PROHIBITION: Poll

The Prohibition poll conducted by the Literary Digest, opinion-collecting weekly, grew top heavy last week with Wet votes. More than two million ballots were tabulated as follows:

For Enforcement—553,337 For Modification—598,252 For Repeal—848,751 Out of 40 States covered, thus far only two—Kansas and Tennessee—gave Enforcement a clear majority over the combined vote for Modification and Repeal, In Florida, Louisiana and Kentucky, Repeal votes exceeded those for Enforcement. Nineteen States gave a plurality to Repeal, 21 a plurality to Enforcement.

The Digest poll, as its sponsors had hoped it would, bred sharp...

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