Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-31
W0ME.N CANDIDATES Feature OF
ELECTION TO BE HELL nov. 2:
SIX TICKETS PIE In the fell
Five Hundred Ind Thirty One Members of
; the Electoral College Are to Be Chosen; 81
States to elect Governors; Several Constitu-
tional Amendments to be Voted On.
tBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York. Oct. 3O.-The ma
uonal AMI state elections to be held
next TVesday, November .. will be
notable Tor the number of women
nominees ana the large number of
parties which have nominated can
~Iidates
Six parties have national tickets
for president and vice president
though by no means in ali the
states. These tickets are repubn-
can, democratic. socialist, prohibi-
ton, farmer-labOr aid single tax.
About thirteen ot,her parties have
candidates either for state tickets
or for representatives in congress.
bringing the total of all parties in
the neld lIearly to a score.
In the presidential election there
will be chosen 53l members of the
electoral college of which 266 will
b6 necessary to the election of a
Candidate as president. In the
last election President Wilson had
277.
Senate Membership.
, The present membership of the
United States senate is ninety siS,
composed of forty-seven demo
Gratis, forty-eight republicans and
one republican and progressive.
This year thirty-three states are to
elect thirty-four senator's the
terms of thirty-two members of
that body expiring on March 8,
1921, while the other two are be-
ing elected to fill uneXpired terms
up to March /, 1925, OF the thirty
NHFhn
next March, seventeen are demo-
Gratis and fifteen republicans. The
TWO additional vacancies were
caused by die deaths of Senators
Bankhead of Alabama and Martin
OF virginia, both democrats. One
SENATOR is to be chosen in each of
the tnirty-three states except in
Alabama which elects two.
The only states which do not
elect senators are Delaware, Mas
sachusetts, Maine. Michigan. Min
nesota, Mississippi, Montana. Me-
braska, New Jersey, New Mexico,
Rhode Island. Tennessee. Texas,
West Virginia and Wyoming.
Women candidates for the SEN
ate have been nominated in six
states, by the prohibitionists in
Indiana, New York and Pennsyl-
vania; by socialists in California,
by the farmer-labor party in New
York and Connecticut, and by in !
dependents in Nevada.
Socialist Candidates, !
Socialists have candida kes for
the senate in eleven states. Ala
bama (2). California, Florida Iii !
nois, Indiapa. New Hampshire.
New YorK Okiahama, Oregon,
Pennsylvania and Washington. The |
farmer-laber party has senatorial |
candidates in seven states: Connec- !
tcut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa Mis- !
souri,, New York and Washington. |
At least eight other parties have !
nominated candidates for senator
in one or more states. These are
progressive, socialist labor. single |
tax Independent. Industrial labor,
labor, independent republican and
non-partisan league.
The. total membership, 435. Of /
the next house of representatives.
IL to be elected, OF this number
21S is necessary for a majority.
The present membership Is demo-
Gratis, 1870: republicans, 232: indie
pendent republicans. 2; independ-
ent, |; prohibitionist !; vacancies,
3. Women have been nominated
as candidates for representatives In
at least eleven states, including
Alabama, California, Idaho, Iowa,
Michigan, Nebraska, Massachusetts,
New York, oklahoma, oregon and
Missouri
To Elect Thirty-srvcn Governors.
Governors are to be elected in
thirty-seven states. while elections
for lesser state offices will be held
in seven others, Those electing
governors are: Arizona, Arkansas,
Colorado, Connecticut. Delaware,
Florida, Georgia. Idaho, Illinois,
Indiana. Iowa, Kansas, Massachu-
sets. Michigan, Minnesota. Mis-
souri,, Montana, Nebraska. New