Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-07
SENATOR AN ISSUE IN IOWA.

llOu Is one Ol DluFdIibIeS.
SENATOR AN ISSUE IN IOWA.
Republicans Claim 10000 Plurality -
Democrats Hope for Victory.
Iowa elects governor. lieutenant
governor. judge of the supreme court.
railway commissioner. superintendent
os public instruction and n legislature.
which will have the choice of a United
States senator 20 succeed John II. Gear
Pepublican). The tickets in the field
are the Republican, Democratic with
Populist Endorsement: Prohibition. mid
dle-of -the-road Populists, Socialist La
Dor and United Christian. The cam
paign has been warmly waged by both
the leading parties and the chairmen
of both state committees express con-
fidence in polling Il comparatively full
vote for an off year. Chairman Weaver.
of the Republican committee. estimates
that the plurality for his party will
run from 10000 to $4,000 while Chair
man Huffman is satisfied with saying
that he believes enough disaffectCrl
Republicans will refuse to vote or will
vote the Democratic ticket to give a
small plurality to the Democratic
ticket.
In Maryland governor. comptroller,
attorney general and legislature Will be
chosen. The state senators to De elect
Cd will hold over until 1902. when 4
successor to Senator George l.. Well
ington (Repl is to be chosen. Tickets
have been nominated by the Republi-
cans, the Democrats. the Prohibition
lists, the Social Democrats and the In
ion Reform party. The Republican
candidate for governor is the present
incumbent. Lloyd Lowndes. who was
elected four years ago by something
more than 1000 plurality. In the
following year Mckinley carried the
state by $4,000. but recent elections
indicate Democratic gains, and there
is a quarrel between Senator yelling
ton and the Republican organization.
Both parties claim the state.
In New York. the members of
the assembly will be chosen. two JUS
tees of the supreme court in the First
judicial district. one in the Fifth and
three in the Eighth, as also II repre-
sentative in the Thirty fourth district,
TO succeed Warren b. Hooker. The
Republicans have u large majority in
the assembly, and the fight is principal
ly in New York city, where there is a
Ihix-up. There, besides the regular
tickets an anti-Tammany fusion ticket
supported by the Republican Citizens
Union and the independent labor par
ties. and indorsed by various reform
bodies. is in the field. The fusion can
didates for supreme justice are both
Democrats. the candidate for sheriff
IS the leader of the Granite Cutters
union. and one of the candidates for
city court justice is a single tax leader
State treasurer. two judges of the
supreme court and a judge of the SUI
perior court are in Pennsylvania, as
also q representative from the Ninth
district. Candidates have been nom
mated by Republicans, Democrats,
Prohibitionists. Peoples party. Union
Reform party and a Socialist Labor
party. The battle royal has been
waCed almost entirely between the Re
publican and Democratic parties over
the state treaSuryship. the only inn
portant state office to he filed outside
of superior and supreme court judges.
In Massachusetts there is no reason
to expect anything. but the customary
Republican victory. Not since 1882
have the Democrats carried the state.
\ complete state ticket and a legisla-
ture will be chosen. Nominations have
been made by the Republicans. the
Democrats. the ProhibitionistS. the So
cial Democracy and the Socialist La
S0r party.
Three Judges of the supreme court
will be chosen in South Dakota, and
the Republican candidates are opposed
10y the fusion nominees of the Demo
Gratis. POpuIists and silver Republicans.
ANY forecast of the results is pure
prophecy. Not a township in the state
has been polled and but one thing is
certain. and that is that light vote
will be polled. Still Chairman Herried.
Of the Republican state central com
mittee. estimates that the result Will
be a Republican majority OF 10 600 The
Populists figure on gains
Mississippi voters choose a full state
ticket and a legislature. which will
elect a United States senator to I'LL the
unexpired term of f. &. Walthal
DemD now filled by VIII Van Ambert
sullivan Dem). by appointment. as
also a senator for the full term begin
ming March 4. 1901. There has been no
campaign. not thirty speeches having
been delivered by leaders on both