The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-04
IN SIX OF THE STATES
GOVERNORS ARE NAMED.
In Several Instances the Small
Parties Have Tickets in the
FieId-In Illinois there is a
Saloon Fight.

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| land Massachusetts. Mississippi, New
Jersey and Rhode Island will cleo
| governors. In New York justices o,
the court Of appeals are to be elected
while the New York county ticket is
provoking a hot fight because of the
com bination of the republican and the
| Hearst forces.
| In the four big municipal contests
! Cleveland. Cincinnati, Salt Lake City
and San Francisco-there will be may
orally elections. The greatest ant
most important fight is being waged il
the first-named city, where Congress
man Theodore Z. Burton, republican
| is determined to wrest the mayoralty
from Tom L. Johnson. In San Fran
cisco the union labor party is making
hard fight to elect its candidate, Pat
rick NJ. Mccarthy. as against the pres
ent democratic mayor. Edward r. Tay
lor, and the republican candidate, Dan
iel A. Ryan.
Saloon Fight in Illinois.
In Illinois seventeen counties will
vote on the question of saloons or Nc
saloons, and it is estimated that as the
result of the Tuesday elections one
tenth of the state is likely to be dry
in the future.
The candidates for gubernatorial
honors, in the various states are as fol
lows:
Kentucky.
Republican-Augustus z. Wilson.
Democratic-S. W. Hager.
Prohibition-L. L. Pickett.
Socialist-Claude Andrews.
Social st Labor H. Arnold
Maryland.
Republican-Georg r. Gather.
Democratic-Austin L. Crothers.
Massachusetts.
Republican-Curtis Guild. Jr.
Independent Citizen-Henry Whit
ney.
Democratic-Henry M. Whitney.
Bartlett anti-merger-Char W
Bartlett
Bartlett mocratic-Charles W
Bartlett.
independence League-Thomas l.
Hisgen.
Prohibition-Hervey s. Crowen
Socialist-John W. Brown
Socialist Labor-Thomas F. Bren
nan.
Mississippi.
Democratic-E. F. Noel.
New Jersey.
Republican-John Franklin Fort.
Democratic-Frank S. Katzenbach
Jr.
Prohibition-Rev. John r. Mason.
Socialist-Frederick Kraft.
ocialist-Labor-John c. Butterworth
Rhode Island.
Republican-Frederick H. Jackson.
Democratic-James H. Higgins.
Prohibition-Louis E. Remington.
Socialist-William H. Johnson.
Small Parties in Field.
The Prohibitionists and Socialists
| have tickets in all the states with the
exception of Maryland and Mississippi
and city tickets in Cleveland and Gin
cinnati. The Socialists have cit,
ticket also in Salt Lake City. The Sc
cialist-Labor party has tickets in TIL
field in Kentucky, Massachusetts AM
New Jersey
No other party outside of the Demo
cratic party has had the courage t
enter the gubernatorial field in Mis-
sissippi. and E. F. Noel will be electe
without opposition.
Owing to factional differences in tn
! Democratic party in MasSachusett
there are nine tickets in the field. Il
| Nebraska the Democrats and Popu
lists fused on the tickets for justice o
the Supreme Court, railroad commits
sioner and regents Of the state univeI
stty.
| The Maryland contest is to be tough
out only between Republicans an
Democrats. In addition to the stat
officers a house of delegates and one
| half of the state senate are 10 be elect
ed The next legislature will choos
two United States senators-one to fill
the unexpired term of the late Arthu
T. German and the other TO take thu
place of Senator Rayner. The Repub
/ licans adhere to the old plan of sena
torial election, but the Democrats ar
pledged to the new primary plal
which will compel a member of thu
| legislature to vote for the candidate
who receives the highest number o
votes in his district
| With the Republican-Hearst fusion
| ticket in New York County, the mos
important office-that of sheriff-ha
for candidate Maximillian F. Ihmsen
who has been William R. Hearst
campaign manager. The other nomi
nations have been equally divided be
tween the fusionists Mayor McClel
Ian, who had been opposed to the pres
emit Tammany machine. has announce
that he will support the Democratic
ticket against the Republican Hears
| combine
In Cincinnati there is a marked II