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THE EARLY STATE ELECTIONS.

THE EARLY STATE ELECTIONS.
State elections will be held in eight
states in advance of the general cleo
ton in November. These states are Al
ALBANIA, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana.
Maine. North Carolina, Rhode Island
and Vermont There is probably not
great deal of doubt about how any state
in the list will go in its election. Any
novice can separate the Democratic from
the Republican states. II is true that
North Carolina is at present under
Populist-Republican government, but it
is normally a Democratic state, and there
are reasons for thinking 1t will return to
its ancient allegiance at the next cleo
ton. AT the same time, the pluralities by
which the winning parties will carry the
states will be watched with close inter-
est since they will indicate the drift of
public opinion on questions of the day.
These expressions. however, will be lin
tied to the North and the South. There
is no Western state in the list of those
TO hold elections before November.
Rhode Island will lead off with her cleo
ton to-day. The state will go Republi-
can, of course. In the election of last
year-for Little Rhody" clngs 10 the
old fashion of electing a Governor every
year-the Republican majority was 97O6
in a total vote Of 43. 1870 1t IS believed
that the total vote will be somewhat larg-
er this year, so that an average Republi-
can majority ought 10 be in the neighbor-
hood of 10000 Should it fall below that
figure, il would indicate Democratic
gains.
Louisiana will follow Rhode Island,
holding her election April II. Special in
tereet is conferred in this election because
the Legislature which will be chosen will
select the successor to Senator Caffery.
There is no regular Republican ticket in
the field. but there is an Independent
ticket backed by disgruntled Democrats
Populists and Republicans. In the last
election Gov. Foster received a plurality
of So, 1873 in total vote of 101,0i6 1t Is
expected that the majority in the APP
proa ching election will be cut down from
the foregoing figures, through the efforts
of Senator Caffery, who is opposing the
regular Democratic ticket; but there is
little If any doubt that the regular De-
mocracy win be triumphant by safe ma
jority.
In North Carolina, whose election will
occur Aug. 2, there will be elected Gov
ernor and other state house officers, and
the people will vote on the constitutional
amendment passed by the Legislature
and designed to. virtually eliminate the
black race from state politics. In the
proposed amendment there are qualifi-
cations which will disfranchise a large
majority of the blacks, and a grand
father clause" which will except the
whites from the operations of the law
1t is practically a copy of the Louisiana
elective franchise law, the constitution
atty of which has been questioned. In
the last election the fusionists carried the
state by a plurality of 1885 in total
vote of 1886, $50 Since the Wilmington
riots. however the white people have got
ten more closely together than for sew
eral years, and a good Democratic VIC
tory is confidently expected.
Alabama is an August state. The cleo
ton will be held on the first Monday in
that month 1t will go safely Democratic
of course The chief point of interest in
the election is whether or not Gov. john
ston will succeed in having himself elected
10 the Senate as the successor to the Hon.
John r. Morgan. Maine and Vermont
will go to the polls in September. 1t is
unnecessary to say how they viii go, or
to speculate upon the result that will be
reached in Georgia, when she holds her
election on Oct. 3.