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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1920)
TPs " VT 0 Tl Tl 0 The Literary Digest Is Asking Eleven Million Voters -to Name Their Choices for Both Great Parties The Greatest Poll Ever Taken in the History -(riike Vniteil States . INDIVIDUAL BALLOTS . have been sent by mail to eleven A Million Voters throughout the United States almost two- thirds of the. Presidential vote of 18,529902, cast in the last national election in 19V6. j V Every ballot is mailed in an envelope adressed with ' pen and ink, and deliv-, eredthrough the U. S, SPost-Office personally to the voter addressed. Return postage on the ballot is prepaid,, and the vbtei has only to check or write the name of his or her Party-and first and second choices for Presidential Candi-, aatesj witn no oxner marK oi laemmcation, ana xnen arop tnis secret caiiox; in .uninfluenced, secret choice of the voter, unknow nto anyone but the voter him self or herself. ' ' ' , s ' ' . The eleven million ballots have been mailed to ALL CLASSES OF VOTERS in all States and all communities in the Nation with complete impartiality. They include business men, merchants, farmers,-manufacturers, railroad employees, bankers, clerks, builders, contractors, superintendents, managers, carpenters, plasterers, plumbers, painters, mechanics, printers, miners, steel workers, workers in every trade and branch of. industry, both union and non-union, pro fessional men and women of all classes' including lawyers, doctors, clergy men, authors, actors, newspaper, men dentists, engineers, educators, architects, musicians, etc., in short, all the classes of men and women who make up the vot ing population in all parts of the country. the nearest letter-box or Post-Office. Thus every vote cast is absolutely the free, , - This Great National Poll, Therefore. Will be the Mem Voice of Ik e Peop le That Political Leaders and Conventions Will Heed No propaganda of any kind;- as to party, candidate, or issues is connected with this great Presidential Primary. THE LITERARY DIGEST has no political ax to grind, and the absolutely impartial and non-partizan nature of the poll is guaranteed and. protected iy the most complete manner. It is the dutyef all men and womeiUo have their own opinions oh the problems that now face their country and to express those opinions a in the choice of their President in the approaching conventions and national election. This unofficial Presidential Primary, the greatest and most representative ever conducted in the history of America, will serve as a vehicle for the f unhampered expression of popular'opinion, and will have a very large influence on the nominating conventions of both great parties First Returns in The Literary Digest's Presidential Poll of the Nation - As printed in The Literary Digest, April 17, 1920 (Firtf 25,000 received). LEONARD WOOD LEADS IN EVERRY SECTION OF THE COUNTRY These figures present a suggestion of the results to be effected when this greatest of all polls realty gets underway."-Literar Digest. v v '- Wood Johnson Penning NEW ENGLAND STATES Including New Hampshire, Ver-, mont, Mass., R. I. anjl Conn Ill 29 3 MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES New York, N. J., and Pa. . 3,160 1,81 1 57 EAST NORTH-CENTRAL STAES Ohio, Ind. 111., Mich., Wis. . . .... 1,813 322 76 WEST NORTH CENTRAL $TAES Minn.,.. la., Mo., North Pak., South Dak.. Nebraska, Kansas : 159 102 26 SOUTH ATLANTIC TAES v x Del., Ind., D. C, Va., W. Va., N. CrS. C., Ga., Fla. ........ . 52 15 2 EAST SOUTH CENTRAL STATES Ky., Tenn., Ala., Miss. 18 Wood Johnson Pershing II 14 22 3 7 WEST SOUTH CENTRAL STATES Ark., pkla., Tex. s -35 MOUNTAIN STATES Mont., Idaho, Wyo., Colo., N. Mex., Ariz., Utah., Nev. 39 23 2 Pacific states Wash., Ore., Cal. 437 440 31 States Unknown ... . .... ...... ... 33 ' 15 2 Total .5,857 ,2,884 213 First Second Choice Choice Butler Vi. ... . 64 Capper 167 Coolidge ... 566 Cummins . . ... . . . .-. ... 28 Goodrich 5 Harding v N ... .2,361 Hughes . . ....... . "1,120 Johnson .. .2,884 Lowden .... 838 " Pershing .... 213 Poindexter 124 Taft 707 Wood 5,857 196 184 1,401 113 26 1,095 1,699 2,381 1,732 560 215 1,025 3,215 Mmm 7 hem A "OUR HOPES ARE jCHANGED TO FEELINGS OF SCURITY," said Leonard Wood in speaking of the Omaha Bee's headline: "Says Wood Has Given Up Hope of Carrying Nebraska." "I have confidence in the Republican Voters of Nebraska," said Wood. LeonardWood carried nine Congressional Districts in Illinois, t ogether witlTa number of counties in other Congressional Districts. Illinois Primary Law Provides fdr in structions by Congressional Districts, and this wouldassure Leonard Wood of at least eighteen delegates. v He Will W in In Nebraska Tunes day v