The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02
DEMOCRATS LIKELY TO SEE MAJORITY IN
 HOUSE CUT DOWN BY
 ELECTIONS TUESDAY
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with Mexico make up the peace issues on which 1t is expected to sweep the Em- pire state.
 The religious issue has been raised In New York. Illinois and Indiana. adding t. the unpleasant features of the cam paign Governor Glynn, the democratic candidate for governor of New York, is the especial target for this attack in that state In Illinois 1t is directed against Roger Sullivan, candidate for the Sen ate, and in Indiana against Timothy S. Hogan. also a candidate for the Senate.
 The New York newspapers as whole deprecate the religious issue which has been injected into the campaign. The Sun. a stalwart republican paper. quotes at the head of its editorial page this ex- tract from the constitution of the United States: 'sNo religious test shall ever be required as q qualification to any office or public trust under the United States ' The President himself who Is taking an active interest in behalf of the democratic nominees throughout the country, sent a telegram to New York Friday. which was read at big mass meeting at Cooper union hall by Secretary McAdoo, in which he said "American citizens should never vote as sectarians but always as Amer jeans"
 A similar expression once used by Roose-
 
 by the democrats to meet the criticism hurled at Governor Glynn.
 Palmer's Outlook
 Senator Jacob IT. Gallinger of New Hapshire, an old-tme standpat repub- lican, is being actively opposed by Ra. mond B. Stevens democrat, with fair chances sl'ceess Tho The ssa, Mitchell Palmer. democrat who Is oppos- ing Boise Penrose in Pennsylvania. is less promising. The progressives have put up Clifford Pinchot in that state. but 1t is not now believed that the latter will poll enough votes to give Palmer a chance, and the republican boss of Pennsylvania will be returned to the Senate.
 Reports from Illinois indicate that for rner Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, as we'll as William B. Mckinley, a millionaire electric railway magnate, are likely to be returned to the House. In Ohio the in- dications are that the democrats will carry the state for governor, and save the most of their congressional districts; also that the state will go wet-prohibition being one of the complications.
 In California, Hiram Johnson, the progressive governor, is opposed by John B. Curtin. democrat, and John D. Fredericks. republican. In Pennsyl- vania the democrats and progressives have united on Vance O. Mccormick to oppose Martin G. Brumbaugh, the re- publican candidate. In few other eases have there been state campaigns which have attracted national attention.
 Several men for years prominent in the affairs of the nation who were re- tired to private life without their con sent are seeking to return. Most of them are republicans busted by the democratic sweep two years ago. The picturesque figure of Uncle Joe" Can non of Illinois has again emerged into public view by reason of his candidacy for another term in Congress. In the same state Congressman William B. Mckinley, President Taft's campaign manager in 1912, is asking to be re- turned. In Ohio, Nicholas Longworth, Colonel Roosevelt's son-in-law, likewise retired in 1912, is again a candidate for Congress Former Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, who left the republican party for the progressive, is seeking to regain a place in the up- per body.
 In Kansas a woman is running for place on the bench. Mrs. Lizzie Shell don is nonpartisan candidate for su- preme court justice.