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Show THE CITIZEN 14 Who is Next in the WHITE HOUSE? . North Dakota FACTORS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. A FORECAST. RURAL AND URBAN Oregon South Dakota Utah ALIGNMENTS. 5 5 5 4 7 13 3 ' Washington Wisconsin Wyoming i By John L. Koeppler. i Sectional feeling, party loyalty, prohibition, religion, feminism, personal appeal of the candidates, growing antipathy between rural and industrial centers, these are the chief factors that will determine the coming presidential contest. In few other campaigns, if any, 144 Electoral Vote be folly to list any of them in the Democratic column, simply because President Coolidge vetoed bill. Governor the McNary-Hauge- n Smith also is opposed to the most It would important provision of that bill the llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHIHIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIII!llllllllllllltlllllilllillllllllUIIIIlllllll m I I POPULAR VOTE IN 1924 - Connecticut Indiana Michigan Montana Nebraska New York i 5 S 1 Republican 246,322 703,042 874,631 74,138 218,585 1,820,058 1,176.130 41,858 Ohio Wyoming Democratic LaFollette 110.184 492,245 152,238 33,805 137,288 950,796 477,888 12,868 42,416 71,700 122,014 61,105 106,701 467,293 357,948 25,174 s ;" ?iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii have the influences at work been so many, diverse and conflicting. The West. The rural states in the mid- - and far-wecomprise: 13 California st Colorado . Idaho Illinois Iowa Kansas Minnesota Montana Nebraska Nevada 1 : - 0 4 29 13 10 12 4 8 3 equalization fee. Straddling the issue will win him no votes from the farmers. The farm vote in no section can be delivered. No leader nor group of leaders controls it. Straw ballots do not reflect the rural trend. Other factors militate strongly against Smith in the Mississippi Valley and the west. In many states his pronounced wet views will hurt him immeasurably, as will the fact that he is from the urban east. To carry any considerable number of these states, Smith would have to capture almost en bloc the LaFollette BINGHAM & GARFIELD RAILWAY CO. Ship your freight via Bingham and Garfield Railway. Fast daily merchandise cars from Salt Lake City in connection with the Union Pacific System. vote of four years ago, which was normally Republican and rural. Lotting the imagination run wild is not forecasting. What reason is there for supposing that the west, strongly Republican, with a candidate her own, will vote for a Democrat from the city of New York? What are Smiths chances in rural Wisconsin, where at the last presidential election the Democratic candidate polled only eight per cent of the total vote, and where the Republican Party is now reunited? What are his chances in Illinois, which is yet so largely rural, which two years ago elected a dry senator, which in eleven presidential elections has gone Democratic only twice, and then by less than half the total vote? It is a known fact that loud-voic- ; Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey Pennsylvania Vermont West Virginia 18 4 14 38 - 4 8 102 Electoral Vote In 1924 Davis lost West Virginia, his native state. These states are all Republican. Hoover is likely to carry every one of them. Border States. The same disaffection that is rife among the Democrats in the Solid South is present here: 13 i Kentucky 8 Maryland 18 Missouri 1 Alabama Arkansas Florida 12 Georgia Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Texas 14 10 10 12 9 6 giuiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuiuin ICECREAM s Real Ice Cream! I I I Colvilles BLUE RIBBON is real ice cream! Its made with., pure, ..sweet, fresn, rich cream thats whipped over and over into delight- ful smoothness. 9 Virginia Electoral Vote T. H. PERLEYWITS, Asst. Gen. Freight & Pass. Agt. Salt Lake City, Utah. H. L. DAVIDSON, Agent. Bingham, Utah. with fresh, genuine crushed fruits, with full flavor retained. 114 They will be found solidly in the Democratic column, perhaps for the last time. BLUE RIBBON is rich, delightfully new and re- - Buyers of MATTE, FURNACE PRODUCTS and FLOTATION LEAD ZINC ORE - NEWHOUSE BLDG. SALT LAKE, UTAH f freshing. Old East. Habit is a strong factor. Hoover appeals more to the east than Smith does to the west. In 1912 Wilson carried New Jersey only by a minority vote. In 1916 he lost his native state to Hughes 7 OOLVIUE ICE CREAM CQ I SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH I 352 South 5th West Telephone Wasatch 5170-517- 1 3 HOTEL UTAH CAFETERIA Best Meals with Attractive United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. s flavors are added Fruit 20 12 USE COPPER Brass piping for $4500 cottage only costs $48.87 more than galvanized iron piping and will LAST FOREVER. . ed claims are likely to reflect the very opposite of the undercurrents. The South. The Solid South still! But, for the first time, a Republican candidate will cut heavily into the Democratic vote, especially in Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, and possibly Louisiana. Hoover is popular in the South. Smith is disliked. Connecticut Delaware 6 Surroundings Good Music, Unexcelled Service Sensible Prices GEO. O. RELF Managing Director S |