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STATES TO NAME
SO NEW SENATORS
MUCH INTEREST cENTERs IN Sc
LEcTIoNs TO De MADE
BY LEGISLATURES
GREAT ISSUES AT STAKE
Seventeen Republicans and Sixteen
Democrats VIII BE Given Right
to Guide Destiny Of
Nation.

Washington, d. C.-Thirty-thTee
states in the Union have emerged
from one political campaign only to
embark upon another. The legisla-
lures elected November will assem-.
BILE early in the new year and pro-
coed to the election of United States
senators.
Sixteen Will Be Democrats.
OF the 80 senators to be elected, 10
will be Democrats and the rest will
be Republicans Eight of the 16 will
represent Democratic gains in the Re.
publican states. Only one senatorial
seat was lost by the Democratcy and
that was in North Dakota OF the IT
Republicans to be elected, six are
certain to be progressives, and there
is a chance of two or three others.
The stand.pat element of the party
will be represented by seven men.
Five New England states will make
or have made their chotice for sena-
tor. Maine, which will have a Demo
cratic legislature, probably will elect
| Charles +. Johnson of Waterville. He
I is a man of ability and is expected
to strengthen the Democratic party
/ in the senate.
| On account Of the hostility of some
! Of the Republican legislators to his
candidacy, Henry Cabot Lodge may
have difficulty in securing the re-
election in Massachusetts. Ii is eX-
/ pected, however. that he eventually
will be successful.
Llppitt May Succeed AIdrich.
In Rhode Island Henry F. Llppitt
fc ha IL ttrh hoe al
claimed his desire to succeed Nelson
W. Aldrich.
In Connecticut George P. Mclean,
former governor, has entered the race
against Senator Morgan G. Buckley,
who desires to succeed himself The
legislature in Vermont already has
elected Carroll S. Page, who now is
sitting in the senate.
New York has half dozen promI-
nent Democrats anxious to succeed
Chauncey NJ. Depew. They include
Edward NJ. Shepard, who was a candi-
date for mayor of New York and was
beaten by Seth Lowe; John B. Stanch-
field, who in 1901, was the Democratic
nominee for governor of New York
and United States senator; BLUE
Eyed Billy" Sheehan, for whom Tam
many has RICH regard; Charles F.
Murphy, Tammany boss; Norman e.
Mack, chairman of the Democratic
national committee; and Martin w.
Littleton, who defeated William Cocks,
a friend Of Theodore Roosevelt, for
o congress.
New Jersey is expected to elect
James Smith Of Newark to succeed
John Kean. Smith represented his
state in the senate a good many years
ago. The two Democrats whom New
York and New Jersey will send to
Washington will be offset politically
by Senator George T. oliver, who will
be returned by the Republican legis-
lature Of Pennsylvania, and Senator
Henry A. Dupont, who will be reflect
ed by the Republican legislature Of
Delaware.
Rayner's Place Is Certain.
Maryland already has reelected Isl
dore Rayner.
The next Virginia legislature must
elect a senator to succeed the late
John w. Daniel. The governor of the
state appointed Claude A. Swanson,
his predecessor to the vacancy in that
office, but the senator will be opposed
for election by Congressman w. A.
Jones and Carter Glass, the latter q
prominent lawyer.
West Virginia probably will choose
between Clarence Watson, a wealthy
coal man, or Henry Gassaway Davis,
who has had service in the senate, as
Democrat to succeed Nathan B.
Scott, Republican.
precipitate a senatorial contest in
Georgia. BY the primaries, held some
months ago, Florida selected ex-Con-
gresham Broward to succeed James
T. Taliafero. Broward is dead and
no choice for the vacancy has been
made. Tennessee may sent to Wash.
ington one of three men-James B.
Frazier, who now ably represents the
state in the senate; Charles r. Gates,
or Jacob NJ. Dikinson, the latter secre,
tary Of war.
Mississippi has elected John Sharp
Williams. He will succeed fernando
d. Money, the minority leader of the
senate. Texas will continue to be
represented by Charles A. Culberson.
Fight Near in Louisiana.
North Dakota also will elect a sec
ond Republican senator, who will sue,
eeed a Democrat, William e. Purcell
He is Congressman A. G. Gronna, q
progressive.
, Michigan has chosen Congressman
Charles p. Townsend, a Republican
70 succeed julius C. Burrows.
Wisconsin will return Senator Rob,
Srt M. La Toilette, Minnesota Moses
d. ClapD and North Dakota Porter J.
McCumber.
Indiana has named John w. Kern
as the Democrat who shall succeed AL
: bert ]. BeYeridge, the progressive Re
publican.
Ohio has q number of Democrats
from whom to make a choice as the
, successor Of Charles Dick, Republican
These include John r. Mclean, pro
prietor OF the Cincinnati Enquirer
Atlee Pomerene and Edward ]. Han.
ley. The last named is said 70 have
the best chance.
Missouri has selected James T.
Reed Of Kansas City as senator In the