Show i GRAfT ISSUE In Elections All Over United i States Tomorrow San Fran Francisco Francisco Francisco cisco New York and Philadelphia Phila Philadelphia delphia Get Most Attention OVERTHROW OF TAMMANY IS PREDICTED PREDICT D BY MANY Campaign in Califor California California nia Metropolis Me Is Watched With Interest by Reformers i Opposed to His Methods t TOM JOHNSON RUNNING New York Oct 81 Elections will be beheld beheld held beld Tuesday in many states and cities Three states will elect governor governors and full state tickets namely Massachusetts Rhode v Island and Virginia New Jer Jersey Jersey Jersey sey will elect both branches of the legis legislature legislature legislature lature Pennsylvania will elect a state treasurer an auditor general and judge jUd 9 of at the supreme court Nebraska will will elect two justices of the supreme court and three university regents repents In point of ot Interest the municipal cam eam campaigns campaigns of New York fork Philadelphia and San Francisco far tar exceed that of the state contests Li Ii l each of ot these municipal municipal municipal pal contests the reform question Is a dom dominant domInant dominant issue Practically all aU of the con contests tests state and municipal are on local Issues with no national questions In Involved involved Involved Massachusetts Tha Massachusetts cam campaign campaign campaign has been short and sharp Gov Governor Governor Governor Eben S Draper Republican Is seek seeking seekIng seekIng ing reelection against James H Vahey Democrat The other candidates for gov governor governor governor are Daniel A White Socialist John A Nicholls Prohibition and Moritz F Ruther Rather Rhode Island The same candidates for tor governor who opposed each other last year again head the ticket this year Governor Aran J Pothier being the Re Republican publican nominee and Olney Arnold the Democratic The other candidates for governor are Willis H White Prohibition Prohibition Prohibition Frederick Hurst Socialist and Richard Holland Whirlwind Campaign New York Chief interest in New York has centered In the whirlwind municipal campaign of New York City which has been exceptionally bitter With three mayoralty candidates In the field Wil William liam Ham J Gaynor GaDor the Democratic and Tammany nominee Otto T Bannard Re Republican Republican Republican publican standard bearer and William K R Hearst leading the Civic CIlc Alliance party lines have been shattered and political managers are guessing at pluralities for tor forthe forthe the candidates The Tho issues are the overthrow of Tam Tammany Tammany Tammany many Hall and aud an effort of ot the Republican Republican Republican lican and Civic Alliance forces to cap capture capture capture ture control of ot the board of ot estimates estimate and apportionment which will have bae control con control control of ot vast outlays of ot money for sub subways subways subways ways and other large money undertakings undertakings ings Pennsylvania In Pennsylvania the chief Interest In is In Philadelphia where the re reform reform form torm clement element is endeavoring to break the power of the local Republican organization tion The reformers under the title of the William Penn party have again placed D Clarence GIbboney head of the Philadelphia Law and Order society in inthe Inthe inthe the field for tor district attorney against Samuel P Rotan Republican GIbboney is also on the Demo Democratic Democratic Democratic cratic ticket but the Democrats as an on organization have not held 1 eld a meeting in his interest nor has bas the organization of ot officially tidally endorsed him The IThe street car question Is a leading issue Pennsylvania Penns elects a treasurer auditor general and judge of the supreme court The candi candidates candidates candidates dates for state treasurer are J A Stover er Republican George Georgo W Kipp Demo Democrat Democrat Democrat crat Frank Fish Prohibition and Ed Edward Edward Edward ward Moore Socialist New Jersey The fact that the eight state senators to be chosen in New Jersey Jer Jersey J r sey soy this year will each have a vote at atthe atthe the tho session of 1911 for tor a United States senator to succeed Senator John Keene adds about the only statewide interest to the election Virginia The campaign in Virginia has been marked by unusual apathy The of ot offices offices flees to be filled are gover genor or lieutenant governor members of ot the general as assembly assembly assembly and other oUter state offices The Democratic ticket Is headed by Judge William Hodges Mann a Confederate vet veteran veteran et eran who stands on a platform which advocates local option also favored by bythe bythe bythe the Republicans The Republican nomi nominee nominee nominee nee for governor is William P Kent who resigned as American consul to Guate Guatemala Guatemala Guatemala mala to make the race The Socialist Labor Laflor party has nominated A K Ben Bennett Bennett Bennett nett Maryland The paramount Issue In hi Maryland la is the tho disfranchising amendment to tho the state constitution ad Continued on page pago 7 I CITY GRAFT LIVE ISSUE Continued from Page 1 t designed to eliminate the ne negro neg gro gre g ai as a a political factor t The amendment contains alternative aler provisions by which the citizen may register r and vote First Is the le grandfathers clause providing for tor those thos who voted prior to 1869 and ad their descendants secondly a clause whereby a citizen naturalized prior to Nov 2 1909 1 and ad their descendants de may register and vote vot All Al not included Include within these thes clauses must either pay taxes on property assessed at 5 or pass an educational test teSt The negro having had bad no vote in Maryland Marland prior to 1869 the educational test applies apples almost exclusively to him Tom Johnson Running Ohio Municipal and ad township officers will wi be elected In every ever community In Ohio The Issues are ae local loa although the temperance temprance question queston is a factor In sev several several seVeral eral cities cites The mayoralty contest In Cleveland Is attracting attention Mayor Tom L L I Johnson Johnn is a candidate for a fifth fUth time on the Democratic ticket He HeIs HeIs Heis Is opposed by County Recorder er Herman C Baehr the Republican candidate Indiana The temperance question queston Is prominent ent In the municipal campaign campag In Indianapolis The primary elections at Indianapolis resulted In candidates for mayor being bing nominated by byboth byboth byboth both Republicans and Democrats Democrat The Republican candidate Is Samuel Lewis Shank and his Democratic opponent is Is i iCharles Charles A A Gum Guss Guss Nebraska No important issues are at stake in Nebraska The only state officers off cern cers to be b elected are ae three justices of ot the supreme court two university re regents regent regents gents gent for the full ful term and and one to fill filla fi a vacancy The nominees for supreme court judges are ar Fusion Fion John B Barnes Bares Jacob Fawcett and Samuel H Sedge Sedgewick Sedgewick Sedgewick wick Democrat and Populist James R It R Dea Benjamin F Goode and John Sul Sullivan Sullivan livan California With the continuance of the bribery br er ry and graft gf prosecutions the voters of San Francisco will wl go to Tues Tuesday Tuesday ues day for the first municipal campaign held hel since the new direct primary law Was enacted Interest t in the election electon hinges hinge largely upon the district though the same Issue Isue Is injected Into the mayoralty fight fight There are two nominees for district distrct attorney Francis Frncis J 3 Heney Hene chosen by the Demo Democrats Democrate crate in direct primary and Charles Fick Fickert ert Republican and Union Labor nomi nominee nominee nee The mayoralty fight Is between William Crocker Republican P H Mc Me McCarthy Carthy Carth Union Labor and Dr Pr T B Le Leland L Leland land Democrat Charges of ot corporation domination and bad faith have been hurled burled right night and left hot personalities bave have been ben exchanged between candidates and the usual division of public sentiment on strictly party lines Is noticeable by Its absence absence The graft ga prose prosecution prosecution cution cuton advocates have been ben divided in their support support some of the papers paper pick pickIng pickIng picking Ing Crocker and Heney Haney for their ticket and others oter Leland Lland and Honey Heney Hene |