Washington, Sept. 25.
The close of the "Literary Digest's'"' prohibition pol] finds the number of votes in favor of en forcement, of modification, and of} repeal distributed in almost exactly! ibe same proportions as at the end of each of the eight weeks the voting was in progress.
The total number of yotes_ recorded was 922,383, of which 356,193, er 386 per cent, were in favour of continued enforcement, 376,334, er 40.8 per cent., in favour off modification, and 189,856, or 20.6 "vy cent., in favour of total repeal. There were therefore 566,190 votes, or 61.4 per cent., against the law ae it stands, as compared with 256,193, or 38.6 per cent., in its} favour. In other words, for every J00 votes recorded in favour of prahabition there were 159 against In each of the nine grand divitions of states there was a substantial majority against prohibi-jacu, the majority in- the Middle Atlantic group being more than two to one. With the exception of Kansas and Oklahoma (the latter with a majority of only 60) all the 48 states and the District of Colum-pia. voted against the enforcement of the present law, the majorities in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Montana being more than two to one, and in Louisiana and Nevada more than three to one. Two other states, Wyoming and Arizona, were also within a very few votes of being in the same two-to-one category. As stated in my previous letter, the main pol] was based upon the telephone lists of the various states, lists that might be presumed to represent the most substantial and conservative els-! mant in the population.
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