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Princeton, N. J., Oct. 18, 1916.--Charles Evans Hughes secured a plurality of 138 votes over Woodrow Wilson in the straw ballot presidential election conducted here today by the Princetonian...
...army of young Americans will cast their first ballots at the polls in November. How will they vote? To a considerable extent they will hold the balance of power, and as they dictate so will the country go, for better or for worse. It is a mighty responsibility, this thing of determining the future history of the country, and those first voters, boys and girls, who don the habiliments of full-fledged citizenship when they take their first ballots in their hands and step into the voting booths owe in return for the new privilege that hence-forth...
...results of the presidential straw ballot held among the faculty and undergraduates of Dartmouth by The Dartmouth, the undergraduate newspaper show that the two bodies were exactly opposed in their opinions of the presidential candidates. The faculty and officers of administration gave Wilson 64 per cent. and Hughes 36 per cent. of their votes, while the undergraduates gave Hughes the lead with 64 per cent to Wilson's 36 per cent. Hughes was supported by the officers of administration, but the faculty members of the departments of social sciences were solid for Wilson. The interest in the straw ballot...
...result of the voting at Memorial Hall ought to be regarded as more significant of the University's political sentiment than the verdict of the ballot box at the CRIMSON Building. Hughes' plurality over Wilson at Memorial was only 90 votes. This indicates that the more intelligent vote of the graduate students gave Hughes a small plurality. Since the graduate schools show a wider range of geographical distribution, it is only right to regard their choice as nearer to what the final result will be in the National election...
...increase of 200 votes over the total number polled in the Presidential ballot of 1912 points encouragingly to the fact that College men are taking a greater and more active interest in National politics. Whether the Old Guard holds away over Harvard undergraduates or not, provided the College is politically alive, "good times" prevail...