Show SEVEN NEW VOTERS More than new voters who have bec become become me of age since 1920 will be a powerful factor in decidIng deciding deciding ing the presidential election according according accord accord- r ing to Simon MIchelet Washington I law lawyer er who h has s organized the national na national national na- na Vote the club Mr Michelet has previously estimated that there was a stay home vote of nearly in the time last I presidential election Adding these two groups he ht shows that there thero are about eligible voters who did not participate participate- in the 1920 election elec elec- tion who may figure in deciding the lie out outcome ome of or the present three corner ed contest Mr has obtained His agures fig ng- figures ures by hy using the 1920 census and making malting various ari Us computations with respect to groups of different ages iges shown sho by the last available records Working out the figures by states Mr 11 shows ws that In man many important states the time number of or young men men and who are eligible eligi eligi- eligible ble to vote for tor the first time for president is sufficient to decide time tue outcome Looking first at the national total tu- tu tal the time lar largest est plurality ever shown in a presidential election was that thai of or i for Harding and Coolidge in 1920 said Mr 11 Michelet Nothing Nothing Noth NOt lIng l ing like such a a. plurality was ever ver known before and may seldom be bu seen again I Or lii st t Importance Ordinarily the national plurality is a few tew hundred thousand that of or Wilson lIson in 1916 b being but even en the time plurality of or 1920 I is equalled and probably exceeded I by the number of ot new citizens of voting voting vot vot- lIng ing age who may go to the polls next November ember Therefore the army of oC first voters ot rs is a factor of first im Im- Consider the time situation situation situation-as as it affects affects af af- the time leading close or pivotal states Take Talo Indiana The deeMing deciding deeM deeM- 1 ing plurality was only in 1916 and in 1908 while the time average average aver aver- age margin ill is seldom over oyer I er Even Eyen the time 1920 record of which may never be known in Indiana Indiana Indi Indi- i ana again is exceeded by the lie number num num- I ber bel of or 1924 first voters In New York presidential pluralities plu plu- pluralities run from 1000 for Grover Cleveland In 1884 1354 to over a n million for Harding and aud Coolidge in 1920 President Wilson lost it by 1 in n 1916 1916 and carried it dt by in i 1912 and ordinarily a margin o of comes conies close to deciding the I i issue There are new voters rot vot oters ers era to be reckoned with for 1 1924 I in New York Other 1 1 Votes otei tes 5 Cited fr J Illinois is 13 another state statu upon which Republicans count for heavy pluralities es The largest margin uy ay which President Vil Wilson on lost an any I i state stat in 1916 Wl tho the of Illinois Census figures Indicate imitate I that Illinois in in 1924 will have no- no Tow now male male v-oter v voters and nd 2 17 young oung women women omen 01 or a total youn vote of not counting the che r. r effect Ithe I C of the slay home canvass camass I Michigan presidential electors I ordinarily have havea a margin of around However JIow er It t was as close as 1500 in 1912 and as wide as s in 1920 Slightly below helow normal was as the time margin of i in iii 1916 Michigan Michigan new voters in 1924 number numb r Th There re are new voters In Wisconsin in fn Minnesota n in Iowa and In Missouri I Except in years of unusual unus uns- ual the number of ot new ne voters oters In iii each of these states is ismore ismore more than sufficient to govern the I result The Time same may De same saia of or Kansas with new ne voters Oklahoma Nebraska 94 34 and the Dakotas with each r Situation When u we come cone to consider the army of new voters by br geographic districts the time situation becomes e more mom Interesting Time The first time presidential voters In t the e southern states if it 50 60 on un cent are able to qualify and vo e e. e are sufficient in number 10 to 11 chi n change e he solid On Last Page u 1 Sf MILLION NEW NiN VOTERS RS S From Page One south The Dem DelU cratl cratie plurality in n the tho sixteen southern states in fn 1920 aud hd In hl 1916 An average plurality for I these states might he be said lo o ue Ile around or less Jess than I olleI one one- third of ot the the south's mouths army arm armo rm o of or presidential presidential voters first-voters this thle year ear The nine land northeastern states of Now New England ling Eng and the fhe middle Atlantic o states have nearly now new voters and the twelve t north central states stales or the middle west have No one doubts tho power of this at-this this arm army or of young yoking America in these thesa northern p pal l sections where the principal lp l- l battlefields of 01 the he national campaign 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