Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-03
ELECTIONS CAST SHADOWS
Campaigns in ohio Are waEed
with view to what May
Follow After.

| CINCINNATI, April 2.--While the munic-
| ipal elections in Ohio tomorrow are for
| local Offices yet they have strong bearings
| on state and national politics and also on
! factional interests in both parties. The mu-
| nicipal machinery will have great influence
| in the congress to be held next month or
later and candidates for gubernatorial and
| other state nominations are conducting ag-
| gressve canvasses now in connection with
! these municipal elections The hearing on
national politics is seen in Senator Forak-
cr's presence and in the course of events
! II republican governor should be elected
| next November who is unfriendly to the
| senior Ohio senator that governor would no
| doubt be at the head of the state ticket for
! his second term two years hence when
| members of the legislature are elected to
| choose the successor of Foraker. And the
! friends of the national administration want
a solid Ohio delegation to the national re-
| publican convention year hence.
The republican candidate for mayor of
! Cleveland, the home of Senator Hanna is
| Robert McKisson, who was the fusion can
| didate before the legislature in January of
last year for senator against Senator
Hanna. 1t is stated throughout the state
! that McKisson is running for third term
| not for the mayoraty alone but also for the
| purpose of opposing President Mckinley,
! Senator Hanna and others in the Ohio state
| convention this year and next year and of
controlling the four delegates from the
Cleveland districts and, If possible, other
| Ohio delegates to the national convention
| next year.
In other Ohio cities these factonal lines
! are less directly drawn. At Toledo they are
/ marked with two republicans running for
| Whi1n ha b,, I,,t
! candidate. In this city there is no election
for mayor but much interest is taken in the
| election of two members of the Board of
| City Affairs which controls the local mu-
nicipal patronage. The usual fight is being
waged by the democrats and independent
republicans against George b. Cox as the
republican boss
| TOLEDO o., April 1.-THE most remark
able political campaign in the history OF
| Toledo closed last night. with demonstra-
| tions in almost every ward by the three fac
tlons contending for the election of mayor
on Monday. The regular republicans, with
| Charles e. Russell as mayoraty candidate
today announced through the chairman. Con-
gresham J. H. Southard, that they would
win the fight by at least 1000 plurality
| while Lem p. Harris, the manager of Mayor
| ). NJ Jones' confidently expects to carry the
| city by at least as large a plurality. The
| independent movement, or the Jones faction
| of the republican party, has made the most
| aggressive fight, the candidate making his
| campaign on the platform of socialism and
municipal ownership and he has secured
endorsements from nearly every labor union
| in the city.
| CLEVELAND, O., April 2.-The municipal
| campaign which closed last night is the most
remarkable ever conducted in Cleveland.
| The candidates ms
McKisson, republican, who seeks reelection
| for a third term, and John II. Farley, dem
| ocrat, former mayor. McKisson and Far
| ley were the opposing candidates two years
| ago. when the former won by about $500
| plurality. At that time Farley had the op-
| position of a large number of silver dem
| ocrats, who refused to support him because
he had failed to give active support to
Bryan in the presidential campaign. Then
! there was no open opposition to McKisson
| IN his own party.
DETROIT, Mich, April 2.-Voters of Mich
igan will on Monday choose a justice of the
state supreme court and two regents of the
University Of Michigan. Local elections will
be held in all the cities and townships of
the state and judges of the circuit courts
| throughout the state will be elected for
terms of six years Aldermen and some, or
all of the other city officers will be elected
| in most Of the cities. In Detroit only five
judges of the circuit court, two judges of the
recorders court and school inspectors are to
be selected. The state campaign has been
n quiet one, but there is some agitation
among the labor unions against Chief JUS
tice Grant the republican candidate for re-
election, on account Of a decision written by
him in which was denied the right of boy
colt in the case of a Detroit strike. Thomas
| Barkworth, the democratic nominee for the
| supreme bench, is believed to be strong with
the working classes. but has a natural re-
publican majority against him
CHICAGO, April 2.-The municipal cam
paign was practically closed last night, both
parties holding large meetings in eleven
parts of the city. Both the democrats and
| republicans claim to be confident of the out
come. but at the same time the practical
| men in both parties admit that it is exceed
ingly difficult to forecast correctly the re-
suit of the vote on Tuesday. The unknown
quantity in the campaign is the vote to be
polled by the independent democratic candi-
date, ex Governor Atgeld. The republicans
admit that a heavy vote for Altgeld is their
main chance for election by splitting the
| democratic vote. The democrats claim that
! Mayor Harrison is certain OF reelection and
that he will receive 10000 votes, Carter,
the republican, l20 600 and they allow but
20 900 TO Altged The republicans claim
for Carter 1926 900 votes, give Harrison no.,
600 and allow Altgeld a total of $4,000. The
election commissioners estimate total vote