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SENATE FIGHTS
ELECTION FEATURE
Much Interest Displayed in
Ohio Contest.
MANY WOMEN SEEK OFFICES

State Soldiers Bonus and Dry Refer
endum Also Attract in Several Sec
tions. :
Chicago, Nov. 6.-IndOrsemert OF
rejection of President Hardings ad
ministration by the voters OF ONO
| senatorial fights in the Buckeye state
Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin
| Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota
! Nebraska and Texas and the actlVl
J ties of large number of women can
! didates for important offices are the
outstanding features in tomorrow
elections in the Mississippi valley and
middle west.
Most of President Harding's cabi-
net has gone into Ohio to urge the
voters to indorse the national admin
istration by returning a Republican
senator and Republican congressman
Representative Simon Fess is the Re
publican candidate for senator against
the present incumbent, Atlee Pomer-
enc.
Ohio, the home of the Anti-SaloOn
League and of Prohibition Director
Haynes, will vote on beer and wine
amendment. Miss Florence f. Alien
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 ]. Beveridge, Republl-
can, and former Samuel Ralston,
Democrat. Beveridge, 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 congress on the Demo-
cratic ticket, is the first woman noml-
| mated for that honor in the Hoosier
state.
Illinois has woman candidate for
: OngreSsman-at-large, Mrs. Winnifred
Mason Huck, who is a Republican
| nominee 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 Danvllle
! district where successor to Uncle
Joe" Cannon is to be chosen, and an
other in the Peoria district, where
the wet and dry issue has been rails
ed. The state also will vote on "a
soldiers bonus referendum and "a
beer and wine amendment.
Smith W. Brockhart, Republican,
and Clyde NJ. Herring, Democrat. cles
ed the Iowa senatorial caIssif;;sss .aseeSs se
Their hard-fought battle and the SD
100000 soldiers bonus referendum
are the outstanding points in the state
election.
| Minnesota boasts a woman candi-
date for United States senator, Mrs.
Anna Dickie Olesen, Democrat, who is
opposing Senator Frank B. Kellogg,
the Republican nominee. In the sew
enth congressional district Represen-
tative Andrew J. Volstead, author of
the prohibition enforcement code, is
opposed by Rev. o. ]. Kvale, indorsed
by the Democratic and Farmer-Labor
parties. Mrs. Lillian c. Gault, of st.
Peter, is Democratic candidate for
congress in the third district.
Missouri is in the throes of Bit
ter fight between Senator James A.
Reed, foe of the Wilson administra-
ton, and r. r. Brewster, Republican.
Reed has declared he favOrs modify
ing the Volstead law. Both Candi-
dates have denounced the Ku KluX
Klan.
Miss Alice Lorraine DAILY is running
for governor of South Dakota on the
Non-Partisan League ticket.
Senator Robert NJ. Lafollette, of
wisconsin, is opposed by Mrs. Jessie
Hooper, Democrat, as an independent
candidate Victor Berger, twice de-
MED his seat in congress because of
his alleged radical views, is running
again on the Socialist ticket, in the
ifth district Miss Martha Riley, of
Madison, is a Democratic candidate
tor congress in the fifth district.
In North Dakota, Lynn ]. Frazier
recently recalled as governor. is run
| hing on the Non-Partisan ticket for
United States senator, while n. A.
NestOs, who succeeded Frazier as gov
ernor, is a candidate for the regular
gubernatOrial election.
Charles Bryan, brother of William
Jennings Bryan, is the Democratic
| candidate for governor of Nebraska,
| while Senator Gilbert NJ Hitchcock
| is being opposed for reelection by
R. B. Howell, Republican national
| committeeman. Mrs. E. Luella Barton,
Prohibitionist, is the only woman can
| didate for congress. Soldiers bonus
and anti-picketing laws are amng the
| issues to be voted on.
! Kansas, Oklahoma and Kentucky all
have had quiet campaigns. The Ku
Klux Klan issue was raised in Kan
sas late in the season by Governor
Henry J. Allen and Charles B. Grif-
fifth, Republican candidates for at
torney general, both of whom de-
| paupoad tho orpa nizatjon Kansas will