Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-06
CAMPAIGNS IN
NlMSIAlEsSs,Al
AMEND TONIGHT
Verdict Awaited In National Elec-
tion-May Change Person
nell of House
HOT SENATE FIGHTS
Five Southern States VIII Ratify
Primary Vote--Nanle Four
Governors

CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-(By AS
scciated Press. )-Senatorial cam
paicns in nine states Of the Middle
West end today, with six United
ctates senators from central
efates aeeking reelection. They
ore: Republicans. Townsend,
Michigan; Kellogg, Minnesota;
aFollette, Wisconsin. Demo
Gratis, Hitchcock, Nebraska; Reed,
Missouri; Pomerene, Ohio. The
IIarding administration is the big
issue in Ohio, where Congressman
Tess, champion of the Harding
forces, opposes Pomerene.
The election of senators in five
states, Virginia, Florida, Georgia,
Tennessee and Mississippi will fea-
ture the voting in the Southern states
Tuesday. Four states, Tennessee,
Alabama, South Carolina and Geor-
gia will elect new governors.
Prohibition is an issue in several
states; there are a number Of inn
portant reierenudums, including
state soldiers bonus laws; and IN
Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas the Ku
Klux Klan has been made an issue.
Most of President aHrding's cabi-
net has gone into Ohio to urge The |
Endorsement Of the national admin
istration by returning a Republican |
senator and Republican congressman.
Representative Simeon Fess is. the |
Republican candidate for senator |
against the incumbent, Atlee Pome-
rene.
Ohio Dry Contest.
Ohio, the home Of the Anti-Saloon |
League and of Prohibition Director |
Haynes, will vote on beer and vine |
amendment. Miss Florence E. Al
len, a woman Judge of Cleveland, IS
a candidate for associate justice OF |
the Ohio Supreme court.
Interest in Indiana is centered IN |
the senatorial race between former |
Senator Albert j. Beveridge, Repub-
lcan, and former Governor Samuel
Ralston, Democrat.
Illinois has woman candidate for
congress, Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck,
who is a Republican nominee to fill
the unexpired term of her father, the
late William Mason.
Smith w. Brookhart, Republican,,
and Clyde L. Herring, Democrat,
closed the Iowa senatorial campaign !
today. Their hard fought battle and
the $22,000,000 soldiers bonus refer
endum are the outstanding points in
the state election.
Minnesota boasts of a woman cam
didate for United States senator, Mrs.
Anne Dickie Oleson, Democrat, who +
Is opposing Senator Frank B. Kel- /
leg, the Republican nominee
Representative Andrew j. Vol
stead, author of the prohibition en-
1orcement code, is opposed by Rev.
.. j, KVale, indorsed by the Demo
Gratis and farmer-labor parties. Mrs
Lillian c. Gault, of st. Peter, is
Democratic candidate for congress
IN the Third district.
Missouri has on a bitter fight be-
tween Senator James A. Reed, foe of
the Wilson administration, and r. r. |
Brewster, Republican. Two We
mon are seeking seats in congress,
Mrs. st. Clair Moss, Democrat, of |
columbia, and Sophia Fritts, Inde-
lffdent, of Kansas City.
Senator Robert M. LaFollatte, Of
Wisconsin, is opposed by Mrs. Jessie
Hooper, Democrat, as an Indepeni-
net candidate, Victor Berger, twice
denied his seat in congress because
OF has alleged radical views. ise run
ning again on the Socialist licket in:
The Fifth district Miss Martha Riley
of Madison, is Democratic candi- !
cate for congress III the Fifth dis
erict.