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Show HENRY P. DAVISON of J. P. Morgan & Co., who acquaints American financiers with the monetary situation abroad. I " - ft $ 1 . A POSTAL CARD POLL SHOWS CLOSE FIGHT Wilson and Hughes Engaged En-gaged in Neck-and-neck Race for Presidency. By International Xews Service. NEW YORK, Nov. 3. President Wilson Wil-son and Mr. Hughes, rival candidates, are engaged in a neck-and neck finish in the battle of ballots, as indicated by the nation-wide postal poll as conducted by tho New York American and more than-100 allied newspapers. Even tho most partisan sections of the country, where it was reasonable to suppose that the favorite candidate would receive an overwhelming vote of prefereuce, the returns show surprisingly surprising-ly close results. Rock-ribbed Republican strongholds that have been canvassed in the Eation-wide poll prove that party lines are being more or less set aside in the forthcoming election and that the silent vote will provo an important factor fac-tor as to who will be the occupant of the White house. Chief interost naturally centers on New York City and New York state. Both parties have loudly boasted that the electoral vote of the Empire state would go to their favorite. Tho Republicans Repub-licans are pinning their faith to the ability of Mr. Hughes to roll up such pluralities upstate as to offset those of -Mr. Wilson in the greater city. Tho figures, as contained in the postal card returns of the New York American from such upstate-cities as Albany, Rochester, Uticn, Buffalo and Schenectady, do not bear out this contention to the full. As might be expected, Mr. Hughes is leading his rival at these points. The vote from Rochester, for instance, stands Hughes o04, Wilson 39fi. At Utica the vote is Hughes 206, Wilson 269. Buffalo gives Mr. Hughes 378 to 39 for Wilsou. Albany seemingly prefers pre-fers Mr. Wilson, the vote there standing 378 Wilson, 243 Hughes. At Schenectady Schenec-tady S96 votes were recorded, Mr. Wilson" Wil-son" leading bv 28. The New York City poll, however, clearly indicates that Democracy is still in the" ascendancy. Thirty-odd assembly districts in the greater city were canvassed. can-vassed. Return postal cards were mailed to registered voters in those districts. In selecting the districts tho New York A merica u chose those in which tne vote in the last four years was closest. No overwhelmingly Democratic or Republican bailiwick was canvassed. The idea was to get as fair and impartial impar-tial a vote as possible under the cireurn-sta cireurn-sta nccs. To date 0GS2 cards have been returned re-turned to this office, the vote standing Wilson 4100, Hughes 2247 and Benson, the Socialist, 334. Tho moat surprising feature of this New York City poll has been tho stability of the ratio maintained main-tained since tho day these return cards began to come in. From the outset Mr. Wilson has led his adversary by a ratio of about 5 to 3. Very few changes have been noted in this proportion, although tho laiest, returns give Mr. Wilson a very slight increase in percentage. It is generally expected that the total vote of the greater city will approximate approxi-mate 700,000. Should this prove true, and tho ratio run true to form on election elec-tion day. the vote should stand 437.500 for Wilson and 202.500 for Hughes. This would givH. Mr. Wilson a plurality of 17o.000 in the greater city. Tn tho poll throughout Pennsylvania Mr. Wilson is leading. Mr. Hughes lumped in the lead as a result of a Philadelphia poll, but in Pittsburg and Altoona Mr. Wilson so far outstripped Mr. Hughes that even Iho slight sdvan-tacro sdvan-tacro tho latter gained at Harrisburg failed to place him in the van. New Jerpey, according to the A merican 's poll, "is decidedly for Hughes, the Republican Re-publican candidate leading at such noints at Newark, Elizabeth, Passaic, Paterson and Atlantic City. In the west the advantage is about evenly divided. Mr. Hughes has a fair lend in Wyoming, but has fallen far behind in tho poll of -Michigan. Tn Illinois Illi-nois the vote in and out of Chicago i exceptionally close, with only a few ballots bal-lots separating the rivals. North Dakota has voted Mr. Wilson Continued on pag0 Nine.)' POSTAL CARD PDLL SHOWS CLOSE FIGHT (Continued from Page One.) a big lead, but Superior, Wis., gives Mr. Hughes a ten-point advantage in 404- votes east. Out of a total of 1485 votes east in Los ADgeles Mr. Hughes leads by three. Out of a total of 3500 votes cast in Colorado Mr. Hughes has a thirty-point lead, and so it goes in all the other states canvassed in the mountain and coast districts of the far west. The vote, according to the American tabulations, is about evenly divided, the deflections from Wilson's vote of 1912 to Hughes this year being offset bv the votes the Democratic candidate is drawing from the Taft and Eoosevelt columns of 1012. |