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THE ELECTORAL VOTE
As the political campaign draws to a close for the
general election in the states next Tuesday, there is
noted a concerted action in certain sections; a particu
lar drive in Ohio, or New York or California, or some
other state. These heavy campaigns in certain sections
are significient to those who follow politics closely, but
often mean little to the casual voter Thus it might
be interesting at this time to point out the major reas
on for these swings and heavy political fire on certain
state fronts.
The President, as every one was taught in school,
but some of us forget, is chosen by Electors, each state
being entitled to the same number of Electors as it has
representatives in Congress. For example, Washing
on State with six Representatives and two senators, has
eight electoral votes. New York with 45 Representa
tives and two senators has 47 electoral votes, and the
other states accordingly. The total electoral vote, there
fore, is 531 or the number corresponding with 435 mem
bers of the House of Representatives and 96 members
of the Senate.
Taking again, for example, the state of Kansas,
home state of the Republican nominee for President,
Governor Alf M. Landon. Kansas has nine electoral
votes. If Landon should carry his state in November
the electors of that state would be bound to cast their
vote in the Republican column when the Electors meet
to choose the President. By the same token if Presi
dent Roosevelt should prove the more popular with
the voters of New York, his home state, on election day,
the electors of that state, which total 47, would cast
their vote in the Democratic column. Thus at the out
set, Roosevelt would have 47 votes and Landon nine.
And let us say again for the benefit of our political
friends, that this is merely an example not a forecast.
The various States have electors, or number of
Representatives and Senators in Congress, as follows:
Alabama 11, Arizona 3, Arkansas 9. California 22,
Colorado 6, Connecticut 8, Delaware 3, Florida 7, Geor
gia 12, Idaho 4 Illinois 29, Indiana 14, Iowa 21, Kansas
9, Kentucky 11, Louisiana 10, Maine 6, Maryland 8,
Massachusetts 17, Michigan 19. Minnesota 11, Mississ
ippi 9, Missouri 15, Montana 4, Nebraska 7, Nevada 3,
New Hampshire 4, New Jersey 16, New Mexico 3, New
York 47, North Carolina 13, North Dakota 4, Ohio 26,
Oklahoma 11, Oregon 5, Pennsylvania 36, Rhode Island
4, South Carolina 9, South Dakota 4, Tennessee 11, Tex
as 23, Utah 4, Vermont 3, Virginia 11, Washington 8,
West Virginia 8, Wisconsin 12, Wyoming 3.
With these figures in mind, it can readily be seen
why campaign leaders in both parties turn their fire
on New York with 47 electoral votes, Illinois with 29,
California with 22 and so on. The majority of elector
al votes is what means victory. Maine, the old state
to hold its general election before November, already
has gone Republican. In other words, Maine’s five
■electoral votes are safe or Governor Landon. He needs
261 more or 266, a majority of the total electoral vote
of 531. In 1932, former President Hoover carried Maine
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but he was only able to gather in only five more states
in the November election, giving him a total of 59 el
ectoral votes compared to 472 for President Roosevelt.
Recently we read of Governor Landon campaign
ing in great style in upper New York state, tradition
ally Republican. New York lias 47 electoral votes,
the most of any state. When one sees one of the cand
idates or his supporters dashing into Pennsylvania for
a series of speeches, it is interesting to note that Penn
sylvania has 36 electoral votes. Many observers con
cede President Roosevelt will carry the solid south
and most of the western states, and Landon the New
England states, as well as some of the eastern states.
Small wonder that Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, New York,
and Pennsylvania, have been battle grounds of politics.
A POLITICAL RACKET
(Cincinnati Inquirer)
As Michigan authorities slowly but persistently
dig deeper into the ugly record of the Black Legion,
it is becoming evident that the organization really has
been a political racket. At the bottom of it are hood
lums of various sorts—ignorant men whose meanness
has made them convenient tools for shrewder men
above them. But the character of the organization is
formed by the political adventurers who have used it
to build their political fences.
A grand jury at Pontiac has named 86 men as be
longing to this organization of night-riders. Many of
them, significantly, are state, county and city officials.
For them, the Black Legion was not a device to preserve
the “supremacy of white protestants,” or a scheme
to suppress labor unions, or anything of the sort. It
was a form of blackmail which they could use in poli
tics.
Nevertheless it is notable that to serve their pur
poses in politics the Black_Legion had to be anti-Jew
ish anti-Negro, anti-Communist, and in general opposed
to most minority groups. The cowards in politics,
whether they call themselves Nazis or the Black Le
gion or something else, find their best way to win sup
port at the very bottom of the social scale is to urge
violence against defenseless minorities.
The Black Legion investigation should not be al
lowed to die until a complete picture is provided. It
is a reincarnation of the Ku Klux Klan, with some new
gangster tricks added. As such, it is the enemy of ev
erything good in American life. We need to know all
the facts, so that the great majority of honest, fair-mind
ed people may be able to defend their institutions ag
ainst this tawdry outcropping of the Fascist spirit.
M. Leon Blum is half way correct, anyway, when
he says the French debt to the United States was a
misunderstanding between two countries. The United
States understood she was going to get the money
jack.—Macon Telegraph.
As long as the Vatican does not find fault, we as
;ume everything is hunky-dory. There wlil be noth
ng done to restrain Father Coughlin’s activities.—New
fork Post.
A man was charged with rustling cattle 10 miles
from New York City, a lesson to Wall Street to keep
its bulls and bears in the corral.—Boston Transcript.
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THE DICTATORSHIP POLL
(Oklahoma City Oklahoman)
No doubt the opinion of the country concerning the
dangers of a pending dictatorship is fairly reflected in
the latest poll of the American Institute of Public Opin
ion. Of those who participated in the poll, 55 per cent
are convinced that Mr. Roosevelt and his policies con
stitute no threat of the imposition of a dictatorship upon
the country, while the other 45 per cent look with con
siderable misgiving upon the President and the trend
of his policies. The result probably reflects fairly en
ough the opinion of the country as a whole.
But the result when fully analyzed proves some
thing else pretty conclusively. It proves that facts and
evidence are fairly well forgotten by those who partici
pated in this latest poll. It proves that bias and preju
dice have much to do—a great deal to do—with forming
the opinion of the voter. If this is not true, how can
one explain the marked fears of a dictatorship in States
that are heavily Republican and the comparative lack
of all fears of a dictatorship in States that are solidly
| Democratic?
Alberta is wondering whether its “velocity dollars”
to be issued will have the speed of a comet or of a snail.
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