The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-31
General Elections Will Be Held
ON Tuesday, Nov. Sth.
Choice Of United States Senators
Involved in % States.
FRANCHISEFORWOMEN
Will Be Passed Upon in Okla,
s. Dakota and Wash.
Thirty-TWO Initiative and Ref.
erendun Matters in Oregon.

Chicago, Oct. s1.-Election of state
Officers judges of the supreme court,
railroad commissioners, etc., will be
held in 38 states on Tuesday, Novern-
Der 8. Maine, Vermont, Arkansas and
Georgia have held their state cleo
tions, but the two latter states will, a
week from tomorrow, elect represen-
tatives in congress. Maryland, Mis-
sissippi, Virginia and West Virginia,
likewise, will elect congressman.
Maine and Vermont have already
chosen their congressman and state
officers In 2S of the state, governors
and full state tickets are to be elected
In nine Others justices of the supreme
court and minor officials are to be
chosen, while in Indiana state officers
except governor, will be elected.
A number of the states will elect
members of the legislature. The terms
! of 80 United States senators expire
March 8, 1911. The legislatures of
Alabama, Maryland and Vermont have
elected their senator's
The sixty second congress will be
elected.
| South Carolina and Louisiana have
each but one ticket--the Democratic
The Prohibition party has tickets in
20 states, the Socialists in "a. the So
cialist Labor in 8. The Independence
| league has a. full state ticket in New
York; the Keystone and the Industrial
party each have a ticket in Pennsyl-
vania; the Peoples Independent (Pop-
ulist) has one in Nebraska, and the
American party (anti-Mormon) one
! in Utah.
The number of tickets in the various
states is: 1, South Carolina and Louis
lana; 2, Florida, Kentucky and North
Carolina; 5. Idaho, Nevada, Washing
ton and Wyoming; a, Alabama, Cali
fornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Della
ware, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas Mon
tana, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Rhode Island. South Dakota, Tennes-
see and Wisconsin,; 5. Illinois, Massa-
| chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska, Ohio, Texas, Utah; 6,
New York and Pennsylvania
Prohibitienists have tickets in Calf
fornia. Colorado. Connecticut, Della
ware, Illinois. Indiana Iowa, Kansas
Massachusetts, Michigan. Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire,
New Jersey. New York, Ohio, Okla
homa, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and
| Wisconsin.
Socialists have tickets in Alabama,
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Della
ware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire
New Jersey, New York, North Dakota,
Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennes-
see, Texas, Utah. Washington, Wiscon-
sin and Wyoming
The Socialist Labor riarty has tickets
| in Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, New York Ohio
and Texas.
Constitutional Amendments.
Numerous proposed constitutional
amendments and questions of various
kinds are to be submitted in many Of
|
I orida, Missouri and Oregon, and in
those states proposed amendments to
the constitution prohibiting the manu-
facture and sale of Intoxicating liquors
will be voted upon. In Texas, the in
coming legislature will submit to the
voters for approval or rejection, a con-
stitutional amendment providing for
prohibition. Oklahoma will vote inc,-
dentally on a proposed constitutional
amendment substituting local option
for the present SYSTEM of statewide
prohibition.
Three states, Oklahoma, South Da-
kota and washington, will vote direct
ly on the question of granting suffrage
to women, while in Oregon a proposed
amendment to the constitution grants
to all taxpayers, regardless of sex, the
right of suffrage
The largest number of questions to
be voted upon in any one state is in
Oregon. There 32 initiative and refer
endum measures will be upon the bal
lot for approval or rejection. lncluQ-
ed in this number, besides the pro-
posed suffrage and prohibition amend
ments to the constitution, is a bill,
proposed by initiative petition, amend
ing the Oregon primary law, and ex-
tending it's provisions to presidential
nominations, allowing voters to desig-
nate their choice for president and
vice president; providing for direct
nomination of party candidates for
presidential electors; for election by
party voters of delegates to their party
national nominating conventions.
One of the suggested amendments to
the Oregon constition proposed by
initiative petition. provides for verdicts
| by three-fourths of a jury in civil
cases. Another proposed amendment
| increases the initiative and referendum
| and recall powers of the people.
| Conservation of natural resources
| will be passed upon by voters of Wis
consin in the shape of a proposed
| amendment to the constitution, au-
| i thorizing the state to make annual ap-
| preparation for acquiring, preserving
| and developing water power and for
| ests of the state. In Minnesota, a pro-
/ posed constitutional amendment au-
| thorizes the legislature to exempt from
taxation lands of private persons to be
used for purposes of reforestation.
II Mrs. Skinner Keeps Son.