The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-06-27
1901 is an Off Year.

There will be fewer State elections in
the present year than in any other year
since the close of the civil war, and
few of them are of more than local i'm
pOrtance.
The Republicans OF Iowa have called
their State nominating convention to
meet at Cedar Rapids on August II. A
governor and some other important
officers are to be nominated and there
has been some talk of the nomination
of E. ii. Conger; American minister to
China, by the Republicans. MI. Conger
is an Iowa man, and Republican NOM
nation in the Hawkeye State is equiva-
lent to an election nowadays and has
been so since the settlement of the
prohibition question there and the con-
sequent retirement of Horace Boies
from the field of political activity.
There will be an election for governor
of Ohio, and there is already substantial
agreement upon the candidates. George
X. Nash, Republican, is to be nominal
ed for reelection, and James kilbourne
is the prospective Democratic nominee
There will be an election for governor
in Virginia, in which State the term is
four years, and it will be the first held
under the terms of the new conStitu-
ton to be agreed upon at the June
convention in Richmond. Under this
constitution Virginia Republicans will
have still less chance of success than
they have had at any time heretofore.
Massachusetts will hold its annual
election with the same certainty of the
choice of a Republican State ticket
that Virginia offers to the Democrats.
There will be State election in Mary
land at which the officers to be chosen
will be a comptroller, a clerk of the
State court of aspeals, 9S members of
the house of delegates, Is senators and
a large number of county officers.
Still another of the States to hold an
election this year will be New Jersey, in
which a successor to Governor Y oorhees
will be voted for The record of recent
elections gives the Republicans very
little apprehension as to the result in
what has now become one of the strong
est Republican States in the country.
All the present State officers in New
Jersey are Republicans, and the last
legislature had Republican majority
of Is in the senate and 30 in the assem-
bly,, there being only four Democrats in
the former and only y Democrats in
| the latter
In Pennsylvania the Republican gov
! ernOr of which holds over until after the
election of 1902, there will be State
election for State treasurer and for
supreme court judge,
In the other Western States there
| will be no elections in 1901, except to
fill local minor offices; there will be
none in the South, except in Virginia,
and none in the Middle West or the
| Northwestern States, except in Ohio.
By degrees the number of State cleo
tons has been, by sundry political
changes in constitutions or election
laws, reduced, and in New York there
will be no State election this year. No
State senators will be voted for in New
York, but members of the assembly
will be elected and there will be may
orality contest in New York city of
more than State Importance. A comp
troler, a distaict assembly and local
officers generally will be chosen in this
city.
There will be no congressional cleo
tons this year, except to fill vacancies
where they exhist by death or resigna-
ton. Ordinarily the State elections
which occur in the year next following
presidential contest are of some ma
tional Importance as indicating the
general trend of public sentiment in
the doubtful States. but such does not
appear to be the case this year, for
most of the States in which there will
be elections, Pennsylvania, Massachu-
sets, Iowa, New Jersey and Ohio, are
as strongly inclined to the Republican
party as Virvinia is to the Democratic
party, and in Maryland, heretofore
doubtful, there will be in operation this
year new election law which, it is con-
coded, puts the Republican party at a
decided disadvantage. New York
| Sun.