Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-03
Taft and Bryan Not the Only
Ones Running.
ABOUT 10000 OTHERS
That's Counting All the Big and
Little Ones Everywhere.
SOMEBODY. WILL GET LEFT
Four Western States Where Women
Can Vote for All the Same
as Men.

The voter who goes to the polls To-Day
has a lot more TO do than TO decide "Hi'l'
one of the candidates for PRESIDENT nc
would prefer to see sitting In he "hi'e
House for the next four years.
In all but nine of the forty-slX states
state tickets are to be chosen this !ea'
and, counting the state officers ana sta'e
legislators who have to be CHOSEN 'here
are about 500 places to fill Ii Is Iali
IN believe that there will be at least iour
candidates for each of these offices. WHICH
make, 4 total of nearly $500 candidates
,i,n,,Jy for the state offices and lesls-
ia+rres throughout the country, and the
choice of these officers vii! have great
effect on The administration OF the fede:al
government
There are thirty senators whose le, ~.
oY office expire on March ! next, and their
successors who will determine lhe com, :,
pIexiCn of the next Senate, Will De eieI'e"
by the state legislators who VIII DC ciio. 81,
i'm the various states today. or The retli
irc, senators eleven are democrats ana
nineteen are republicans t,
Resides the election OF one-tnird OF tie
Senate this election will carry III Wi,oie
new House OF Representatives.. 1hia
noc.ne 3oo ,,,ares to fili. which, allowing
four candidates for each place. Wou'u
add 56O names to- the tickets through
ont the various states.
The Presidential Tickets.
r'here are six candidates for the presi-
dencv Everybody knows that Taft and
sherman are the republican nominees and
Rryan and Kern the democratic Hah"i
dates for President and Vice President
Most every one knows that lhonlas L.
Hiscen is running on the independence
;nlya DohS the SOCIALIST
ticket Eugene Chain on the prohlbltlon-
list ticket and August Gilhaus on the So
cialist labor ticket. How many KNOW
however, that John Temple Graves Is
running as vice presidential candidate
with Hisgen. Benjamin Hanford WIN
Debs Aaron Watkins with Chain and
Donald L. Munroe with Gilhaus?
There AS electors in the electoral
college. Each of the six candidates has
an elector nominated for each job. which
means that throughout the country there
are 2S9S candidates for matriculation i'll
the electoral college.
An Army of Local Candidates.
Beside these men whose names will APP
pear on the ticket. there is another army
of citizens for whom the public printers
will have to correct proof. These are
the candidates for county, township and
municipal offices. There are 1880 coun-
Ties IN the country. MOSl VI THESE Will
eject county officers. Giving them
twenty-five candidates per county. it
would make an army corps of some
10000 men. whose names will be printed
for their neighbors to look at.
No one has figured how many town.
ships, villages and cities there are that
have local elections. but it has been es-
timated that there will be some 100000
candidates for local offices. Adding all
these candidates together. it makes a
total OF approximately 10000 men and
women whose names win appear In the
local ballots and voting machines.
Also the Election Officers.
A levy on the seekers after elective Of
fees this fall alone would make an army
big enough to carry on two or three
Spanish wars. Add to this army of men
who are actually running for Office the
equally great or greater body of election
inspectors, clerks. watchers and workers
who will take care of the actual cast
ing of the votes, and one will get some
idea of the tremendous mass of men who
will not go fishing or play golf on even
part of election day.
Women. too, will have at least some
part in the business of the day. In
Wyoming Colorado. Utah and Idaho they
can vote for all the candidates. In a
number of other states they are allowed
to vote for various local officers and
those who have charge of certain lines
of executive work in which woman tax
payers have an interest.