The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-23

curious Changes and Contrasts as
Exissing Political Conditions.

Exissing Political Conditions.
New York Sun.
There are forty-five states In the Union.
and heretofore those In the West and
Northwest have usually had Republican
and those In the South and Southwest
while the Pacific states and the middle
states have osoillated, the two parties win
ming alternately. New England has gen.
orally beer Republican. though In recent
years Massachusetts. Rhode Island and
Connecticut. the three southern New Eng
land states. have had several Democratic
governors. At the present time these con-
ditions are totail: changed.
Three states. previously Overwhelmingly
Democratic Keatucky West Virginia and
Maryiand-haye all OF them Republican
governors. On the Pacific party lines are
much mixed. California has a Democrat
&c governor. and so has Washington.
though Washington In strongly Repuhli-
can Oregon has a Republican governor.
and Nevada has a free siiverlse governor.
In & strip or territory stretching from the
Missouri TO the Rocky mountains, and
including the three states of Nebraska.
Kansas and colorado--a region settled or
lginafy by New England men and their
famtlies--there are no Republican COVER
nors. There ~ a Democrat at the head of
affairs In Colorado. and there are Popu-
t:st governors in Nebraska and Kansas
North Dakota has Republican governor:
South Dakota has a Democrat. Utah, ly-
Ing midway between Colorado and Ore
son. has Republican governor, though
in the presidential election OF 1886 Bryan
rolled more than 50 per cent Of the entire
cote Of tia state. New Jersey. which al
most uniformly from the time of the civil,
sar had Democratic. has now Repub-
Eean governor, and North Carolina which
has al m haan f-
has a Republican GO. rnor. All the states
of the Ohio valley. including Ohio. Indi-
and Illinois. have now Republican
governors. SO have Wisconsin and Mich
igan, and one OF the most surprising mani
fsstations Of the caprice OF party senti-
fnent and prejudice Is this-that In Ill-
nois. long d close state. the Republican
majority at the last election for governor
Was 1900 votes, whereas Minnesota
which since its admission into the Union
IN iS5s. has been solidiy Republican, gave
the presen, Republican governor A a ma
majority OF only a.sea. There Is "A Demo-
cratic governor in Delaware. Idaho has a
Democratic governor, Montana a Popu-
List governor. and Wyoming Republican
governor vet these three states have In
terests almost Identical, the character and
pursuits OF their inhabitants are about
the same. and the issues which separate
the voters are alike. Missouri Arkansas
and Texas have democratic governors. ard
Virginia continues 70 adhere to the DEM
. ecraiic column by lead so large that the
Republicans did not deem II necessary 10
make nomination NJ the last state cleo
ton. Notwithstanding the fac; that North
Carolina 20 the south. Kentucky and West
Virginia - the west. and MARYLAND 10 fhs
north Of Virginia. have all OF them Re-
publican governors
Tho states which choose governors this
year are New York. New Jersey Massa-
ehusefts. Alabama. Arkansas California.
Colorado. Connecticut. Georgia Idaho
Kansas. Maine. Michigan. Minnesota Ne
hraska. Nevada. New Hampshire, North
Dakota, Oregon. Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island. South Carolina, Tennessee. Texas.
Vermont Wisconsin, and wycsninS.