Show i E f fat AN ILLINOIS agricultural newspaper L news-paper last August sent to all of its I subscribers a request that each of I its readers would send a postal card < P ik y naming the person that he desired I l to be the next President Thirty It thousand responses were received 1 and of these the favorites were as J I r4 I follows James G Blaine 22 percent i 1 per-cent Chester A Arthur 14 pert per-t J centBenjamin F Butler 10 pert per-t 1 cent Samuel J Tilden 9 per cent a Robert T Lincoln S per cent John 1 i A Logan 5 per cent The preferences a 151 prefer-ences of the other subscribers embraced em-braced a hundred or more prominent J t J i men Blaine Is the most popular in i i Li I the west Butlers votes come chiefly j j from the south Tilden is the choice I j J t > of Kentucky Wade Hampton and i L t i John Sherman are about even and i r w i Roscoe Conkling Is paired with i 1 General Sherman Fortunately r I h 1t t these votes do not count in making 1 1 7 t J up the returns x |