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BATTLE OF BALLOTS.
Forty-Two States to Hold Elections
Next Tuesday.
MANYPARTIES HAVE TICKETSNAAlED
State Officers, Congressman md Leg
1slators to He Choscn-Twenty-Tw
United States Senators TO BE
Elected This Winter.

Chicago, Oct. 29.-There will be
elections in AZ states next Tuesday,
the other three (Maine, Vermont and
Oregon) having already selected, this
year, state officials and their repre-
ssntatives in the tifty-eighth con-
gress. In 20 of the AZ states a gov
ernor and other state officers and
congressman are to be chosen; in IL,
minor state officers or Judges of the
supreme court and congressman are
to be voted for, while in nine con-
gressmen only are to be elected.
VIII Choose State Officers.
The principal state officers are to be
chosen in Massachusetts, Rhode ISL
and, Connecticut, New York, South
Carolina, Alabama, Texas, Michigan
Kansas, Minnesota, South Dakota,
Nebraska, Wisconsin, North Dakota,
Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada
md California. New Hampshire
elects only governor; Tennessee, n
governor and railroad commissioner,
and Pennsylvania, a governor and
two other state officials.
Minor state officers, or justices of
the supreme court, are to be voted
Tor in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,
Ohio, Iowa, Florida, North Carolina,
Delaware, Utah, Washington and
Montana.
To Elect Congressmen Alone.
congressman are to be selected in
Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Louis
lana, Virginia, West Virginia, Mary
land, Kentucky and New Jersey. and
delegates in Arizona, Hawaii New
Mexico, Oklahoma and Porto Rico.
VIII Select United States Senator's.
The terms of 80 United States SEN
ntors expire March i, 1903. Five have
already been filled by the election of
James b. McCreary (dem.), Ken
lucky; Joseph b. Foraker (rep.),
Ohio; Arthur P. German (dem.),
Maryland; w. P. Dillingham; (rep.),
Vermont, and Samuel b. McEnery
(dem), Mississippi. In the following
states legislatures which select SEN
ator are to be chosen: New Hamp-
shire, Connecticut, New York, Penn.
sylvania, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, In
diana, Illinois, Missouri, North Da-
kota, South Dakota, Wisconsin. Kan
sas, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Nevada,
Washington and California. The leg
islatures of Oregon, Arkansas and
Georgia, which also elect senator,
have already been chosen.
a legislature will be elected in
Michigan, which will select United
States senator, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Senator Nc
MILAN.
The Parties.
Aside from the two principal po-
htical parties, a dozen others have
tickets in the field. OF the minor or
CARNATIONS the prohibitionists and
socialists have more than the others.
The prohibitionists have made nomi-
nations in Illinois, Texas, Idaho,
South Dakota, Missouri, Nebraska,
Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, Ten
nessee, Wisconsin, Indiana, Mime
sofa, Colorado, California, Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts, Connecticut
and Rhode Island, while the socialists
have tickets in Illinois, Idaho, Wyom-
ing, Montana, Missouri, Nebraska,
Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, Wash
iEgton, Utah, Colorado, California,
massachusetts,, Pennsylvania and New
York.
The socialistic labor party is rep
resented in Missouri, Ohio, Wiscon-
sin, Washington, Indiana, Pennsyl-
yania, Colorado, Massachusetts and
Connecticut, and the social democrat
&c, in Wisconsin and Minnesota
The other parties have tickets as
follows, Peoples, Illinois, Texas,
Idaho, Colorado; allied populists,
Texas, Kansas; populist, Montana,
Indiana, Minnesota; labor, Montana;
public ownership, Missouri; liberal
democrat, New York; union republi-
can, Delaware.