The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-11-26
POLITICAL NOTES.

Inc OWciai IeturuS u AODnectIcut SHOW tus
Mckinley and Hobart carried the State BY
plurality of 53.654, and party gain of nearl
; 10000 over four yean ago. Tho McKinle
vote was 110,297; Ryan, 56.740; Palmer
1885; Prohibition vsss, 1906. and Socialist
Labor, 1888.
Complete returns from every County In Wy
oming give the Brysn selectors maiorities
follows: Van Meter. l5O; Martin. 400; Quealy
$50; Osborne. for Conersss, $40; Corn, for 50
preme Judge, 500. The Republicans have
majority of II in the Legislature.
Maj. Mckinley told bthe reporter of tn
Toronto Telegram that he did :" not know wha
the new Congress would do concerning tn
tariff OF course the question of reciproclt.
will be one of the things to be considered, for !
will certainly be presented. / hope that TIT
amity and good feeling between the two coun.
tries will continue, and that We may know NOR
OF each other as the years 60 on. We have 81
pressing that hope"
The following is Maryland's official vote
Mckinley, 136, 1913; Bryan, 104, 745; lowering
1929; Palmer. 2.5O7; Matchett, 5Ss, and Bent
ley, 136. Mckinley's plurality, 32,233.
The official returns of Tennessee show thai
the vote was the Heaviest by about $4,000 evel
polled in the State. Bryan and Sewall re
ceived 1853, 651 Mckinley and Hobart, 148773
Bryan aud Watson, 1926; Palmer and Buck
ner, 1851. and Levering and johnson, 1908
Bryan and Sewalls plurality is 14,S7S. and the
total vote, 321 $685. For Governor, r. L. Tay'
lor, Democaat, received 156,228; G. N. Till.
man, Republican. 1894; A. L. Mills, Popu.
list II $40, and Josephs Hepwood, 1881. lay
lor's plurality is 1854.
The Illinois Senatorial situation has not
crystalized. The leading candidates are Rep
resentative R. B. Hit, ex-Representative VIM.
| b. Mason, Col. Clark L. Carr and w. j. Calhoun.
The Popocrats vii put up Gov. Altgeld, at his
| own urgent request. to give him that much OF
| an Endorsement. They wanted to compliment
Samuel p Mcconnell, but Altgeld felt that he
needed it much worse than anybody else.
| It is thought that Senator Hansbrough has a
| good chance to succeed himself from North
| Dakota. If he does he has made narrow
| squeak. He was badly tainted with the Free
! Silver heresy, and came near going with Teller.
| This was so generally known that he had rather
a chilly time of it in the North Dakota Repnb-
| lican Convention, which came out sqnarely on
| the ST. Louis platform. Later Hansbrongh
brought forth fruits meet for repentance,
promised to be good Republican IN all that
the word implies, and began hard work to So
| cure his reelection. He believes that he has
over 20 votes on the joint ballot His most
| prominent opponents are Lieut-Gov. Wortz
and Representative Johnston.
The Missouri Legislature will undoubtedly
re-eect Senator Vest, and the Free Coinage Of
fatulent oratory is therefore secure
Senator-elec Wellington has shrewdly de-
termined that the distribution of the thousands
of official plums in Maryland shall not be made
until after the next election. which is to elect
a Legislature, soidify the Republican party's
control of the State, complete the desired re.
forms and provide successor to Senator Cor
man.
T. G. Plat is pretty sure to succeed D. B. Hill
rs Senator from New York.
Though Marylanders generally insist that
Senator German is politically dead--very dead
the Senator does not concede the fact, but has
begun a very lively fight for the control of the
Legislature next year and his reelection.
The most disguised Republicans in the coun-
try are those of Delaware. If they had been
united they could have swept everything on
State issues. This would have insured them
the control of the State for the future, for Della.
ware is managed after the fashion of the other
Southern States, with all the power lodged in
the hands of the Governor, who has oyer 400
State and County Offices to fill. But the Re-
pubicans had to engage in q miserable little
factional fight, and put up two State and Con.
gressi0nal tickets, SO. while they carried the
State for Mckinley by handsome majority,
the Democrats gobbled everything else, includ-
ing United States Senator.
Senator elect Wellington says that he will
not accept a Cabinet position, preferring to
represent Maryland in the Senate.
The question of successor to Senator yoor.
hees is becoming live issue in Indiana. Tho
State is full of warm admirers of the ex-Presi-
dent-and the number was greatly increased
by his magnificent work in the late campaign
They would very much like to see him round
up his political career in the Senate, which
would give Indiana standing in that body she
has not had since 0. p Mortons death. Gen.
Harrisons views are not precisely known. It
is believed that he is more ambitious of build
ing up great legal practice than of farther
political honors. though the desires of his wife
for life in the high official circles of the Capital
may influence him in the other direction. On
the other hand there is . faction of the Indiana
Republicans who have always been strongly OPP
posed to Gen. Harrison. Then there are other
strong candidates. At the head of these is Chas
w. Fairbanks, who was made Temporary Chair.
man of the st. Louis Con vention, and is con.
sequently supposed to be the candidate of the
original Mckinley men. He is sharply antago-
nized by W. r. McKeen, formerly President of
the Vandalia Railroad. The fight in the Leg
Gen. Lew Wallace, Judge John II. Baker and
Hiram Brownlee, of Marion County, in the
fight as possibilities
1t is regarded as pretty certain that ex-sen.
ator Henry c. Spooner will succeed VIM. F.
Villas as Senator from Wisconsin. He was Sem
ator from 1885 to 1891, and would have been
re. elected, but the State went Democratic He |
served as Major in the 50th Wis.
Each Republican State in the Union is desir. |
Gus Of putting up the foremost claim to bearing |
the banner of the party. Putting aside the |
matter Of big pluralities, in which Pennsyl- |
vania clearly leads, the landslide in Wisconsin |
was about rs remarkable as anything in all the |
Seven Counties in that State which |
have always heretofore given Democratic ma |
iorities ranging from 1000 to 1000 were Re- |
publican this year from 500 to 1000 plurality. |
The Republican gains every where were as
even to the party leaders.
The opinion steadily gains ground that Col.
Henry Clay Evans will be given place in the
Cabinet in recognition of the Republicans of the
South. 1t is the best selection that could be
made. Col. Evans, who served as an enlisted |
man in Wisconsin regiment, settled in Chatta-
nooga at the close of the war, and began the
practice of law. He made a great success, and |
was likewise conspicuous among the progressive
men who were working to build up Chatta-
nooga into beautiful city and develop the re-
sources of East Tennessee. He was very popu-
lar with his neighbors, was elected to Congress-,
and was Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
under Harrison. In 1S94Ihe was the Repub-
lican candidate for Governor of Tennessee and
was elected by decided majority of the popu-
lar vote, but the Legislature counted him out,