The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-10-29
The November Elections.

This being an OFF year, and the elections held in an Of year being asa rule.
of no Importance iii very likely that the readers Of The Times Democrat do
not know what elections are to take place
The most interesting of the elections this year is without doubt in Ohio.
where II governor and n state Legislature are to be chosen having the privilege Of
ehctinga United States Senator, With regard to the election of tn Ohio lcg,
hture, the Philadelphia Ledger aupWhlean journal of the conservative school
views the matter pretty much NJ The Times Democrat yrwsiD In Ohio it
says there ar six sets of candidates known as republican Democratic gold
democratic porulht socialist labor aud negro protection The last named has
been nominated by cohnd voters dissatisfied with the manner in which the Re,
publicans distribute patronage The republicans will likely win but Hanna is
having difficulty in the election of republican legislature The republicans
ar Elm bad way in some of the cities and the Foraker faction byowcd with
suspicion by the McIinhy Hanna element.
Iowa will chco" a full state ticket OF the FIVE ur@sm the field, the re-
publican has certainly The best chance If success Equally san of winning rc
the republicans of Massachusetts, which also elects ml state t,aot Virginia,
which has IN assembly and half of the senate to elect has three tickets in the
field the democrats prohitittonis& and anti machine republican,. Of whom the
democrats acr pretty sure to win Quite a surprise in connection with this dcc
ton in Virginia has been the failure of the regular republican, to pt u ticket in
the field The regular republicans were only 1900 votes short of winning last
November and why Hanna should have advised them to lay quiet this year
and why they should have taken the advice are things net raNy understood
When they came so close to winning last year, they were loud IN their boasts
that they would carry the state this year 10y A. big majority as that BY which
the democrats did last year aud now they have shown the white fotber. md.
and do not so much as even put outa ticket
MARYLAND will also elect a sonataanl legislature as well asa stat, ron,ptrol
or and a clerk of the court If appeals; but a, there ae fl.ional discussions in
both democratic and republican parties the prospects ae so mixed that it isl
quite impossible to make n forecast of what the result viii be New Jersey will
elect IN assembly and senate and things begin to look ast the state were to no
turn to its old democratic allegiance The republican regime has been only sue
ce$tul in giving dissatisfaction to all parties and interests in the state New
York will elect an assembly; and there has been much reaction against the re-
pubhcans both owing to theirs unptuary legislation and their failure to break
up the trusts that wereo operating within the state that they Were Htrl, to be
turned out of office Nobody, however outside Of the Empire State takes any
notice of the election of state Legislators sc completely has the election of the
mayor of Greater New York absorbed all interest Nevada ai Washington
both elect assemblies and senate Kentucky will elect u clerk Of the court OF an
peais ad The gold democrats will hardly poll enough votes to allow the repuhli
cans to elect their candidate; but the gold democrats of Kentucky are stuunch
assistant republicans Colorado viii elect a justice of the supreme court and
the democratic opuNst candidate will almost certainly in glNebrasbas demo.
cat popnhst candidate for supreme judge and university regents will also
probably be electcd,
OF the state legislatures to be elected week after next those only of Ohio
and Virginia have any special importance attaching to them. 1t will be- in the
most of the thirty states which elect senators for March, 1895, the assemblies
chosen te falo iss that will have the senatorial elections Ohio and Viz
girnia elect the assemblies which will chose senators for March. 90 And
IT. Is on this account that their elections will divide public attention with the
New York mayoralty election
1t will be interesting especially to SET how the republicans take The result of
the Ohio election II they be beaten, why it is only of year and has u signia
canoe II they win it will be a glorious victory. and a popular Endorsement of The
dministraton and its methods Times Democrat