The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-28
THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1901.
Results Not Likely to Disturb the
 Political Situation in the Least.

Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
 The meeting of the New Jersey Repub- lican State Convention at Trenton on Thursday will be a reminder that there are several State campaigns to pc wager this fall, to be followed by electlons m November After the New Jersey con Vention the Massachusetts convention alone remains to be held, and then all the candidates for State offices Will De in the field. ., A.. the one existing in the fall of lSSl, atter the death of President Garfield. but po- litical controversies were much more ac- r:nonious then thsn now. and S party n,,s nnes indications are that indifference Will pre- vail to a larger degree than 1t did twen- ty years ago, and especially in the Demo- cratic party. .,. States, namely, Massachusetts, New .Ier- sey, Pennsylvania. Maryland NTglnla, Ohio. Iowa. and Nebraska. Leaving out Pennsylvania, in which the situation Is anomalous, there is only one of the otner seven States in which the Democrats have a reasonable certainty or Wlhnlns and one more State in I wnica a. ta tneir ir Virginia and the latter Maryland. In the five other States the Republicans Will u1i~ doubtedly elect their tickets Massaclu- setts will chose Republican, governor shows no disposition to change its poht- ical alignment. Ohio will go Kepuollcan without doubt, the Democrats having so little heart in the contest as to nave or fered to dispense with any campaign speeches. Iowa will roll up Roou Re . publican majority, and Nebraska ls hot W likely to turn back to Bryanism even III an off year. n, .,,o ,.,+a ha
 In no State, however, will the vote pc large. The poll is invariably small m , tne year following a Presidential e.ecltoi,, .Sn- and the per cent. of votes cast thlS year Is likely to be smaller than rsual MdI = land will see the most vigorous conPaisi ii waged anywhere. and the most earnest effort made by the Democrats 10 suCceeu
 The State offices to be filled are unimpor, :, tant. but the Legislature to pc eiecteu will choose Senater Wellington sucSeS
 cor Ex-Senator German IS cdnuluat c eL. ate for the seat and will direct the campalgn on the Democratic side. In Virginia tne RepubIicans are showing more actiNlty than usual In a State campaign, out tIls facts that the Democrats have noInlhate9 popular candidate for GoVernoI anu have complete control of the clectloil lli Iila chinery leave little doubt as .o a"T i,seif in The political unrest manifesung user .li that State and the conditions 10 ne ere a U .- ed by the new Constitution VIII hdEc "' effect in future years. ,oo, l..
 The result of the elections Tn l9oi is n not likely to disturb the political sltuatloil in the least Nor is 1t probable that they will be followed by reaction m iSU-' "a as ; the elections of 1881 were followed ny tnt reaction of lSS2 which returned iaiE Democratic majority to the Nst,onai iostl House of Representatives ana plaCeC Democrat, Governors in tn execntlNe chairs of many Republican states. LnerH | are no such factions now in the Repub- lCan party as there were twenty years | ago, and the Democratic party naS iess | vitality than it had then. The elections of this year will be generally favorable to the Republicans. Those Of next year l will depend on future developments