El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-04
STATES
AREHOLDING
ELECTIONS
Principal Interest Centers in
New York City and New
Jersey State Campaigns.
SULZER HAS BODY
GUARD DURING DAY

are holding elections today
Three Massachusetts,, New Jer-
sey and Virginia are choosing govern
ors. Maryland Is eIecting United States
senators and state controller; PennsyI-
vania two superior court Judges; Ken
lucky two circuit judges, and legislat-
ure; New York nine supreme court JUS
uces, chIeI Judge OF the court of ap-
peals, associate judge, assembly and
two state senator's New Jersey is
electing new legislature.
Congressman are being elected in
four districts, the Third Massachusetts,
18th and goth New York and third
Maryland.
Many cities are choosing new officers,
notably New York, Philadelphia and
Cincinnati
The New York Contest.
Elections are being held throughout
New York state for selection of mem
bers Of the assembly, a chief judge and
associate judge of the court of appeals,
and nine supreme court judges. Two
senator's, one to succeed Stephen }.
Stillweu, Of the 21st, who is now IN
Sing sing prison. and another to sue
coed Franklin s Roosevelt of the 10Th,
who resigned to be assistant secretary
Of the navy, are being chosen Success
sors are also being elected to congress-
man Timothy D. Sullivan, deceased. and
Francis Burton Harrison, resigned.
SuIzer Has Body Guard.
William Sulzer, depOsed governor, ac-
cOmpanled by a BODY guard, today made
an early tour Of the sixth assembly dis
trict from which he seeks election to
the state assembly on the progressive
ticket. He visited nearly all of the
polling places and at most of them was
greeted with cheers. A heavy vote IS
being cast.
uIEsd 20 feonsnr 10 EIs1sIuIu eql
In Suffers district the vote up to
mid afternoon was larger in proper
ton than in any other district in the
city. More than so percent of the
registered vote was cast before noon.
Sulzer supporters said all indications
pointed to his election by a substantial
Three Cornered Fight.
Election interest IN Buffalo, centered
in the three cornered mayOralty con
test IN which mayor Louis B. Fuher-
mann, Democrat, seeks reelection and
is opposed by Thomas Stoddart, Re
publican and .. S. district attorney
John L O'Brien, on a citizens ticket
New Jersey Fight is 'WHsOn's Own
Nationwide issues figure today in
the elections held in six states of the
eastern seabord. but nowhere are To-
cal questions so nearly OvershadoWed
as in New Jersey, of which president
Wilson is the leading citizen. He has
thrown the whole weight of his in
fluence to James F. Fielder. who be-
came governor when Mr.. Wilson left
for the white house, and Mr.. Fielder's
defeat would be a distinct setback
for the National administration
Democratic star spellbinders, headed
by William Jennings Bryan, secretary
of state, have turned a sea of oratory
on New Jersey in behalf of the pres
dents candidate" Mr.. Fielder. In
cluded in the list are senator Ollie
James, of Kentucky; Champ Clark, of
Missouri, speaker of the house, and
representatives A Mitchell Palmer, Of
Pennsylvania; Warren Gard. Of Ohio;
George O'Shaughnessy, of Rhode ISL
and; SissOn, Of Mississippi; Baker, of
California, and Reilly, of Connecticut
The three candidates are J. F. Field
governor, Republican, and Everett
Colby, Progressive" While Mr.. Will
son has not tilted this time personally
against the New Jersey machine drag
on, other warriors did not neglect to
refer often and pointedly to his an
tagonism of the Smith Nugent organ
izatiOn-
Fight White House Influence.
To offset the weight of white house
influence the other two candidates
summoned to their aid hosts of vet
eran stump speakers For Mr.. Stokes,
the Republican national committee
sent as aids, among others, Albert
c. Cummins, United States senator
from Iowa, and his colleagues, BOrah,
of Idaho, and Sherman, of Illinois, be-
sides representatives S. d. FeSs, of
i. Hedges, of New York; Sidney An
derson, of Minnesota; Philip T. Camp
bell OF Kansas, and Frank Blumley,
Of Vermont
The Progressive orators included
governor Hiram Johnson. of California;
United States senators Clapp, of Min
nesota and Poindexter, of Washington;
ex-United States senator Albert Bev-
eridge, ex-governor Stubs. Of Kan
sas; Henry J. Allen, of Kansas, and
representatives Victor Murdoch and
cambridge Colby, of New York
All Claim to be Confident.
In their latest statements, the cam
paign managers of all three candi-
dates assert their man cannot lose.
Newton A. K. Bugbee chairman of
the Republican state committee. and
Edward z. Grosscup, holder Of the
equivalent Democratic office, curious
ly enough, both figure on winning the
same number of counties, II out OF
p. Axel Beeken, Progressive chair
man. says Mr.. Colby will roll I'D a
substantial plurality.
Hennessy's Leap TO Fame.
One spectacular feature of New
York politics today is the sudden leap
from comparative obscurity into ma
tionaI and even international fame,
of John A. Hennessy, a former New
York managing editor who became the !
then governor Suffers graft hunter in
chief.