Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-11-02
WHERE POLLS WILL OPEN
Twelve States to Hold Elections
Next tuesday.
SIX GU6ERNAT0RlAL CONTESTS.
State Officials to BE Chosen n give
lnstances-Ten Tickets For
Massachusetts, Voters.

Massachusetts, Voters.
New York. Oct. 3o.-There viii 1.
elections IN twelve states ,ext Tnas
day In Massachusetts. Rhode Is,ana
Maryland. Mississippi, and Kentpcpv.
a governor and other state officers are
TO be chosen. in New Jersey gov.
ernor only; in New York two as
sociate Judges Of the court of appeals.
IN PENNSYLVANIA, state treasurer
and in Nebraska. a railroad commits
sioner and two regents of the state
university. IN Ohio. Utah. and Cali
fornia municipal officers are to be Sc
lected, while in New York county a
number Of judges and sheriff are to
be voted on.
The prohibitionists have state
ticket in al the states except Missis-
sippi and city tickets in Cleveland and
Cincinnati. The socialists also have
tickets IN all the states except Missis-
sippi, and city tickets in Cincinnati.
Cleveland and Salt Lake City. The
socialist-labor party has tickets in
Kentucky. Massachusetts, and New
Jersey while union laDor made nom
nations for city officers in san Fran
cisco
N Massachusetts there are ten
tickets. five being divided among
democrats, who are engaged in a fac
ton fight with the state delegation to
the democratic national convention
next year in prospective. The ballot
law commission decided that Henry
NJ Whitney was the nominee for gov
ernor
In Nebraska the democrats and
populists fused on the officials to he
voted for throughout the state.
Straight Contest in Maryland.
In Maryland here win BE straight
contest between the democrats and
the republicans only the two parties
having made nominations for state Of
ficers. In addition to these a house of
delegates and one-half of the state
senate are to be elected. The next
legislature will choose United
States senator to fill the unexpired
term of the late Arthur Pue German
and another to succeed the first for
the next full term.
The local elections, particularly in
New York county, Cleveland, Cincin-
natl, Sat Lake City, and San Fran
cisco, are Of special interest this year.
In New York county the republi-
cans and the Independence league
(HearsD forces have fused on coun.
ty ticket, which is made up of mum
Der of court justices and sheriff.
This gives unusual interest to the
contest, although the republicans
named the head Of the ticket, NJ. Linn
Bruce. for justice of the supreme
court: the most important office, that
of sheriff, went 10 The independence
league, whose nominee, Macmillan
F. Ihmsen has been William r.
Hearst's campaign man ser in several
campaigns. OF the ten judges NOM
mated, the republicans named five and
the independence league five.
In Cleveland Congressman Theodore
e. Burton is contestng the mayoraity
with tom" L. Johnson, who is I'M
derstood to be the representative or
William J. BRYAN in Ohio, and to in
dorse bryan's views on the subject of
public utilities.
There are four tickets in Salt Lake
City. the American or anti-Mormon
party having made nominations for To-
cal offices, as have the republicans
and democrats and socialists
/ In San Francisco the democrats
and the good government forces nave
combined and nominated the present
acting mayor, who is opposed by n
republican as well as union labor
candidate, and the three-cornered fight
is decidedly lively.