The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-05
Battle Of Ballots to Be Waged in
Forty-four States tuesday.
Contests Are Very
Close
WARM CUBtRNATOUIAl FIGHTS
Local Issues May Have Important Ef-
feet on Result of Election in
Many States-BaIance of
Power In Doubt.

washington, ID. c., Nov. objections
will be held in forty-four states next
Tuesday. Maine and Vermont have al
ready elected State officers and men,
bers of the next Congress-the Sixty
second. Arkansas and Georgia have
named State officers only and will Sc
lect representatives at the coming
election. In twenty States gov
ernors are to be elected, together with
other State officers. The only States
that do not choose governors this year
are Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Lou
isiana, Maryland. Mississippi. Missouri,
Montana, North Carolina, Utah. Vir-
ginia, Washington and West Virginia.
In nearly all of the States justices of
the supreme court or minor state of
fcevs are to be chosen.
Color of Next Congress.
Members of the national house of
representatives are To be elected. The
present house is composed of 217 Re-
publicans and ia Democrats. Ver-
mont has already reelected her two
Republican representatives. In the re-
Republican representatives were re-
placed by Democrats.
AS usual, there is one ticket, the
Democratic in South Carolina. Colorado
leads this year with the greatest num-
ber of State tickets-eight. They are
the Republican. Democratic, Socialist,
Prohibition, Socialst-Labor, Platform
nd al n
Republican. Pennsylvania comes next
with seven tickets in the field. The
Prohibition party has tickets i'm Fl
States and the Socialists in 2S. The
Independence Party and the Socialist
Labor Party have tickets in a number
of States The American Party has
one ticket in Utah.
Local Issues Prominent.
Some of the amendments of pro-
posed laws that will be voted on in
several of the States are of leral in
terest. In Oregon. the pion, of the
Initiative and referendum, score of
measure will be submitted for the con-
sideration of the electors next Tues
day. Missouri will vote on eleven pro-
posed constitutional amendments and
the Colorado ballot contains five. Mis-
sissippi will vote on proposed radical
changes in Its judiciary system and on
a proposal to do away with the so
called special" session OF the legisla-
ture, held during the second biennial
period of a gubernatorial term for the
consideration of revenue and appro-
priation bills.
Vote on Prohibition.
In several States the proposal to
adopt Statewide prohibition is the
paramount issue. If Florida votes in
the affirmative 1t will mean a solid
dry" South. IL Missouri adopts the
measure IL will,abolish the sale of in
toxicating liquor in st. Louis, the
fourth largest city of the country. II
rs the first time in many years since
city of the first class has been me-
naced with such a restriction.
Reversing the usual order of things,
Oklahoma electors will vote on the
question of substituting local option
ana high license for State wide pro-
hibition.
-Four States--Oregon, Washington,
oklahoma and South Dakota-are to-
vote on constitutional amendment
granting the right of suffrage to
women.
Gubernatorial Contests.
In several States the gubernatorial
contests are of absorbing interest.
rms is particularly true of New York,
Nhere the participation of Colonel
Roosevelt in the campaign has served
10 arouse nation wide interest in the
election. The result in Ohio is also
awaiting with keen interest, partly be-
cause 1t Is the home State of Presi-
uent Taft and partly because of the
seheral belief that the recollection of
Governor Harmon will put him i'm first
pace In the race for the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1912.
ihe triangular fight for the COVER