The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-10-30
THIRTY-THREE STATES TO
ELECT GOVERNORS
Voters Will Choose So U. s. Senators
And 485 Congressman

thirty-three Governors, thirty-fve
Senators and 435 members of the
House of representatives. not a
President.
So far as the Presidency is con-
cerned, they will appoint" SCI cleo
tors who will mark the actual cleo
ton ballots at meetings in their re-
spective States on December IA. The
new Senate and House, which will
convene January S, must meet joint
ly the next day to count the ballots
and declare President any candidate
with a majority. The regular con-
vening day is January 3, but that
falls on Sunday and Congress pas
sed a resolution changing the meet
ing dates.
On the twentieth will come the
first January Inauguration in history
The change from the fourth of March
was by the twentieth or lame duck"
amendment.
Results To Be Watched
Nationally, the results will be
watched for any indication of party
realignments. Both Democrats and
Republicans are divided. The New
Deal has split former political allies.
Organized labor leaders hope to lay
the groundwork for Labor party in
l194O. The new Union party strug-
giles for national foothold, and 9th
er independent groups are at work in
individual Congressional districts.
OF the forty-eight State Govern
ments, thirty-seven now are Demo-
cratic, nine Republican, enc Farme'-
Labor and one Progressive. OF the
States to elect Governors, twenty-six
are Democratic, five Republican, one
Farmer-Labor and one Progressive.
Maine returned to Republican adj
ministration in September.
Seventy Democratic Senators
In the present Senate, where forty
nine is a majority, Democrats hold
seventy seats, Republicans twenty
three, Farmer-Laborites two and the
Progressives one. Ordinarily a third
Of the Senate is up for election each
.wo years. Three deaths brought the
contests this year to thirty-five.
These places now are listed: Demo-
cratic twenty-three, Republican elev-
en-, Farmer-Labor one. Due to the
number of terms expiring in the solid
South, the Democrats already appear
assured of at least fifty-seven seats,
or a majority of eight. A number OF
senatorships at issue outside the
South also are Democratic at present.
The full House membership will be
elected, as is required every two
years. The party standings now are:
Democrats 308, Republicans 100,
Progressives seven, Farmer-Labor
three, vacancies seventeen. Eighty
per cent of the incumbents won re-
nomination. Both major parties
claim confidence that majority, or
218, will be theirs.
Six Running For President
The one question on which every
voter will have voice is to which of
these six tickets the Washington
Government should be entrusted:
Democratic, Franklin D. Roose-
welt and John N. Garner; Republi-
can, Alfred M. Landon and Frank
Knox; Union, William Lemke and
Thomas C. O'Brien; Socialist, Nor
man Thomas and George A. Nelson;
Prohibition, D. Leigh Colvin and
Claude A. Wotson; Communist, Earl
w. Browder and James w. Ford,
Negro.
Most States will have long lists of
the electors names on the ballot,
some only the names of the candi-
dates themselves. Such is the 1886
method for fulfilling the stipulation
laid down by the Constitution in
l17S7, leach State shall appoint :. a
number of electors equal to the
whole number of Senators and Rep
resentatives to which the State may
be entitled in Congress.
Eligibles AS Electors
No man holding public office can
be an elector. The original idea was
to leave them free to name him they
thought best fitted for Chief Execu-
tive. Technically, they still are free
agents. But in actually, as it became
even in those early years, each cleo
tor is honor bound to mark his bal
lot for the ticket of the party that
named him. AS body, they are re-
ferred to as 1.-THE Electoral College"
an unofficial term that came into use
in 1921.
The law enacted to bring the cleo
ton machinery into gear with the
Lame Duck" Amendment sets their