The morning times., 1895-11-04
TREhblE IN THE BALAHCE
States Which Politicians are
Watching With Anxious Eyes.
WHAT THE VOTE MEANS
Villas Issues at Stake I'm Many States.
BOssism the Question In Two at
Least-Kentucky's Queer Position
Oh the Silver Question-where the
Vote VIII Be Close.

Elections will tomorrow be held in twelve
| States and one territory, seven choosing
| governors, as follows: Iowa, Kentucky,
| Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey. Ohio,
and Utah.
As a general thing but little Importance
| attaches 10 what are dcsig mated as off
year" elections, except as they may serve
| as straws to indicate the direction i'll which
the political wind Is blowing. But the con
| test of ballots tomorrow will be notable
exception in this respect, as IL means life or
death to bossisnl in New York, Kentucky
and Maryland.
In the former State a desperate struggle
has been made, The excise laws being used
| by both sides as a sort of punching bag.
Senator Hill, undaunted by his overwhelming
defeat or last year, has again come TO the
front, and once more the value Of bis
Presidential stock Is estimated according
TO his abiiltyA+o maintain his supremacy in
controlling the State machine. In addi-
ton, the rehabilitation Of Tanmany has
been promIncni factor and acted as clog
upon party success.
WHERE THE SCALES TREMBLE.
According the the ante-electiOn indlca-
tons it has been accepted as strong prob
ability that the Democrats would carry
New York city while losing the state But
within the last niacty-siX hours the Rcpub-
liCdns have been IHrown into that COnGIlion
of apprehension which brHtus experienced
on the night preceding the battle u ftIiilpi,
whena 4 speCjer appeared and announced that
on the morrow would be oyerthrown-
TnlsfeciIng o. GIsuay has been oCCasloned
by the brief telegram which President Cicve-
land forwarded tu eX- Representative Tracy,
of Albany, endorsing the party platform and
hoping for stiUeess- The argument is Of
fered that this endorsement would never
have been given unless the President was
reasonably assured Of victory and wished
to obtain whatever degree of credit he
could Tor its consummatlon.
Ifthe state OF New York goes Democratic
it means renewed lease OF political life for
Senator Hill and the augmentation of his
strength as a candidate before the next
national convention OF his party. Ii would
also predicate the serious punCturinS OF
Gov. Murton's Presidential boom and the
throwing of eX-Secretary Whitney's sill
hCuctte IN mure clearly distinguiShable out
lines upon the forensic canvass.
Not since the time, four decades ago,
when "Freemont and Freedom was the
battle cry of the Republican party has
there been any uncertainty regarding the
gubernatorial contest in Kentucky Nearly
every other Southern State has at some
period within forty years chosen Re
publican executive. But it now seems
reasonab bic TO believe that Col. Bradley
will be chosen Governor as n natural
sequence 10 the intense factional fights
which have divided the Democratic party
ON financial lines
KENTUCkY'S STRANGE POSITION.
lily declares in favor OF what is desig-
mated as sound money, the nominee who
stands upon that platform is pronouncedly
in favor of free silver, and in all of his
public addresses has not hesitated to re-
pudiate the declaration OF principles cnun-
ciated by the party.
An aEte-morteIn prediction as applied
Ia Kentucky would indicate the election
of a Republican Governor and the selcc-
ton of a Democratic legislature, ma
jority of the members being advocates uf
sound money and opposed To the re-
election of Joe Blackburn as United
States Senator.
In Onio, " which one year ago gave William
Mckinley. the apostle of protection, So
600 plurality, is found the climax of pos
sibilitics. Thirty days ago the Repub-
licans would have been conceded at least
40, 900 the best of the count, but since that
time circumstances have so changed as 10
give the Democrats a more tban lighting
chance. Business has revived TO such an
extent as to make the doctrine OF pro-
lection a handicap, and Guarres within
their own ranks have acted as an epidemic
upon the Republicans.
Their present condition is described as
similar to the enemy falling upon each
other in the darkness and every man Staying
his own brother.
While the great personal popularity OF
ex-Ciov. Campbell, the Democratic nomi-
nee. cannot be oyerestimated, the fact must
no, be overlooked that he was successful in
his fornler contest chiefly because of the
unchangeable exposition which existed to
n third gubernatorial term in n State where
biennial elections are held. But this 0rn-
ing is largely Offset by prestige and prece-
dent. In all his long service as Senator
John Sherman has never had a Republican
colleague excepting for a few hours pre-
cedinG Stanley Matthew'S promotion to
the Supreme bench. Since before the
DAYS OF rise Up" William Allen IT las
always be N confidently expected that Ohio
would go Democratic in an off year.
RESULT IN OHIO.
The election Of a Democratic governor and
legislature in Ohio would not be Indicative
of any material growth in Democracy, but
SIMPLY tnat iHt
remained in the underbrush while the Demo-
Gratis came to the polls. Every Democratic
victory in Ohio has been traceable to the
fact that the Republicans of the Western
Reserve and other party strongholds re-
Trained from depositing their ballots.
A not been elected governor
of MARYLAND since the late civil war, but
such result tomorrow is not only possible
but probable. TheDemocrats have not been
merely divided, but disintegrated into
numerous factions. each OF them trying to
surpass the other in their anfag gonisni of tie
State ticket and their desire to welcome
any political condition that will emphasize
the discontinue Of their ballots.
The overshadowing hoodoo in the Mary
land campaign has been a more or less gen
eral revolt against the continued supremacy
of Senator German as a political boss. Wide
spread dtsaffection has ensued and the
result is only a question of how far con-
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