The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-10-22
THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS

Twenty-Eight States Will Elect
State and National Officers -
In % States Constitutional
Amendments and Other Ques-
tions Enter Into the Situation
The General Situation.
Chicago Dispatch. 18th.
Elections will be held in the
various States and in the Terri |
tories of Arizona and New Mex
leo November Sd. Three States,
Oregon, Maine and Vermont, have
held their State elections, and
have named members Of the next
iCongress-the Sixty-first. Ar
kansas and Georgia have named
State officers only and will select
Congressman at the coming cleo
ton. In twenty-eight States
Governors or other State officers
are to be elected; a number of
these States will also elect mem
bers Of the Legislature. Six
States will choose justices of the
Supreme Court or minor State Of
ficers. In seven, congressman
and a Legislature only.
The terms of thirty-one United
States Senators, eighteen Repub-
licans and thirteen Democrats,
expire March Sd, 1909. Alabama,
Louisiana and Maryland have
chosen Democrats, and Kentucky
a Republican, while Vermont has
chosen Legislature which will
name two Republicans. The pres
ent Senate is composed of sixty
one Republicans and thirty-one
Democrats.
Members of the national House
of Representatives are to be
elected. Oregon, Vermont and
Maine have already chosen Re-
publican Representatives. In
some of the Southern States Dem
ocrats only have been nominated,
while in others Prohibition, So
clalist and Independence party
nominees will oppose Republicans
and Democrats. The present
House is composed Of 391 Repub-
licans and 1866 Democrats. There
are two vacancies.
TWO ONE-TICKET STATES.
South Carolina. as usual, has
only one ticket-the Democratic
for State officers. Louisiana
also has but one ticket-the Dem
ocratic. In this State, however,
a justice of the Supreme Court
and a Railroad Commissioner are
the only State officers to be elect
ed.
The Prohibition party has tick
cts in twenty-one States, the So
cialist in twenty-seven, the Inde-
pendence party in twelve, the
Socialist Labor in six, and the
Peoples or Populist party in five,
including Nebraska, where they
have fused with the Democrats.
The number Of tickets in the
different States is: l, South
Carolina and Louisiana; 2. Ala
bama and North Carolina;3, Della
ware Florida, Montana, New
Hampshire, Oklahoma and Nortl
Dakota; 4, Colorado, Nevada
Rhode Island, South Dakota
Utah, Washington, West Virgini;
and Wisconsin; 5, Connecticut
Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Minneso
ia, Missouri and Nebraska; 6
Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts
Michigan, New York and Texas
7, Ohio.
The llonibitionists have tick
cts in Colorado, Connecticut
Delaware, Idaho. Illinois, India
ma, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mir
nesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ne
- Hampshire, New York, Ohit
Rhode Island, South Dakota
70 Texas, Washington, West Virgini
8 and Wisconsin.
The Socialists have tickets i
Colorado, Connecticut, Florid;
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa
d Kansas, Massachusetts, Mich
O. gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nor
= tana, Nebraska, Nevada, Ne
'p York, North Dakota, Ohio, Okla
homa, Rhode Island, South DE-
kota, Tennessee, Texas, Utal
Washington, West Virginia an
Wisconsin.
The Independence party he
] tickets in Illinois, Indiana, Idaho
10 Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan
Minnesota, Nevada, New Yorl
Ohio and Texas.
The Peoples or Populist part
has tickets in Indiana, Iowa, Mi
souri,, Nebraska and Ohio.
The Socialist Labor in Connect
cut, Massachusetts, Michigan
. New York, Ohio and Texas.
, The American party has or
ticket in Utah.
: AMENDMENTS TO BE VOTED.
In the tWenty-three States
! total of ninety proposed constit
tional amendments, laws, que
tions or propositions will be V
ted upon. This does not inclu
Michigan, where a revision
the present constitution will
submitted to the voters f
adoption or rejection. T
~ number of amendments or que
tions in the different States
1, Iowa, Texas, Wyoming;
Idaho, Illionois, Kansas, Montal
Nebraska, Rhode Island, Was
ingto, West Virginia; 3, Alaban
Colorado, Florida, Ohio; 4, NJ
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