The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-10-02
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really serious supporter Of Cover
nor Landon can be found in this
town is in the bar room Of the
National Press Club where of an
evening hirelings Of the Republi-
can National Committee 60 to
drown their sorrows.
Their sorrows well immersed
they will back with cash talk that
Landon carries New York or Pen
nsylvania or Illinois. It is only
those to whom Harry the barten-
der must refuse more liquids that
will bet that Landon carries the
nation.
That does not mean that some
Of the scriges don't tell the public
that Roosevelt is slipping, that
this state is "leaning Republican"
In nine cases out off ten they
really don't mean it. They know
that the majority of the country's
newspapers are boosting Landon
and it's the newspapers that pay
the bills for the columns they
write.
For example one scribbler here
specializes in sending out a week
ly news letter to business men. He
copyrights his stuff-God knows
why-and pretends that it's all
inside dope and tips straight
from the horses mouth.
Recently this person attempted
to estimate the political leanings
of each state. The state of Mary
land he placed in the doubtful"
column.
Now the Baltimore Sun, a better
grade newspaper, is taking a poll
Of all the registered voters in
Maryland. To each person whose
name is on the registry list it is
sending a ballot making the poll
in reality an advance vote. 1t is
one poll in which tricks of sam
ping and statistical methods don't
count. Eevery registered voter in
Maryland is telling the Sun how
he will vote on November 8.
That poll at present shows
Roosevelt with 9O,125 votes again
st Landon's 53,971. Percentage, if |
you care about that sort of thing,
are 62.17 in favor of Roosevelt,
1928 in favor Of Landon, with the
remainder split among the minor
lty party candidates.
What ever you may think it |
certainly doesn't make Maryland
a doubtful" state. Even the un-
charitable will grant that it puts
the state in the cleaning to Roose-
welt" column and a few are even |
so bold to predict, on the basis of |
the Sun advance vote, that Mary
land will go for Roosevelt.
Of course there are people like |
the Detroit publisher who obser-
we'd the Baltimore Suns pre-vote
and then confidently wrote his
Washington correspondent that
Maryland positively would go Re-
publican, which sort of thing has
a self-respecting Northumberland
ostrich backed into the corner vel
ling for help.
1t is not here contended that
the Suns vote-taking proves the
country will climb again the dom
keys back in November. It is not
even commended that it obviates
the necessity for a formal voting
IN Maryland come November. It is
however, contended that the Sun
vote shows up as fakes and frauds
or just dam fools most of those
people and organizations now con-
Quoting STRAW votes" and "polIs
The Literary Digest has care
IIully avoided publishing any
Maryland figures so far
Another interesting feature
about the Baltimore Suns pre-
vote is its effect on other news
papers. 1t is reported that the
Chicago Tribune, Colonel BERTHE
McCormick's paper, thought of
conducting a similar poll of all
registered voters. The Sun and the
Tribune we're to exchange data
and on that basis attempt a pre-
iiction.
The Tribune thought il wss
safe and the Sun thought It was
safe for is not Maryland the home