River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-07-20
Their Significance.

election great slgnlncance has usually
been attached to the so-called fall
elections. And many are estimating
their Importance in the coming con.
test. But, for our own part, we see
but little in them in this contest,
which, by the way, is a little peculiar
in some of it's characteristics.
The first of the fall elections will be
held in Kentucky, on the first Monday
in August, a day not far distant.
This state is thoroughly democratic,
and, of course, the result will have no
meaning, any way.
The election in Alabama takes place
on Thursday following the Kentucky
election. This state formerly held its
state election in November, and its
time of holding elections has been
changed since 1872.
North Carolina has also changed the
time of its state elections, and now,
instead Of holding it in August, as in
1872, it takes place in November.
This state fred the first decisive gun
in the Greeley campaign, a feat which
cannot be reserved for it this year.
California is always a doubtful state,
and far more importance is attached
to the result in this state, than in eli.
ther of the two first mentioned. The
election will take place on the first
Wednesday in September. Exactly
what will be the issue there, it is inn
possible to predict. 1t may be nation
al politics, or it may be the Chinese Ia
Dor question. Whether the Chinaman
is a human being or not, is, in short,
one question yet unsettled in Califor-
mia.
And next comes Vermont, whose
"Freemen's Meeting" has come on the
first Tuesday IN September, from time
immemorial. Since Vermont is the
''star that never sets, and since her
light never grows dim, the result will
have no significance whatever, unless
the republican majority should be un.
small.
On the succeeding Monday the state
Of Maine will vote for state officers,
with no uncertainty whatever, it be-
ing overwhelmingly republican.
But it is often said that the October
elections tell the story" Yet even
these may not possess their usual sig
nifcance, since the coming contest is,
Of necessity, to be settled by the vote
Of very few still uncertain states.
Georgia is the first of the October
elections, coming as it does on the first
Wednesday. 1t is claimed by, and
generally conceded to, the democrats.
But should it go republican, the fact
would give tremendous impetus to
the republican ball.
On the second Tuesday in October
comes the election in West Virginia.
1t is conceded to the democrats, and
but a general upsetting of af-
fairs can carry it for the republicans.
Ohio-always the noisy, impetuous
state that she is, will be more bolster
Gus this year than ever before. The
republicans, with a home candidate,
against the democrats, with their rag
baby, so-called, will doubtless pile up
a rousing republican majority; and,
since this is the result anticipated. it
will have little or no significance with
the "unterriied.
The Indiana election, which takes
place on the same day, possesses far
more significance than that of Ohio.
This is the home Of Governor Hen
iricks-the stronghold of what may
here be dignifed as the greenback mot
rag baby moyement--the center Of a
powerful political element, which is
more or less infused into every western
state--a sentiment not exactly in ac-
cord with the principles enunciated by
the platform of either of the two
great contending parties. Hence. as
goes this element in Indiana, so it
goes all over the west; and, il is not
that the result in Wiscon-
sin will be largely affected by the re-
suit Of the October election in Indiana.
The election in Nebraska, will have
no effect upon the presidential elec-
ton, since the tide will be so heavily
set 10y the time it arrives, that nothing
can check it.
The election in Texas will take place
on the first Monday in Noyember--too
late even to be reported.
How far the greenback element will
reach in this election, or which way
it will be cast, it is impossible to pre-.
dict at the present time. On the
whole, we deem this the most doubt.
full presidential contest which has
been known in the United States since
its organization as q nation, and
there is not a man living who, to-day,
has well.grounded opinion as to the
result.
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