Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-04

| members OF Congress. or the fifty state
| senator's to be elected twenty-five will
| hold over and will form q part OF the leg
| islature that Will choose successor t.
| Senator Penrose. The opponents OF Sen
| ator Penrose. both In and out of the
| publican party. have worked hard in order
| to elect men who can be- depenued upon
| to vote against him. But the fact that So
| few memoirs or the Legislature VIII hotd
| over has made it difficult To get up an inn
| portant campaign against him
4 The contest Tor state officers has been
| waged with great energy. On the hand
| the republicans have ticket headed
! by Mr.. Edwin S Stuart for governor and
| the democrats and I.Gncomlirs, ,nc a.
J party being composed of a faction of re-
| pubiicans opposed to the machine" have
| fused on a state ticket headed by Mr. Louis
| Emery. jr. formerly "A republican and
| VITA democrats filling the other Important
| rinr"s ~ the ticket. The fusionists hav,.
/ the assistance of the city party in Phila-
| I ss-.'.'. ~hica a year ago turned that
town ursde down when the alleged
rupt plan for a long extension of the lease
| OF the munc pal gas plant by the machine
drove the latter out of power and gave th,.
city party. headed by Mayor Weaver. fun
! control of Philadelph n. Pol teal comrl
! cations have recently cstranged Weaver
from some of iotmer Ir.s.l,.s al 49,.
| city party and have caused a realiSnm-u
| of forces SO that the fusionists will not
| get as much support from the city parry
| for their candidates as they expected early
| In the campaign.
| stuart s election VIII De regarded as a
| victory for Penrose. although Stuart viii
| receive the support of a large faction in
! the party that is not friendly to the sen
| ator. sweeping republican victory of the
state Will assist i'll the election OF leg
stature two years hence that will be
friendly to the reelection of Penrose
Speaker Cannon. Chairman sherman ard
Senator Knox have all spoken strongly In
| favor of the election of the republ can
state ticket we'll the republican can
didateS for Congress.
| The democrats claim eight doubtful con-
gressionnl districts in PennsNlVania. Three
districts-the second. formerly represented
by Adams the third. formerly represented
by Castor. and the twelfth. formerly rep
| resented by Patterson-have new men con
testing the election. The second and third
districts are republican. The twelfth
| carried by a republ can majority OF a,Iit
| two years ago but the democrats
| claiming that they will secure "A heavy
| vote there. Other distr cts claimed by
| them are the sixth represented by Nc
Creary; the tenth. by Dale; the eleventh.
| by Palmer; the fourteenth. by LEey; the
| sixteenth. by Samuel: the twentieth. by
| I.afean. and the twenty sixth. by Schnee-
! bell. The thirteenth is democratic.
| The republicans claim that all districts
| are safely for their cand dates except the
| thirteenth, sixteenth. twentieth and TWEEN
ty-sixth. all of which are regarded as nor
| maliy democratic. Representative Kline of
| the thirteenth Is the only democrat in the
| present Congress The sixteenth aud the
| twe"'"-stvth districts ware denocrat'" "a
| tcth wnie "icc. * is,'--nc.i' T. &C
| F'ifiy-e!ghth and Fifty-n nth Congresses.
| gave Patterson majority of over :;.ftn
| when he elected governor and is re-
| garded as normally democratic. Candi-
| dates for Congress:
First district-Rep.. II. II. Bingham. re-
| nominated; dem. G. l.. Galen; Lin Spencer
| Miller.
Second district-Rep. and Lin. J. +. Ray
| burn: dem. G. F. Stevens.
| Third district-Rep.. J. II. Moore: dem.
| and Lin, w. ]. OBrien.
Fourth distrIct-Rep. and Lin. +. o.
| Neon. renomnated.
Fifth district-Rep. and Lin, W W.
| Foulkrod: DEM f. f, Frinley
Sixth district-Rep.. G. ID. McCreary. re-
| nominated; dem, L. X. Ward
Seventh distrct-Rep., T. S. Butler.
| nomna ted. dem. W. II. leedom.
