The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1895-11-02
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One week from today the campaign
! of 1895 will close. In politics there is
no new years day. The political year
! begins in such struggling way as to at
I tract no attention. but the year ends
/ abruptly, not to say sensatlonaily. The
| fl st Tuesday after the first Monday in
! November is State election day in near
/ ~ every state. This is an off year, and
offest of the off, but no less than twelve
States, or including Utah, which is on
the verge of Statehood, thirteen, hold
! their elections one week from to-day.
Besides these State elections, there viii
/ be test pO iticai votes in the two great
! cities, New York and Chicago. Some
of these states do not eject Governors,
only minor officers.
The states in which there has been
earnest gubernatOrial campaigns are
Kentucky, Iowa, Maryland aud Ohio,
but there are Governors to be elected
in Massachusetts, Mississippi, and New
Jersey also, seven in all. 1t would not
be at all surprising if the Republicans
should carry all except Mississippi, al
though three of these six, Kentucky,
New Jersey and Maryland, are usually
Democratic states. Kentucky has
never gone Republican, we believe, in
all the thirty years the party has exist
ed. In the old days of Wing and Dem
ocrat it was Wing state, Henry Clay,
the idol of the state, built up one party,
and his rival in the state Just south of
Kentucky, Andrew Jackson, built up
another. In those remote days Ken
lucky was strong for protection, but
that was because Clay was, and not be-
cause the state had any special interest
in or intelligent appreciation of pro-
lection. The hope of carrying the state
tor the Republicans this time rests up
on the growth of Republican sentiment
chiefly, but partly, also, upon the per-
sonal strength Of Colonel Bradley, the
Republican nominee, and the weak
ness of bis opponent, Wat Hardin, and
the discordant condition Of the Demo
cracy in that state over the money qucs-
ton and the senatorship. But indie
pendent of these new features is the re-
markable strength shown by the Re
publican party last year in the election
of congressman. There are eleven
districts in the state, and of these the
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ocrats six. The aggregated plurality of
the Republicans was the greater Of the
two, lO,579 to 9, IA for the Democrats
The Republicans may be fairly said to
have carried the state by plurality Of
$50 over theDemOcrats 1t was inevi-
table that a rcd-hot campaign should be
fought this year, even ifthere had been
no special irritants.
1t is not thought that the Democrats
have any idea of carving Ohio for their
state ticket. What they are really fish
ing for is to carry the Legislature and
re-elect to the United States Senate
Calvin 5. Brice, of New York, instead
OfeX-Governor Foraker, who is the Re-
publican candidate for the Senate.
Everything indicates q sweeping Re-
publican victory, provided only over
confidence does not keep the voters
from the poles. That is the only point
in danger in either Ohio or Iowa.
In New York the real significance of
the election is the Legislature The
state offices to be filed are of minor
importance, but the entire Legislature
and 80 Senators. The latter will hold
office two years and take part IN the
election of United States Senator a year
from this winter, to succeed Senator
Hill. 1t is that fact which gives special
interest to the New York election.
In this state the interest all centcrs
in Cook County and the Eighteenth
Congressional District. The latter con-
sists of the counties of Madison, Mont
gomery, Bond, Fayettee, shelby, and
Moultre. These six counties will show
how rural Illinois stands, and Cook
will show how Chicago stands. In cast
ing the horoscope of 1896 special sig
nitiCance attaches to these seven Hi
nois counties, and the Republicans
should rally at the polls in full force.