Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-19
Twenty-Six Senators To Re
Chosen in Twenty.Four
States
STRIFE FOR FAIR
BANKS SEAT
Interesting Warfare IN Missouri,
Wisconsin, Connecticut, and
California

WASHINGTON. Nov. lS.--Some In
teresting contests for seats In the
United states senate will be Witness.
cd little over q month hence when
the new legislatures assemble. Twen.
ty.six senators Will be chosen by
twenty.four states. Indiana Will elect
two senators. one TO succeed Senator
Fairbanks. who will resign March 3
next to become vice president Of the
United States Massachusetts, will
elect two senators. one for the unex-
pired term Of the late Senator Hoar.
which does not end until March 3.
1907. The Pennsylvania legislature
has the election Of one senator for
two terms--the unexpired term Of the
late Senator Quay. ending March ..
next, and the term Of six years from
that date.
or the twenty.six senators to 10
designated by various states large
majority will come In without contro-
versy. This Is because an increasing
number OF states have adopted the
policy Of reelecting useful senators,
and because a few others have indl-
Gated In advance the men Of their
choice In the lattet class comes
Nebraska. whose state convention In
dorsed Representa- Elmer ]. Bur.
kett; also Utah ann NeyadA, where
! tbs election sof formey Representative
tseosge Sunderland ssd Mr. George
Nixon, rsspeGtivels. has bean fore
Swallowed by the general consent Of
the party leaders,
Vigorous contests are looked for In
eight states. One OF them will be In.
diana, While Senator Beveridge will
be reelected without opposition from
his party the strife for the seat OF
! Senator Fairbanks ID very keen Col
onel Harry New and several OF the
| Indiana delegation In the house are
contesting for the place.
The winter will witness a continue
tion of the bitter senatorial fight
which has marked the political his-
tory of the Blue Hen state for the
greater part of decade. j. Edward
Addicks Ia still desirous or coming 10
the senate, but apparently lfcks two
| or three votes. II seems to be taken
for granted that Senator John Kean,
of New Jersey. will be given another
term without opposition, but In New
York it IL not quite clear whether
there will be opposition to Senator
DePeW
| Connecticut will have an interesting
senatorial fight AS the election
there practically means an election
for life, the strife 10 attain the honor
will be all the more spirited. There
are now two leading candidates, one
Of them Samuel Fessenden, long a
national committeeman, but ii In not
improbable that others win enter the
contest before the legislature meets
The republican elected from Connecti-
cut will succeed Gen. Joseph II. Haw.
ley, who has been in the senate near
ly twenty-four years.
In Wisconsin. the La Toilette con.
troll will probably result in the turn.
1ag down Of Senator Quarles. Senti-
ment has not crystallized on his sue
cessor Missouri will be the scene of
another interesting contest, In this
case for the toga OF Senator Cockrell.
Cyrus p. Walbridge, the defeated can
didate for governor, Secretary of the
Interior Hitchcock and Richard Ker-
ems are among those whose names
are mentioned as possible candidates.
In California. IL Is regarded as
quite probable that Senator Bard will
succeed himself, but he has not yet
cleared away all opposition. Wash
ington state will see warm fight for
the seat Of Senator Foster. The re-
publican legislature In Montana, II Is
Expected, will elect Thomas II. Car
ter, who Is already familiar figure
In the senate. Altogether, there will
be scarcely half dozen new men on
the senate floor after March next.
Two OF the newcomers win be Sena.
tor Knox Of Pennsylvania and Senator
w. Murray Crane, OF Massachusetts.
though both men are well known in
Washington.