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Show New York, Nov. 3 President Wilson Wil-son and Mr. Hughes, rival candidates, are engaged in a neck and neck finish in the battle of ballots, as indicated by the nation-wide postal poll as conducted con-ducted by the New York American .and more than 100 allied newspapers. Even the most partisan sevtions of the country, where it. was reasonable to suppose that the favorite candidate would receive an overwhelming vote of preference, the returns show surprisingly sur-prisingly close results. Rock-ribbed j Republican strongholds that have ' been canvassed in the national-wide poll prove that party lines are being more or less set aside in the forthcoming forth-coming election and that the silent vote will prove an important factor as to who will be the. occupant of the White House. Chief interest naturally centers on New York City and New York state. Both parties have loudly boasted that the electoral vote of the Empire state would go to their favorite. Tho Republicans Repub-licans are pinning their faith to the ability of Mr. Hughes to roll up such plurality' upstate as to offset those of Mr. Wilson in the greater city. The figures, as contained in the postal card returns of tho Now York American from such upstate cities as Albany, Rochester, Utica, Buffalo, and Schenectady, Sche-nectady, do not bear out this contention conten-tion to the full. As might be expected, Mr. Hughes is leading Ins rival at these points. The vote from Rochester, for instance, stands Hughes 504, Wilson 395. At Utica the vote is Hughes 296, Wilson 269. Buffalo gives Mr. Hughes 378 to 329 for Wilson. Albany seemingly prefers Mr. Wilson, the vote there standing 378 Wilson, 243 Hughes. At Schenectady S96 votes were recorded, Mr. Wilson leading by 28. The New York City poll, however, clearly indicates that Democracy is stlil in the ascendancy. Thirty-odd assembly districts in the greater city were canvassed. Return postal cards were mailed to registered voters in those districts. In selecting the districts dis-tricts the New York American chose those in which the vote in the last four years was closest. No overwhelmingly overwhelm-ingly Democratic or Republican bailiwick baili-wick was canvassed. The idea was to get as fair and imparQal a vote as possible under the circumstances. To date 6682 cards have been returned re-turned to this office, the vote standing stand-ing Wilson 4100, Hughes 2217 and Benson, the Socialist, 334. The most surprising feature of this New York City poll has been thes tability of the ratio maintained since the day theso return cards began to come in. From the outset Mr. Wilson had led his adversary by a ratio of about 5 to 3. Very few changes have been noted in this proportion, although the latest returns give Mr. Wilson a very slight increase in percentage. It is generally expected that the total vote of the greater city will approximate ap-proximate 700.000. Should this prove true, and the ratio run true to form on election day, the vote should stand 437,500 for Wilson and 262,500 for Hughes. This would give Mr. Wilson a plurality of 175,000 in the greater city. In the poll throughout Pennsylvania Mr. Wilson Is leading. Mr. Hughes jumped in the lead as a result of a Philadelphia poll, but in Pittsburg and Altoona Mr. Wilson so far outstripped Mr. Hughes at even the slight advantage advan-tage the latter gained at Harrisburg failed to place him in the van. New Jersey, according to the American's poll, is decidedly for Hughes, the Republican Re-publican candidate leading at such points as Nowark, Elizabeth, Passaic, Paterson and Atlantic City. In tho west tho advantage is about evenly divided. Mr, Hughes has a fair lead in Wyoming, but has fallen far behind the poll of Michigan. In Illinois Illi-nois the vote in and out of Chicago is exceptionally close, withonly a few ballots separating tho rivals. wortn uaKota nas votea lur. wuson a big lead, but Superior, Wis., gives Mr. Hughes a ten-point advantage in 404 votes vast. Out of a total of 1485 votes cast in Los Angeles Mr. Hughes leads by throe. Out of a total of 3500 votes cast In Colorado Mr. Hughes has a thirty-point lead, and so It goes in all the other states canvassed in the mountain and coast districts of the far west. The vote, according to the American tabluations, is about ovenly divided, the deflections from Wilson's vote of 1912 to Hughes this year being offset by the votes the Democratic candidate is drawing from the Taft and Roosevelt Roose-velt columns of 1912. |
