Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-31
AMBITIONS NEXT
 TUESDAY EXCITE
 WIDE INTEREST National Problems Injected
 Into Campaigns in Seven States.
|pp0HIBITION THE
 ISSUE IN OHIO
|Massaclusetts, New York and Penn sylyania Will Decide Whether Wo- men Are to Have Ballot, with Liq- nor People Opposing Suffrage.

of next Tuesday would be Of mino {importanca if this we're not the yea nrecedne the presidential contest Ks it is the national political leader here are watching carefully scvera states to see which way the straw viIl blow, for national issues hay Been injected into many local con Tests
 Tn the 23rd New York congressiona istrict, for instance, beth the Repub ican and the Democratic candidate lave boldly and openly made a figh bn countrywide issues. This distric omprises parts of the western Brona nd northern Manhattan. The el2c ion was made necessary by the deatl f. Congressman Joseph A. Goulden. The Republic candidate, forme, Congressman William s. Bonnet, ha' imported several Republican Unites tatgc senators to speak for him ant as attacked the Wilson administra cn on the tariff. finances and the Gexican policy. The tariff has beer he principal point of attack.
 Besides the Republicans, Mr. Ben let has the endorsement of the Inde endence league and the ogressives lis opponent, Ellsworth J. Healy, is baking his fight squarely on tho Will bn administra ion. several German mercan societies have adopted esolutions opposing MT. Healy's can Idacy on the ground that his cleo lon would be on indorsement of the resident The district is normalll emocratic.
 National Questions Figure.
 National issues also figure in tho lree gubernatorial contests in Mas chusetts. Maryland and Kentucky. In the Bay State Republican state pnvention, which nominated formel Ongressman Samuel N. Mccall, g atform was adopted declaring foI creased national defense. continued plurality taward all warning nations hd a revised protective tariff. At mpts to put through resolutions ndemning the issuance of foreign an for belliserents and favorin2 ,tiGnal prohibition failed.
 The platform also favors a natOna operation law, national regulation the hours of labr of wmen ana lldren and a national divorce law The Progressives arc back in tn publican fold in Massachusetts ans this reason Governor David ] alsh will have god opposition ir s race for third term.
 The Democratic platform congratu Fes the country upon the admlnis- Ptlon Of President Wilson and, likf Republican, favors neutrality ane eparedness.
 In Kentucky pr -hibition has tende" split the Democratic ranks. Tn Pmocratic candidate for Governor lS 0. Stanley, the congressman Wht came well known throughout the (untry when he headed the stee lst investigation. His Republican ponent is F. P. Morrow.
 m Maryland, Democratic strons' ia, D. C. Harrington is the pick o predominant party, while o. |. Niiei iS liS u. U. F. Cnricc.
 Prohibition Issue in Ohio.
 prohibition is. the laading issue 1T ID, while several other states vii le on the liquor queston in the 191t Fctions.
 me dsfeat of woman suffrage b, lscsive majority in New Jersey ha' east down the women leaders C nlsslVana, N W York and Massc uselts, Nho have fought all tn iaer since the setback of Octobe m Pennsylvania, the women hay, soySrner on their sida and man, 'ef Republican leaders have spoke' laVof or the proposed constitution amehdment, In Massachus cts, toe sefhor Walsh has made man ,'. e.nes in favor Of suffrage. Tn ,ufe m to incorporate a suffrag' PmA a Ill the Republican state plat M was 8 great disappointme mt t
 women.
 Iu0n.s's Y Oppose Woman Suffrage NeW York, the saloon interest
 paeking ann-suffrage propaganda r,a none of the regular politica ha. ass nave taken a public stanl d a t,n TOT Or against the cause. It ii s,as .aa1 president Wilson's espousa Fonsh salas9 made great impression vughaut tho state
 'ss york is also wrought up ove. wsre new state constitution and tn ashs ashhspets have been filled fo pnos, wlth long arguments ever tn ere ssu |, changss in the organic law f,a f opposition to the constitu In op ,.a beth party ranks and tn hinst or x, chiefs have declare'
 civ;, IL becausc, as they believe ed aamlnistration is subordi hts v v ehe military and the -cour
 s y;o M civilian are. endangered non4, w IS hotly disputed. the othe
 nran;' nuhs Gut that in this respec
 sa;,,,islons s;,, of the new constitu
 old pe Identical with those Q
 sdontia sdvnnla he state will have II
 Atssh new direct primar.
 been .Vf municipal <campaigl
 pltss.s% s%agsd in Buffalo. N. ". tn < E,fs Tsligisus issue bs.n se tAe tore as last year.