The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-09-01
THE OUTLOOK THIS YEAR.
The Prospects I'm Most States Look
Well for Republicans.

Strictly speaking there are no "off
years" in American politics. Half way
between the presidential elections come
the congressional canvasses, which are
nearly as important as the contests for
president, and half way between these
Ohio, Iowa and other states elect gov
errors. Massachusetts and Rhode Is
land elect governors every year. The
contest in both of these is sometimes
highly interesting. For a dozen years
past, or ever since the great republican
preponderance of the war and recon-
struction days began to lessen, cleo
tons in Iowa have attracted general at
tention, while for more than 40 years,
or ever since she broke from the dem
ocracy and joined the republican party,
Ohio's gubernatorial elections have
usually been of national interest. In
fact for 20 years before the republican
party's first appearance, when the
wings occasionally captured the state,
Ohio's canvasses commanded the atten-
ton of the country.
Exciting campaigns will take place
this year in Ohio, Iowa and Kentucky.
The.legislature chosen this year in Ohio
will elect a United States senator for
the fraction of Sherman's term vet to
expire and for the full term beginning
in 1899. Hanna, by appointment of the
governor, is filling the Sherman va
cancy until the legislature elects some
body to serve until 1899. If the legis-
lature to be elected this year is repub-
lican Hanna will be chosen for the re-
mainder of this term and for the full
term which will begin on March 4. 1899.
Should the democrats carry the legis-
lature Mclean will be chosen senator
by the republicans for governor, will
make an interesting canvass. and the
democrats have no real hope of defeat
ing him. They pretend, though, they
have chance Of carrying the legis-
lature, and that part of the canvass
will attract a wider interest than the
election for governor. The prospects,
however, favor the republicans, both
for the legislature and the state ticket.
In Iowa, too, the indications point to
republican success. The gold demo-
Gratis and the populists have state tick
cts in the field, while the margin last
year for Mckinley, $4,000, was much
broader than it was in Ohio, where it
was $4,000. Kentucky will choose n
clerk of the court of appeals only, but
the fact that the gold democrats, led by
Carlisle, Lindsay, Buckner, Breckin-
ridge and Watterson, have put up a
candidate and will make an active cam
vass, will give that states campaign n
national interest. The fact that the
gold democratic revolt against the sill
verite and anarchistic heresies of the
larger faction of the democracy took
place in Kentucky before it did in any
other locality, and that one of its sons
was the "soud money" democratic
candidate for vice president last year,
will heighten the interest which the
country will feel in Kentucky's cam
paign in 1897. In Massachusetts,, of
course, the republican state ticket Will
get an overwhelming majority. New
York will elect only a court of appeals
judge this year, but the canvass will
arouse some interest. The conditions
in New York are mixed" yet the
chances seem to favor the republicans.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat