The Forrest City times., 1898-07-15
GOVERNORS OF STATES.
Curious Changes and Contrasts In
Existing Political Conditions
Throughout the Union.

There are As states in the union, and
heretofore those in the west and north
west have usually had republican and
usually had democratic governors, while
the Pacific states and the middle states
have oscillated, the two parties Winning
alternately. New England has generally
been republican, though in recent years
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut, the three southern New Eng
land states. have had several demo-
cratic governors. At the present Tina
these conditions are totally changed
Three states, previously overwhelm-
ingly democratic-Kentucky, West Vir-
ginia and Maryland-have all of them
republican governors. On the Pacific
party lines are much mixed. California
has democratic governor, and so has
Washington, though Washington is
strongly republican. Oregon has re-
publican governor, and Nevada has q
free silverite governor. In a strip of
territory stretching from the Missouri
to the Rocky mountains, and including
the three states of Nebraska, Kansas
and Colorado-a region settled original
ly by New England men and their fami-
lies-there are no republican governors.
There is democrat at the head of af-
fairs in Colorado, and there are popu-
list governors in Nebraska and Kansas.
North Dakota has a republican gov
ernor; South Dakota has democrat
Utah, lying midway between Colorado
and Oregon, has republican governor,
though in the presidential election OF
1896 Bryan polled more than so per cent.
of the entire vote of the state. New
Jersey, which almost uniformly from
the beginning of the civil war, had a
democratic, has now a republican gov
ernor, and North Carolina, which has al
most uniformly been democratic, has a
republican governor. All the states OF
the Ohio valley, including Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois, have now republican gov.
ernors. So have Wisconsin and Michi.
gan, and one of the most surprising
manifestations of the caprice of party
sentiment and preference is this-that
in Illinois, long a close state, the re.
publican majority at the last election
lot SUNcTHoI Was 1iosOoo NOtSS, Wiclcds
Minnesota, which since its admission
into the union, in 1858, has been solidly
republican, gave the present republican
governor a majority of only 5000.
There is democratic governor in Della
ware. Idaho has u democratic governor.
Montana populist governor, and Wy.
oming a republican governor, yet these
three states have interests almost iden.
teal, 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, and Vir.
ginia continues to adhere to the demo
cratic column by lead so large that the
republicans did not deem it necessary
to make a nomination at the last state
election, Notwithstanding the fact that
North Carolina to the south, Kentucky
and West Virginia to the west, and
Maryland to the north of Virginia, have
all of them republican governors.
The states which choose governors
this year are New York, New Jersey,
Massachusetts, Alabama, Arkansas,
California, Colorado Connecticut,
Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Maine. Michi.
gan. Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Hampshire, North Dakota, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island. South
Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Texas. Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyom-
ing.-N. y. San.