Show A CAMPAIGN YEAR EAR that this is campaign year is evidenced by the activity of various state political committees which are issuing calls for county district and state conventions apportioning the delegates and making other necessary arrangements that are preliminary to every political primary and election campaign practically every state will hold bold state primaries or conventions and state elections this year in addition to state elections the entire membership of the house of 0 representatives and 33 out of 0 96 united states senators are to be ba elected the majority of states hold bold statewide state wide primaries for the nomination of united states senators both parties holding their nominating election on the same day the first state to hold such a primary is indiana which on may 2nd and will nominate republican and democratic candidates bior for the united states senate the senator whose term expires in ill indiana is harry S new republican senator new will be a candidate in the republican primaries for tile the nomination to succeed himself on may pennsylvania holds its state primary at which time both republicans and democrats will nominate two candidates for the united states senate this is made necessary by the recent deaths of 0 both senators knox and penrose whose places are now being temporarily filled by gubernatorial nat orial appointments pending the selection of their successors by the people at the general election next net november alio tl term 0 of senator knox would have expired march 1923 and undoubtedly doub edl be v would have had no opposition in tile the republican primaries this year to be his own successor senator penrose was elected for six years last november so that whoever is elected to succeed him will serve practically a complete term the following are the dates of statewide state wide primaries in other states at which candidates for the united states senate will be nominated together with the names and political affiliation of the present incumbent in nearly every case the present incumbent will be a candidate in the primary within his own party for the nomination to succeed himself june 20 maine frederick hale republican minnesota frank B kellogg republican june 28 north dakota porter J mccumber republican august 1 missouri james A reed democrat west virginia howard sutherland republican august S ohio atlee pomerene Pora erene democrat wyoming john B geu gen drick Jemo democrat crat august IS nebraska gilbert M hitchcock democrat august 29 california hiram W johnson republican montana henry L myers democrat september 5 nevada 11 key pittman democrat wisconsin robert M la follette republican september 12 arizona henry F ashurst democrat massachusetts henry cabot lodge republican michigan charles T townsend to rep republican ab vermont carroll S page republican washington miles poindexter republican september 19 new york william M calder republican september 27 new jersey joseph S Freling huysen republican the following states do not hold primaries but will hold state conventions vent ions at a time to be fixed later by the party committees connecticut which selects a senator to succeed georgo george P mclean republican delaware which selects a senator to succeed T coleman du pont republican new mexico which selects a senator to succeed A A jones democrat rhode island which selects a senator to succeed peter G gerry democrat tennessee Tenness be which selects a senator to succeed kenneth mckellar McK eIlar democrat band and utah which selects a successor to william H king democrat |