New-York tribune., 1901-11-03
TIE ELECTIONS OF 1901,

From the point of view Of national poiitlcs
next Tuesdays elections have scarcely more
than an indirect and passing Importance No
year in our political calendar is marked ihueeu
bv less activity than that which 1oho"s inc
storms and struggles of a Presidential canvass
Happily for the nations peace OF mlnu lhe pas
sions born of Il Presidential contest rapidly SUI
side. and in the thirteen months "hlch eiap'e
before the new President and the new congress
face each other ample opporIunlt! Is given
Dublis interest and energy to turn to non
nolitical concerns The few and scattered state
elections set for the post-Presidential year en-
courage this general cessation OF pont1cai ehoft
"A cessation to which tie partisan rivairies
soon to break out in the new Congress will put
ON unavoidable term Contests like those OF
1901 can be looked to to disclose in some sl1ght
desree the reactions of sentiment which nave
occurred since the preceding Presidential strug
gle was decided. Yet erratic are the 1nhu-
ences which rule in many OF these OH year
canvasseS that their results can never pe ue
pended on to foreshadOw with any accuracy lhe
outcome of the more general and important
Congressional campaign of the November fol-
lowing for which they pave the way
Party tickets have been put in the field this
fall in twelve States. Governors are 10 pe
chosen in Iowa. Massachusetts. New-Jersey'
Ohio, Rhode Island ana virginia, anu ihih'oi
State officers TO be elected IN Marylaho
Mississippi Nebraska and Pennsylvania heh-
tucky is 10 elect n State legislature ana New
York is to vote for Assemblymen only In
Iowa Kentucky. Maryland and Ohio the legis-
1atrlres chosen will have the right to fill exist
ing vacancies in the United States SENATE anu
snacfaI elections have been ordered to I'LL four
vacant seats in the Federal House In many OF
these State contests the result OF Tuesday
voting can already be safely predicted. MIS-
sissippi Virginia and. probably. Kentucky VIII
register Democratic victories. In Iowa, Rhode
Island Massachusetts, and New-1ork Repubil-
can successes are conceded. Party lines nave
been abandoned in Pennsylvania, and In New
Jersey and Ohio alike all signs point 10 ueci-
sive Republican victory
Two States only-Nebraska and Maryland
can fairly be put in the doubtful nst- III
Nebraska the Populist-D Democratic alliance is
making a desperate effort. under Colonel
Rrran-s leadership. to recover the ground 1t lost
n year ago The fusion plurality in Nebraska
in 1899 was Is 105: the Republican plurality IN
1900 was 222 In Maryland the real prize at
S+al<a this fall is the seat in the United States
Senate now held by George L. Wellington EA-
Senator Arthur T. German is repeating the
iqht he made for yindication in 1897, and 1t is
dfficuIt TO say whether or not he will succeed
no,v where he failed then. But if Mr.. German
wins II will be confessedly on local issues, for
IN +he last two Presidential canvasses Maryland
has been firmly Republican. Even a Demo
cratic victory in that State will mark no serious
reversal of nubc sentiment, nor will II stir In
national politics any genuine echoes OF hesl-
tation or unrest.