The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-02
ALL CANDIDATES WILL BE
CHOSEN BY POPULAR VOTE
Election Marks Real Inaugural
ton of This New Depart
ure in Government.
PARTIES STRUGGLE FOR HOUSE
Leading Men OF All Faiths Work
to Draw Forth Full
Strength.

NEW YORK, November 1.-Chfef in
terest in the elections on Tuesday cen
tres on the struggle for control cs the
next Congress. heightened by the fact
that all successful candidates for the
Senate. az we'll as for the House will
be chosen by popular vote. The fact
that thirty-one States Will elect Sena-
tors makes the contest on Tuesday the
real inauguration OF this new de-
parture IN government.
+ "A careful ANALYSIS of the situation
IN the different States would seem to
indicate that the present small Demo
cratic majority of five in the Senate
Is safe one. AZ there are only seven
States outside of the Solid South
where present Democratic seats are
being defended. In the House, 2IS
members arc necessary for majority.
The present Democratic standing is
2ss: Republican. 1872: Progressive RE-
publican. 2; Progressive. 1s; Indcpend-
cnt. ]. and vacancies. g. which seats
were last occupied by Democrats To
change the political complexion of the
House, opposition parties must main
tam their present strength and win
siSty-eiEht additional seats.
Governors are to be elected in twen-
tH-nine States. and some OF the cam
patgns. notably those in New York.
California and Pennsylvania. have beer
WaScd with much bitterness
FIGHT WILL CALL FORTH
FULL STRENGTH OF PARTIES
Efforts of the Democrats TO retain
control of the lower house of Con
Eress. and of their opponents to wrest
IL from them have called forth the full
strength of all parties. President VIII
son has made no speaking tours but
mas written many letters of Tindorse-
ment Most of the members Of the
CABINET have spent much of the last
fortnight In campaigning. The lead
ing menF5of the Republican and Pro-
gressiye parties, with the noteworthy.
eeptiop sEoft : ex-f esident a rftp have
been simtla riyt eHBuged. s.i5 20 -
the- e-Domocratic party has 9fifty-three
seats In the Senate rs against forty
iWo for the Republicans. and one for
the Progressiyes.
Senatorial elections will be held in
A!abama, Arizona. Arkansas. Cali.
fornia, Colorado, Connecticut Florida.
sieorsta. Idaho, Illinois. Indiana, Iowa,
Kentucky. Kansas Maryland, Mis-
souri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New
York, North Carolina North Dakota.
Ohio. Oklahoma. Oregon. Pennsyi-
Utah, Vermont. Washington and Wis
consin. Eliminating the Solid South"
there are only seven States in which
inroads can possibly be made in the
Democratic majority, so that unless
that party should lose in all but one
OF these States. it Will retain control
OF the Senate. The States are Colo
RADIO. Indiana. Oklahoma, Maryland.
Missouri. Nevada and Oregon.
PRESENT CAMPAIGN
auIETEsT OF YEARS
Governors will be elected In. Ala
bama. Arizona, California, Colorado.
Connecticut. Georgia, Idaho. Iowa
Kansas. Massachusetts,. Michigan.
Minnesota, Nebraska. Nevada. New
Hampshire. New York, North Dakota.
Ohio. Oklahoma. Oregon. Pennsylvania,
Shode Island, South Carolina. South
Dakota, Tennessee, Texas Vermont
Wyoming End Wisconsin, Democratic
Governors were elected in Arkansas
and Maine in September. The cam
paign has been the quietest of years
The quietude of the campaign Is at
tributed largely to the European war,
which has usurped In popular discus
sion and the newspapers the place
usually given to politics.
Notwithstanding the increased ef-
forts entailed by the direct election
of Senators, according to available fig
ures. expenditures probably have been
less than those in any similar cam
paign I'm many years
In most cases the Senators whose
terms expire next March have been
renominated There is. however. a
conspicuous exception. Elihu Root,
of New York, one of the commanding
figures in the upper House. declined to
run, Notwithstanding the appeals Of
his party. Theodore E.. Burton, of
Ohio; Joseph l.. Bristow, of Kansas:
Coe 1. Crawford, of South Dakota
Isaac Stephenson, of Wisconsin,; George
G.. Perkins. OF California; and F. S.
White, of Alabama, for whose seat
Majority Leader Underwood. OF the
House Is tho Democratic candidate,
are the others who have not been re-
nominated.
SEEK RE-ELECTION
Senator's seeking reelection are:
Smith. of Arizona; Clark, OF Arkansas
Connecticut; Fletcher, of Florida:
Smith of Georgia.; Brady, of Idaho;
Sherman. of Illinois; Shively, OF In
diana; Cummins, of Iowa; Camden, of
Kentucky, for the remainder OF the pres
ent term; Smith. OF Maryland; Stone,
Of Missouri: Newlands, of Nevada;
Gallinger. of New Hampshire; Over
man. Of North Carolina, Gronna, OF
| North Dakota: Gore, of Oklahoma
Chamberlain, OF Oregon; Penrose. of
lPennsylvania; Smith, Of South Caro-
lima; Smoot, of Utah: Dillingham;. of
Vermont and Jones, of Washington.
State campaigns in several instances
have been waged so keenly as to sub
ordinate interest in the contests for
Congress. In New York Governor
|.Glynn's fight for reelection is being
opposed by District Attorney Charles
s. Whitman, OF New York City. the
Republican candidate; former State
Senator Frederick NJ. Davenport, who
heads the Progressive Jacket, and for
mer Governor William .Sulzer. nomi-
nee of the prohibition and American
parties. Former President Roosevelt
has concentrated his energies on New
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