The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-30
CALIFORNIA TO CHOOSE TICKET
 AT PRIMARY

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30 (by As sociated Press).-Californi voters will SC to the polls to cast their bal lot for candidates seeking party nom nations for various offices at the state primary election. Of the several issues confronting the voters, the principal interest lies in the contest among three candidates for the Re- publican nomination for United States senator The winner of this triangu- lar race will be opposed at the Nov ember general election by United States Senator James D. Phelan, who is running unopposed on the party ballot for the Democratic nomination.
 The three candidates for the Re- publican senatorial nomination are William Kent, of Kentfield, Marin county, former representative in con- gress from the First district; Sam uel M. Shortridge, a San Francisco attorney, and Albert J. Wallace, of Los Angeles, lieutenant governor of California in the first administration of Governor Hiram w. Johnson, From among these three candidates, the voter will register his choice and the successful nominee will fight it out with Senator Phelan on November 2.
 In four of the states eleven con- gressional districts there are no con- tests for party nominations. These districts are the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Eleventh, and they have but one candidate each on the party bal lots. Consequently the candidate is assured of his own party nomination.
 The situation differs in the remain ing districts in that the voter will find that he has a choice of two or more candidates on his party ballot
 The supreme and appellate court candidates are voted on nOnpartisan ballots, the judiciary having been re- moved from political consideration by legislative enactment a number of years ago. The supreme court ticket will list the names of Warren Olney, Jr., of Berkeley, incumbent, who is unoppOsed for the associate justice ship made vacant by the resignation of Justice M. c. Sloss, and of Justice w. A. Sloane, of San Diego, and Judge John M. York of the superior court of Los Angeles county, the latter two being contestants for the unexpired term of the late Justice Henry A. Melvin. This vacancy was filled re- gently by the ad interim appointment of Justice Sloane by Governor w. D. Stephens. Justice Sloane was a mem Der of the Second district court of appeals, Division No. 2.
 Candidates are numerous for the upper and lower houses of the Iegis- 1ature and contests for party nomina- tions prevail in nearly all the senate and assembly districts. The complex ion of the legislature is changed every two years by the election of eighty assemblymen, which is full strength of the lower house and by the election of twenty senators, or half the number of the upper house. This year the twenty senators will be chosen from the odd-numbered dis tricts. Thus the legislature always holds over in the biennial sessions half it's personnel in the upper house
 The party conventions held at Sac ramento on the third Tuesday in Sep tember after the primary election are provided for in the direct primary law for the purpose of adopting platforms for the November campaigns, elect ing members of the various state central committees and, in presi- dential election years, of nominating presidential electors.
 The membership of the party con-