Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-10-26
Tho November Elections.

Elections win be held on Tuesday,
November sth, in the following States;
Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massa-
chusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New
Jersey. New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
South Dakota aud Virginia. Iowa will
elect governor and ate officers. Be-
sides the Republicans and Democrats,
nominations have been made by the
Prohibitionists, Middle of the Road
Populists and Omitted Christians. "
The most interesting of these politi-
cal contests are those in Nebraska and
Ohio Nebraska is the home of vii.
liam J. Bryan, and although tho cleo
tion there involves only a few purely
local offices, tho campaign is being con-
Quoted upon national issues, and is as
warm and exciting as tho State ever
witnessed. On the Republican side are
arrayed all the forces of the Mckinley
administration. On the other side
Bryan is leading the fight in person.
For years Nebraska was reliably
Republican State, but it was swept by
the wave Of western Populism to an
extent that now makes it fairly debata-.
BILE ground. In 1896 the Bryan Electors
were chosen IN Nebraska by plurality
of 2,935, but last year the Fusion
nominee for governor was successful by
a plurality of only 2,721, while the Re-
publicans elected majority of the
Legislature. This year the Republic
cans expect to carry the State, and all
the indications point in that direction.
Should the Republicans carry Ne
braslSa next Tuesday week, it may
make material difference in Demo-
cratic affairs next year. Bryan will
then appear before the party as can
didate for the Presidential nomination
who has been discredited by his own
State after having been given its cleo
toral vote three years ago. No at
tempts to attribute the result to local
issues will dissipate this condition, as
Bryan is forcing the Democratic fight
there on national issues exclusively.
How far defeat may affect his chances
for another nomination remains to be-
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serious extent cannot be doubted.
Most strikingly would Bryan defeat
in Nebraska be accumulated by a Demo.
cratic victory in Ohio. Such result
would make prominent aspirant for
the Democratic nomination for Presi-
dent Of john r. Mclean, the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor. Nc
Lean is ambitious and wealthy, and
while his election as governor of Ohio
would not assure him of the Demo.
cratic Presidential nomination next
year, it would make him formidaL 10
candidate, and might serve to prey lent
the nomination of Bryan and lead to
| the selection of candidate at present
not even mentioned. However, such
an outcome is contingent upon Demo
cratic victory in Ohio, and this is far
from an assured fact. Ohio is relia-
bly, Republican State, but affairs politi-
cal there are in much of muddle at
present. The Republicans have in
ternal troubles and are handicapped by
the Imperialism of the Mckinley ad-
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defence of the Trusts. Much will de-
pend upon the vote received by Mayor
Jones of Toledo, the independent cam
didate foi governor, and the party from
which he draws the greater number of
votes will probably be defeated. Mark
Hanna seems terribly scared over tho
outlook, but the chances OF victory are
strongly on tho sidc of the Republicans.
In the other States the situation is
easily cited. Massachusetts, Pennsyl-
vania, Iowa and South Dakota are sure
to be Republican, and Maryland, Mis-
sissirpi and Virginia Democratic
Kentucky, New Jersey and New York
arc doubtful, with chances generally
fayorins the Democrats. KentuclSy's
fight is an exciting. one, the Democrats
having two candidates for governor in
the field as the result of bitter fac
tional quarrel, hut in New Jersey and
New York the elections are purely local
and are attracting little interest.