The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-07-19
ELECTIONS IN 1900.

held in thirty-nine states, in ad-
dition to the vote for President,
Vice President and Congress-
men, common to all. No State
election is held in 1900 in the fol.
lowing six states; California,
Florida, Mississippi, New Jersey,
Virginia and Maryland. The
States which will elect q Cover
nor and State ticket are Alabama,
Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut,
Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,
Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Montana, Nebraska, New Hamp-
shire, New York, North Curolina.
North Dakota, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,
Utah, Vermont Washington,
West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Pennsylvania will elect ON the
State ticket only the Auditor
General, but the next Legislature
will be chosen. Delaware will
elect a Governor and State
Legislature, which will choose
two United States Senators. The
only State officer to be chosen in
Iowa and Ohio this year is Secre-
tary Of State, and Kentucky will,
on account of the tangled cOndi-
ton of affairs arising from the
killing of Goebel, elect u Cover
nor to succeed Beckham, and a
LieutenantGovernor. Nevadawill
elect q Supreme Court Judge,
and Wyoming will choose mem.
bers of the State Legislature on
ly. Oregon elected Congressman
and a partial State ticket last
month, and both Louisiana and
Rhode Island elected full State
tickets last April. Several States
hold their State elections prior to
the Presidential contest. Ala
bama's State election is held in
August, Arkansas elects it's State
officers in September, Names
State election will be held on the
first Monday in September, Yer
mont's a week later and Georgia
votes on the first Wednesday in
October. The early voting States
are not pivotal or even doubtful
States, and have not much value
as "straws" indicating the prob
able outcome Of the greater con
test to follow. Alabama, Arkan-
sas and Georgia are regarded as
surely Democratic, and Maine
and Vermont are just as surely
Republican, though the falling off
in the vote in the South may dis
close the measure of detection
that will likely be caused by the
resuscitation of the moribund
and repellant rs to issue. Ore
gon, which was not included in
the safe column by either party,
furnishes the best basis ON which
to form an estimate and Oregon
gave a decisive vote of much sig
niticance in favor of the Republi-
cans in June last, before the
Democratic Convention was held.
The Democratic party has
thrown its chances away in the
East by going into the silver camp
and adopting Populism; the
Southern delegates at Kansas
City were opposed to the silver
madness, and there seem to be
unmistakable signs that the West
also has lost it's enthusiasm for
the 16 to cry. In 1898 the fusion
pluralities were greatly decreas-
ed in Colorado and Idaho, while
in Nevada the fusionists had the
narrowest margin, and the Re
publicans carried Wyoming,
Washington and Kansas. The
combined electoral vote of these
six States is twenty-seven, or one
more than the combined vote
of Indiana, Maryland and Della
ware.
Montana, ON account of the
split in the Democratic party,
caused by the fierce rivalry of
Clark and DAILY, is likely to go
Republican, and prove an Offset
to Delaware in case the heroic
fight which the decent Republi-
cans are making to purify the