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...Literary Digest of the current week completes its poll of popular opinion with a showing of the final standing of the Democratic candidates. Mr. McAdoo, as was to have been expected, heads the list with 102,709 ballots for first choice and 38,840 for second. But, what was hardly to have been expected, in view of his persistent reticence as to his intentions, President Wilson comes next in the list, 67,558 Democratic voters recording him as their first choice and 12,506 as their second choice. Mr. Wilson leads Governor Edwards of New Jersey, the ardent champion...
Perhaps the most surprising feature of this final poll is the low rating of Attorney-General Palmer. Mr. Palmer threw his hat in the ring in early March, and he has not been wanting since then in activities tending to advance his aspirations. But the Digest's poll records only 19,003 first choice and 30,532 second choice for him; and the Digest, in its summary, says: "Attorney-General Palmer has throughout run a close race with Debs, the Socialist candidate, for whose incarceration in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary Mr. Palmer's Department of Justice is responsible. Mr. Palmer...
...second of the series of Hoover Bulletins which are published by the Hoover League of Harvard will be distributed this afternoon throughout all the College dormitories. Among other articles to be found in the Bulletin are the preliminary results of a poll of the University Faculty and a statement of the present policy of the League in regard to Mr. Hoover's recent statement that he would run on the Republican ticket...
...Poll of Republican Candidates...
...Leonard Wood National Campaign Committee has taken a poll of college professors throughout the United States on their preference for a Republican Presidential candidate. General Leonard Wood, a Massachusetts man and a graduate of he Harvard Medical School, is the choice of those polled by almost three...