Votes

Additions to the Smith movement included:

The Daily News, Manhattan tabloid, circulation 1,249,503 (largest in the U. S.). Reason: Prohibition.

The Afro-American Weekly in Baltimore, second-largest Negro publication in the U. S. (circulation 49,384).* Reason: Hoover's acceptance of support from Klansmen.

Major Frank J. Lund, Iowa manager for Frank Orren Lowden.

Joseph Leiter, Chicago coal man, son of the late Levi Zeigler Leiter (onetime partner of Marshall Field), brother-in-law of the late Marquese Curzon of Kedleston, husband of Juliette Williams Leiter (famed Washington hostess). Reason: Prohibition.

George William Norris, senior Senator from Nebraska. Reason: Progressiveness (see p. 16).

Robert Marion LaFollette, junior Senator from Wisconsin. Reason: Progressiveness.

*The largest Negro publication, the Chicago Defender (daily, circulation 208,000), is also for Smith. But other negro publications are for Hoover, including: Pittsburgh Courier 45,000 Houston Informer 15,600 St, Louis Argus 26.500 Philadelphia Tribune 15,000 Manhattan Amsterdam News 29,000 Manhattan Age 38,000 Atlanta Independent 11,000 Baltimore Herald-Commonwealth 7,500 Cleveland Call 4,000