Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-30
NUMBER OF WOMAN NOMINEES
MAKES rs2o ELECTION NOTABLE
Candidates for Senator I'M Sax States and
In Eleven for Reprssentative-Six
Parties Seek to Elect President.

NEW YORK, October S0.--The ma
tional and state elections to be held
next Tuesday will be notable for the
number Of woman nominees and the
large number of parties which have
nominated candidates.
I Six ,ariies have national tickets for
Pre- sident and Vice President. though
lv no means IN all the states. Thest,
tickets are republican, democratic, so.-
c aiiss prohibition, farmer-labor anc
simySle tax. Abour thirteen other par
ties have candidates either for state
tickets or for representatives in Con-
gress. bringing the total of all parties
in the field nearly to score.
In the presidential election there
will he chosen 531 members of the
electoral college. of which 266 will be
necessary to the election of candi-
date as President In the last cleo
ton President Wilson had 277,
Thsrty-Four Senators to BE Elected.
The present membership Of the
United States Senate is 96 composed
of a democrats. As republicans and
one republican and progressive. This
the terms of 80 members of that body
expiring on March 5. 1921. while the
other two are being selected to fill
unexpred terms up to March 4, 1925.
OF the - senators whose terms expire
next March, II are democrats and 10
republicans. The two additional va
cancie.s we're 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 80 states except in Alabama,
which elects two,
The only states which do not elect
senators are Delaware. Maine, Massa
chusetts. Michigan, Minnesota, Mis-
sissippi,. Montana, Nebraska. New Jer-
sey. New Mexico. Rhode Island. Ten
Enessee. Texas. West Virsinia and
Wyoming.
Woman candidates for the Senate
have been nominated in six states, by
the prohibitionists in Indiana. New
York AMID Pennsylvania; by socialists
in California, by the farmer Labor
party in New York and Connecticut
and by Independents in Nevada.
Socialists have candidates for the
Senate in eleven states: Alabama. .;
New Hampshire. New York. Okla
homa. Oregon. Pennsylvania and
Washington. The farmer-labor party
has senatorial candidates in seven
states: Connecticut, Illinois. Indiana.
Iowa. Missouri. New York and Wash
rfngton.
At least eight other parties have
nominated candidates for senator in
one or more states. These are pro-
gressives. socialist labor. single tan,
independent. industrial labor. labor,
independent republican and Non-Par-
tiSan League.
Whole EAouse NuWt Bu Elected.
The total membership, 435. of the
next House Of Representatives is to
be elected. OF this number 21S is nee
Tessary for a majority. The present
n, ern feHsship is. Democrats 100; re-
punliczns, 232; independent repub-
licans, 3; independent. L; prohibition
I ist, I; vacancies. 8. Women have been
nonnfnafed as candidates for repre-
sentatives in at least eleven states,
including Alabama. California. Idaho,
Iowa. Michigan. Nebraska. Massachu-
setts, New York. Oklahoma, Oregon
and Missouri.
Governors are to be elected in thirty
lseven states, while elections for les
| ser state Offices will be held in seven
others. Those electing governors are:
Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado. Con-
necticut. Delaware. Florida. Georgia,
| Idaho. Illinois. Indiana. Iowa. .Arkan-