Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1919 — ELECTION TESTS IN FOUR STATES [ARTICLE]

ELECTION TESTS IN FOUR STATES

GOVERNORS TO BE ELECTED AND NATIONAL ISSUES „ INVOLVED. Elections for governor will be held in several eastern states on Tuesday. The national issues are involved in most. The contests are: In Maryland. Harry W. Nice, district attorney of Baltimore county, is the repubcandidate against Attorney General Albert C. Ritchie, democrat. The state is regarded as democratic and the republicans hope to win it over. In Kentucky. James D. Black, democrat, had a hard fight to hold the state in the democratic column against Edwin H. Morrow, a young and popular republican, who came within 472 votes of beating A. O. Stanley in 1915 for the governorship. National issues have been freely injected into the campaign. • In Masiachusetts. Governor Coolidge, barring entirely unexpected developments, ought to be re-elected as a republican against Richard H.’ Long, democrat, who has made the issue the reinstatement of the striking policemen discharged after they had walked out from duty in Boston. In New Jersey. Prohibition is the outstanding issue of the governorship race between Edward I. Edwards, democrat, and Newton A. K. Bugbee, republican. Edwards is opposed to the prohibition amendment, and Bugbee favors its enforcement. New Jersey refused the ratify the prohibition amendment and the democrats are hopeful of winning the state house back from the republicans on the issue.