The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-11-06
STATE ELECTIONS
PRESENT MANY
ISSUES TO VOTERS
Results In New York City and
Woman Suffrage lnaEmphe
State 0vershadow There and
Three States Vote On Liquor

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Three States Vote On Liquor
NEW YORK, November 6--(Asso.
ciated press)--The most kecnly con.
tested mayoralty election this city has
experienced in many years comes 10
an end with the baIloting today, al.
though the outcome may not he known
for nearly two months, by which time
the soldier vote must be counted. n
the contest is as close as il promises to
be, the young New Workers who have
joined the eolors will decide it.
John Purroy Mitchell, the incumbent,
who Is running as au independent, hav.
ing lost Republican nomination through
the apathy shown at the primaries by
adhereHts Of that party has been. max.
ing strenuous campaign for reelee.
tion, assisted by two ex Presidents and
one Presidential cahdidate--Taft, Roo
sevelt and Hughes--as we'll as many
others nationally prominent. He Is be-
ing opposed, he has declared, by those
who are prO-German in their sympa.
because OF his advocacy of the war and
his well known views on national pre-
Lparedness. MA" ..s&
MOTHS Millquit the Socialist candi
date, has been receiving strong eDeour,
agement on the East Side, whore he has
been leading IN the straw votes. He IS
o paeiiicist and has been campaigning
on that basis. ...'@ {.
HyIaud Tiger Candidate
Judge HyIand is the regular Demo
cratic nominee, With the Tammany
forces solidly behind him and having
the assistance of the Hearst press,
which has been attacking Mitchell bit
terly. In Manhattan, the Democratic
candidate has shown the leadership in
the straw Votes With Mitchell a close
second. a. E }h
William NJ. Bennett Is the regular
Republican, nominee, securing the party
choice IN a .narrpw margin at primary
| at which only twenty percent OF the
voters east their ballots. gHe has been
repeatedly urged TO fRsissiA fya1s tie
Econtest on the score that he cannot
be elected himself and that his candi-
daey will succeed only in splitting the
Former fusion vote and permitting the
election OF the Tammaay candidate.
Bennett has replied by stating that he
defeated Mitchell fairly in the primary
and that II is the mayor who should
retire, not be. f.. ~ TN VIZ
Yesterday, under special law, the
New York voters in uniform began to
vote in their State and city elections,
the first ballots being cast by those on
active service in France. During the
balloting an air battle was fought be-
tween a British and German airman
over the American lines, the soldier.
voters suspending their ballot casting
20 watch the contest. ,% 5,&
Woman Suffrage Also "a 's..t'.
In addition to, the mayoralty,
Statewide contest has been waged,
over the question of woman s suffrage
winch will be decided at the ballot box
today. The women have been carrying
on their campaign ever since the de-
feat of the suffrage amendment two
years ago, and the announcement from
the suffrage headquarters last night
was that there were bright chances of
carrying the State by good majority.
Prohibition In Balance .,
Prohibition is an issue today in three
States constitutional amendment ~
being submitted to the voters in Ohio.
Massac husetts will elect a governor. In
Virginia prohibition is involved in the
gubernatorial fight, the Republican
candidate having made his campaign
on the issue, supporting the side Of the
drys. His Democratic opponent, Davis,
is being supported by those who would
swing Virginia back into the wet col
umn and he is generally regarded as
in favor of repeating the prohibition
legislation of the State. D.,
New Mexican voters will go to the
polls to decide whether or not that
State shall have prohibition written
into the State constitution, At present
New Mexico has local option only.
Other States which elect governors
today are Maryland and New Jersey.
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