Word: straws
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...HAVEN, CONN., Jan. 18, 1917.--A straw vote held at Yale today in regard to universal compulsory military training in the United States resulted in a poll of 1400 votes. Eighty percent of these, 1,112, were in favor of some form of universal training...
Harvard has shown itself particularly active this fall with the Democratic Club's successful effort on the stump and the Republican Club's mast meeting and torchlight parade. The results of all the straw votes taken in the different colleges cannot be fashioned into a prophecy of today's result. Yet the apparent strength of Wilson in the Middle West in borne out by the vote of the colleges in that district. The Eastern universities gave Hughes a comfortable margin with one exception, which is Columbia. The latter contains such a great mass of cosmopolitan and representative students that...
...greeted the decision of the New Haven Election Board that Yale students cannot vote in today's election. The Board maintained that the students were not permanent residents of the city and therefore were not qualified to register as voters. The Republican partisans are particularly disappointed since the straw ballot taken at Yale resulted in an overwhelming victory for Hughes...
...trouble with most of our ideals is, that they are absorbed, not thought out. Our politics, our religion, are imbibed rather than constructed. How many men who voted in the straw ballot, how many who will march in the Hughes parade tonight, base their acts on solid reasoning and conviction? The only reason why free-thinkers are persecuted is that the majority of people do not take time to think. They blindly follow the conservatism of the last decade, finding it easier to submit than to investigate...
...says first: "The overwhelming majority of our straw votes for Hughes is in strange distinction from the figures obtained in similar tests elsewhere resulting in victory for Wilson or in practical draws or in very slight favor of Hughes." It is to be presumed that he means straw votes in other colleges and in reply I can only say that the straw vote in every college I have heard of so far this year has resulted in a substantial victory for Hughes. These facts are easily verified...