Show no oo- oo I WATCHING I HENRY FORD Colliers Collier's straw vote rote on presidential flat POSsibilitieS possibilities has disturbed the I politicians of ot the two big hie parties votes who are explaining that straw do not elect Henry I Ford up to tile the date lIate has received nearly double rumber of ot votes otes cast for tor Harding and four tour times Umes the total for tor either Co Coz McAdoo or Johnson One of o the poll political cal writers makes makl's this analysis anal sis of ot the straw vote The great trouble about straw otes otes Is that they do not elect anybody to anything They are arc not final and theY are not necessarily honest c expressions of ol opinions or A man may name half ball a dozen different candidates in inas Inas Inas as many different straw votes otes otes and then go Into the voting booth at the primary or on election day and in sote ote for still a different one fact he may exercise lila his priceless prerogative of ot changing his mint mind dail daily up p to the time he punches the on the voting machine or marks his ballot and sees It placed In the box Who can recall any t Straw vetes v that Warren G Hard Harding HardIng Ing carried prior to June 1920 Yet he was elected president ent by a plu- plu plu plurality raUt of o more than seven millions It Is also probable that a straw ote taken almost any anywhere here In lz In 1896 would have shown William Jen Jennings Bryan an easy winner Inner and 3 et Mr Bryan Dryan has made reade several I starts for lor or the White House without I arriving there once Woodrow Wilson leon on the other hand was not notably strong in ln such preliminary Informal balloting but he was wan twice elected to the presidency when t it came to tho voting that If It Henry rord Ford continues to show the strength he has developed In Inthe Inthe the straw votes the effect will nill III be beI beto beto bato I to tally i ally around him a suffIciently sufficiently act active e to either win mn him consideration by one of ot the old parties or an Independent campaign in hi his hia name The rord is lS much interest interest w In political circles nn I |