The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-06
People of Thirty Eight States
Will Express Wishes at
Polls Tuesday.
SENATORIAL SEATS WILL
BECOME VACANT IN MARCH
Numerous and Radical Amend.
ments Will Be Voted Upon
in Oregon.
y Leased Wire to The Tribune.

BY Leased Wire 10 The Tribune.
NEW YORK. Nov. Sin thirty eight
states, the political armies are drawn
up in battle which will be decided Tues
day and which. in many respects. is the
most important off-year fight that has
been seen in many years. Not only are
state officials TO be elected and new
congress to be chosen, but it is the gen
eral belief that the lines on which the
presidential campaign of 1912 will be
fought will be determined and to
large extent the men who are to head
the next national ticket will be indi-
Gated by the result of the battle of the
baiIots Tuesday.
Governors and full state tickets are
to be chosen in twenty eight states,
Judges of the supreme courts, railroad
commissioners and other state officials
are to be elected in various states.
Maine, Vermont, Arkansas and Georgia
have held their elections. but the two
latter states on. Tuesday will elect their
state officials, except governor. will be
elected.
The seats of thirty senators will be
made vacant on March 8 next. The
Democrats in South Carolina and Loui-
siana have the best time in this elec-
ton, for they have the field to them
selves, as the Republicans did not put
up tickets.
Prohibition Tickets.
The prohibition party has tickets in
twenty-five states, the Socialists in
thirtyfour states and the Socialist La.
Dor in eight states. There are several
in different sections, among them the
Popullsts in Nebraska and the American
party in Utah.
New York and Pennsylvania are in
the lead with six full tickets. Nine
states have five tickets and majority
have four. The prohibitionists are fight
ing with full tickets i'll twenty-five
states.
Woman s suffrage is attracting atten
tion in only few districts and those
mainly in the west and southwest. Okla"
homa, South Dakota and Washington
will vote directly on the question of
giving women the ballot In Oregon
proposed amendment to the constitution
grants to all taxpayers, regardless of
sex, the right to vote.
The numerous proposed constitution
al amendments of various kind are TO
be submitted in many states, Prohibi
tIon is an issue in Florida, Missouri and
Oregon, and in those states proposed
amendments to the constitution prohib-
iting the manufacture and sale of intox.
icating liquors will be voted on. In
Texas the incoming legislature will sub
nit to the voters for approval or re-
vidinC for prohibition. Oklahoma will
vote incidentally on IA proposed consti.
tutional amendment substituting local
option for the present system of prohib-
tion.
Amendments in Oregon.
The largest number of questions to
be voted on in any one state is in Ore
gon. There thirty~two initiative and
referendum issues will be on the bal
lot. Included in these, besides the pro.
posed suffrage and prohibition amend
posed by initiative and referendum,
amending the Oregon primary law and
extending its provisions to presidential
nominations, allowing voters TO desig-
nate their choice OF president, and pro-
viding for direct nominations of party
candidates for presidential electors, for
election by voters of delegates to their
party's national nominating conven
tions.
One OF the suggested amendments to
the Oregon constitution proposed by in
itiativc petition provides for a verdict
by three ,fourths Of the jury in civil
cases. Another proposed amendment
increases the initiative, referendum and
recall powers of the people.
Conservation of natural resources will
be passed upon by voters of Wisconsin
in the shape of proposed amendment
to the constitution authorizing the state
to make an annual appropriation for
acquiring and developing water power
and forests in the state,
In Minnesota proposed constitution
al amendment authorizes the legislature
TO exempt from taxation land of private
persons TO be used for purposes Of re-
forestation.