The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-02

Frank F. Merriam leads Upton Sinclair about 2M to and leads Raymond l.. Haight more than 5 to 1 in the final returns of The Literary Digest's statewide Cali fornia poll on governor, according to returns published in tomor. rows issue of the magazine.
 Merriam, the republican candi- date to succeed himself, receives 90,O60 votes, or 62.31 per cent of the grand total of 144,633 ballots tallied from the entire state.
 Upton Sinclair, the democratic nominee, gets 38,S57 votes, or 25.5 per cent of the state total, while Raymond l.. Haight who was de- feated in the republican primaries and is now campaigning as a progressive-commonwealth candi- date has 16,890 votes cast for him, or 11.6g per cent of the polls to- tai tally.
 Sam Darcy, the communist can- didate, receives 5s4 votes and Mi len c. Dempster, the socialist standard bearer, gets 142 ballots. The combined strength of these two is 0.5 per cent of the polls total tabulation.
 
 clear majority of the balloting in all of the larger citNs in the state except Fresno and Sacramento.
 No other candidate has major ity vote in any community, accord ing to special analysis of the poll vote in twenty-eight large ana small communities represent ing every part of the state."
 Governor Merriam makes his strongest showing in Riverside, California, where he is noted re- ceiving 82.53 per cent of the bal lots cast from that city.
 San Pedro, the port of Los An. geles, gives Upton Sinclair his 1arg. est city strength in the poll, 41.23 per cent of the community's tota! vote.
 Raymond L. Haight is shown re- ceiving S9.32 per cent of Fresno's ballots, which is his greatest strength in any city.
 In Los Angeles, which contains more than a quarter of the states population, and which Is said to be the central battle ground of the current campaign, Merriam leads with SOAP per cent of the city'r vote in the poll returns, while Sin. clair gets 27.73 per cent and Haight trails with 11.32 per cent.
 Merriam is we'll ahead of all other candidates also in San Fran cisco, where the city's poll tally gives him 63.50 per cent of tue community's vote to Sinclair's 26.60 per cent and Knights s.9l per cent.
 "To say that the final figures in r,s. fTa terest the people of California would he to put 1t too mildly" the magazine will state in its columns tomorrow.
 "The state is throbbing with ex- citement as the contest for the governorship enters it's final hours.
 ''It was for this reason, and be- cause the, whole country shares California's excitement over its race for the governorship, that the Literary Digest decided to take poll in that state.
 "It mailed nearly 100000 ballots to Californians of every class, oc- cupation, and geographical section, asking each person who received a ballot to indicate his or her choice for governor among the five candidates.
 Preliminary returns, showing Mir Merriam in the lead, Mir Sim clair second and Mir Haight third. were published in the October 27 issue of the Literary Digest and created an instant sensation, not only in California, but throughout the nation
 Meanwhile additional ballots came flowing from California to the Literary Digest until they reached the grand total of 144,533. an unuseually heavy response for any unofficial poll, as all students of straw votes will perceive.
 Charges that blank Literary Digest ballots have been bought up to influence the results of its polls