The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-06-15
FORTY-SEVEN STATES
VOTE FOR ROOSEVELT
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the Acts and Policies of Roose-
velt's First Year." shows a ma
jority of "noes."
OF the 21,320 postcard ballots
received from the bankers OF
forty-seven states to date, 1O,045,
or 47.12 per cent, vote for the adj
ministration, while 11.275, or
52.88 per cent, register OPPOSE
ton.
About of every bankers who
! voted for Roosevelt in 1892 now
oppose his acts and policies, while
1926 per cent of the bankers who
voted for Hoover favor the New
Deal, as shown by the special poll
tahulations.
The southern bankers give q
substantial vote for the New Deal,
averaging about the same ma
jorities as the popular vote of the
poll in the various states.
Another special poll being con-
Quoted among leading colleges
still in session., in cooperation with
their student newspapers, show
heavy majority vote of approval
for the Roosevelt policies among
the American undergraduates.
The combined vote from seven
universities from which returns
are tabulated shows a vote of 81
201 to 1904. or nearly 8 to 2, in
favor of the New Deal.
The ballots, it is stated, have
been received so far from Har-
ward, Yale, Cornell, Brown, Uni
versity of Virginia, University of
Wisconsin and New York Uni
versity.
Voting in ten other colleges is
now being conducted.
'In the fifth report Of the main
poll, twenty-three hitherto un-
heard-from States make their first
appearance" The Literary Digest
will state editorially tomorrow.
1.-THE most impressive entrance
is made by California with 1886
ballots. OF those ballots 1864
were cast for the New Deal and
1892 against favorable ratio
of 60.27 per cent. In 1882. Cali
fornia gave Roosevelt 58.41 per
cent lead.
4 "And in the south, Alabama
shows up with 81 majority,
Georgia 81, Louisiana practicalsx
Al, Mississippi Al, South Caro-
lima almost GIL.
SIN the middle west, Kansas re-
turns New Deal majority of
$3.50 per cent, not very far from
its 1882 Roosevelt vote of 53.57
per cent. In Iowa and Nebraska,
with their farm troubles, the
Presidents ratio has improved a
bit.
Farther west, Utah gives him
1886 per cent. That silver state
gave him $685. per cent in 1882.
maine provides a real sensa-
ton in returning larger ma
jority for the New Deal, relatively,
than Massachusetts or Nebraska.
Vermont is isolated in her OPPOSE
tion to the New Deal, with forty
seven sister States against her.
Pennsylvania returns 55.945
Yes votes against 31,443 NO."
Long a Republican State. of inn
mense industrial wealth, it re-
mains the leading Roosevelt State
in the east--and perhaps in the
whole country, all things COM
sidered.
1.-THE poll of college students
conducted by The Literary Digest
in cooperation with seventeen
student newspapers continues to
show q heavy majority vote of APP
prevail for the Roosevelt policies
among American undergraduates.
Prompt returns were stim-
ulated by the excellent work Of
the undergraduate newspapers co.
operating with The Literary
Digest. The papers responsible
for the return recorded this week
include: The Harvard Crimson,
the Yale Daily News, the Cornell
Sun. the Brown University Herald.
the University of Virginia College
Topics, the University of Wiscon-