The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-14
Woman Is Candidate Against
WadSWorth for N. Y. Sen
atoriaI Choice.
HOT ILLINOIS PRIMARY
Virginia Grants Status to
Women-Texas Says They
May Vote Without Tax.

New York, Sept. 14-Enrolled republl
cans and democrats OF New York state
went to the polls today TO vote for can.
didates who seek party nominations
Off the various state offices as well a!
for the various state offices as well a;
tives in congress and seats in botf
houses OF the legislature.
The most important contests Nof q
statewide nature are for United State;
senator and governor on the republican
ticket and for United States senator or
the democratic ticket. United States
Senator James w. Wadsworth, Jr,, !,
opposed by Mrs. Ella A. Boole. stat
president OF the Womans ChrstV
Temperance Union, and George Hef =
PAYNE, city tax commissioner. 80
Nathan L. Miller. of Syracuse, q
mer Judge of the court of appeals,%
signee of the unofficial republican,
state convention for governor, is op.
posed by State Senator George F
Thompson.
The contest for the senatorial nom
ination on the democratic ticket is be-
| tween Lieut.. Gov Harry c. Walker, OF
Binghamton, and Mayor George r
Lunn, of Schenectady.
Bitter Primary Closes.
Chicago. Sept. 14,--One, of the bitter
est primary campaigns In Illinois po-
litical history closed today with leaders
OF the two republican factions center
ing their fight on the gubernatorlal
nomination. At the polls tomorrow
democrats and republicans will NOM
mate candidates for senator, represen'
tatives and various state offices. in ad-
dition to governor.
Len Small, former speaker Of the
Illinois house. Is backed for the guber'
material nomination by the mayor.
The nomination of Mayor william
Hale Thompson and his wing of the re
publican party, is opposed by John q
Oglesby. lieutenant governor, for whom
Gov. Frank o. Lowden has taken thu
stump.
In the democratic contest for thu
nomination for governor James Hamil
ton Lewis, former senator. rs opposed
by Barratt O'Hara, former lieutenant
governor.
Seeking nomination for senator on th'
republican ticket are w. y. Mckinley
representative from the Nineteenth dis
trlct, the Lowden candidate. Represent
ative Frank l.. Smith, favored by tn
Thompson faction, and Burnett NJ
Chipperfeld, former representative. Tn
democratic nomination is sought b!
Robert Il, Burke and Peter w. Wallack
Austin, Tex, Sept 1i.-All men anc
women OF Texas who are otherWis'
qualified to vote may participate ins TN
| general election Nov. without pay
ment OF poll tax, according 10 an opin
| ion from the Texas attorney-genera
made public late Monday by Gov. w. +
Hobby. The governor declined to com
ment upon the opinion.
Male inhabitants are still liable fol
| the payment of a poll tax, the opinion
said, but failure to pay the same vii
not dsqualfy man from voting II hi
otherwise is a qualified voter. The opin
1 ion said that the suffrage amendmen
| Is now recognized by the federal gov
eminent as part of the constitution G
| the United States and that all state
are now prohibited from using discrim
ination by reason of or account OF Sc
against persons who desire to vote ant
who otherwise are qualified.
Voting for Governor.
| Montnelier VT. Sept. 14.-Vermon