The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-30
SIX PARTIES IN
1920 FIGHT At
POLLS TUESDAY
Women Candidates.
VIII Be Thirty-FOur Senators
Chosen by Voters.
PICK WHOLE new HOUSE
PICK WHOLE NEW HOUSE
Are 531 Presidential Electors
Up-s66 Is Majority.
Many States Submit CORstita-
tiOnal Amendments to Voters.


New York, Oct. 3O.-The national
| and state elections to be held next
Tuesday will be notable for the num-
Der of women nominees and the large
| number of parties which have nomi-
mated candidates.
Six parties have national tickets for
president and vice president. tho by
no means in all the states These
| tickets are Republican, Democratic,
| Socialist, Prohibition. Farmer-Labor
and Single Tax. About thirteen other
parties have candidates either for state
! tickets or for representatives in con-
gress, bringing the total of all parties
in the field nearly to a score.
In the presidential election there
Will be chosen 531 members of the,
electoral college, of which 266 will be
necessary to the election of a candi-
date as president. In the last election
President Wilson had 277.
Be ThirtyFour New Senators.
The present membership of the
United States senate is 96, composed
of At Democrats, 4S Republicans and
one Republican and Progressive. This
, year thirty-three states are to elect
thirty-four senators, the terms of
| thirty-two members of that body ex-
piring on March 8, 1921, while the
other two are being selected to fill
unexpired terms up to March 4, 1925.
, OF the thirty-tWo senators whose
terms expire next March, seventeen
are Democrats and fifteen Republi-
cans. The two additional vacancies
were caused by the deaths of Senator
Bankhead of Alabama and Martin of
Virginia, both Democrats One sena-
tor is to be chosen in each of the
thirty-three states except in Alabama,
which elects two.
The only states which do not elect
senators are Delaware, Maine. Massa-
chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missis-
sippi, Montana Nebraska, New Jer-
sey, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Ten
nessee, Texas, West Virginia and
wyoming. \
Women Make Race.
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.
Socialists have candidates for the
senate in eleven states: Alabama CD.
California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana,
homa, Oregon. Pennsylvania and
Washington. The Farmer-Labor party
has senatorial candidates in seven
states: Connecticut Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Missouri, New 1ork ana Wasn-
ington.
At least eight other parties have
nominated candidates for senator in
other states. These are Progressive, |
Socialist Labor, Single Tax. Independ-
ent, Industrial Labor, Labor, 1nde-
pendent Republican and Nonpartisan
League.
Pick New House.
The total membe<<elp, 4S5 of the
next house of representatives, is to be
elected. OF this number, 21S is neces-
sary- for a majority. The present
membership is: Democrats, 100; Re
publicans, 232; Independent Repubh-
cans, 2; Independent, /; -Prohibitionist,
/: vacancies, 8. Women have been
nominated as candidates for repre-
sel,tatives in at least eleven states, IN
cluding Alabama, California, Idaho.
setts, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon
and Missouri.
Governors are to be elected in thir-
ty-fcur states as follows: Arizona. Ar
Kansas. Colorado Connecticut, Della
ware. Florida Georgia, Idaho, Illinois,
indiana. Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts,,
Michigan, Minnesota, missouri, MON
tana. Nebraska, New HaT" pshlre, New |
Mexico, New York, North Carolna'
North Dakota, Ohio. Rhode lslano'
South Carolina, South Dakota, Iennes
see. Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washlhs
tom. west Virginia and Wisconsin.
Many Women on Tickets.
Many women have been nominated
for office on state tickets
constitutional amendments are to be
voted upon in twenty-nlne states,
There will be referenda in Twelve
states and initiatives in four Arkan-
sas will vote on amendments granting
suffrage to women and the powers ol
tbe Initiative and referendum to the
neon1e California Will have a refer
endum on five questions. including the
HARRIS prohibition enforcement act
and the sale of poison act
One of the most notable OF the 1nl-
tiatives is that in California, where the
voters will be called upon to decide the
fate of Japanese farmers by amending
the alien land law so as to withdraw
the land-leasing privileges from aliens
who are ineligible to American clu-
zenship California has an initiative
vote also on prohibition of vivisection. |
Voters will pass upon several constitu |
tional amendments. including the |
single tax measure and prohibition of |
compulsory vaccination
Amendments Are Up.
Georgia will pass on a constitutional
amendment authorizing pensions to |
Confederate veterans or their wives In |
Kansas the voters will pass on an
amendment to provide state aid in the |
purchase of farm homes. Louisiana
will vote on pensions to Confederate |
veterans. Michigan on an amendment |
to require all children, between the
ages of five and sixteen. to attend pub |
whether to exempt automobiles from |
personal property tax. increase the
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