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Show DEMOS LEAD j STRAW VOTES j The Thursday morning tabulation tabu-lation of the Tribune-Telegram straw vote showed a continued climb for the Democratic can- I didates. With- 17,652 voters j heard from in the current tabu- j Ration, Roosevelt is given 10.- j 301 and Hoover 7161. The senatorial struggle still finds Smoot around 3000 votes behind Dr. Thomas, his Demo- j cratic opponent. Senator Smoot j is leading in nine counties, in-eluding in-eluding Washington. j There is a traceable gain in the Republican vote for the gov- i ernorship. but Blood is still leading Seegmiller in the state, the vote standing 9017 for Blood and 8364 for Seegmiller. With the election but twelve days away, boards of strategy of both parties are laying plans for the last final drive for votes before be-fore the electorate goes to the polls to cast their ballots on No-vem'ber No-vem'ber S. Naturally, neither party w:l! admit a possibility of defeat, but the fact remains, the Democrats Demo-crats from the observer's standpoint, stand-point, are a little louder in their j claim for victory. Although there has always been a good deal of j enthusiasm on both sides in the j past, even the most sanguine Republican Re-publican will admit that he is worried, perhaps more than in any election in the twentieth century. It is generally admitted- that in Utah as a whole the Democratic Demo-cratic party has gathered more strength than- ever before in the history of the state and that j its chances for a sweeping vie- j tory have never been better. The j Republican party is fighting probably more desperately than ever before to held the state in the G. O. P. column. A decided swing from the Republican Re-publican to Democratic column is shown in the straw voting. Of those who voted for Hoover in 1928, 3436 have" indicated that they will swing to Roosevelt Roose-velt this year. Four hundred eleven have shown that they have swung from Smith in 1928 to Hoover in 1932. |
