Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-30
Contest to Be Notable For
Large Number of Parties
Seeking Office.
WOMEN NOMINEES
ANOTHER FEATURE
Control Of Senate and House Rank
'a 'mPprt.nss TO Selection :. Pres
;dent and Vice President-Thirty-
Three States to Select Senators
and Entire House Must Be Elected
LAP Issue in California.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
New York. Oct. 3o.-The national
and state elections to be held nex'
Tuesday, Nov. 2. will be notable iol
the number Of women nominees an0
the large number of parties wnicH
have nominated candidates.
Six parties have national tickels
for president and vice president. the
BY no means In all the states. THESE
tickets are republican. democratic
socialist, prohibition, farmer iaDoi
and single tax. About thirteen otnel
rarties have candidates either Tor
state tickets or for representatives IN
congress, bringing the total OF all
parties In the field nearly to q score.
!. IN the presidential election there
viii be chosen SCI members OF the
electoral college, OF which 266 will oe
necessary to the election OF candl-
date as president. In the last cleo
ton President Wilson had 277.
Control Of Senate involved.
The present membership OF the
United states senate, composed OF
forty seven democrats. forty eight
republicans and one republican pro-
gressive. This year thirty three states
are to elect thirty -four senators, the
terms OF thirty-two members of that
body expiring on March 8, 1921. while
the other two are being selected TO
iii unexpired ,terhps up to March I.
1926. OF tho thirty.tw0 senators
whose terms expire next March, sew
enteen are democrats and fifteen re-
publicans. Tie two additional vacan-
cies were caused by the deaths OF
Senators Bankhead, OF Alabama, and
Martin, of Virginia, both democrats.
One senator is to be chosen In each
of the thirty three states except in
Alabama, which elects 2.
The only states which do not eiec'
senators are Delaware. Maine. Mas
sachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota
Mississippi, Montana. Nebraska, New
Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island.
Tennessee. Texas. West Virginia and
Wyoming.
Women Candidates for the senate
have been nominated in six states, by
the prohibitionists in Indiana, New
York and Pennsylvania; by socialists
in California, by the farmer-labor
party In New York and Connecticut,
and by independents in Nevada.
The total membership, 435, Of the
rext house Of representatives is to be
elected. The number necessary for a
, a1ority is 21s. The present member
sip Is, democrats, 100; republicans
232; Independent republicans, 2; in
dependent. /; prohibitionist, 1; va
cancies, 8. Women have been nomi-
mated as candidates for representa-
tives in at least eleven states includ-
ing Alabama, California, Idaho, Iowa,
Michigan. Nebraska, Massachusetts,
New, York, Oklahoma, Oregon and
Missouri
Governors are to be elected in th1r-
ty-four states as follows: Ari-
zona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connect
cut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa
Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan
Minnesota. Missouri, Mantapa
Nebraska, New Hampshire, New
Mexico, New York, North Carolina
North Dakota. Ohio. Rhode Island
South Carolina, s,outn Dakota, Ten
nessee, Texas, Utah. Vermont, WASH
ington, West Virginia and Wiscon-
sin.
Jap lssuo in California.
Many women have been. nominated
for office -on state tickets. Constitu-
tional amendments are to be voted
upon in twenty nine states. There
n -, O.. = nd ~
tiatives in four. Arkansas will vote on
amendments granting suffrage to
women and the powers of the in
itiative and referendum to the peo-
pie. California will have referen- =
DUN on five questions, including the
Harris sprohibition enforcement act
and the sale-of- poison act One or
the most notable of the initiatives
Is that in California, where the vot-
ers will be called upon to decide the
fate Of Japanese farmers by amend
ing the alien land law so as to with
draw the land leasing privilege from
aliens who are ineligible to Ameri-
can citizenship. California has an in
itiative vote also on prohibition Of
vivisection. Voters will pass upon
several constitutional amendments
including the Single Tax measure
and prohibition Of compulsory vac
cination.
Georgia will pass on constitu-
tional amendment authorizing pen
sfons to confederate veterans or their
widows. In Kansas the voters will
pass on an amendment to provide
state aid in the purchase of farm
homes. Louihiana will vote on PEN
sions to confederate veterans, Mich
igan on an amendment to require all
children between the ages of and
16 to attend public schools and Min
nesota will decide whether to exempt
automobiles from personal property
tax, increase the license fees and use
the funds to build and maintain state
highways.