Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-28

fULlIIGS IN GROu
Of THIRTEEN STATES
NORTH cARoLNIA-The Renuh-
mean party has entered a full state
ticket, has a candidate for the United
states Senate and a. coronet;r- n
eignt Of the ten Conversational dis
tricts OF the state. Only i'm the third
ana fourth districts are the Demo-
Gratis unopposed.
TENNESSEE-There is I'm this
state contest between Republicans
and Democrats for Governor and the
United States Senate, as well as rail-
road commissioner, and the congress
sional races. There lis no Democratic
candidate for Congress in the first
uistrlct, where the race is between a
republican and an independent Re-
puDlican. Democrats are unopposed
IN the fourth, sixth and seventh dis
tricts
ARKANSAS-Five OF Arkansas
seven congressional districts will
nave contests, the Republicans hav-
ing named candidates in the second.
tnlrd, fourth, fifth and seventh dis
trlcts. The state election in Arkan-
sas Is held in October.
FLORIDA-There is a full state
ticket and candidates for Congress
n all Florida districts except the
third.
ALABAMA-The Republicans In
tnIs state have chance to vote for
fhll state ticket and five candidates
LOT congress. Contests for Congress
VIII be waged in the first, third, fifth,
tenth and seventh districts.
MISSISSIPPI-Re electors
nave been placed on the Mississippi
I ticket, but the attorney generals Of
nee mas ruled that candidates for
Congress on the Republican ticket
can not be included, as they were
nominated in convention and not at
primary.
LOUISIANA The situation In
Louisiana differs from other states
IN the south in that, while candidates
ior Congress are in the field, names
OF La Toilette Wheeler electors have
been refused places on the ticket.
Inc, secretary Of state has taken the
position that petitioners for such
must be voters who had declared
themselves Independent of the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties.
FIRGINIA-The state OF Virginia
mas Republican candidate for the
United states Senate, and Demo-
cratic candidates have opposition in
the second, sixth, seventh and ninth
congressional districts.
SOUTH CAROLINA In South
Carolina the Republicans made no
nominations for state officers or rep
resentatives In Congress, because
Democratic nominations are usually
equivalent to election. Republican
voters, however, will have an oppor-
tunity to cast their ballots for prcsi-
Dental electors.
GEORG1A-In this state three
presidential tickets are in the No
vember contest but no opposition to
the regular Democratic candidates
Tor state offices has developed.
Tt.NAS-A woman nominated for
governor on the Democratic ticket.
the flrst time "A major party has NOM
| mated a woman for governor In the
United States: an active Republican
campaign, and a bitter feeling over
| the ku kluX klan issue have made
real campaign for the November
election this fall I'm Texas, where the
midsummer Democratic primaries
are customarily equivalent to cleo
| ton.
Republicans and opponents OF Mrs.
Miriam A. Ferguson, Democratic
candidate for governor. alike have
| joined issue against what they term
'FerSusonism.' making a stronger
attack than usual against the tradi-
tional success of the Democrats.
James r. Ferguson. former COVER
nor, husband of the Democratic
! nominee, was impeached in 1917 on
charges, among others. of misappli-
cation of the state funds. A court
injunction kept his name off the
ticket in the primary as a candidate
for governor and his wife's name was
| substituted. In the first primary she
was second. but no one had a ma jor-
ity. and the two high candidates
entered a second primary, in which
she won.
The Republicans and Ferguson's
opponents in the Democratic ranks
charge that if his wife is elected he
will he governor by subterfuge. that
the placing of his wife's name on the
ballot was really trick to make him
governor in the face OF Legislative
enactment which declared him for
ever barred from holding office in
this state. This issue of ferguson
ism" has been clearly raised by the
Republican nominee.
The ku Klux Khan was the sole is
sue in the run-off primary. in which
Mrs. Ferguson won. The Khan cam
didate was defeated. and while the
platforms of both parties denounced
the Khan by name and both candi-
daaes were opposed to the organiza-
ton. nevertheless the Khan is still
an issue. because many members of
the order announced they would not
support Mrs. Ferguson but would
governorship. The Republicans are
expected this year to poll the larg-
est Republican vote in the history of
this rock ribbed Democratic state.
On the surface Mrs. Ferguson's
nomination had nothing to do with
woman suffrage or the woman move
mcnt. As for national issues, this
fall Texas is nation unto itself in
which the issues of the national CAM
paisn have been little mentioned.
The Republicanxnomin for COVER
nor, DR.. George c. Butte. is an edu-
Gator of high standing. who resigned
the deanship OF the law school at the
University of Texas to make the
race.
The state has two Democratic
United States senators, IL Demo-
cratic congressman and one Repub-
lican congressman. The only con-
gressional fight is in the fourteenth
district. where Congressman Harry
wurzbach. Republican, is up for re-
election.
The La Toilette people have no
ticket in the field, except for presi-