The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-11
THIS YEARS ELECTIONS
OHIO WILL CHOOSE A GOVERNOR
 AND A LEGISLATURES
Upon the Result May Depend Senator Hanna's Re-election-Iowa's Cam
 .paign and Tariff Revision. . s Issues in Other States.

washington Special to New York Times Although this Is an oE year Tn poll ncs, campaigns will be conducteo oi no
 smeil importance to the two parties. Iowa VIII elect successor to Governor Cum mins and q new Legislature, Ohio GOV ernor and Legislature, which will deter
 mine whether Senator Hanna shall nave another term; Maryland. Governor and Legislature, whose members will have the choice of United states senator while Kentucky. Rhode Island and Mas sachusetts will choose practically an en- tire quota of State officers. Most of these
 elections have significance beyond State boundaries. and will he hotly contested; First. perhaps. in importance is the election in Ohio stanch Republican
 State, but often carried by the Demo with which the Buckeye campaign is to he fought has been forecasted in the strife over municipal elections
 The election of Democratic Governor | in Ohio this fall is hardly to be looked for, but the complications of Ohio politics
 are extensive. The heat of the fray will
 be over the Legislature. for with the big cities of the State voting Democratic on l the legislative ticket there is always dan ger that the Republicans may lose the Legislature. The Democratic trend in all l the big cities of the country has been pronounced during the last year.
 Tarin revisionists who have recently | been rebuffed by President Roosevelt and Secretary Root in public utterances, and who are showing renewed signs of activ- ity in spite of such high official reproof, will watch closely for a sign from Iowa. Governor Cummins. now coming up for | reelection, is the head and front of the
 tarin revision movement in the west. from men of his own party. There may be an effort to defeat his renomination, which probably would not succeed. The result in Iowa possibly will have consid-
 erable ,inflfiuence on the making or un- making of Governor Cummins as a per sonage In national politics. If he comes of triumphant he will be a potent factor | in the Republican National Convention. | Maryland's election this year will be important, even beyond the selection by the Legislature of a successor to Senator McComas. for should the Republicans capture the State it would dampen the enthusiasm of those Democrats who are hoping to make inroads in next years Presidential campaign upon several big States of the East. In the last two Presi- the Republicans. but Governor Smith was elected four years ago as Democrat. | The election of a Democrat to succeed | Governor Smith and by good majorities would inspire strong hopes of bringing the State into the Democratic column again in November, 1904. It would also | increase the political prestige of Senator | German.
 Democratic politicians have had much | to say recently about the prospects of | breaking into the Republican stronghold | of New England. Connecticut went Dem | ocratic twice when MT. Cleveland was | the Presidential candidate. Rhode Island | elected a Democratic Governor last No | vember. but the term is for only one year | and there will be Gubernatorial election | in that State next November.
 l Massachusetts. a protection State ,is | nevertheless attained in spots with tariff | revision ideas. The Bay State is still hold 1 ing annual elections for Governor. Occa. | sionally 1t has elected a Democratic Gov.
 ernor. It can hardly be expected to repeat | such a performance next November but | as the State is the home of Richard Ol ney, a possibility for the Democratic Presidential nomination, and as the Dem | ocratic Party is gaining some virility uI l there, the vote will be at least instruct | i've.
 l The election in Kentucky this year does | not involve a seat in the United States | Senate, and the outcome promises nc | widespread interest unless Governor | Beckham should be succeeded by a Re | publican candidate.
 | Louisiana elects a Governor to take his
 seat next April. but the election will bt
 | held late and as the outcome is certain
 | 1t will attract little attention outside thu
 | State The same is true of Mississippi
 | where a successor to Governor Longint
 will be named. to take his seat in Janu
 ary of 1904.
 There will he minor elections in othel
 States. But these elections will have lit
 tie bearing on national politics.