The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-26
EIGHT STATES HAVE ELECTIONS
 LISTED FOR SECOND OF MONTH
Woman Suffrage Question Will Be Paramount Question Three Big states Receive Test It
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day November 2.
 In four of these states. Massa el1u- setts, Marylands Kentucky and Miss Issippi, governors are to be elected; lrssix states, New York; Ndassa chusetts Maryland, New Jersey Kentucky and Mississippi thes state Legislature, in whole or in part, are to be Elected, and in five states, New York MasSa- cnusetts Maryland. Pennsylvania and Ohio, imp ortAnte constitutionaf issues are to be decided.
 With a fewsloeal exception ons, in fact! these constituti onal questions will be the dominant issues on election day, Including as they do such undament- al matters woman suffrage, muni- cipa1 home rule. prohibition, state in come taxes, referendum plans, and some. lesser reforms.
 The woman suffrage question will come up for decision in. New York Pennsylva mia 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, de- feated the proposition of special election given over exclusively to the suffrage question on October19. While 1t has been held by some political oo- servers that the result of the test in New Jersey would be reliably indica- tive of what might be expected in the
 
 suffrage leadres have not been dis couraged by the big majority with which the issue was 1defeated in New , erseyA and look forward to the big ger test with confidence.
 The inportance, of this test is indie cated by the fact that, in point of pop Iulation. the of New ork, PenRsylvan- ia and Massachusetts, which will vote on suffrage November 2, incv1udes over 2O,o0O, 900 people-a fifth of the Sentire population of the United States and these 10000, 900 are practically double the population of the the states in which equal suffrage has as yet been fully achieved.
 New York State
 Tn New York State inaddition to the suffrage issue, a d dominant feature of the elction. will be the question of adopting Aew state constitution as revised by recent state constituti ona1 Root, The new constitution on, at the re- quest of the suffrage leaders, has not been made to include the suffrage amendment. hence the constitution and the suffrage issue will be upon separately, neither having anything to do directly with the fate of the other.
 The feature of the revised consti- 1utfnon are measures designed to give the cities of the state greater latitude in the mana gement of municipal af-
 
 legislature of a vast amount of local matters: to make the governor more responsible Individual by making the numerous exectuve arms of the ad- ministration more directly responsible t3 him, to reform the judiciary so as U eliminate some of the red tape that is declared to handicap the prompt execution~~of the laws: and among other provisions the short bal. lot and the budget system. Two impor- tant articles relating to taxation and reapportionment will be submitted to tl1e voters, separate from the general constitution question. Two other sep arateS amendments would provide for a $z7, GOO, 1000 bond issue to complete the Barge Canal, and to permit the legislature to alter Nhe rate of inter est on certain debts already incurred. majority in the convention, they are not unit in supporting the constitu-a ton nor are the Dem mocra4s standing soIfdly against it.
 Tn personnel, the New York ielec- ton calls for the choice of a. full as-3 reme Court Justices and three Cong ressmen, as well as county and city officials in some sections of the state.
 Congressional successors are to be chosen to Joseph A Goulden, Demo crat, of the twenty-third district, and Edwin A. Merritt. Jr.. and Serene E. Payne, of the thirty first and thirty sixth, respectely. who died while serv- ing in the last Congress The candi- dates are: William s. Bennett, Repub- Hcan, and EIworth J. Healy, Democrat both of New York, in the twenty Khird district: Bertrand H. Shell. of Postdam, Republican, William T.. AL aen, of Malone, Democrat, and How ard D. HaddIey of Plattsburgh, Pro Rressive in the thirty-first districe: <,F Gov, E5so 1z Repub1ican-Progr and Louis J. Ldcht, of Geneva. Democrat, in the thirty-six+h.
 Massachusetts,
 Massachusetts in addition to the suf- frage amendment, will vote on the proposition Of giving the legislature authority to impose a tax on incomes and similar authority for the taking over land in country districts for the purpose of establishing homesteads for those who may wish to escape from the more congested quarters of thet cities
 A successor to governor David l. Walsh, Democrat, is to be elected and the candidates. including Governor Walsh, are: Nelson B. Clark, Progress sive; Samuel w.. Mccall, Republican; 1 William Shaw Prohibitions; Waiter s. Hutchins, Socialist and Peter l O'Rourke, Socialist-LabOr.
 A Acknowledgement and various other state officials together with for fy senators and 240 members of the state House of Representatives are also to be elected. Pennsylvania 1
 Pennsylvania will have compara- lively little of general interest to it's election outside of the vote on fhe suffrage question No state officers are to be efecedt with the exception | of three candidates to fill vacancies on the Superior Court bench In general the only thing other than the suffrage issue to attract the voters to Eae polls will be county and municipal | elections. although. one Congressman is to be elected to fill a vacancy in | the twenty-fourth district.
 In Philadelphia the Republican or ganization has conducted a vigorous