Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-10-31

escape from the more congested
quarters of the cities.
A successor to governor David IT,
Walsh. Democrat. is to be elected and .
the candidates including Governor F..
Walsh. are. Nelson b. Clark, Progress
siye Samuel w. Mccall, Republican; .
William shaw Prohibition; Walter S. .
Hutchins, Socialist; Peter O'Rourko, .
Socialist-Labor
A ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and various
other state officials together with .
forty senators and 24O members of
the state House OF Representatives
are also to be elected
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania will have comparative B
ly little of general interest to its|
election outside OF tine vote on the
suffrage question. No state officers ,
are to be elected with the exception
of three candidates 10 mn vacancies
on the Superior Court bench. In gem
eral the only thing other than the
suffrage issue TO attract the voters to-
the polls win be county and munich
pal election. although one congress
man lis TO be elected to- hll vacancy
in the rweutylourJh district
In Philadelphia the Republican or
galizauon has conducted a vigorous
campaign TO regain control OF the city
administration which was wrested
from it four years ago when the re-
form element united with the Demo
cratic party and elected Rudolph
Blankenburg, a lifelong ref0rmer in
politics, as mayor. The Republican
candidate for the mayOralty this fam
is Thomas B. Smith, former post
master OF Philadelphia. His ohiel OPP
ponent is George ID. Porter, a REFORM
er who has been director of the de
partmelt of public safety in the
/ Blankenburg administration. He re-
signed TO make the canvas for the
mayoralty under the banner of the re-.
Gently formed Franklin party The
Democratic party is running its can
didates on a straight party ticket.
Maryland.
/ Maryland win elect a governor
! comptroller of the state treasury, at
/ torney-general a full house of dele
gates and half of the state senate. Tn
addition four constitutional amend
ments viii be voted upon, and local
minor officers win De chosen i'm the
counties and Baltimore City. Candi-
dates to succeed Governor Colds
/ borough, Republican, are: Oyinet0n
r. Weller, Republican; Emerson C..
Harrington, Democrat, and George r..
Gorsuch, Prohibitiouist
The constitutional amendments are
for the referendum, "a new taxation
scheme, home rule for cities and
parole i'm criminal cases The refer
endum plan is practically the same
as that followed in other states exc
cept that the Maryland proposition in-
cludes a prohibition against the use
of the referendum iu any local option
or license legislation. If the home
rule amendment carries the lesisla-
ture win be relieved of a vast amount
of purely local legislation, which
would be vested in the city and c0un-
ty councils. while the taxation amend
ment for the classification of AN kinds
of property for the purpose OF Taxa
ton.
Ohio.
j There viii be general interest i'm
the election In Ohio for the reason
that statewide prohibition of the li-
quor traffic is an issue again this
year. as it was last year i'm the form
{ of a proposed constitutional amend
? ment which would forbid the sale or
manufacture for sale of any alcoholic
beverages. The "wets' have count