Eighth district-Rep.. l. T. Wanser.
nominated; dem. and Lin, W. +. l.eedon.
| Jus. DEM, J. J. Buckley.
Ninth district-Rep.. II. b. Cassel r.
| nominated; dem. and Lin, j. IL. Wicker
| shaw.
Tenth district-Rep. and Lin. T. II. Dale.
renomnated: dem. I. d. Nichols
| Eleventh district-Rep. II. W. Palmer. re-
| nominated: dem, r. ID. Nichols: ind rep.
| Dr. Cobleigh Friday: Lincoln rep. f. y.
Corey.
| twelfth district-Rep.. c. NJ. Brumm:
| DEM. W. s. SHEPPARD.
+ Thirteenth district-Rep., j. W. Fisher;
| DEM, J. II. Rotherner.
Fourteenth dtstrict-Rep. NJ r. I.lley
| renom.nate ted: DEM. G. W. Kipp.
/ Fifteenth district--Rep A. Deemer re-
| nominated: dem. w. b. Wilson: soc. +. III.
| Sharer; ind. rep. and Lincoln. c. Tubbs.
| Sixteenth district-Rep. and Lin. f.. W.
Samuel, renominated: dem. J. q. McHenry
! Seventeenth district-Rep.. =. X. Focht:
dem. w Alexander; Lin. e. NJ Hmmmsl
| Eighteenth distrct-Rep., NJ. +. Ohm
| sted, renominated; dem. and Lin. rt D., John
| Lndner.
Nineteenth district-Rep and Lin. j. NJ.
| Reynolds; DEM, J. L. Thorpp.
| Twentieth diStrict-ReD,. d. F. Iafaan.
| dem, III. Keesey.
Twcnty-first district-Rep.. C. +. Bark
ley: dem, II. s. Taylor.
| Twenty-second dfstrict-ReD.. G. +. Hun.
| renominated: dem. and Lin. c. A Kane.
| Twenty-third district-Rep 4. r. Cooper
| renominated: dem, T.. o. kooser.
| Twenty-fourth distrct-Rep.. T.. +. Ache
son, renominated: dem. and Lin, Robert
| Aiken.
| Twenty-ffth district-Rep.. A. l.. Bates
| renominated: dem. Andrew Palm.
Twenty-s. xth distr.ct-Rep. O. IL. Schnee-
bell. renominated; dem. and Lin. J. Il.
Broadhead.
| Beale: dem, S. c. Hepler.
| Twenty-eighth district - Rep, n. L.
| Wheeler; dem. +. II. BreslIn.
| Twenty-nnth dStrict-Rep.. w H. Gra-
ham. renominated; dem. NJ. Marshall.
| Thirtieth dstrict-Rep.. John Dalzen
| nominated: dem. r. j. Black.
| Thirty-first distr!ct-Rep. J. +. Burke,
! renominated: dem. Frank Lackner.
| Th'rty-second d strict-Rep.. A. J. Barch-
field, renomlnated: dem. NJ. c. ODonovan.
Rhode Island.
| The first district of Rhode Island is
\ doubtful and the second is republican. A
| legislature will be elected and will choose
a successor to Senator Wetmore. The SEN
| atorship Is not settled. but Mr. Wetmorc
| will probably be reelected. Candidates for
| Congress:
First dstrict-Rep.. Elisha Dyer. dem.
ID. l.. ID. Granger. renominated
Second distr.ct-Rep.. A. b. Capron. re-
nominated: dem. l.. L. c. Gavin.
South Carolina.
South Carolina will elect a state ticket
Legislature and seven representatives. The
chief issue involved in the state campaign
| has been the liquor law. Senator Tillmau
has continued to advocate his dispensary
system for the sale of liquor and a strong
faction of his party has favored local OPP
ton. At the primary elections held "A
couple of months ago Senator Tilman was
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