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Elections held today in various U.S. states focus on local issues with minimal national impact, including Philadelphia mayoralty contest between J. Hampton Moore and Harry A. Mackey, Kentucky referendum on pari-mutuel machines, and New York proposal to extend governor's term to four years, opposed by Governor Smith.
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IN MANY STATES
POLLS FOR MOST PART HAVE FEW ISSUES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
By The Associated Press.
J. Hampton Moore mayoralty candidate endeavored to defeat the Vare political machine at Philadelphia and a lively contest over the proposed removal of pari-mutuel machines from the race tracks of Kentucky furnished the particular points of interest in elections today in the scattered states throughout the country.
For the most part, only local issues with but a minimum effect upon national political affairs lay before the people.
These included the election of two governors, three members of the lower chamber of congress, numerous municipal and state officials and decisions by referendum on enactments of state legislatures.
The most important of the last, perhaps, was in New York, where the voters were called upon to determine the fate of a proposal that the term of the governor be extended from two years to four, with the gubernatorial campaigns falling in the same years as presidential elections. Governor Smith has been active in its opposition.
The Philadelphia mayoralty campaign has been bitterly fought. Losing at the Republican primaries to Harry A. Mackey, but drawing much encouragement from the number of ballots he polled, Moore, a former mayor, entered the lists of the general election as an independent candidate. Mackey has the backing of the Vare organization.
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Elections in scattered states throughout the country feature local issues including Philadelphia mayoralty contest where independent candidate J. Hampton Moore challenges Harry A. Mackey backed by Vare organization; Kentucky referendum on removing pari-mutuel machines from race tracks; New York referendum to extend governor's term from two to four years, opposed by Governor Smith; election of two governors, three Congress members, municipal and state officials.