The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-01
NINE CANDIDATES
FOR PRESIDENT
SIX ELECTORAL TICKETS
WILL BE VOTED FOR ONE WEEK
FROM TODAY.

The Terms of Thirty U. S. Senators
Expire Next Mareh-seven Vacan-
cies Already FiIIed-COngressme
to BE Elected. in All Except Three
States - Twenty-Seven Governors
to BE ChOsen-sOuth Carolina the
Only state Having but One Ticket.
New York, Oct Shine national
political conventions were held this
year, and nine candidates for President
and Vice President of the United
States were nominated, but only six
electoral tickets will be generally vot-
ed for one week from tomorrow. Be
sides 1.-THE two great political parties,
seven others made nominations
Peoples, Prohibition, Socialist, Labor,
Continental Qabor)' National Liberty
(negro), and Lincoln (negro). The two
negro parties, however, apparently
ended their work when the national
conventions adjourned. as no electors
have been selected, or at least none
will appear on any official ballot: and
the Continental party seems to be con-
fined to Illinois, and, perhaps to Chi
cago, the place of it's origin.
The terms of thirty United States
Senators expire March 4th next.
Seven Of the vacancies have already
been filled, and the Legislatures of
twenty-three States to be elected
Nov. Sth will fill the other twenty
three.
Members of the House of Representa-
t1ves are to be voted for in all ex-
cept three states-Maine, Vermont and
Oregon, which have already elected
their Congressman.
~ Governors to BE Elected.
In twenty-seven states a Governor
and all, or nearly all, the elective state
o1hcers are to be chosen in five states
minor state officers are to be selected,
ana, In thirteen. electors are to be
voted for.
South Carolina enjoys the distinc-
ton of having only one ticket in the
held. All the other states have from
-FOUR to six, Illinois leading with sew
en-. There are three Republican tick
cts in Delaware, but only one varia-
ton in the names of the candidates
the nominee for Governor of the Reg
ulars" refusing to abide by the decis-
ion of the fractional conference which
resulted in the withdrawal of the I'm
ion" candidate and an agreement upon
a compromise ticket. The Republic
cans in Wisconsin will have a choice
between two tickets for state officers
the "Stalwarts' having decided to keep
up their fight against LaFollette. The
electors on both tickets, however, are
Identical.
The Democrats and Peoples party,
or Populists fused on the state ticket
in Kansas and Nebraska. but in both
states the Peoples party named sep
arate presidential electors. In Nevada
the Democrats and one wing of the
Silver party divided the minor state
officers to be voted for, but the "StAl-
wart Silver" men put up their own
electors.
sPOps" Organized in 80 states.
The Peoples party, which indorsed
Bryan in 1896 and 1900, has an active
organization in thirty-two of the for
ty-five states, the nominees for state
officers and electors being on the off,
cial ballot in twelve states, and for
electors in twenty. Efforts to this end
were made in a number of other
states, but the requisite number Of
signatures to petitions were not OBJ
tanned.
The Prohibitionists have electoral
and state tickets in twenty-seven
states, and electoral tickets in twelve
others-one less than in 1900.
The Socialists Called in some states
Social Democrats) have electoral and
state tickets in thirty-two states, and
electoral tickets in eleven others
seven more than in 1900.
The Socialist Labor party have
whole or part electoral and state tick
cts in twelve states, and electoral tick
| cts in two others--six less than in 1900.
The following are the tickets nomi-
mated by the different parties. Where
| a ticket is incomplete no nominations
were made: 8.
The National Tickets.
Republican - President. Theodore
Roosevelt, New York: Vice President,
Charles w. Fairbanks. Indiana.
Democratic-P President, Alton B.
Parker. New York; Vice President,
Henry G. Davis. West Virginia.
Swallow, Pennsylvania; Vice Presi-
| Peoples-President Thomas E. Wat
son, Georgia; Vice President, Thomas
| H. Tibbles. Nebraska.
| Sooialist-President Eugene "
| Debs, Indiana; Vice President, Benta-
min Hanford. New York.
| t-Labor-President, Charles
| H. Corregan, New York; Vice Presi-
dent. William w. Cox. Illinois.
Continental Q4abor) President,
| Austin Holcomb, Georgia; Vice Presi-
dent, A. King. Missouri.
National Liberty DISQUALIFICATION,
George +. Taylor, Iowa; Vice Presi-
dent. William C. Payne, Virginia.
Lincoln Party Negro)-President. f.
| P. Penn. West Virginia; Vice Presi-