The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-08-30
NEW ENGLAND poLlTics
All the States Doing Something in
Election Line

Ei~NAibh EiNS
Boston, Aug SO.-The political at
tention of the country is being grad
ually focused on New England,
where, early in September, the first
measuring of strength between the
republican and democratic parties in
the state elections of 1910 is to take
place Vermont on September 6 and
Maine, on September IL, will select
state officers and indicate their pref
erences for representatives in the
62nd Congress. In each state will be
chosen also members Of the legisla-
ture who in turn will elect a member
of the United States Senate.
While the campaign in Vermont
and Maine will close in another week
the other New England states viii
not be idle politically, for on the
same day as the Vermont election,
New Hampshire will hold her first
statewide primaries and the first un-
der direct primary law affecting an
entire state to be held in the East.
State conventions will be held in
Rhode Island in October and in Con
necticut next month In each OF the
three states full tickets for state Off
GERS viii be named and legislatures
| will be elected whose members, save
| in New Hampshire will choose United
States senators. The terms Of Sen
ators Carroll and Page of Vermont,
Eugene S. Hale of Maine. Henry Ca
| bot Lodge of Massachusetts, Nelson
W. Aldrich of Rhode Island and Nor
gan G. Buckley of Connecticut expire
March 4, 1911. Mr.. Hale and Mr..
Aldrich have declined reelection.
New Hampshire does not elect to the
Senate again until 1912.
The campaign in Vermont after a
sharp preliminary contest between
four republican candidates for the
gubernatorial nomination In which DR.
John W. Mead Of Rutland was success
full has progressed quietly. The re-
publican leaders are deyoting their
efforts mainly to securing of exceed
ing a normal republican plurality
Of 10000 while the democrats are
endeavoring to reduce this margin
The republicans in Maine have nom
, mated Gov Bert NJ. Fernald for a sec
ond term while the democrats are
waging vigorous campaign with
Frederick w. Plaisted, mayor Of
| Augusta, and a son Of a former gov
| ernor, as their leader. Dividing 10
cal interest with the goyernorship cor
test is the congressional fight in The
| LIST district, where the congressional
| parliamentarian, Asher c. Kinds il
| lseeking on the floor Of the House.
| In neither Vermont nor Maine Il
| any outward issue drawn between so
| called progressive" and regular
| republicans The New Hampshir,
| primary Is being fought with as mucl
| vigor as a state campaign, the strug
| gle being between Bertram Ellis o
! Keene and Robert Z. Bass OF Peter
boro, the latter being supported b.
the so-called progressive wing of tn
| party. In Rhode Island the question
| Who shall be chosen to fill the sena
| torial shoes Of Nelson A. Aldrich =?
eclipses all other issues. The name O
! Col. Samuel Pomeroy Colt of Prov
| dence is most frequently mentioned
| as Senator Aldrich's probable sue
| cessor In Connecticut a brisk can
| paign is said TO be in present, wit
! the chair in the United States Senat
| lately held by Morgan G. Bulkle
Is the principal object Senate
| Buckley, is opposed for re-electio
! within and without his party.