DARTMOUTH STRONGLY G. O. P. STRAW VOTE INDICATES

Undergraduate political sentiment at Dartmouth is overwhelmingly Republican according to the results of a straw vote cast December 11 and 12 at the instigation of The Dartmouth. Of a total vote of 1073, Republican candidates polled 863, Democratic possibilities polled 174, and Non-Partisans 36. The names voted on were those of men mentioned as possible candidates for the presidency of the United States in 1920.

Leonard Wood with 271 votes and Woodrow Wilson with 68 were the leading vote getters of the Republican and Democratic parties respectively; but President Wilson's position on the actual list of results was fifth. Four Republicans, Wood, Coolidge, Hughes, and Lowden, each polled more votes than Mr. Wilson.

Each undergraduate was restricted to voting for one candidate, and none was privileged to vote in the "primaries" of more than one party. McAdoo, Baker and Clark were the Democrats who drew most student votes, after President Wilson. But a fifth Republican, Hiram Johnson, came in sixth, just between the president and the former secretary-director general.

The tabulated vote stood thus:—

Leonard Wood (R) 271 Calvin Coolidge (R) 260 Charles E. Hughes (R) 130 Frank C. Lowden (R) 123 Woodrow Wilson (D) 68 Hiram Johnson (R) 64 William G. McAdoo (D) 54 Herbert Hoover (Non-part) 32 Newton D. Baker (D) 16 Warren G. Harding (R) 15 Champ Clark (D) 14 A. Mitchell Palmer (D) 14 Oscar Underwood (D) 6 John J. Pershing (Non-part) 4 Thomas R. Marshall (D) 2 Total vote 1073 Republican vote 863 Democratic vote 174 Non-partisan vote 36

The tables must be read in light of the knowledge that Dartmouth College draws more students from Calvin Coolidge's state, Massachusetts, than from any other; next most from New York, the home of Charles Evans Hughes, and many from northern New England, which claims General Wood. He was born in New Hampshire and is now considered a Massachusetts man. The increased number of undergraduates from the Middle West is reflected, probably, in the vote of 123 given Governor Lowden of Illinois. Somewhat the same deduction can be made from the vote for Champ Clark, of whom only slight mention for the 1920 presidency has been heard.