The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-08


 He'd in the fourth report Of The Literary Digests nation wide poll On H0osevelt'b acts and policies which will Dc published in tomor. rows Issue Of the magazine,
 The latest returns give 370,4gI votes for tho ndministrn ton to e56,429 against, which is n ratio Of about t0 2.
 Twenty-thrse of Inc twenty i've ftatcs reported in the current tn bu. lstion vote in favor of the New Deal Maine and Vermont only dls- Ienting.
 Tho administration receives 6D1D per cent vote of confidence in ihis weeks tnlly, which is DractI. cnlly thh same nE il got in the pro. yiouB weeks vote,
 Tn fho fD32 election the twenty. i've states from which poll returns haye been received 10 dato gave RoOpeyelt combined vote of 5s.50 per cent which shows post. election gain iD popularity for tho president Of 3G0 per cent. As nRnlnst lightly over : per cent last week.
 Incomplete but "substnniinI" re. turns arc received from Harvard and Yale universities fn n seDnrnfe poll on tho Hnmo question, whirh ig being conducted by tho literary Digest in n number Of colleges
 Harvard votes i,0Fa for tho ROosf At policies t0 g39 neninst, whpe Yals votes 673 for Tho Roose. sFlt pgilces 10 G40 against. F In 1889 N Yale News md tho f4apHtl eimson conducted pro. flfgiiG atrnw polls on the presl. anr H. cnndid0tes Hoover bent Ne sasvelt almost g 10 l nt Harvard y &nd almost { to at Yale.
 The fo32 vote ni Harvard. from which Institution Roosevelt grAdn- ated, was Hoover, i.74f. Roosevelt s20 and Thomas 4s4.
 The f032 prediction vote at Yalo was Hoover 'ig, Roosevelt 370 and Thomas 347. First returns from Texna nnd Ar kansns give the administration Fs 1fu UU.r 2 10 1 vote of con. Ha adttt tlt largest ho received r9w Dup W1tes 10 dntn. In tho #bEI fItH. fexns gave Roosevelt oygf q ,o |. vote and Arkn nshs over C 10 1.
 A comparison Of the iDS2 cleo. ton DerrGD,aRes for Roosevelt with those yf ihc Literary Digest poll, in BOIno mldwcstern RiAtoB, shows n nocline lD his popularity
 The comparison shows; illinois, election bj,23 per cont, poll b3b7 per cent, Indiana election 64Gg DOT cent. poll 62,0G per cent; Iowa b7.g9 per cent poll bi,bb per cent kebrnnkni election 62Js per cent poIl b2t2 per cent; Oklahoma! n per cent; Wisconsin; election G31b per cent, poll Gi,s3 per cent
 Some Of the states which indi. cato, by phrisOn, An Increase of popularity for the president in cludc. Connecticut: election 4740 per cent, poll t7ti DOT cent NnMnohusotiE election b0.G4 per cent, poll 53 04 per cent; MichIRnni election G2.37 per cent, poll G2,2y DOT cent, New Jersey, election 49.4D per cent, poll b7.3b per cent; Now York election b3,53 per cent poll g0.75 per rent and PcnnHyl- Vanin: election 4b.32 per cent. poll G4.03 per cont.
 Mnine and Vermont. the only stntes voting against It0ose yclts acts and policies, nlso show an in. crcnBe [ sentiment for him over HIS THIlDN III ItlF lbos 'I'fllDlt
 Tn fifteen stntes the Drrsld"ntB ratios Of ballots arc greater thnn his I332 election ratios in the Mtno states. and in ten Of them hiH ratios are shown 10 be smaller by com garrison.
 # More than half the Union ih iD- cludsd in the fourth tally of the Literary Digest'B poll 10 test nn- tionni opinion on the New Debl," tho magazine viii state cditorl1llY,
 "These twenty-five states fur uiabod throe-fourths of the cOun- tTy'R popular vote when they elect cd Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1892.
 "Pennsylyania holds firm wiih g4Oy per cent Of iiB new totDl Of s5,L7s ballots. The Literary Digest readers will remember tb0t the 1882 presidential poll gave Penn sylyania to Roosevelt by fl majority over Hoover Of 3i.gis in A. total Pennsylvania vote of 240.339
 "T1e figures were: Hoover, 93.- 507, Roosevelt 124,g76. The elcc- ton. however, gave PenusylVbnia 10 Hoover by f57,532 over Hoose- welt, the figures being: Hoover l,- 453.540, Roosevelt l,z95,94S.
 "AccusatloDs Of widespread eIec- fiDb frbu1b JOliDWfb iHb Fshut iH Washington tho House. Elections Investigating committed was told by it's special counsel, <. Davis Will son. that he and his deputies had uncovered 10000 votes improperly cast in Philadelphia alone.
 "Tbe democratic national com D niitee considered demanding A re- count, but President HOossyeii's z victory throughout the nation w1s % overwhelming and the commit tees funds were so low that inc charges were allowed to drop.
 "Jhere w0B every reason tO be. liess that the Literary Digest poll figures had been accurate, and they are now confirmed by the acc0m. panying returns from Pennsyl- sRBia.
 Delaware here bobs up as . Roosevelt state with A. New ueal ratio Of bs,0i per cent JelawGrs'e history ln inc Literary Digest poll Of 1882 and the Dreeidentlsl eifc- ton wnf shadow Of pennntl. tmmamM