BITTER CONTESTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16492, 9 November 1927, Page 7

BITTER CONTESTS

U.S. STATE ELECTIONS VARIETY OF ISSUES SOME PERSONAL ATTACKS. /Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received Nov. 0, 10 a.in.) NEW YORK, Nov. 7. 'Hie elections will take place in the various Stales to-morrow, the chief interest. centreing in the eastern section where the issues, though local, have been bitterly contested. ■s. New York State will elect 59 Mayors and the State Assembly. Governor Al. Smith find Mr. Roosevelt. a son of tlie former President, have enlivened the campaign by a, personal quarrel, the lntlor charging ,t he Oovernor with countenancing gambling in the State capital. It is believed that if a Democratic Assembly is returned it will be indicative of how the State will vote in the Presidential contest in 1920.

A sharp contest is raging in Kentucky over the Governorship, The Democratic nominee opposes horse rating, and organised Labor is therefore supporting Air. Sampson, the Republican nominee. New Jersey elects 60 members of the Assembly and seven Senators, and il is believed to be a foregone conclusion that the State Legislature, which how is preponderantly Republican, will remain so.

Detroit is torn by a vituperative campaign for the city Mayoralty, Mayor Smith, who seeks re-election favoring (he v non-enforcement of prohibition, while liis opponent, Air. Lodge, Ims declined to announce his policy. The Ku Klux Klan and the churches are taking an active part in the Philadelphia municipal contest, which is between the Republican candidate for the Mayoralty, Air. Afaekay, and the Independent Citizens' candidate, Air. Aloore. The issue is the honesty ol party organisations.