Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-10-25
ELECTION DAY THIS YEAR
is OF LOCAL IMPORTANCE
Two Governors, Two Representatives
and State Assemblies to Be Chosen
at Polls on November ;.

| McCran. a wet" and Catholic, in
the Republican primaries McCran
was Senator Edges choice for the
nomination, although Mr.. Edge is now
supporting Senator Whitney. The
| death of.(McCran at this time has not
, helped Whitney, but has further
aroused McCran's friends against the
man who defeated him. Efforts have
| been made to get President Coolidge
to mix in this Jersey fight, but with
| out avail.
| The election of a Representative
J from the third New Jersey district,
| made necessary by the death of
Representative T. Frank Applehy. Re
publican. will take place November 8
| also. The Republicans have put for
ward Stewart Appeby son of the late
Representative Appleby, and the
Democrats have nominated j. Lyle
kinmonth, editor of the Asbury Park
News. Representative Appleby was
elected "A year ago by about $4,000
votes In 1920 Appleby was elected
also by about $4,000 votes, but in
! 1922 the Democrats won this district
by 522 votes. and in, 1916 ii went Demo
cratic by IA narrow margin, while in
! 1918 il was found in the Republican
column by 1900 votes. In recent
years, therefore. the district may he
said To have shown considerable Re
publican strength.
Election i'm kentucky.
| The only other member of Congress
TO be elected November will hail
from the third Kentucky district.
where Representative Thomas, for so
many years Representative of that
district in the House, died not long
ago. John W. Moore, a banker at
! Morga ntown, is the Democratic nomi-
nee, and the Republican is Thurman
3. Dixon. of Bowling Green. Thomas
carried the district last year by about
$500 votes. a lead which the friends
of Dixon think they will he able to
overcome on election day. While
Thomas carried the district with
regularity for many years. his margin
of victory sometimes ran as low as
coo, as in 1920, although in 1922 it
ran up to 900.
If the Republicans should win both
these congressional elections the
! political makeup of the new House,
which meets for the first time in De-
| cember, would be 24S Republicans.
| 1872 Democrats. Farmer-Laborites
and > Socialists. If the Democrats
! should win both these seats. then the
! Republicans would have 246 and the
I
/ how these elections go, the Republi-
cans will be overwhe lmingly in con
! troll of the House, and the administers
I ton should have no difficulty in get
ting its Legislative program through
that branch of the National Lcgis-
lature.
Three Republicans Elected.
Since the last Congress adjourned.
March 4. the Republicans have sue.
ceeded in electing their candidates to
fill three vacancies occurring in the
House. One was the first woman to
be elected to the House from New
England, Mrs. John Jacob Rogers of
! the third Massachusetts district,
chosen to succeed her husband. the
| late Representative Rogers. \ sec
| ond is Joseph L. Hooper, in the third
Michigan district, and the third is
| Henry L. Bowles of the second Mas
! sachusetts district, President Cool
| idge's own district. All of these dis
tricts are normally Republican. Mrs.
| Julius Kahn was elected last Febru-
! airy TO fill the vacancy caused by the
death of her husband, Representative
Julius Kahn of the fourth California
district
Maryla nd. had it not been for a
recent change in her constitution.
would have INDUCED in a state cleo
ton this year. too. But this election
goes over now until next year In
PENNSYLVANIA there is one State Su-
preme Court justice to be elected and
! county officers to be chosen. In
Rhode Island there are some town and
county elections. and the same is true
| in India ma and a number of the other
! States.
Although there are so few cleo
| tons of importance to be held this
J November. there has been great
| amount Of campaigning during the
| Summer and Fall for elections which
are to be held next year. The Repub-
! leans have a real fight on to retain
! control of the Senate in the 1926 cleo
| lions and candidates for reelection in
many of the States have worked like
beavers to strengthen their fences.
| There is promise of a real row in
! Pennsylvania next year. when Gov.
Pinchot is expected to make the race
! for the senatorial nomination against
! Senator George Wharton Pepper.
| The leadership of Secretary Mellon of
the Treasury Department in Pennsyl-
vania is at stake, for Gov. Pinchot
has attacked Mr.. Melons record
again and again, principally on the
| dry" issue.
/ Wnlle several vacancies nave occur
red in the Senate since the last Con-
4, gress, they have been filled by ap-
pointment, except in the case of Wis
| conSin, where Robert NJ. La Toilette
! jr.. running as a Progressive Repub-
lican to fill his fathers seat, swept
aside the regular Republicans in an
! overwhelming victory. In North Da-
! kota the vacancy caused by the death
of Senator Ladd has not been filled
and will not be filled until next year
Gov. Sorlie, Non-P Partisan Lacquer
elected as a Republican, failed to call
a special election and he has not APP
pointed because he has not the power
to All vacancies in the Senate.
The Republicans will have IL work
ing majority in the Senate at the
coming session, Notwithstanding the
! fact that Progressive bloc exists
which may desert the administration
AT any time. The makeup of the
Senate will be 80 Republicans. 3!
| Democrats. l transatlantic and
| vacancy (from North Dakota)