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Show Over Seven Million New Voters in 1924 WASHINGTON'. More than 7,iHl,(MMJ new voters who have attained their majority since 1020 will be eligible to cast ballots for the first lime in the November election, according to a statistical report prepared by Simon Michelet, a Washington lawyer, who is forming a national organization to appeal ap-peal to the "stay-at-home vote." The basis of the estimate is the census cen-sus of !':u, which shows 7,370. 2."m young men anil women who at that time were, respectively, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty years of age, find who, if living, are twenty-one twenty-one years of age and over. "The 2,500,000 first-time Presidential Presiden-tial voters in the southern states, if fit) per cent are able to qualify and vote, lire suflicient in number to change the 'solid' South," said Mr. Michelet. "The Democratic plurality in the 1(5 southern states was about 540,600 in 1!):.'.0 and OoO.OOO In 1910: An average plurality for these states might be said to be around 700,000, or less than one-third of the Smith's army of Presidential Pres-idential first voters this year." The power of the new voters in pivotal piv-otal states is a live subject among political po-litical leaders. Indiana has nearly 200,000 first-time voters this year. In normal campaign years, such as IfllG and 101 S, the plurality of the successful success-ful candidate was1 only 0,942 and 10,-700 10,-700 respectively. In N'ew York the margin between the successful and the defeated candidate can-didate averages around loO.ooO. In New York 000,000 young people can cast votes for the first time this year. Ohio has :i74,00O new voters, about four times the average Ohio plurality; in fact, five times that of President Tal't and President McKinley. Massachusetts has 2:!0.Oil0 new voters. vot-ers. Pennsylvania 571,000 and Illinois Illi-nois 42S,0OO. In the states of the Middle West, such as Wisconsin, Michigan, Miiincso-ta, Miiincso-ta, the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas Kan-sas and Missouri, the number of new voters Is large, ranging from 40.000 in each of the Dakotas to 2:15,000 in Michigan. LaFoilette will wage an intensive campaign in these states. The nine northeastern states of New England and the Middle Atlantlf group have nearly 1.000.000 new voter.'., and the twelve North Central states, or the Middle West, have 2,300,000. California has 200,000 new voters, Washington So.OOO and Oregon 50,000. In Tennessee the 1S1.000 new voters represent about five times the Presidential Presi-dential margin in recent elections. In Kentucky nearly 180,000 new voters are about six times the usual plurality. plu-rality. West Virginia's 109,000 new voters represent five to ten times the average margin, and Maryland's contingent con-tingent of 104,000 more than quadruples quadru-ples the state's usual narrow plurality. |