Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-31
z STATES Will
VOTE NEXT WEEK
FIVE WILL ELECT GOVERNORS.
NEW YORK BATTLE OF
GREATEST INTEREST.

New York, Oct. 29.-'Twelve stares
will hold elections week from today.
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Mary
land, Mississippi and Kentucky will
choose governors and other states OH
GERS. New Jersey elects a governor
only.
In New York two associate justices
Of the court of appeals will lbe voted
for. Pennsylvania will elect =. S ate
treasurer and Nebraska 4 railroad
commissioner and two regents of The
state university. In Ohio, Titan and
Califo mia. municipal officers are to be
selected while in New York county
number of judges and sheriff are
i to be voted for
The prohibitioniste ana socialists
have tickets in nearly all CT the
states.
Mississippi Not in Doubt.
There is only enc ticket the
democratic - in Mississippi. nnl the
result, of course Is not doubtful.
In Massachusetts, there fire ten
tickets, five being divided among dem
ocrats, who are engaged in a fractional
fight with the state delegation to the
national democratic convention next
year In prospective. The ballot law
commission decided that Henry M.
Whitney was the nominee for COVER
nor.
In Nebraska the democrats and pop
ulists fused on the officials to be voted
for throughout the state.
In Maryland there will be a
straight contest between the demo-
Gratis and republicans, only the two
PARTIES having made nominations for
tate officers. In addition to these a
house of delegates and one-half of the
state senate are to be elected. Ths
next legislature will choose two United
States senators-one to fill the unex-
pired ter moi the late Arthur Pue
German and the other to take the
place Of Senator Rayner.
The local elections particularly in
New York county. Cleveland. Cincin-
natl, Salt Lake, and San Francisco
are Of particular interest this year.
Hearst Fusion In New York.
In New York county the republicans
and the independence league (Hearst)
forces have fused on the county tick
ct. which Is made up of a number of
court justices and sheriff. This
gives unusual interest to the contest.
Although the republicans named the
head Of the ticket, M. Linn Bruce, for
Justice Of the supreme court, the most
important Office. that Of sheriff, went
to the Independence league, whose
nominee Macmillan F. Ihmsen, has
been William R. Hearst's campaign
q n nf
the ten judges nominated the repub-
licans named five and the Independ-
ence league the others.
Mcclellan Bows to Tammany.
Opposed to Ihmsen on the demo-
cratic ticket is Thomas F. Foley, Il
we'll known figure In East Side poll
| tics, while. James w. Gerard heads the
democratic ticket for justice Of the
supreme court. Soon after the nomi.
nations were made Mayor Mcclellan.
who had been opposed to the present
Tammany machine, announced that he
would support the democratic ticket
against the republican, Hearst com
bine
In Cincinnati there is triangular
contest Dempsey, democrat, being op-
posed by Frank Pfaff, elected vice
mayor two years ago on the same tick
ct with Dempsey, and by Colonel Leo
pold Markbreit, the veteran German
editor. Pfaff heads the city party
nominees. and Markbreit is the repub-
! lican candidate.
Tom johnson Faces Burton.
In Cleveland Congressman Theo.
dore E. Burton is contesting the may
orally with Tom Johnson
There are four tickets in Salt Lake
City the Americans or anti-Mormon
patty having made nominations for
local offices, as have the republicans,
democrats and socialists.
In San Francisco the democrats
and good government forces have
combined and nominated the present
acting mayor, who is opposed by the
republican as well as a union labor
candidate, and the three cornered
fight is decidedly lively.