The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-04-18
GOVERNORS OF STATES.
Curious Changes aud Contrasts In Ex-
fsting Political Conditions.

isting Political Conditions.
There are forty FIVE States in the Union,
and heretofore those In the West and North
west have usually had Republican and those
In the South and Southwest have usually had
Democratic Governors while tho Pacific
States and the Middle States have occillatet, I,
the two parties winning alternately. New
England has generally been Republican.
though in recent years Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and Connecticut, the three southern
New England States have had several Demo
cratic Governors. At the present time these
conditions are totally changed.
Three States. previously. overwhelmingly
Democratic Kentucky, West Virginia and
Maryland-have all OF them Republican Gov
ernors On the Pacific party lines are much
mixed. California has Democratic Gov
ernor. and so has Washington, though Wash
ington is strongly Republican. Oregon has
n Republican Governor, and Nevada has n
Free silverite Governor. In q strip Of terri
tory stretching from the Missouri to the
Rocky Mountains, and including the three
States of Nevada, Kansas and Colorado-a
region settled originally by New England men
and their families-there are no Republican
Governors. There is Democrat Mt the head
vi uhHlfs III Soiof oNos oAN theio oso oPNAfoe
Governors In Nebraska and Kansas. North
Dakota has n Republican Governor; South
Dnkota has Democrat. Utah, lying midway
between Colorado and Oregon, has Republi-
can Governor though in the Presidential
election Of 1886 Bryan polled more thsn 80 per
cent OF tho entire vote cf tho State. New
Jersey, which almost uniformly from the be-
ginning Of the civil war had a Democratic,
has now Republican Governor, and North
Carolina, which has almost uniformly been
Democratic. has Republican Governor. All
the States OF the Ohio Valley, including Ohio.
Indiana and Illinois. have now Republican
Governors. SO have Wisconsin and Michigan.
and one Of the most surprising manifestations
OF the caprice Of party sentiment and prefer
encs Is this that in Illinois, long a close
state, the Republican majority at the last
election for Governor was 1l3,000 votes,
whereas Minnesota, which since Its admission
into the Union. in 1853, has been solidly Re-
publican, gave the present Republican Gov
ernor majority Of only 1900. There Is a
Democratic Governor In Delaware. Idaho has
n Democratic Governor, Montana a Populjst
Governor, and Wyoming republican go, 5ov.
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 Demo-
cratic Governors, and Virginia continues TO
sdharo 10 the Democratic column BY lead
so Iay Qe that the Republicans did not deem IL
necessary 20 mako q nomination at the last
state election, notwithstanding the fact That
North Carroll no 10 the south. Kentucky and
West Virginia TO the west and Maryland TO
the north of Virginia have all OF thcm Ne.
publican Governors
The states which choose Governors this
xsar ara New York, New Jersey, Massschu-
sotts. Alabama, Arkansas, California Colo
rsdo, Connecticut. Georgia, Idaho kansss,
Maine Michigan, Minnesota. Nebraska, Ne
yada. New Hampshire, North Dakotn, Oregon,
Pennsylvania. Rhode 1slano, south slarolina,
south Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont,
Wisconsin and Wyoming. The sun.