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candidates on the republican ticket and
others interested in republican politics
| am confident that the republicans VIII
control the Sixty-second Congress by
fair working ma jority.
1.-THE size of this majority-in fact. the
outcome of this election-will be deter
mined by the percentage OF the repuo-
lican vote of the country which comes to
the polls on the Sth of November.
That the voters have taken but a
slight interest in the pending political
campaign is evidenced by the small vote
cast at the primaries for the candidates
on the several tickets. This. 1t would
seem, forecasts an extraordinarily light
vote at the polls, especially in the rural
districts, where the farmers are enjoying
an unusual degree CT prosperity.
Democrats Long Out of Power.
Democratic success Tuesday will give
that party control in the House Of Rep
resentatives for the first time since the
Fifty-third Congress of 1896. The
passage by that Congress Of the Wilson
tariff law resulted in the restoration OF
the republicans to power.
These occurrences gave rise to the say
ing that a change in the poiical com
pleXion of Congress is certain to follow
a revision of the tariff. 1t probably Will
be exemplified once more. for the promise
of democratic victory finds its inception
in the Aldrich tariff law and the split
which occurred In the republican party
as a result of that law.
The democrats are benefting not so
much from a testimonial to their superior
capacity for craftsmanship as from a
protest which the people apparently de-
sire to register against the republican
party as dominated in the past by the re-
dictionary element. The increased cost
of living has made thousands of votes
for the democrats. simply because thou
sands of people are convinced that its
cause is the tariff protection Of the trusts.
as adroitIy perpetuated in the Aldrfch-
Payne law by the standpat republicans.
What Electors Are Voting For.
Representatives as well as state Off
GERS already have been elected in Maine
and Vermont. In all other states repre-
sentatives in the lower House of the ma
tional lawmaking body will be elected
Tuesday.
State officers, judges of the supreme
court. railroad commissioners, etc, Will
be chosen in thirty EIGHT states. Cover.
nors and full state tickets will be elected
in twenty-seven of these.
Members of the state legislatures will
be elected in a number of states. The
chief national interest in these elections
lies in the choice that will be made OF
United States senators by these Dodies
within the next year.
The terms Of thirty senators expire
March 3 next. Three senators already
have been elected-thOse OF Alabama,
Maryland and Vermont.
The hottest state ticket fight is that IN
New York. in which the personality or
Theodore Roosevelt, his aims, ambitions
and potentially for good or evil, consti-
tute the all-absorbing question. Tam
Wall ctr md fv1n ron
tionary element generally in both demo-
cratic and republican parties are strain
ing every nerve for the defeat OF Slim
son. that thereby Roosevelt may be1
given what they hope will be political
death blow.
But Roosevelt is making a tremen-
dously successful appeal to farmers, clerks
and city wage earners generally: He is
far from beaten man. The most that
can be said of the situation is that, ac-
cording to present indications, the out
come will be close. whichever way 1t goes.
Numerous proposed constitutional
amendments and questions of various
kinds are to be submitted in many states.
Prohibition is an issue in Florida, Mis-
souri, and Oregon. In those states pro-
posed amendments to the constitution,
prohibiting the manufacture and sale or
intoxicating liquors, will be voted upon.
In Texas the incoming legislature will
submit to the voters, for approval or re-
lection, q constitutional amendment pro-
viding For prohibition. Oklahoma will
vote, incidentally, on a proposed conSti-
tutional amendment substituting local op-
ton for the present system of statewide
prohibition.
Suffrage Question in Three States.
Three states. Oklahoma, South Dakota
and Washington, will vote directly on the
question of granting suffrage to women.
In Oregon a proposed amendment to the
constitution grants to all taxpayers, re-
CARELESS OF sex, the right of suffrage.
The largest number of questions to be
voted upon in any one state Is in Oregon.
There thirty-two initiative and referen-
dunn measures will be upon the ballot for
approval or rejection.
Included in this number. besides the
proposed suffrage and prohibition amend
ments to the constitution, is a bill, pro-
posed by initiative petition amending
the Oregon primary law and extending
its provisions to presidential nominations,
allowing voters to designate their choice
for President and Vice President, pro-
viding for direct nomination of party
candidates for presidential electors. and
for election by party voters of delegates
to the party national nominating con-
ventions.
One of the suggested amendments to
the Oregon constitution, proposed by
initiative petition, provides for verdicts by
other proposed amendment increases the
initiative and referendum and recall pow
ers of the people.
Conservation of natural resources will
be passed upon by voters Of Wisconsin
in the shape of a proposed amendment to
the constitution authorizing the state to
make annual appropriations for acquiring,
preserving and developing water power
and forests of the state.
In Minnesota a proposed constitutional
amendment authorizes the legislature to
exempt from taxation lands Of private
persons to be used for purposes of re-
forestatiOn.
Situation in New York State.
New York state will elect its seven
constitutional officers, two judges of the
court of appeals. ten supreme court JUS
tees in six of the nine judicial districts.
thirty-seven representatives In Congress,
fifty-one state senators and $50 assembly
men.
The element of Theodore Roosevelt as
a 1912 possibility entering into the cam
paign this year has resulted in wide
spread opposition to the republican candi-
date. Henry Stimson. for governor. Bust
ness men, bankers and manufacturers
have arrayed themselves against him in
order TO rebuke Roosevelt
The republicans are looking to William
r. Hearst to save Stimson. The demo-
If he should be then the remainder of
their state ticket is liable to be pulled
through.
Su,n n m a ioritv also would Garry with