The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-16

creases while Idaho, Michigan and Wisconsin cut his majority sharply perceneagewise.
 Due to the addition of metropoli- tan city votes Landon's majority is cut in New York from nearly 3 to 1 last week to less than 2 to 1 this week and his majority in PennSyl- vniaa declines over 2 per cent.
 The magazine states that the re- turns from Illinois do not as yet in- clude Chicago nor ae returns from Cleveland in the Ohio column yet.
 Over 10000 votes from Philadel- phia and Pittsburgh are included in the Pennsylvania totals and over 45,0OO New York City ballots are in the New York state tabulations in the current report.
 All ballots, the mailing origin of which the magazine states it can not identify, are classified as State Unknown" which grouping gives a much closer cleavage of the major parties vote than do the main poll totals. This forty-ninth state shows Landon with 6,045 votes to Roose- velt's STA and Lemkes 602.
 37O Electoral Votes For Landon
 A division of the Electoral College vote of these quarter final returns indicates Landon would receive 370 electoral votes to Roosevelt's 161.
 For the first time, The Literary Digest's 1886 presidential poll lists returns from the forty-eight states, the magazine states in its current issue.
 "In report number seven, 556,773 new ballots have been entered checked mad tabulated. Eight states appear for the first time.
 For the sixth consecutive week President Roosevelt has nicked the lead captured by Landon in the initial scoring. Landon's percentage this week is 55.4; Roosevelt's 40.1.
 Still to be counted in, however, is much of the big city vote. Only 45, ,48O New York City ballots are in- cluded in this weeks report; 53,18l from Philadelphia; 17,268 from Pitts burgh, none from Chicago or Cleve- land.
 Since commentators had repeat edly stressed their belief that the vote in the largest cities, with pre- ponderantly industrial populations, would show a significantly different result than that in other cities, The Literary Digest decided this year to treat the major cities separately, sample the voters there more earn estly and more exhaustively. Hence, these returns necessarily must lag behind the poll as whole.
 New York City For F. D. R.
 "So far, New York City returns show 28,327 for the president, 13,- 694 for the governor. Illinois results do not include Chicago, Ohio figures omit Cleveland. In Philadelphia Roosevelt leads with 52.8 per cent to Landons 41.4; Pittsburgh, scene ot the Chief Executives recent fiery address at Forbes Field, shows a similar lead, with 53.5 per cent to 38.5.
 "A great deal has been said about the part relief workers and other benefciaries of federal aid are likely to play in the election. Certain ob- servers, insisting that the issue will be tightly drown between the 'haves and the 'have-nots'-i.e., the tax payers and investors and those on the receiving end of federal funds have assumed that the relief vote is the most important factor in the election. Is this true?
 According to an official State- ment from Washington, there were as of September 1, 3,250,000 persons on the rolls of the various New Deal relief agencies. Since 1883, it is esti- mated there have been approxi- mately 16,250,000 beneficiaries oi doles, AAA benefits, etc.
 "On the other side of the picture there are 63,000,000 life insurance policyholders, 45,000,000 gainful workers over twenty-one years oi age, 40,O0OO00 savings bank deposi- tors, 24,OO0,000 security owners, 22,- 50O,0OO passengers automobile own- CTS said and 10,650,000 residence telephone subscribers, according tC recent surveys.
 Obviously, even if one took the liberty of assuming that 100 per cent, of the 16,250,000 who have re- ceived aid from the government will vote for Roosevelt, there would be the temptation to place dispro- portionate emphasis on this minor ity of the electorate.
 "As a matter of fact, about one- eighth of those on relief, according to an official New York survey, will not be eligible to vote at all. And judging from some of the farm state returns, considerable number of beneficiaries will none the less vote for Governor Landon.
 Lemke Holds Per Cent
 "Lemke wobbles along in the rear with 3.4 per cent of the vote, his strength showing principally in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Louisiana Iowa and his native soil of North Dakota. Virtually seventeenth of ll4S OAy0OA DdAOLo COAAAC 4AOAi VAAC democratic voters of 1892.
 "Of the other candidates, Norman Thomas, socialist, has 8,35l votes; Earl Browder, communist, 4,968; D. Leigh Colvin, prohibitionist. 3.l83; John w. Aiken, socialist-labor, 45S; all others, 379.
 Two more Literay Digest poll re- ports remain; October 24 and Octo- Der 3l By then the complete city, industrial agraian and other ballots will be in. And the election will come only three days after the last report"
 TOOK HIS LIFE
 Mexico City, Oct. 16.-(UP Al