Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-18
%IDENT|AL RACES NEIL UNDER WAY MID-WEsT STATES
(;tv Also Extends to the Leading State Off, ceS

co Feb. 17.-This year signal
 ,s s0, return to peace and politics,
 lreadv presidential campaigns
 ali under way and state con-
 for m local offices humming.
 Ihe central west there is more
 he he usual presidential year ac-
 and with eight states in that
 n h holding presidential prefer
 rr;maries; with twelve states
 nr United States senator
 Fourteen ,s with a governor and
 ticket to select, political ex-
 ent will continue until after the
 nher election. In addition,
 ers of the lower house of con-
 are to be elected in every
 and present conditions, polit- observers say, will make these kts more spirited than ever.
 bough the prohibition amend
 to the federal constitution is feet. observers say, it will by cans eliminate the wet and dry
 from politics. Other factors ;buting to the bubbling of the |cal pot are divergent views on the questions of labor and kl: national ownership and op- bn of railroads and public util-
 and questions growing out of Changed conditions caused by world war. The high cost of
 with its wage and price prob will enter into every campaign,
 students of politics declare.
 e central west states and the
 of their primaries in which the Is may declare their preference the presidential candidate are: h Dakota, March 16; South Da- 1 March 23; Michigan, April 5: |onsin, April 6; Illinois, April Nebraska, April 20; Ohio, April Ind Indiana, May 4.
 |e twelve states in the central which elect a United States tor this year are: Arkansas. H. Is. Indiana. Iowa, Kansas, Ken E, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, |homa, South Dakota and Wis in.
 |vernors are to be elected in the wing states in the same dis !: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, In- B, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, ouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, 1, South Dakota, Texas and .onsin.
 Illinois.
 Illinois the greatest, political ity early in the year is observ- on the Republican side. Gov r Frank o. Lowden has entered presidential race and is conduct . lively campaign in a number of $ besides his own.
 lte officials are lined up behind Iand the presidential campaign kently has crowded purely state ics to the background, through rnor, lieutenant governor, and r state officers are to be elected November.
 e question of a senator to suc- United States Sena tor Lawrence herman, who has expressed his not to seek another !. is likewise being held in abey- mocratic party politics in Hi have not begun to boil ana in touch with the party chiefs ct that the year will be the harmonious for the party seer ,veral decades.
 Michigan.
 e election will afford the wom- f Michigan their second oppor- y to exercise the franchise won Ugh amendment to the state con- tion. Both Republicans and ocrats already are seeking the ort of women voters.
 nile nominating petitions for presidential preference primary 5, have not yet been filed by candidates, it is regarded as vir- y certain that the Republicans have the names of Major Gen Leonard Wood ands Governor K Q. Lowden of Illinois on the t. Only one hundred sigma to nominating petition are 'sary to place a name on the ary ballot. complete state ticket from gov r down, including state sena- and representatives as we'll as ressmen, will be voted on at November election. There is prospect that prohibition again be a formal issue. Michigan not voted itself dry in 1916 but af- ed the qcttOr kvur vooro 1ofov