The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-04
TUESDAYS ELECTIONS.

Tuesday will be big day polite
ally. There will be elections IN
six States, as follows: Maryland,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, New
York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin,
Governors being chosen in some and
minor State officers or legislators in
others. The chief interest centres
in Massachusetts and New York.
The Last named will show by the
vote thrown how she will 60 In the
more important contest OF next
year. Should the Excelsior state
on Tuesday give the Democratic
ticket anything like the majority
that the party managers are claim
ing, she will surely throw her thlr~
ty-fve electoral votes for the DEM
ocratic Presidential candidate IN
1881. which will carry Mr.. Tilden
into the White House. Which,
ever party wins next year
must do so by New York's vote.
Hence The interest and Importance
attaching to the voting in that
State on the 9th. In Massachusetts,
the contest lies between Ben Butler
on one side and the reputable ele-
ments of society on the other, with
the probabilities largely on the side
of the latter. Nobody can find fault
with Buffers administration as
Governor. It has been able, honest
and progressive. IL is doubtful if
there is a man in the Old Bay State
who can do better in the Office than
he has done, or than he would con-
tinue to do were he reelected; but
Massachusetts people, or very
large percentage of them, feel that
Ben is plebian and vulgar, while
their chief executive should be blue
blooded and aristocratic. He ap-
peals to the laboring element Of the
| community for support, which is an
| extremely unpopular thing for a
| Mas sachusetts man to do. That
State is not Democratic. 1t does
not belong to the party and has
| rarely been carried by it. i Last year,
| through peculiar and exceptional
combination of circumstances, the
"old man" succeeded in having him.
self elected by a majority of
| nearly $4,000. He did this by hard
work and the most vigorous cam.
paigning that had ever been done in
the State. Circumstances are diff
| ferent this year; the feeling has
been intensified that Massachusetts
| is disgraced by having Butler fol
Governor the Democratic party
while it renominated him regularly
is by no means enthusiastic in the
matter of his election, and con
siderable portion of it is openly and
actively opposing him through the
press and on the stump. The Green
hackers, who supported him before
and are doing so again, have
dwindled into insigni6cance, ane
the Republicans are working harder
and better than ever before to bring
about his defeat. The outlook fol
Butler is not at all promising; OF
the contrary it is gloomy in the ex'
IRENE.
| So far as the county at large i!
concerned, the election or defeat OF
Butler can cut no figure. Massachu'
| sets will certainly be Republican
in the Presidential contest, howeve
she may vote on local questions
The idea that some appear to en-
terrain that Buffers election
this year would make him tn
Democratic candidate next year, i
ridiculous. The Democrats will no
nominate a man whose defeat /
certain, as Buffers would be. Henc
the voting in Massachusetts, OF
Tuesday will be interesting only II
, a personal sense.
The elections in the other state
| mentioned will Of course result 9
= usual, Maryland going Democratic
! Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wis
. consin Republican.