New Britain herald., 1915-10-23
ELECTIONS IN EIGHT
 STATES NEXT MONTH
Four to Select Governors and Six
 Legislatures

setts, Maryland, New Jersey, Penn sylvania, Kentucky. Ohio. and Missis- sippi, will hold elections on Tuesday, November ?. -
 In four of these states, Massa chu- setts, Maryland, Kentucky and Missis- Sippi governors are to be elected; in six states. New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, Kentucky and Mississippi the state legislatures, in whole or in part, are to be elected, and in five states, New York, Massa- ohusetts, Maryland. Pennsylvania and Ohio, important constitutional issues are to be decided.
 V Dominent Issues.
 With a few local exceptions, in fact, these constitutional questions will be the dominant issues on cleo tion day, including as they do such fundamental matters as woman suf- frage, municipal home rule, prohibi- tion, state income taxes, referendum plans, and some lesser reforms.
 ~ sThe woman suffrage question will come up for decision in New York Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, which states will furnish. in point of population, the greatest test the suf- frage issue has ever had in the United States New Jersey, the first state in the east to vote on equal suffrage, defeated the proposition at a special election given over exclusively to the suffrage question on October 19. While it has been held by some politi- cal observers that the result of the test in New Jersey would be reliably indicative of what might be expected in the three bigger neighboring states the suffrage leaders have not been discouraged by the big majority with which the issue was defeated in New Jersey, and look forward to the bigger test with confidence. .2
 The importance of this test is in dicated by the fact that, in point of population, the states of New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, which will vote on suffrage Novem- Der 2, include over 20,000,000 people Va fifth of the population of the en- tire United States-and these 20,000,- 900 are practically double the popu- lation of the states in which equal suffrage has as yet been fully achieved.
 New York State.
 Tn New York state, in addition to the suffrage issue, dominant feature Of the election will be the question of Rdopting a new state constitution as lYevised by recent state constitutional Fcdnvention, presided over by Elihu Root. The new constitution, at the request of the suffrage leaders, has rnot been made to include the suffrage amendment. hence the constitution and the suffrage issue will be voted upon separately, neither question having anything to do directly With the fate of the other.
 The features of the revised consti- tuition are measures designed to give the cities of the state greater latitude in the management of municipal af- fairs, and coincidently to relieve the Legislature of vast amount of local matters; to make the governor more Irresponsible individual by making the numerous executive arms of the ad- ministration more directly responsible to him, to reform the Judiciary so as to eliminate some of the red tape that is declared to handicap the prompt execution of the laws; and among provisions the short ballot and the } budget system. Two important ar 8 ticles, relating to taxation and re- ' apportionment, will be submitted to & the voters, separate from the general constitution question. Two other sep Rrate amendments would provide for a $27,OOO,00O bond issue to complete the barge canal, and to permit the leg Afslature to alter the rate of interest on certain state debts already in # cured. Although the Republicans were in a majority in the convention, # they are not unit in supporting the new constitution, nor are the Demo- # crats standing solidly against it.
 Full Assembly.
 In personnel the New York elec- ton calls for the choice of a full as- sembly of 150 members, eleven Su- 8 preme court justices and three Con- gressman, as we'll as county and city officials in some sections of the State.
 Congressional successors are to be chesen to Joseph A. Golden, democrat of the twenty third district, and Ed win A. Merritt, Jr., and Sereno E. Payne, of the thirty-first and thirty sixth, respectively, who died while serving in the last congress The can- didates are: William s. Bennett, re- publican, and Ellsworth J. Healy, dem- Pocrat both of New York, in the twen- ty-third distrist; Bertrand H. Shell, of Potsdam, republican, William l.. Alien, of Malone, democrat, and Howard D. Hadley, of Plattsburgh, -progressive, in the thirty-first dis trict; and Norman S. Gould, of Seneca Falls, republican-progressi and Louis J. Licht, of Geneva, democrat, in the thirty sixth.
 Massachusetts.
 Massa sachusets, in addition to the suffrage amendment will vote on the proposition of giving the legisla- ture authority to impose a tax on in- & comes, and similar authority for fhe taking over of land in country districts for the purpose of establish ,np homesteads for those who may from tha mora non