The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-10-25
STATES
IN ELECTION
In Four of Them Governors
Are to Be Elected on
November 2
FIVE WILL DECIDE
IMPORTANT ISSUES

Constitutional Amendments Are Among
the Subjects = Three of the Largest
States Are to Act on Woman's suf-
frage.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. = Eight
states, New York, Massachusetts, Mary
land, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ken
lucky. Ohio and Mississippi, viii
hold elections on Tuesday, Nov. ?. In
four of these states, Massachusetts,
Maryland, kentucky and Mississippi
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
chusetts, Maryland, Pennsylvania and
Ohio, important constitutional issues
are to be decided. With q few local
exceptions, in fact, these constitutional
questions viii be the dominant issues
on election day, including as they do
such fundamental matters as woman
suffrage, municipal home rule, prohibi-
ton, state income taxes, referendum
plans, and some lesser reforms. The
woman suffrage question will come up
for decision in New York, Pennsyl-
yania and Massachusetts,, which states
will furnish, in point of population, the
greatest test the suffrage 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 d special election given
over exclusively to the suffrage ques-
ton or Oct. IS.
In New York state, in addition TO
the suffrage issue, a dominant feature
of the election will be the question Of
adopting a new state constitution as
revised by recent state constitutions
| nj convention presided over by Ehhu
Root. The new constitution, at the re-
| quest of the suffrage leaders, has not
been made to include the suffrage
amendment, hence the constitution and
! the suffrage issue viii 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 citieszof the state greater latitudt
in the management of municipal af
| fairs, and coincidently to relieve tht
J
matters; to make the governor a more
responsible individual by making thu
numerous executive arms of tn
administration more directly responsi
bic to him, to reform the judiciary 81
as to eliminate some Of the red tap
that is declared to handicap tn
prompt execution of the laws. ant
among other provisions the short bal
/ lpt ba
portant articles, relating to taxatio
and reappointment win be submitte
to the voters, separate from the geneI
) al constitution question. Two othe
separate amendments would provid
for a $27, 100000 bond issue to complet
the barge canal, and to permit the les
] islature to alter the rate of interes
= on certain state debts already il
CURED. In personnel, the New Yor
election calls for the choice of a fu
assembly of $50 members, eleven 81
preme court justices and three COZ
9ressmen, as well as county and cit
officials in some sections of the stat
T Several congressman are to be electe,
Massachusetts, in addition to IL
suffrage amendment and a state tie
= ct, will vote on the proposition &
giving the legislature authority to il
pose tax on incomes, and similar a
thority for the taking over of land
II country districts for the purpose {
- establishing homesteads for those wi
y may wish to escape from the more co
gested quarters of the cities.
= Pennsylvania will have comparativ
= ly little of general interest to its ele
ton outside of the vote on the suffra