The progressive farmer., 1899-11-07
ELECTIONS TO-DAY.

/ The Progressive Farmer. In Onlo'
Kentucky, Iowa. Maryland, Massa'
chusetts, and NJ ssissippi Governors ere
to be elected. In Nebraska the contest
ia not over the Governors plac9, but
Supreme Curt Justice and two mem
bers of the BoaI1 of Regents OF the
State University are to be chosen. In
Pennsylvania the people elect a new
State Treasurer. In some other tates
a few government positions are TO be
filed Interest centers on the elec.
tions in o lio kentucky and Nebraska.
Ohio being President McKinley's State
the Republicans will leave no stone
unturned to held it, while Nebraska,
as Mr.. Bryan's State, is another storm
center. The campaign in Kentucky
has been one OF unusual warmth and
the result OF the election is arxiously
awaited.
The campaigns have had little to
Cff9r to sho " that American politics IS
getting purer, that the power OF tue
boas is waning, or that the dollar is
growing less potent as political fac
tor. Take, for instance, the Slate Of
Ohio, though, we are glad to say, In
fe Y States il politics 80 corrupt as
there. TIL r publican Convention 10
that State was controlled by Mark
Hanna ana Geo. B. Cox, another boss
whose repu u5atjon is ss uagAvory as
Hannas II ID the Democrats cleared
! themselves of boss.s aud nominated
meu with clean records, the Hanna
! Cox combination would doubtless have
gOna do vn IN defeat. Bd5 they neg
lected their opportunity. Their
candidate for Governor is John Z
Mclean, an INSCRIPTIONS and hypo
Critical politici an, whose record IS not
whit better than that OF his oppo
nent. The campaign cry Of his party
is "A ati- Trust, A lti Imperialism and
Free Silver" but 1T it we'll known that
he is in accord With the gold clement
Of his party and he is said to have &C
cumulated snug fortune of trust
monsy. The third candidate is Mayor
Samuel M. Jnes, OF Toledo, who is
running as an independent, the cRndi
date OF no party. He is thoroug ghly
honest and though welded TO some
impracticable schemes, it is not urpr
ing that arge portion OF the decent
element of both Democratic and r.
publican parties will support him
rather than Mclean or Nash. Me.
Charles P. SApp, who has gone to OHIO
to report campaign happenings for the
News and Observer writes that paper
as follows:
Mayor Sam Jones is the nightmare
of the Democratic and Republican
leaders; they are more afraid Of hum
than they are OF one another because
they can form no estimate Of how badly
he Will hurt than. That he will hurt
somebo IL they firmly believe, and
both sides are iniustriously explaining
that it is the oEagT's OK ne is goriug
Tne D3mOc, &C les =ers say he will get
50 600 20 80 OUO goGsJ IN toe S:ate; the
E -plblican3 say be will get Is 600; the
Independents say "a will ges $50 600
Both sid pIshsd nim along az a good
taiug a frs ana are now repen5ing as
.eieuce. Wna5ever his vote may be. 1t
will not be- congo a. as soma have
imagined, OF Soeialla59, org9h z,d la
borers, male patents, en!irel. there
ara hundreds OF business ana protes
sional men ia the citis5 waJ will sup-
port him"
Il Kentucky political threads are
very much tangled. The Democrati
Convention, it will be remembered,
met in Juue, aud after a wesk's fghs
ing and q IRrreling, nominated William
G0ebel for Governor OF Kentucky. A
large element OF the convention asser
ted that Goeb- / secured the no nination
by unfair or fraudulent practices, ard
the anti GOebei Democrats net in LEX
ington, August 16 d, and nominated q
second Democratic ticket, headed by
ex Gov. Jno. Young Bsown as candi-
date for Governor The Republican
candidate is W. S. Taylor, now Attor
ney General of the State.
Goebel and Taylor, like Mclean and
Nash in OHIO, represent the corrupt
elements in their respective parties.
Goebel is the author of the present
K 'utuckY election law, one OF the most
Unfair with which any State has ever
been cursed; and Taylor is the sool of
the Louisville and Nashville railway.
Speaking OF the G0ebel election law,
the Co.ntry G entleman says:
"Uader this Law, th9 legislature
elects three Safe Commissioners who