| Show nationwide roll poll fi figures daures leemo keep W ir climbing b I 1 ng up hoover boover Is ahead 1 Y U hoover has to smiths hs tendency to Switch Votes continues still interest continio as in the nationwide presidential poll in which this newspaper is 13 participating with 2000 others the country over the vast number of ballots cast would surely give a fair indication ot of the eventual result in november were it not that hoover and smith are almost tie since the beginning of the poll the republican has been in the lead but hies he has never been greatly in the lead and he ha has on several occasions been perl bously close to losing his lead though never quite doing so now he has votes to smiths votes or just slightly ovi tidy fifty one per cent ot of the total vote the tendency to switch votes continues pr per ons who voted the democratic ticket in 1921 1924 are to vote tor for hoover this year persons who voted t 16 0 republican ticket in 1924 are arc to vote for or smith this year the tae hearst newspapers nationwide poll begins to show gains for hoover who in that poll now votes to smiths for a long time this poll showed enva eien closer figures than tha n it does now in 1924 the hearst papers ran a poll that showed an ov overwhelming ex wh majority tor for the man elected that year our present president the new york dally daily news has begun a poll ot of new york city which to date shows for smith and for hoover A remarkable poll Is being made mad by the literary ot of new i city results from a number of the states stales that do not include the south or new york state show hoover fax far ahead ahad of smith the number of switches in this straw poll is remarkable especially the number of 0 switches from republican to D Imo macrat crat in its early stages the t he literary dienst blest poll shows quite a difference in its results from all tho the other polls being conducted all of which makes the th eventual result more puzzling than ever hoover men point to the literal digest poll as a confirma confirmation tiou J all their coming victory while smith men point out the number of 0 republican to democrat switches and the tact fact that the strongest democratic section have not yet been touched by the poll now our idea is to show what we of the smaller centers of america think mid aad prove drove the wisdom of 0 the pertinent remark recently made by arthur bugs saw baer after all its the small towns that elect the president put all the small towns together and they spell washington therefore we urge each and every one that has not yet sent or brought in their ballot to this newspaper to do so at once ance so that the voice of rural america may be heard as loudly and decisively as possible vote today here are our local results this shows how the readers of of the standard we voting hoover 1 40 I smith 24 democrats voting for hoover lipove 2 republicans voting for foe smith S this n is non in this poll results are to new york where they aie ai e tabulated and figures sent to us tor for publication Auto casler news service announces that in addition to the tabulated results above abode there have been one or two odd votes for will rogers humorist running on an anti bunk platform so whether you are for herbert hoover alfred smith or will rogers let us know |
