The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-10-25
NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.
Some of the Contests Being Wsged in
Several States.

The assassination of President NC
Kinley practically suspended for three
weeks the election campaigns in the
several states to vote for state officers
Nov. 5. In some of the states the
Buffalo tragedy changed the character
of the campaign work, and in all it
had the effect of diverting attention
from merely local issues and concen-
trating it on more important state or
national issues What effect the as
sassinatoin is to have on the elections
themselves is to be determined on the
first Tuesday in November.
Elections for governor and other
state officers are to be held on that
day in Iowa, Massachusetts, New Jer-
sey, Ohio, and Virginia. Nebraska
will elect supreme judge and regents
of the state university, Pennsylvania
a state treasurer and judge of the su-
preme court, and Maryland members
of the state legislature.
In Ohio, Governor Nash is candi-
date for reelection on strong Repub-
lican platform, touching both national
and state issues. He is opposed by
Colonel Kilbourne on platform ignor-
ing Bryanism. The assassination OF
President Mckinley eliminated from
the campaign in his own state the ex-
treme anti-expansion element Mr..
Lentz and others, who were SO abusive
in 1900 have been silenced. The
campaign has been quiet one, but it
is believed that the Republicans, in
stead of being Indifferent, are more
alert than usual in off years. If this
is true, Governor Nash will be re-
elected by the majority of two years
ago.
In Iowa the Republicans are united,
in spite of the efforts of the extreme
Prohibitionists and Democrats to work
up sentiment against the Republican
candidate for Governor. The plat
form is of the stalwart order, on the
line of President McKinleys speech at
Buffalo, while the Democratic plat
form was not received with favor by
the Populistic branch of the party.
In Pennsylvania the Democrats ig-
nored national issues and every state
issue except that of reform in the
legislature. An attempt is to be made
to unite the Democrats and boiling or
independent Republicans, but the
party issue is squarely drawn, and GER
tainly the Republicans will be as much
inclined to stand by a distinctly ma
tional platform in 1901 as in 1900.
In Maryland the issue is between
Gormanism and Republicanism. Sena-
tor German is making supreme effort
to secure control of the legislature, and
the Democrats have announced that if
they control the legislature they will
proceed to disfranchiss the negroes.
On these issues the Republicans are
making their main fight, and, in spite
of the restrictive suffrage law enacted
by the last legislature, they hope to
deal death blow to Gormanism in
the state.
In Nebraska the offices are less i'm
portant than the platforms adopted by
the Republican and Democratic state
conventions. The Republican plat
form is stalwart in every clause. The
Democratic platform is re- emu ncia-
ton of the principles of the free-silver
party, and was dictated by Mr.. Bryan.
The issue is between Organism and
Republicanism.
The New Jersy Republicans in 1898
elected their governor by plurality of
5, 400. Last year Mckinley had a
plurality of 56, 800. The Republicans
expect a plurality in November of g.,
900 to 10, 900.
The main interest centers in Massa-
Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska, and
where there has been
quiet but very earnest campaign work.
In 1900 the Republican plurality in
was 81, $50 (; in Ohio, 60
036; in Iowa. SO, 352; in Nebraska, T.
S22; in Pennsylvania, 1913, 433 The
outlook is certainly not favorable to
the Democrats.