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...that baloting of yesteryear which the CRIMSON conducted on Prohibition, it might well be asserted by one of your editors that "Those who drink are not supposed as being capable of deciding about repeal or modification." If that were the case, your little poll (with all unqualified votes subtracted) would have brought in lily-white results...
...election day Secretary of State Clarence J. Brown and 30 aides scattered over Cleveland to help keep the peace. Their presence was not enough to stop scores of beatings while one bystander was accidentally shot in a poll quarrel. Cleveland's Negroes got free rides to the election booths in return for their votes for Boss Maschke's candidate. But their massed strength was not enough to stop the Democratic sweep. Ray Miller was elected Mayor of Cleveland by 102,632 to 94,929. Never before had citizens turned out in such numbers for a municipal contest...
...Iowa month ago Governor Murray went to address great gatherings of farmers, was cheered till the rafters rang. That this sentiment for him was not all noise was revealed this month by a presidential State-wide poll conducted by the Des Moines Register and Tribune. President Hoover got 14,778 out of 17,925 Republican straw votes. Out of 38,732 Democratic votes, Governor Murray led with 13,427; Governor Roosevelt followed with 13,401 and Alfred Emanuel Smith came third with...
That inquisitive journal the Literary Digest, is now conducting a nationwide poll on Prohibition. The vote conducted two years ago on this subject proved little, since in offering three alternatives, repeal, modification, and enforcement, no one received a majority of votes. Though the earlier Prohibition poll was inconclusive, the presidential poll of 1928 proved to be surprisingly accurate. The present questionnaire, offering only two choices, will probably decide with equal exactitude the sentiment of the American voters. Th large number of replies already counted show a decided wet majority in every state. Although the method of choosing voters prevented...
...large majority for either side is reached in this poll the results may be decidedly beneficial. It covers a sufficiently large sector of the population to enable a politician to judge the trend of his constituents' convictions. To all except a few fanatics, Prohibition has, even in daily conversation, dwindled in importance. Could the candidates for office frankly discard this question, their election would be decided on more consequential issues of economic relief and international cooperation...