The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-10-24
IS
AT HAND
STATE TICKETS IN TWENTY
EIGHT STATES ADD TO
THE INTEREST.
National Election Decides Not
Only Who Shall Be President,
But the Complexion of Congress
as Well-Terms of 80 Senators
Expire March A.

| Chicago, Oct. 19.-Elections will be
held in the various states and in the
territories Of Arizona and New Mexico
November 8. Three states, Oregon,
Maine and Vermont, have held their
state elections and have named men,
bers Of the next congress-the Sixty
first. Arkansas and Georgia have
named state officers only and will Sc
lect congressman at the coming cleo
ton. In twenty-eight states governors
and other state officers are to be elect
ed; number of these states will also
elect members of the legislature Six
states will choose justices of the SUI
preme court or minor state officers.
In seven congressman only are to be
elected, and in two congressman and a
legislature only.
The terms of thirty one United States
senators, eighteen Republicans and
thirteen Democrats, expire March 3,
1909. Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana
and Maryland have chosen Democrats
and Kentucky Republican, while YER
mont has chosen a legislature which
will name two Republicans. The pres
ent senate is composed Of sixty -one Re-
publicans and thirty one Democrats.
Members of the national house of
representatives are to be elected. Ore
gon, Vermont and Maine have already
chosen Republican representatives. In
some of the Southern states Democrats
only have been nominated, while in
others Prohibition, Socialist and indie
pendence party nominees will oppose
Republicans and Democrats. The pres
ent house is composed of 391 members,
223 Republican and 1855 Democrats.
There are two vacancies.
Elections in the Various States.
South Carolina, as usual, has only
one ticket-the Democratic-for state
officers. Louisiana also has but one
ticket-the Democratic. In this state,
however, a justice of the supreme
court and railroad commissioner are
the only state officers to be elected.
The Prohibition party has tickets in
twenty-one states, the Socialists in
twenty-seven, the Independence party
in eleven, the Socialist Labor in six
and the Peoples or Popuilst in five,
| including Nebraska, where they have
fused with the Democrats.
The prohibitionists have tickets in
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Ida
no, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ne
braska, Rhode Island, New Hampshire,
New York, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas,
Washington, West Virginia and Wis
consin
The Socialists have tickets in Colo
RADIO, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illi-
nois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachu-
sets, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Texas,
Utah, Washington, West Virginia and
Wisconsin.
The Independence party has tickets
in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Idaho, Kan
sas, Massachusetts,, Michigan, Mime
sofa, Nevada, New York, Ohio and
Texas.
The Peoples or Populist party has
tickets in Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Ne
braska and Ohio.
The Socialist Labor party has tickets
in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michi-
gan, New York, Ohio and Texas
The American party has one ticket,
in Utah.
| Constitutional Amendments
In twenty three states total Of nine
ty proposed constitutional amendments,
laws, questions or propositions, will
be voted upon. This does not include
Michigan, where a revision of the pres
ent constitution will be submitted to
the voters for adoption or rejection.
The amendments or proposed laws
of the several states are of general in
terest. In South Dakota the PROPOSE
ton Of repeating the zone year resi-
dence" act, which was passed by the
last legislature in order to stop rapid