Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-11-03
THIS YEARS ELECTIONS.


The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Tribune gives an interesting
summary of conditions in some of the
more important elections this fall. He
says:
"Of this years. contests that in Ohio
has attracted perhaps the liveliest atten.
ton. Though normally republican in
politics, Ohio has always been reckoned
in "olf years" an uncertain partisan
quantity. The nomination of John r.
Mclean for the g%overnorship has guar
anteed an unusually active and aggress-
i've fight this fall on the part of the
democratic opposition, and some fac
tional and personal differences still I'M
adjusted have left the Republican party
with a harder struggle ahead of it than
any it has been called upon to make
since 1891. AS a defeat in the presi-
dents own state this fall would seriously
impair the prestige of the present re-
publican administration, and as Mr..
McLean's success, on the contrary,
would make him at once a formidable
candidate for the democratic presiden-
tial nomination, the present campaign
will have a decisive influence in shaping
the future course of national politics,
and it has naturally enlisted the inter-
est and energies of the leaders of both
political parties. President Mckinley
and Colonel Bryan have both appeared
in the canvass in its later stages, and
many other prominent campaigners,
both republican and democratic, have
been called in FROM other states. o.
tensibly the struggle is being made or
the national issues embodied in the
GAINESVILLE platform-the free coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 to l and the
abandonment of American title in the
Philippines. But the real struggle is
one of personal interest and ambitions,
mixed with appeals to purely local anti
pathies and prejudices. Indications
point, on the whole, to a republican
victory in Ohio, next month.
"The struggle for the governorship in
Kentucky has developed into something
like a personal feud between the sup
porters and the opponents of the regular
democratic nominee, William Goebel.
An ex-gold democrat, who obtained a
party nomination by ''hold up" methods
hitherto unused among Blue Grass poll
t%icians, Mr.. Goebel is ~antagonized by
many extreme free silver leaders, and by
all that element within the democratic
party which hesitates about reducing
elections in Kentucky to the contempt
BILE farce they nov are in states like Vir-
ginia or Arkansas. The Goebel Force
law, which compliments and emphasizes
Mr.. Goebel's personal achievements as a
political highwayman, is the main issue
of the campaign in Kentucky, whose
people are to decide whether they wish
to control their own destinies or have
their opinions and decisions shaped for
them by an irresponsible counting ma
chine at Frankfort.
"Colonel Bryan's extraordinary eager
ness to contribute to Mr.. Goebel's cleo
ton arises naturally from his conviction
that with Kentucky again lost to the
party his own fight for the presidency
would have to be renewed next year un-
der conditions hardly more encouraging
than those of 1896.
".Should Nebraska also elect a republi
can state ticket this year, Colonel
Bryan's second candidacy would be little
short of hopeless. For that reason his
own energies have been lavishly expend-
ed to carry through the fusion candi-