Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-16
THE ELECTIONS OF 1924.


Owing to the present anomalous con-
dition of national politics, the outcome
of the State elections this year will indi-
cate very accurately the character an re-
suit of the presidential campaign of 1894.
There will be elements that will enter
into State politics this year, and influ-
ences brought to bear on the policy of
existing political organizations, that will
make the present one of the most excit-
ing and eventful years in the political
history of the country. The great
body of the people of the ma
ton are ripe for a peaceable
revolution-a change in the present
loose and corrupt method Of administer
ing the affairs of the government. Plat
forms framed for the campaign of 1860
or 1865 will not answer for the contest of
1884. The labor, manufacturing and
commercial interests of the country are
FESTIVE under the unequal burthens i'm
posed by the present vicious system of
national legislation. The monied inter-
est, having taken advantage of the oppor-
tunities presented during the civil war to
gorge to repletion, and alarmed lest the
present mania for speculation and rail-
road construction shall lead to financial
revulsion--is now casting about for such
an administration of the affairs of the ma
ton as will give relief to the present
paralyzed condition of the commercial
and industrial interests of the country
give stability to values, and promise of
return to the economic and honest prin-
ciples on which the government was con-
Quoted by the trainers of the constitution.
Rhode Island will lead off next month
in the political contests to be fought dur
ing the present year, at which time a
governor, State officers, and State
legislature will be chosen. Although
this State has usually given large
Republican majority yet the past is at
the present time no criterion by which to
Judge the future. Indeed the Democratic
gain last year of 1000 votes over the year
of 1880, would seem to indicate that the
reform movement had already set in in
earnest in that hitherto Republican
stronghold. Oregon follows Rhode Island
on the 9Th of June, with an election for
State officers. AS Thayer, the present
governor, is Democrat, and the Repub-
lican ticket was elected in 1850 by plu-
rality of only 400 votes, present indica-
tions all point to re-elec-
ton of the Democratic State
ticket, and the return of Grover
to the United States senate. In August
Kentucky elects clerk of the court of
appeals and Alabama full state and leg
islative ticket. There is no likelihood of
change being made in the present poll
teal complexion of the politics of either
of these states. Tennessee during the
same month will elect full state ticket,
and legislature that will elect two
United States senators to succeed Morgan
and Harris. The Democratic gain in
this state this year will no doubt be lar
ger than it has been for many years prev
ious, owing to the Republicans being
handicapped with the scheme to repudi-
ate the obligations of the state.
The fall elections begin with Maine on
the 18th of September, when governor
and legislature are to be elected. The
legislature will elect Senator to succeed
Frye The four Congressman to be elect
ed under the terms of the new apportion-
ment bill will be elected on general
ticket, and as this leaves the Greenback-
ers the alternative of voting with either
OF the existing parties, or else throw their
votes away, there is no doubt that Plais-
ted, Fusionist, and present governor Of
the State will throw the strength of his
administration with the Democrats and
defeat the Republican ticket. As Con.