Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-07
TUESDAY ELECTION
To NAME SENATORS
FROM TEN STATES
Ohio Ready to Indorse OF
Reject Harding Admins
tration - Several States
Vote on Soldier Bonus

Cf11CAGO, NOV. 6.-(By the AS
ISOLATED Press.e reimbursement or re.
lection of President Harding's adj
ministrat;on by the voters of Ohio,
senatorial fights in the Buckeye
State, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri,
North Dakota, Nebraska and Texas,
and the activities Of numerous WON.
en- candidates for Independent of
fees are the outstanding features
ir Tuesdays elections in the Mis-
sissippi valley and middle west.
Prohibition is an issue in sew
eral states; there are a number OF
important referendums, including
state soldiers bonus laws; and in
Texas. Oklahoma and Kansas the
ku KluX Khan has been made an
issue.
Most of President Harding's. cabi.
net has gone into Ohio to urge the
Endorsement Of the national admin.
istration by returning a Republican
senator and Republican congress.
man. Representative Simeon Tess.
is the Republican candidate for SEN
ator against the incumbent, Atlee
Pomerene.
Ohio, the home of the Anti-Saloon
League and Of Prohibition Director
Haynes, will vote on a beer sand
wine amendment. Miss Florence e.
Allen, woman judge of Cleveland,
is candidate for associate justice
Of the Ohio supreme court.
IN0fa IT,
the senatorial race between former
Senator Albert j. Beveridge, Repub-
Ecan, and former Governor Samuel
Ralston, Democrat. Mr.. Beveridge,
O. follower Of Colonel Roosevelt in
1912, defeated Senator Harry New.
close friend Of the president, in the
primaries last spring. Miss Esther
Kathleen O'Keefe, running for con.
gress on the Democratic ticket, is
the first woman nominated for that
honor in the Hoosier state.
Soldiers Bonus Fight
F. Illinois has a woman candidate
for congress, Mrs. Winifred Mason
Euck, who is a Republican nomi-
nee, to fill the unexpired term of
her father, the late William Mason.
Several hot fights are on in the con-
gressional races, one in the Danville
district, where a successor to Uncle
Joe" Cannon is to be chosen, and
another in the Peoria district, where
the wet and dry issue has been
raised. The state also will vote on
a. soldiers bonus referendum and a
beer and wine amendment.
Smith w. Brookhart, Republican,
and Clyde L. Herring, Democrat,
nInca1 tho ;oI
today. Their hard-fought battle
end the $22,000,000 soldiers bonus
referendum are the outstanding
points in the state election.
Minnesota boasts woman caIldi-
date fer United States senator, Mrs.
Anna Diclzie Olesen, Democrat, who
is opposing Senator Frank B. KEEL.
logg, the Republican nominee. Sena,
tor LaFollette, of Wisconsin, has
been in Minnesota speaking for Hen
rik ShipStead, the farmer-labor
nominee. In the Seventh congress
sional district, Representative An
drew j. Volstead, author of the pro.
hibition enforcement code, is oppos-
ed by Rev. o. J. Kvale, endorsed by
the Democratic and farmer-labor
parties. Mrs. Lillian G.. Gault, of
st. Peter, is Democratic candidate
for congress in the Third district. =
Missouri Fight Bitter
Missouri has on a bitter fight be-
tween Senator James A. Reed, foe
Of the Wilson administration, and
r. r. Brewster, Republican. Reed
has declared he favors modifying
the Volstead law. Both candidates
have denounced the Ku Klux Khan.
Two women are seeking seats in
congress, Mrs. St. Clair Moss, Demo-
crat, of Columbia, and Sophia Fritts,
Independent, Of Kansas City.
Miss Alice Lorraine Daily is run
ming for governor of South Dakota
on the non-partisan league ticket.
Senator Robert M. LaF'ollette, Of
Wisconsin,, is opposed by Mrs. Jes-
sic Hooper, Democrat, as an indie
pendent candidate. Victor Berger,
twice denied his seat in congress be-
cause of his alleged radical views,
ticket in the Fifth district. Miss
Martha Riley, of Madison, is
Democratic candidate for congress
in the Fifth district.
In North Dakota, Lynn J. Frazier,
recently recalled as governor, is
running on the non-partisan ticket
for United States senator, while
Governor N. A. Nestos, is the regu-
lar gubernatorial candidate.
Charles Bryan, brother of William
Jennings Bryan, is the Democratic
candidate for governor of Nebraska,
while Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock
is being opposed for reelection by
r. B. Howell, Republican national
commission.
Mrs. Luella E. Barton, prohibf-
bitionist, is the only woman candi-
date for congress. Soldiers bonus
and anti-picketing laws are among
the issues to be voted on. II
MiXup In Texas
Kansas, Oklahoma and Kentucky
all have had quiet campaigns. The
Ku KluX Klan issue was raised in
Kansas by Governor Henry j.. Alleaa
and Charles B. Griffith, republican
candidate for attorney-general, both
of whom denounced the organization.
Kansas will vote on a bonus law.
The Michigan campaign was vir-
tually closed at Detroit today with
major party candidates for senator
and governor all speaking there.
Senator Charles E. Townsend is be-
ing opposed by Woodbridge N. Fer
ris, Democrat, and Governor Alex
Groesbeck by Alvah Cummings.
Democrat.
By a strange combination of cir
it is probable that Texas
voters will have only blank under
the heading UNITED States sena-
tor. and will be forced to write in