Arizona republican., 1913-01-05
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 NEW SENATOR'S
Within Next Four Weeks Four New England States Will Be Called Upon to Elect Members to High Branch of Congress

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 BOSTON. Mass, Jan 4.-Within the next few weeks four New Eng land states-Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island-win be called upon to elect United States senators. In at least three of the states the situation is uncertain, and the question as to whether the cleo tions will change the makeup of the New England delegation in the upper house, which now stands ten republi- cans and two democrats is becoming matter of increasing interest
 When the Maine legislature meets the first of next month former Con gressman Edwin C. Burleigh, who represented the third Maine district in the house for fourteen years, now held by Obadiah Gardner democrat Mr. Burleigh won the senatorial pref erence primary last June and when the September election gave the re- publicans sixteen majority in the leg islatuc on a joint ballot, his sue cess seemed assured But thorn appeared in MT. Burleigh's path as result of the presidential election in November, when President Taft car ried only nine representative districts in Maine, while Colonel Roosevelt carried 69. IL is now admitted that the progessives hold the balance of power in the legislature. As they are not over enthusiastic about elect ing a standpat republican to the sen ate it is difficult to foretell just how the contest may end
 A similar condition of affairs eX- ists in New Hampshire In the next legislature in the Granite state the republican party will have q margin of only one or two members The progressives claim to hold the balance of power, leaving the result in doubt The progressives, who claim to hold fOrty-One of the republican members are pledged to act independently on the senatorship The avowed repub- lican candidates for the toga now worn by Senator Burnham are form CT Governor Henry E. Quinby and R. w. Pinsbury, publisher Of the Manchester Union. and the demo- cratic candidates, Henry F. Hollis and Clarence F. Carr. Governor Rob- ert P Bass is receptive progressive candidate
 
 will have a majority of about forty on joint ballot and presumably only a republican will be chosen to sue ceed Senator Murray Crane But just who that republican will be no- body seems to know at the present time. With half a dozen candidates in the race, representing a wide range of political views the ultimate choice t1r, uncertainty. The active candidates are former Governor Eben s. Draper. Representatives Samuel McCaull and John W. Weeks and William Punk ett, the latter representing himself as the choice of western MasSa- ehussets. In addition to these, the names of Curtis Guild. Jr., former governor and at present United States ambassador to Russia; Robert Luce. the present lieutenant governor and Joseph Walker, former speaker of the general assembly and recently the unsuccessful republican candidate for the governOrship, are mentioned in connection with the senatorship. Ambassador Guild, especially, is re- garded as strong possibility and it is the opinion of many we'll informed politicians that he stands an excellent chance of success in the event Of q prolonged contest
 The senatorial contest in Rhode Is- land is the least complex The re- publicans will have a substantial ma jority on a joint ballot. and the se- lection of a republican to succeed George D. Wetmore is assured. Sen ator Wetmore announced more than year ago that he would not be a candidate for another term. Firtu- ally the only candidate mentioned to succeed him is Judge Le Baron B. Colt of Bristol, Wh contested the last senatorial election with Henry F. Lippitt Judge Colt belongs to one of the oldest and most prominent families of Rhode Island and has a record of more than thirty years service on the bench. He is a broth CT of Col. Samuel Pomeroy Colt. the millionaire president of the United States Rubber company, who was | one of the three principals in the great senatorial deadlock in Rhode IS- l land five years ago. when eighty-one 1 ballots were taken in an unsuccess- | full effort to elect q United States senator.