The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-09-26
Cross Voting

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 Evidence is accommodating that. in accord with the general expectation, there will be unusual anount of voting party lines this year. The Literary Digest poll is the only believe, which includes these shifts of party allegiance So far as it has gone, it reveals large percentage of them That many Democrats who voted for MT Roosevelt in 1892 intend to vote for Governor Landon this ig only what looked for. More surprising is the c sclosure that many Republicans who voted for Hoover four propose to vote for MT Roose- vclt next November. This latter change is rather pIzzling. Why any number of people who supported MT. Hoover in the last Presidential election should refuse to vote for Landon at this is little hard 1 to understand suggest themselves Party ties which hard to break in 1892 have be- come fragile It may be also that some Re- publican voters of 1892 have reacted strongly against the old policies of their party that they have today been swept into the radical ranks and ready to go along with the New Deal and President Roose velt Probably persons crossing over from the Republican army to the Democratic are influenced by the improved and improving business conditions As they find themselves more prosperous they are n- clined in the usual way of political reasoning, give the credit and their votes-to the Administration Another uncertain and upsetting element in po- tical calculations this is the existence of radical parties threatening to charge upon the Hanks of the two chief political armies. The Communist party is now fully organized and has place official bal lots. It is making an aggressive campaign. No one expects it to cast very large number of votes, but where they will come from nobody be In
 
 sentative Lemke and favored by Father Coughlin The Digest poll reveals considerable vote for it in Minnesota. The probability is that it will cut only small figure in most States, but may have votes enough in few to throw the ordinary political reck I onings quite out
 . This breaking up of the waters of the great political deep renders many of the amanacs and cleo tion tables of other years obsolete It is no longer . possible to set down confidently given State as ' normally Republican" or another as surely y Democratic Word used to go from State commit t tees to charmen of county organizations We count upon you to produce election day the full strength of "the party vote" What that strength is in many districts and cities is today quite unknown Politicians make their guesses and give them solemnly to the newspapers, but they do not know. Orders may pro- ceed from the captains to the rank and file march in solid formation in other year. but such orders e may not be obeyed. They may not be openly defied g but they will be secretly dsregarded. In all this freedom of electoral choices result ing in cross-votng unprecedented scale there is no cause for dismay America is free country. We have everywhere secret ballot Citizens may vote they please with the wiser except them selves The appeal is to the entire electorate large part of which remains inartcuate at present and by its verdict whatever may be- both parties both Presidential candidates are bound to abide Works Progress Administration recreational leader in Ohio was dismissed for skipping child playground full-grown taxpayer is the only person anyone connected with the Works Progress Adminis- !. tiation is entitled to hit.-Indianapois Star. 9 Take em as whole the whispering campaigns generally about neutralize each other-Detro Free Press.
 We wonder whether the second Roosevelt ever
 thinks of what the first Roosevelt used to say about weasel words-Detroit Free Press
 One thing the matter with the world is there are a too many nations that can't tolerate civilization Toledo Blade
 MT. Shaw is hard at work at 80 The Nobel people gave him prize in 19GSthe year he wrote nothing but the hint was ignored-San Francisco Chronicle Charm is the art of seeming so interested that II others think they charming you-Detroit Free = Press