The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-10
THE YEARS MAIL AND
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS
Continued from page l.,

the pdlSH tIOlliStS W ne d HOI one
from start to finish. Democrats have
generally been successful in Maryland
State elections in recent years, ana 1t
is the prevalent opinion that they will
win this year. but 1T viii be no walk
over. The effect of the adoption of
constitutional amendment, eliminating
the ignorant negro vote, would be to
make the State surely Democratic for
the present. But the ultimate effect
will undoubtedly be to strengthen the
Republican party by encouraging a
more respectable element to affiliate
with it, as the case has been in other
Southern States.
The Virginia campaign will be al
most entirely within Democratic lines.
1t will be confined largely to the Dem
ocratic primaries for nominations,
which will be held, probably, along in
August or September. At these pri
maries Democratic nominees for gov
ernor, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, members of
the Legislature and various other of
fees will be named; also a Democratic
nominee for United States Senator.
who will take his seat March A, 1907,
two years from now. The struggle for
those nominations, especially those for
governora nd senator, will be as spirited
as any in the history of the State. 1t
has already begun, for the candidates
have announced themselves and are
preparing for their appeals to the vot
ers. From a national standpoint, the in
terest centers in the senatorship. Two
strong men have entered the race. Sen
ator Thomas S. Martin, as efficient a
senator as Virginia ever had, is seek
ing third term. He is opposed by
Gov. Andrew j. Montague, as capable
governor as the Old Dominion ever
elected, Young, eloquent and aggressive.
The Virginia Republicans count on
making things interesting before cleo
ton time. There has been realign
ment of the party recently. The federal
offices have been turned over to new
organization, headed by Col. Campbell
Slemp, the only Republican Represen-
tative in the National House from that
State. Col. Slemp and his ieutenants
argue that there is chance for the
Republicans to elect a governor. 1t is
generally agreed that that is very OPP
timistic view, but the counting of the
vote will be interesting as far as 1T
demonstrates what strength the Vir-
ginia Republicans can show as a white
man s party.
NEW ENGLAND ELECTIONS.
There are two State elections in New
England that will have some national
interest, Massachusetts, and Rhode Is
land being the only two States that
now elect a governor and legislature
annually. Rhode Island has come to be
d very close State politically. The Re
publicans redeemed it last November,
but elected their governor only by
handful of votes. The efforts over the
election of a governor this fall will GER
tainly be of a most strenuous charac-
ter. Massachusetts, normally Repub-
hcan, has a Democratic governor, W. l..
Douglas, something of national figure
for the handy way he secured a Demo
cratic majority of $4,000 at a Repub-
lican landslide election. If he can
climb the hill for another term, he may
loom into. Importance in Democratic
politics outside of Massachusetts,.
Southerners begin their campaigns
very early; these two New England
States do not start till very late. Mas
sachusetts generally defers her nominal
ing conventions till early in October,
and probably little will be heard about
Massachusetts politics till along late IN
September. 1t is not certain that local
issues will be discussed exclusively,
either in Rhode Island or Massachu-
setts. as will be the case in Maryland
ing theme up there and Will crop out
to some extent in the fulminations from
the stump.
Although Ohio went Republican last
November by the enormous plurality of
5,421 votes, the State is approaching
a very interesting gubernatorial cam
paign this year. No one cares yet to
say whether the demorahzed Democ-
racy can pull itself together before next
November. Whatever opportunity 1T
has comes from the dissension in Re-
publican ranks and the apparent deter
mination to renominate Gov. Myron t.
Herrick He has incurred the open
hostility of influential Republican ele-
ments, and were it not for the big Re
publican majorities Ohio has been Civ
inc there MIGHT be reasonable chance
of defeating him. But Ohio campaigns
are always hard fought, and the one
this year will be no exception. The
fact that Senator Foraker who heads
one of the Republican factions in Ohio,
is an avowed candidate for the Presi-
Dental nomination, viii directly or in
directly make the Buckeve struggle of
more than passing national interest.
The regular Ohio organization, which
recognized the late Senator Hanna as
its head. is not cordial toward Senator
Foraker and intends, apparently, to re-
nominate Gov. Herrick against Sena-
tor Fora ker 8 wishes
The Legislature TO be elected in Ohio
this year will not have the choosing of
United States Senator, but just to the
south. in Kentucky. Legislature will
be elected that will name a successor