Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-11-10
'36 STATES VOTE
REPUBLICANS MAY LOSE NINE
TEEN HOUSE MEMBERS AND
STILL RETAIN CONTROL.
DENIS. NEED "a MORE
In Oregon Thirty-Two Initiative and
Referendum Measures Are Up
for Consideration of
the Voters.

Chicago, Illinois.-Election of state
officers, judges of the Supreme Court,
railroad commissions. etc., will be
held in thirty-eight states on Tuesday.
Maine, Vermont, Arkansas and Geor
gia have held their state elections, but
the two latter states will elect repre-.
sentatives in Congress. Maryland
Mississippi, Virginia and West Virgin
ia likewise will elect representatives.
Maine and Vermont have already
chosen their representatives and state
officers. In twenty-eight of the states
to be elected. In nine others justices
of the Supreme Court and minor Of
ticials are to be chosen, while in lndi-
ana state officers, except Governor,
will be elected.
In order to gain control of the
House it would be necessary for the
Democrats to elect twenty-five men,
bers, while the Republicans may lose
nineteen and still hold control. The
total membership of the House is 391,
majority being 1856 The present
Republican membership is 213 and
the present Democratic membership
ia. With four vacancies the Repub-
lican majority is forty-one.
The Prohibition party has tickets in
twenty-five states, the Socialists in thir-
ty-four, the Socialist Labor in eight.
The Independence League has a full
state ticket in New York; the Key
stone ard the Industrial party each
have ticket in Pennsylvania; the
Peoples Independent PopulisD has
one in Nebraska, and the American
party nti-Mormon) one in Utah.
Tickets in Field.
The number of tickets in the vari-
Gus states is: /, South Carolina and
Louisiana; 2, Florida, Kentucky and
North Carolina; 3, Idaho. Nevada,
Washington and Wyoming; 4, Ala
bama, California, Colorado, Connect
cut, Delaware. Indiana, Iowa, Kansas.
Montana. New Hampshire, New ,Jer-
! sey North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennes-
see and Wisconsin; 5. Illinois. Massa.
ShuoCASo, 4hiSIilSocIi, .'llilllSSOld, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska, Ohio. Texas. Utah;
6, New York and PENNSYLVANIA.
Prohibtionists have tickets in Cali
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, Del
aware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas. Massachusetts, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, North Dakota,
Ohio. Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsyl.
vania, Rhode Island. South Dakota,
Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington,
Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Prohibition An Issue.
Numerous proposed constitutional
amendments and questions of various
kinds are to be submitted in many
OF the states. Prohibition is an issue
IN Florida, Missouri and Oregon, and
IN those states proposed amendments
to the constitution prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors will be voted upon
Three states, Oklahoma, South Da
kota and Washington, will vote direct
~ on the question of granting suffrage
to women, while in Oregon proposed
amendment to the constitution grants
to all taxpayers, regardless of sex.
the right Of suffrage
oregon's List Large.
The largest number of questions to
be voted upon in any one state is
In Oregon. There thirty-two initiative
and referendum measures will he
upon the ballot for approval or reiec.
ton. Included in this number besides
the proposed suffrage and prohibition
amendments to the constitution. is
Dill. proposed by initiative petition
amending the Oregon primary law
and extending Its provisions TO presi
Dental electors; for election by party
voters of delegates to their national
nominating conventions.
Conservation of natural resources
VIII be PASSED upon by voters of Wis
consln in the shape of proposed
amendment to the constitution author
izins the state to make annual ap
nropr'atien for acquiring, PRESERVING
and developing water powe. and for
ests OF the state In Minnesota a pro
posed constitutional amendment au
taorlzes the Legislature to exempt
from taxation lands of private persons
10 &c used for purposes of reforesta
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