Thomas Vote Will Reach 700,000; Solid Gains Recorded in Many States
Thomas Vote Will Reach 700,000; Solid Gains Recorded in Many States THE vote for Norman Thomas and James H. Maurer, Socialist candidates for President and Vice-President, will reach 700,000 in...
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...states the Communist attempt t round up Negro votes resulted ii 18 votes in Alabama, 75 in Arkan ¦as, 30 in Georgia, 2 in Nortl Carolina...
...5,000 to Old Parties, Last 25c to Socialists BATTLE CREEK, Mich—With the last quarter he had to his name, a local man who had contributed $6,000 to Republican and Democratic campalgn*funds In recent yean, joined the Socialist Party, according to tht secretary of tht Socialist local hart...
...728 Texa« ___________ - Utah ____________ 2,493 Vermont_________ 1,810 Virginia _________ 1,907 Washington___u...
...Every week, the regular edition was sold out...
...Every effort was made to make it a popular campaign publication and the staff takes this opportunity to thank the cartoonists whose splendid work was given free...
...The New Leader is not OUR paper but YOUR paper...
...There are no votes In the compilation for Texas, where a large vote was cast, and msny of the state votes are deliberately estimated low, on the basis of scattering returns...
...The Communist driv to enlist the Negro vote on th promise of "self-determination o the Black belt" was a ludicrou failure...
...Out of 148 members there were 61 Socialists and 16 Radicals...
...There are also 75 writtenin votes in Florida, so far reported, and none in Nevada or Oklahoma...
...We urge all who have helped to continue the work of getting new subs...
...110 in tl>< 19th A. D. and 99 in the 21st A. 1) In the same districts, withou making any particular racial ap peal but only a working class So cialist appeal the Socialist Part...
...SOCIALISTS WIN IN DANISH ELECTIONS According to early indications the Socialist Party won a sweeping victory in the elections for the Lower House in Denmark Wednesday...
...Despite the fact that wit ill-concealed self-consciousness the...
...The only vote available at this writing Is that of the town of Plummer, where there were 88 written-in votes, to 83 Democrats, 81 Republicans and one Communist vote...
...polled 1,200 votes...
...The five states in - which tt ticket was barred by reactionai election laws, or by political dec ¦ions of high courts, are believe to have been prepared to cai (0,000 or more votes...
...the ticket would have polled a heavy vote If it had been on the ballot...
...The Communist vote was abou 25,000 in New York City, and I reached 10,000 or a bit more i Illinois and Minnesota...
...In the closing weeks of the campaign and in the two weeks since Election Day the subscriptions at our special rate for new subscribers continued to mount from day to day...
...Under the Socialist government the army and navy were abolished...
...There are 400 written-ln votes credited to Thomas in Louisiana...
...In all othe states it was so small as to b negligible...
...In the souther...
...Total----------667,501 The NewLeader Forges Ahead THE special subscription campaign of The New Leader, which l>cgan late last July, has surpassed any similar campaign we have attempted...
...The Vote by States The vote for the Thomas-Maure ticket, so far as it has been tabu lated and with thousands of voting districts still missing, is as follows Alabama______r__ 1,369 Arizona_______252 Arkansas ________ 894 California________ 54,085 Colorado _________ 8,f>75 Connecticut ______ 20,439 Delaware ________ 1,503 Florida...
...The subs came in at such a rate that the business office was swamped in the effort to record them...
...The Ave states together ought easily to have polled 50,000 or more...
...83 Illinois _.........40,148 Indiana__________ 8,708 Iowa ____________ 1,000 Kansas __________16,153 Kentucky____.___ - Louisiana________ 400 Maine ___________ 2,300 Maryland ......10,500 Massachusetts____ 32,808 Michigan ________ 30,000 Minnesota........16,178 Mississippi_______ 815 Missouri _________ 7,600 Montana _________ 3,014 Nebraska...
...How large the vote would have been if the ticket had been on the ballot it Is impossible to say...
...And yet this is only the beginning...
...The bundle orders also surpassed any previous record and these increased to such an extent that from a number of branches came thesuggestion that special supplements be issued which would contain special material regarding the local campaign and local candidates...
...Solid Gains Recorded in Many States THE vote for Norman Thomas and James H. Maurer, Socialist candidates for President and Vice-President, will reach 700,000 in the United States, and may reach three quarters of a million, according to unofficial and far from complete returns now available...
...75 Georgia__________ 300 Idaho...
...The government headed by Thorwald Stauning, Socialist, that had held office since the elections of April 24th, 1929, had existed through the "toleration" of the Radical Party, having no clear majority of its own...
...The Socialists gained 70,000 votes over their 1929 total...
...With the ticket barred from the ballot in five states, and with other states not yet reporting there are already 667,510 votes credited to the ThomaaMaurer ticket The states still missing are known to have cast a substantial vote for the Socialist Party candidates...
...in none doe* it represent anything near the So* cialist sentiment...
...the party members who reported the campaign in their localities, and the hundreds of others who cooperated in many ways to circulate The New Leader...
...In scarcely a single state ii tht figure complete...
...The party's ticket, for example, was thrown off the ballot in Idaho...
...the writers whose contributions helped to make the paper what it has been...
...2,306 South Carolina___ 20 South Dakota____ - Tennessee...
...If we had been on (he ballot," writes a local comrade, "we would have carried the town...
...possibly 10,000 to 15,000...
...8,787 Nevada _________- - Maw Hampshire .. 947 New Jersey______ 34,000 New Mexico______ -— New York........166,379 North Carolina...
...its only mission is to make Socialists and to strengthen the Socialist Party...
...8,459 Neirth Dakota____ - Ohio ............61,185 .Oklahoma________ - Oregon _„________14,538 Pennsylvania_____ 65,638 Rhode Island .r...
...From all quarters The New Leader has received messages of congratulation regarding its effectiveness as a propaganda medium...
...named Negroes for important of flees and made a specific drive t garner Negro votes, the result were pitiful In Negro Harlem, the Com munist ote was 209...
...The Reichstag was dissolved by Premier Stauning when tht Upper House refused to sanction ear* tain social legislation of the government, and the elections wert the result...
...It is not published for profit...
...and to carry on its program the Socialists were required to Include three Radicalsin the Ministry, to nine Socialists...
...17,461 West Virginia .___ 8,000 Wisconsin________44,012 Wyoming...
Vol. 14 • January 1932 • No. 21
