Show TELLER IS THE CHOICE No Doubt ButThat He Will Succeed Suc-ceed Himself VESTS GOOD CHANCES THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE WILL MEET TODAY Senator Perkins a Candidate For I Reelection Sam Shortridge Also In the ArenaNorth Carolina Fight Will Be a Hot One Palmers Pal-mers Successor a Problem in Illinois Kyle Hen in South Dakota Da-kota Hopeful Denver Jan IThe Colorado legislature legis-lature which convenes in this city Monday Mon-day Jan 1 will elect a United States senator to succeed Henry M Teller The election however is not creating creat-ing the usual interest as it is generally conceded in political circles that Mr Teller will succeed himself and that there will be no seribua opposition this t-his reelection Vests Good Chances I St Louis Jan Political interest hereabouts in the coming biennial I session of the state legislature centers upon the election of a United States senator to succeed George G Vest There is a large Democratic majority on joint ballot Mr Vest is a candidate candi-date for reelection Half a dozen names have been suggested as contestants con-testants but none is considered as a serious opponent of Mr Vest and at the present outlook it is safe to say that he will succeed himself The much discussed measure known as the fellow servant bill and a serious attempt at-tempt to eradicate or abolish race tracks are matters receiving most attention at-tention teton Will Be a Hot One Raleigh N C Jan 1 Prominen I Republicans from all parts of the state are to participate in the coming senatorial sena-torial fight Interest is greater than I evei before in a similar contest Republicans Re-publicans here all declare for Pritchard The secretary of the Republican state r committee arrived here this afternoon to conduct Pritchards campaign He says there are 72 Republicans in the I legislature and that 58 is a majority Priichard lacks 1 votes The Populists claim 60 members of 170 composing the I legislature Palmers Successor Springfield I Jan IThe Illinois legislature will convene Jan 6 The most important business before it and the topic which is at present allab sorbing Is the election of a United States senator to succeed Hon John 11 Palmer There are six candidates William E Mason Clarke E Carr ex minister to Denmark and for sometime some-time speaker of the lower house John M Hamilton of Chicago Samuel W Allerton the millionaire pork packer also of Chicago Congressman Robert R Hitt and Martin B Madden a Chicago alderman Perkins and Shortridge I San Francisco Jan IThe legislature I legisla-ture which meets in Sacramento on Monday is largely Republican in complexion j com-plexion That party has 74 in the two houses 46 in the assembly and 28 in I the senate United States Senator Perkins will be a candidate for reelection I reelec-tion He is considered strong mainly because the opposition has not declared I de-clared itself centered for any one man Another strong candidate Is Samuel 11 Shortridge a leading attorney and brother of C M Shortridge of the San Francisco Call and San Jose Mercury I Others mentioned incidentally are At torneyGeneral Fitzgerald Irving 11 Scott Colonel C F Crocker Senator Perkins has been telegraphed to come home to attend to nis light The leeris I lature may organize on Monday and if so will ballot on Tuesday of the following week otherwise the balloting ballot-ing will go rver for two weeks There will be no objection made to Jeter per formining the duties of lieutenantgov ernor though it is understood that he will have no voice as to patronage Thomas Flint of San Benito will undoubtedly un-doubtedly be elected president of the senate and Frank L Coombs of Napa I will be chosen speaker of the assembly without opposition Indianas Legislature I I I Indianapolis Jan IThe legIslature will meet for organization next Thursday Thurs-day morning and there is a strong movement on foot to hold the Republican Republic-an joint caucus to settle the senatorial succession that same evening though the election does not occur until January j Jan-uary 19 The Republicans have a majority I ma-jority of 20 on joint ballot and the I fight will be settled within the caucus The candidates are Charles W Fairbanks Fair-banks who received the complimentary vote of the Republicans four Republcans years ago when Turpie was elected R W Mc Keen expresident of the Vandalia system General Lew Wallace and Judge H S Taylor Mr Fairbanks I has been in the fiela a number of years and Mr McKean a year and a half General Wallace and Judge Taylor hut recently permitted the use of their I names The supporters of Mr Fairbanks Fair-banks claim enough votes to nominate Ion I-on the first ballot in the caucus Mrs Gougar Bounced Chicago Jan Members of the executive ex-ecutive and central committees of theN the-N Party who have been in ses sion at the Sherman House for two days wound up their affairs tonight While the fusion of the National party with the old Prohibition party is deemed improbable L B Logan Henry R Roser and J M Dunlap were I appointed a special committee to use every effort to unite all the true reformers re-formers Into one body if such can be effected without the sacrifice of principle I prin-ciple to the National party Mrs Helen 11 Gougar who has always al-ways been prominent in the party and I who was a member of both the executive exec-utive and central committees was asked to resign through a resolution presented by D J Thomas The reason rea-son for the action of the committee in adopting such a resolution was that Mrs Gougar gave her support to William Will-iam J Bryan in the recent campaign Mrs Julia P Greene of Adrian Mich was appointed in her stead Resolutions calling for a fund of 310 000 to defray the expenses of the national na-tional committee were adopted Kyle Men Hopeful Huron S D Jan lMan Populist members of the legislature gathered today to discuss the senatorial situation situa-tion The Kyle men I ere so hopeful of the outcome that they expressed their entire willingness to go Into caucus < In North Dakota I Bismarck N D Jan INot more than a dozen members of the legislature legislat-ure are here The senatorial situation is this Hansbr ugh has a far greater following than any other candidate but he lacks about ten votes of a majority ma-jority of all the Republicans in the leg islature I looks like no caucus along a-long fight in the legislature and the final defeat of Hansbrough e |