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Show WEATHEKVANE j Should onetime Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois be inclined to grasp at straw votes, he might be ' pleased and proud at the indications , of the first such political weather-! vane reported in the 1927-28 cam-1 paign. i Last week the Publishers' Auto-caster Auto-caster Service (an organization supplying news items to 2,000 smalltown small-town weekly newspapers) published the result of a straw vote in which 302,210 voters in 2!) states named their, men for the Republican and Democratic presidential nomination, j Though President Coolidge ran first among the Republicans with 87,1 7 votes, Mr. Lowden was a close see-1 ond with 80,066 votes. Since Presi dent L'uolMge had 'he advantage thac j oes with incumbency of the office, t I;. el vers were surprised at the Low-i Low-i c: .showing. Mr. Lowdcn's strength, however, was partly discounted by the fac t ti iiit the vote represented rural .-tiiliment. President Coolidge and Mr. Lowden Low-den together polled about 85 per cent of the entire Republican vote (some 210,000). Senator William Edgar Lis. ah, pugnacious Idahoan, ran a po-.,r third with 14,525 supporters, Vice President Charles G. Dawes received re-ceived 9,938 and Secretary of Commerce Com-merce Herbert C. Hoover 160,000 votes (40,000 less than the Republicans) Repub-licans) with Alfred Emanuel Smith comfortably leading with 53,751. Senator James A. J?eed, eloquent Mis.-ourian, ran second with 41.1S5. William Gibb.- McAdoo. declared politically dead by Smith followers, stirred in his grave and captured 37,245 ballots. Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland, Wet champion of states' rights, totaled 20,113 and Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, very dark horse, polled 3.766. |