The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-08
STATE ELECTIONS.

To-day will be an interesting one politi-
cally in several of the states. viz; Massa-
chuSetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia,
Mississippi, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Col
orado. In Massachusetts, there is to be
elected governor and other state officers
and the legislature. Connecticut elects the
same and part of its senate. New York
elects secretary of state, and four other
state officers, its legislature, four congress
men, and an associate judge of the court of
appeals. The Keystone state elects state
treasurer and county officers. New Jersey
elects its house of representatives and part
oft senate. Maryland elects comptrol-
Ter house of delegates and hafits senate
Virginia and Mississippi each elect
a governor, the legislature and
other state officers. Wisconsin elects a
governor and part of its assembly Colo
RADIO elects a supreme court judge. The
chief interest in to-day's work centres in
New York, Virginia and Wisconsin, as the
results in the other states are less doubtful.
The platform adopted by the New York
democratic convention at Albany, on
the 18th of last month
was one on which any true
honest democrat could well stand. 1t
enunciated principles of sound government
and correct policy. In local matters its
chief features were the iavoring of such a re-
form by the legislative enactment, as well
as by administrative action, in the civil ser
vice of the country as will substitute for the
present periodical scramble for spoils wise
system of appointment and promotion by
which the incumbency of subordinate offices
shall be regulated by law and depend only
upon capacity and character, and that no
assessments shall be levied upon public Off
GERS for political purposes. The public wei
fare, it says, demands that the various ques-
tons relating to character monopolies
and the methods of transportation should
be met and decided, and we are in favor of
the adoption Of measures to restrict the
growing power of such monopoles. They
should be subject to the supervision of COM
mssioners established by public auth
All unjust determinations, it also says. in
the transportation of passengers and mer-
chandise should be prohibited The
charges of corporations which have taken
the property of private citizens for public
use should be limited to the cost of service
with a reasonable profit, instead of the mer
cenary exaction Of "al tho traffic will bear"
The convention also favored the free canal
system. Garfield carried New York by
q 600 plurality. In Virginia there is much
feeling and much excitement over
the issues involved. Mr.. John W. Daniels,
one of the most brilliant and powerful
of orators in the old mother of states, heads
the party of honest policy, while the OPP
posing or re-adjusters and republicans and
Malone cohorts lead by Cameron, favor the
reputation policy, or the sealing down OF
the public debt of the state. In the interest
of the latter federal favor, republican
moneys and official patronage have
been freely bestowed. Only the
other day in Louisville, Kentucky.
the government employees were assessed at
So piece for the Virginia campaign. And
thus 1t has been throughout all the states.
Both parties claim the election by decided
majoritcs. Wisconsin is decidedly repub-
lican as against democratic opposition
alone. But u new element is in the field in
that state, which has largely unsettled the
confidence of the republicans, and that is
the Prohibition movement. The supporters
of this will most likely and have generally
determined to ally themselves with the
democrats, as did the g.ecnbackers in 1877.
1t will, however, be considerably weakened
this season by the recent flank movement
made by the legislature of that state,
whereby any comm unity, under q local OPP
ton act, may elect an anti-liccnse board
and thus prohibit the sale of liquor. In
1870 the republican vote for governor was
l00,5S5, the democratic 5000, the green
back 1906, and the prohibition vote 3S7.
In total vote of lS3,0O5, the republicans
had clear majority over all of l2,06J. In
the legislature there were % republicans
and $ democratsin the senate, and 20 repub-
licans, y democrats, . greenbackers and
independent in the house. In 1880 the re-
publican vote was Ia 400; democratic, Ill.,
$40; greenback, 1856 prohibition, 90. Re-
publican majority over all, 2l,6O5. Some
general outside interest likewise attaches
TO the returns from Pennsylvania, as
Wolfe, the independent candidate for
treasurer, has made vigorous, gallant
fight against republican ringism and boss
ism as conferred in the Cameron clique, and
is being sustained by some of the flower of
Pennsylvania chivalry, These are about
the main features and issues of to-day, and
the final summing up will let us know how
the congressional house and senate will
stand
THE TRANSIT OF NIECURY