beet industry be ruined
completely in this State: that other
tariff duties will be lowered. greatly
hampering the people OF Utah.
Smoot Faces Big Battle.
If they can be made to believe that a
Democratic victory will bring times
even harder than are times today, the
Republicans will carry the State. AS
general thing big business in this State
Is strongly Republican.
1t seems strange that Senator Reed
Smoot, who has represented Utah in the
Senate for 80 years. should be in dam
ger of defeat. But the fact of the mat
ter is that Smoot faces a real battle
this year, and that if he wins it will be
by narrow margin from his 49-year-
old professional opponent, who at pres
ent is a teacher of history and political
science at the University of Utah. DR..
Thomas, like Senator Smoot, is a men,
ber of the Mormon Church. Senator
Smoot, however, is one of the apostles
of the church. While SO far no stand
in the political race has been taken by
the church leaders, there is belief here
that the weight of the church power
will in the end be thrown to Smoot and
to the Republican ticket. Senator
Smoot has done much for the Mormon
Church and for Utah in his long serv-
ice in Washington. Only a tremendous
sweep for Roosevelt is likely to beat the
veteran Senator-and the Republican
national ticket
President Hoover carried Utah in
1928 against Al Smith by $4,000 votes.
Smith had big following in the State.
In Salt Lake City Smith ran ahead of
of Hoover. Undoubtedly some of the
Smith followers in Utah have resented
his defeat for denomination and have
swung to Hoover, or at least are not
going to vote for Roosevelt
Roosevelt visited Salt Lake City and
made one of his principal speeches of
his Western trip here.
It is of record, however. that RooSe-
welt talked of the railroad problem. in
which Utah is not especially interested,
and said nothing about silver, in which
the State is vitally interested. 1t went
for Bryan in 1896 on the silver issue.
The reports here are that while Roose-
welt drew a great crowd to hear him,
he made no votes for himself and that
he left his audience a bit cold.