The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-11-02

London are the war relics from tno
battIefieids OF which these three Ger
man helmets are examples. The trophy
above TO the left 10 the elaborate head
piece Of tho kaiser's imperial guard.
A. the right above 10 the uihan hei.
met. and below the infantryman's
headoear
pledged to II a. well as on record as
favoring women's suffrage.
Ohio also presents q very interest
ing situation. The Prohibition issue
there seems TO have dwarfed the In
terest In the election OF q senator.
and the state ticket.
The voters will pass upon absolute
prohibition Of the manufacture and
sale Of liquor and also upon an amend
ment repeating the Rose county local
option law and the interest is intense.
The suffrage question has been hard
fought and the women are keeping up
the struggle for the right to vote until
the polls actually close. The fight
for the. United States senatorships
here 10 between Warren @. Harding.
Republican. Attorney General Timothy
Is. Hogan. Democrat and A. l. Gar
ford, Progressive. Gov. Cox n Q can
didate for reelection opposed by Rep
|resentative Frank b. Willis. Republi-
can and James r. Garfield. Progress
sive.
According 10 most Of the reports
from Indiana there In unusual lack OF
interest among the voters over the
outcome. Senator BENJAMIN F. Shive-
ley Ii opposed by former Senator
Beveridge and by Hugh T. Miller, Re-
publican. The efforts OF the leaders
OF the various parties to stir up the
voters have failed and II 10 admitted
that the vote win fall below normal.
In Illinois genuine Kilkenny
cats" fight 10 In progress. Here the
senatorship 10 the big issue, over
shadowing everything else. Roger C..
Sullivan, for some years the Demo
cratic boss" Of Illinois whose defec-
ton from Champ Clark at Baltimore
started the slump for President Wilson
that made the latter's nomination pos
sible won the Democratic nomination
Mt the primaries. This. too. despite
the open opposition of Secretary Of
State Bryan. Sullivan 10 being fought
tooth and nail for election by Law.
renee Y. Sherman, the present senator
and by Raymond Robbins, the Pro
gressiye candidate. In the eighteenth
district Uncle Joe"
Cannon n a candidate for comeback
honors, and In the adjoining nine
teenth william b. Mckinley In also
trying to get, his old seat back.
In Iowa the struggle II o determin-
ed one. Senator Albert B. Cummins
Is opposed for reelection by Repre-
sentative Maurice Connolly, Democrat
and Casper Schenk. OF Des Moines.
Progressive. The Democrats are
hopeful that the split In the Repubh-
can ranks win help them and they
are also making determined enort
to land governor. The gubernatorial
are George w. Clarke, Re
publican; John T. Hamilton. Demo
crat and George G. White, Progress
sive.
Election and lighting are synonyms
In Kansas and this year Ia no excep.
ton. Senator Bristow was bowled
out at the primaries by former Sem
ator Curtts, but the latter has no GER
tainty Of election. Red-headed Victor
Murdoch. running on the Progressive
ticket, has been working night and
day for the toga. His efforts have
been ably seconded by the Demo
cratic candidate, George A. Medley,
who insists that he alone In certain
Of election. The results viii be very
close. Here are also hrst-class light
ing men running for governor. Hem
ry ]. Allen. who fought desperately
for Colonel Roosevelt at the Chicago
Republican convention, Ia the Progress
sive candidate; Arthur Capper, q
mans size fighter is the Republican
and George ii. Hodges, likewise OF
fame as q scrapper.. h the
Democratic candidate. Incidentally
Kansas may have the distinction Of
q woman representative,
as the candidate In the sixth district
has made such q wonderful canvass
that her friends are confident that she
viii be elected.
In Missouri Senator william ].
Stone Is a candidate for reelection.
He Is opposed by Thomas ]. Atkins,
Republican, and Arthur N. Sager, Pro-
gressive. There Is intense interest
in the women's suffrage amendment,
many Of the leading advocates Of
equal rights, headed by DIR. Anna
Howard Shaw, having stumped the
state for the cause" There Ia also
a prohibition fight on q constitutional
amendment which would make coun-
ties units In liquor elections which
would do away with cities voting wet
when the counties In which they are
situation go dry.
In Colorado the coal strike In en-
tering very greatly into the fight.
Senator Thomas was attacked for his
attitude on tie sugar section Of the
Underwood tariff law but he has had
the advantage Of a strong endorse
ment by President Wilson. The fight
seems to be chiefly between the Dem
ocrats and the Progressives with the
outcome in doubt.
The situation In Idaho has been
complicated by the arrest Of State
Treasurer o. ". Allen on an allega-
ton OF having embezzled $4,000 from
the state. The Democrats have used
this allegation as campaign argu.
men. and former Gov. James III. Haw.
ley, who is opposing Senator Brady,
the incumbent claims that he is Ger.
tain TO be elected.
On the Pacific coast the fights In
California, Oregon and Washington
are all inter esting and bitter. The
women voters will cut a decided fig.
ure I'm the result there. In California
the existance OF the native wine In.
dustry hinges on the outcome OF the
voting on the prohibition amendment.
Tho a. A., tht. Ak