Evening star., 1899-11-04
IN TWELVE STATES
Interest in the Elections to Be Held
Next Tuesday.
SIGNIFICANCE OF TIE CONTEST
The Fight inOhio, Nebraska, Ken
tucky<andt Maryland.
NATIONAL ISSUES INVOLVED

The object of the state elections this year
| Is almost lost sight of in the consideration
Of the more remote significance they bear.
Inc election of state and county officers or
| members of legislatures which is immedi-
ately involved derives all it's Importance
from the consideration of what influence
| the election will have on the nominations
and election of President next year The
national administration is the issue every
"here, and the interest felt at Washington,
especially in official circles, is intense This
interest is altogether disproportionate to
the number and character of the elections
to be held. The significance of the contest
Is that both parties are lined UP and are
operating along the skirmish line for the
battle of 1900
Elections in Twelve States.
Elections are to be held on Tuesday in
put twelve states-Ohio, kentucky, Mary
iand' Iowa, Nebraska, Massachusetts, New
York, New Jersey, Mississippi, Pennsylva-
MIA, Virginia and South Dakota. In not
more than half of these is there much at
stake, but significance is given to the con-
test by the fact that full state ticket is
TO be elected in the Presidents own state
Ohio, and in Nebraska, the state of The
democrats, defeated candidate of 60 there
IS a hard fight, and in the two states, Mary
idliu anu kentucky, which the republican MS
out recently captured out of the solid DEM
ocrdtic column, and which the democrats
are desperately deSirouS of recapturlng be-
lole iaoo, Iuli tickets are to be elected. The
report early in the campaign that there
were republican disaffections in Iowa
anu that the democrats had hopes of carry
ing that state, with the election of sena-
Tor involved, brought that state into the
tiSt OF tnose IN which great interest is felt
thoush the developments of the campaign
90 not seem to warrant the belief that the
erection there is much in doubt In Ken
lucky there is a United States senatorship
involved, as there Is in Virginia but in the
latter it is merely a contest between demo-
Gratis; and in Maryland a part of the legis-
lature elected this time will hold over, and
mus nave voice in the election of senator
When the time comes. While full state
ticket ls to be elected in Massachusetts,
Indt state is so certainly republican that
niue interest Is taken in the contest and
IN Mississippi the situation is similar, only
reversed as to parties. In New jersey there
are TO be elected only members of the leg
iSlature, and, as in the case of the diary
Iand legislature, the election of senator is
only indirectly involved, through hold
overs. In South Dakota judges of the su-
preme court are to be elected. and in New
York the election is for members of the
assembly and one representative in Con-
sreaS 10 I'LL a vacancy. While in Pennsyl-
Nanla there Is no election for governor nor
legislature, there is a determined and in
teresttng fight over the state treasurershin
ana the Judicial ticket, and great interest
Is given the contest there on account of the
anti-Quay machine fight