The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-11-03
NEXT TUESDAYS ELECTION.

1t has been several years since cleo
ton day approached with the outcome
as uncertain as that of next Tuesday
appears to be.
The most important contestL of
course, concerns the election of the
national House of Representatives,
which the Republicans have controlled
continuously for sixteen years. If
this is to be landslide year then the
sliding is altogether likely to be to-
ward the Democratic camp, and in
that event the Republicans will lose
the House. Conditions have improved
materially, however, in the past three
or four months, and while the margin
is likely to be narrow either way, the
Republicans probably stand at least an
even chance of winning.
Next in importance comes the New
York election where a State ticket and
a United States Senatorship are at
stake. While the Republicans may
win. and ought to win, the chances
probably favor the Democrats as many
Republican business men have revolt
ed on account of opposition to the
methods of EX-President Roosevelt. A
declaration of loyalty to the Taft adj
mnistration, even at this late day,
would re worth thousands of votes to
the Republican ticket, but this Mr..
Roosevelt has thus far refused to
make.
J President WOODROW Wilson, of
Princeton College, as Democratic can
didate for Governor of New Jersey, is
making an active tight, but he is hard
~ expected to win unless landslide
conditions prevail. The Democrats
have put their best foot forward in
Connecticut in nominating former
Chief Justice Baldwin for Governor,
but they must overcome large Re-
publican majority, and conditions point
to the election of Goodwin ty a re-
duced plurality
! In Ohio the chances still favor the
! reelection of the Democratic Cover
nor, Harmon but the Republican
chances have improved somewhat of
late. The big fight in Indiana is over
Senator Beveridge's reelection and he
is expected to win by narrow mar
gin Owing to Democratic disaffec-
tion in Tennessee the election of a Re-
publican Governor woulud not be sur
| prising.
| On the whole the outlook is not
particularly rosy for Republicans.
Their cause is far from hopeless, but
! losses need occasion no surprise,
Non-r olitical question to be settled
are outlined by the Boston Tran
script as follows;
| Constitutional amendments are be-
fore majority of the States holding
elections, but most of them are of
merely local interest. New York will
be confronted with these two ques-
tons:
Shall an act making provision
for issuing bonds to an amount not eX-
ceeding $2,500,000, for the use of the
Commissioners of the Palisades Inter-
State Park in the extension and i'm
provement of the park, be approved?
"Shall the provision of two addi-
tional associate justices of the Court
OF Appeals in place of the present
system of designating justices Of the
Supreme Court to the Court o. APP
peais be approved, and shall the sal
airy of the Chief Justice of the Court
of Appeals be advanced to $1,000 and
the salaries of the Associate Justices
of the Court of Appeals to $1,000
in lieu of all other compensation, an
increase of $1,000 over their present
compensation
"Of all the States, oregon holds pre-
eminence in the way of amendments
to the constitution to be considered by
it's electors. Not only have they TO Sc
lect a State ticket with the Republic
cans, Socialists and Prohibition parties
nominating candidates for most of the
offices and the Democrats finding at
least man willing to run for Cover
nor but they have also to legislate di-
rectly On thirty-two different propos-
ais OF these six have been referred
to the people by the Legislative AS
lsembly. one was submitted to a refer
endum by petition, and the rest have
been brought forward by the initia-
tive
Woman suffrage will be consider
ed at the polls in four States. Oregon,
bv its proposed amendment to the con-
sttuton introduced by the initiative,
may grant the suffrage TO all taxpay-
ers regardless Of sex, and Oklahoma,
South Dakota and Washington have
similar proposals before them.
conservation of natural resources
will be passed by the voters of Wis
consin on a proposed amendment OF
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