New Britain herald., 1915-10-23

election outside of the vote on ahe suffrage question No state officers are to be elected with the exception of three candidates to fill vacancies the Superior Court bench. In gen eral the only thing other than the suffrage issue to attract the voters to the polls will be county and munci- pal elections, although one Congress- man is to be elected to fill a vacancy in the twenty-fourth district.
 In Philadelphia the republican or ganization has conducted a vigorous campaign to regain control of the city administration, which was wrest- l ed from it four years ago when the reform clements united with the | democratic party and elected Rudolph 1 Blankenburg, lifelong reformer in 1 politics, as mayor. The republican candidate for the mayorality this fall is Thomas B. Smith, former postmas- ter of Philadelphia. His chief op- ponent is George D. Porter, a re- former who has been director of the department of public safety in the Blankenburg' administration. He re- | signed to make the canvas for the mayoralty under the banner of the recently formed Franklin party. The democratic party is running its can didates on straight party ticket. Maryland.
 Maryland will elect governor, comptroller of the state treasury, at torney- y-general. a full house of dele gates and half of the state senate. In addition four constitutional amend ments will be voted upon,and local ir,N nHi xx,sI1 ha ,I, counties and Baltimore City. Candi- dates to succeed Governor Goldsbor- ough, republican. are: Ovington F.. Weller, republican; Emerson C. liar rington, democrat, and George R. Gorsuch, prohibltionist.
 The constitutional amendments are for the referendum, new taxation scheme, home rule for cities, and pa role in criminal cases. The referen- dunn plan is practically the same as that followed in other states, except that the Maryland proposition in cludes prohibition against the use of the referendum in any local option or license legislation. If the home rule amendment carries the legislature will be relieved of vast amount of purely local legislation, which would be vested in the city and country councils; while the taxation amend ment provides for the classification of all kinds of propery for the purpose of taxation.
 Ohio.
 There will be general interest in the election in Ohio for the reason that state wide prohibition of the liquor traffic is an issue again this year, as it was last year in the form of a pro- | posed constitutional amendment which would forbid the sale pr manufacture 1 for sale of any alcoholic beverages. | The vets have countered this pro- posal with petitions under the initiat- i've and referendum law by which the l people will also vote on another pro- vision which would prevent the sub mission of any constitutional amend mert more than twice in six years. Ohio is the only state in the Union which will vote this fall upon the liquor issue. In addition to the broad CT question of prohibition the so- called liquor license decentralization law, passed by the recent legislature, will be subjected to referendum. The issue concerns largely the method of selection of license commissioners. The Sprague congressional re- districting bill, passed by the recent | legislature, will also be under fire by referendum, which was petitioned by the Democratic state organization. The re-districting law as drawn would, it is declared, result in normal years in the elecion of sixteen Republican Con- gressmen and possibly six democratic Congressmen The Democrats claim that the law which thty passed when in power divided the districts about evenly as between the two parties.
 All cities in Ohio will select mayors and other municipal officers at the coming election, but no state officers are to be chosen this fall
 Kentucky.
 The Kentuckians will elect a gover- nor for a four-year term, all other state officers. one half of the state senate and entire new assembly. Dem ocrats, Republicans and Prohibition ists have candidates for all the state offices, with Republican and Demo cratic contestants for every place or the ballot, and the progressives are represented by candidates for nearly all the state offices and numerou:
 seats in the general assembly. Th' Socialist party has only a candidate for governor.
 In the last presidential election the progressive party in Kentucky pollet approximately 12,0O0 more votes thar the republicans, but the latter clairr to have regained many of those wht had left the ranks.
 McCreary Majority 33,OOO.
 Four years ago, when Governo'
 McCreary, democrat, was elected, hi majority over his republican op ponent was approximately 33,000.