Show no decisive swing to either li t h e r candidate in straw vote vot vote now at for hoover and for smith bablo baflo balloting ft ex ceede expectations balloting in the nationwide straw poll conducted by this newspaper in conjunction with 2000 others the country over has to date far exceeded the ot or ane Auto cater calter news service through k which nationwide organization taij poll Is ia being taken there haap s been well over a million votes cast to date still nothing decisive can be as certa pertained ined from this straw vote as yei yee hoover true Is consistently in the lead but his lead is quite slight I 1 he has haa votes compared to a smiths votes in actual numbers the difference between th two figures seems quite large but on a Ver percentage basis the difference li is small hoover has about fifty two and eight tenths per cent of the total vote this Is a gain of one per cent over last week when he ae had but fifty one and eight tenths per cent of the total vote when the first of results was made hoover had sixty eight per cent of the total vote since then his big percentage has been going down i slowly lowly but this week he seems to i be gaining again the mho general tendency ho however weNer of the vote seems to be a tendency to even up smith cons constantly tanily approaches hoovers figure then falls back again the same Is true hearst newspapers where hoover lias has according to very recent figures votes to tor for smith hoover has been in the lead in this hearst pill pil but his lead has bay been tor for the most patt pait a lead of perhaps votes recent recant ballots boost him up a little higher the fascinating tact fact about all this thia is that straw votes in lD previous years hay hare shown entirely ent rely different tendencies the man to win vin finally was generally way up abiad in the ithe straw votes in the coolidge pavis campaign the hearst nationwide tool pool at just about this stage of the game reported about twice as many votes tor for coolidge as for davis tor for example another stage phenomenon of this campaign as we have commented several times before Is tho the results d f nationwide presidential poll to sate date 7 hoover smith former democrats dotlo f r hooter former republicans voting tor for S smith 63 results of straw hearst newspapers hoover smith the new york dally daily straw poll gives to smith and to hoover this la Is the closest of all straw votes and Is the result of 0 polls polla take in new york state alone the yonkers N Y herald in taking a straw vote of 0 yonkers ers and nearby new york state sections finds a result to date of 3 40 8 tor for smith and 2601 lor for hoover the farm journal Is also conducting a straw vote this one national in scope the latest results printed in bleir september issue gives to hoover and to smith great number of switches in sen ciment that are taking place the nationwide presidential poll shows that persons wh voted a democratic ticket have decided to vote in favor of hoover this year and former republicans public Dubli ans cans votes have been won over to smith truly party lines are slackening considerably and the election given every indication of being a close exciting battle almost every day one hears of a dyed in the wool democrat changing ilia his view point deciding to voto veto for hoover and ot of a staunch re publican to balance him declaring himself in tavor favor ot of smith thus john J raskob listed in whoa who as a republican is now the chairman of smiths camp campaign alga committee thus R A owen a former united states senator and a democrat Is backing hoover thus nicholas murray butler that constant member 0 of the G 0 P gives hints of bolting his bis party no one knows just where he be stands now and J R pally of hattiesburg Hatt lesburg mississippi sippe resigns his position in the he democratic ranks of his state to be able to vote tor for hoover everything is in ill a state of ferment traditions are being broken history Is being madel made big business men heads beads of gigantic corporations aro are coming right out in the open and telling who they are going to vote fw fur many ot of these too show a complete reversal ot of their usual political sympathies business men are supporting both parties and taking active parts in the campaign we do not know kaow any more whether the solid south is 13 to remain the solid south and states that have been republican since this generation can remember aro now in the ithe doubtful column never has the situation been quite as strange that Is why political discussion prophecy and ln in detest Is as prevalent now in sep ten denber ber as though election day |