The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-26

formed Franklin party. The Demo lscraticl party is running its candidates on a straight party ticket
 Maryland Maryland; will elect a governor comptroller Of the state treasury, at torney- y-gene neral, a full house of dele gates and half of the state senate. In addition four constitutional amend ments will be. voted upon, and local minor officers will be chosen in the counties and Baltimore City. Candi- dates to succeed Governor Goldsbor- ough, Republican, are: Ovington D. Weller, Republican; Emerson c. liar rington3 Democrat, and George R. Gorsuch, Prohibitiolnst.
 The constitutional amendments are for the referendum, a new taxation Scheme.s home rule for cities, and pa role in criminal cases. The referen- dunn plan is practically the same that followed in other states. except that the Maryland proposition in cludes a prohibition against the, use of the referendum in any local option or license Legislation. If the home rule amendment carries the 1egisla- ture will be relieved of vast amount of purely local legislation which would be vested in the city and coun- ty councils; while the taxation amend ment provides for the classification of all kinds of property for the pur- pose of taxation.
 Ohio
 General interest will be manifested in the election in Ohio for the reason that statewide prohibition Of the n- quor traffic is an issue again this year, as it was last year in the form of a proposed constitutional amend ment which would forbid the sale lor manufacture for sale of any salcoh olic beverages The vets have counter ed this proposal with petitions under the initiative and referendum law by which the people will also vote on another provision which would pre- vent the submission of any constj tutional amendment 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 broader question of prohibition the so-called liquor license decentrali- zation law. passed by the recent leg 1s1ature. will be subjected to>xeferen- dunn. The issue concerns largely the method of selection of license com nissioners
 The Sprague congressional redis- tricting bill, passed by the recent leg ,islature, will also be under fire by referendum, which was petitioned by the Democratic state organization l The redistrieting law as drawn would, l it is declared. result in normal years in the election of sixteen Republican
 
 'ocratic Congressmen. The Demo- | crats claim that the law which they ! passed when in power divided the dis | tricts 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 gov ernor for four-year term, all other state officers one-ha1f of the state senate and an entire assembly Dem | ocrats, Republicans and Prohibition ists have candidates for all the state offices, with Republican and Demo cratic contestants for every place on the ballot and the Progressives are re- presented by candidates for nearly all the state offices and numerous seats in the general assembly. The Social ist party has only a candidate for governor.
 In the last presidential. election the Progressive party in Kentucky boiled approximately 12, 1000 more votes than the Republicans, but the latter claim to have regained many of those who had left the ranks.
 Four years ago, when Governor Mo Creary, Democrat, was elected, the majority over his Republican. oppon- ent was approximately 33. .O0O. l
 A. I of Henderson, recently won the. Dem ocratic gubernatoriaI nomination in a three-sided contest by the largest plurality ever accorded a candidate in Kentucky. The runner-up declared in favor of statewide prohibition MT Stanley favored continuing in effect the county unit law, or local option. This stand later was incorporated in the Democratic party platform. The platform also favors submitting to a vote of the people a, constitutional that would do away with the prison contract system and per mitting the working of convicts- on the county roads.
 Edwin F. Morrow. of Somerset, is the Republican nominee Fred J. Irexler, a Louisville man, heads the Progressive ticket.
 Mississippi
 The election. in Mississippi will be merely a ratification of the nornina- tions made by the Democratic voters at the state primaries held last Au- 1 gust, inasmuch as no other party has candidates in the field A full set will be formally elected, as we'll as Ihembers of both branches of the leg is1ature. No Congressmen will be elected this year.
 The present Iieutenant-governo Theodore G. Bilbo, will become gover- nor, succeeding Earl Brewer, and Lee M. Russell will be the lieutenant-gov- ernor. Other candidates for state of fees include Secretary of State, Jo- seph w. Power; attorney-genera i Ross A. Collins; treasurer, pr. J. P. Taylor; superintendent of education, w. H. Smith.
 New Jersey
 Having disposed of the suffrage is- sue at the special election October .19, New Jersey has left little of general interest for the election of Novrnber 2. Voting on this day will be con- fined to the election of six members of the state senate and a full mem- bership of 60 in the House. The cam paign has been very quiet, no state wide issues being involved. In some legislative districts, local option has