Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-22
FALL ELECTIONS

IHv HE eIeCIlOnS STATED IOT lHlS year
cover seven states, and though it
Il is known as the off year there is
great interest in the possible results
and both leading parties are watching
eagerly for the outcome. In New York
there will be chosen two justices of the
court of appeals. In Massachusetts,
Kentucky, Maryland. Mississippi, New
Jersey and Rhode Island governors and
state officers will be chosen. and the
Boston Herald, the independent fore
caster of political results, sums up pos
sibilities and facts as follows:
"Of these states Kentucky, Mary
land, Mississippi and Rhode Island
have Democratic governors; the two
others are Republican. The signifi-
canoe of off-year elections is not as
great as it used to be- inasmuch as
state issues now frequently dominate
the campaigns, in the absence of any
great burning national issue upon
which the parties are sharply divided.
yet, as this is the year before the
presidential election, the fact is re-
called that when in 1883 Foraker was
defeated for governor of Ohio by
George Hoadley and other states wit
messed a slump in the Republican vote
the wiseacres foresaw-or afterward
thought they did-the reaction which
carried Grover Cleveland into the
White House the next year.
$50 in 1895, when Kentucky and
Maryland elected Republican COVER
nors, the leaders of that party looked
forward confidently to the victory
which came the next year.
again in 1891, when the Democrats
elected Flower in New York and Boies
in Iowa and there was falling off in
the Republican majorities in other
states, the election of Cleveland for his
second term was foreshadowed
"The real contests this year will be
in Massachusetts, where it is expected
that Mr.. Whitney will lead vigorous
campaign for tariff reduction and reci-
procity; in New Jersey, where Repub-
lican divisions and the reform wave
give to the leaders of that party some
apprehension, and in Rhode Island,
which the Democrats hope to carry
again.
Maryland, too, has Joined the doubt
full column. The Republican majority
in 1900 was just about equaled by the
Democrats in 1902 and in 1904 Roose-
velt carried the state by only fifty
one. 1t is fighting ground this year"
We take issue with our Boston name
sake on the fact that there is a "burn-
ing" issue between the parties, espe-
cially in Massachusetts,, in the form
of tariff revision and reciprocity, and
in miniature the Massachusetts, fight
will have much in common with the
national campaign that is to be. FL
nancial, business and labor problems in
Massachusetts are very like to the
same ones in the national arena, and
the usual cry of "As goes New York
so goes the nation will be changed
to read Massachusetts this fall. All
for which national Democracy stands
lis copied in the needs of the party in
the Bay state, and as that state works
out the great problems in the coming
election she will stand as a pattern
for the national fight to follow. II
Maryland is debatable ground Massa-
chusetts certainly is not, and the over
whelming vote of her workingmen fol
the Democratic nominee will prove thai
fact. The day of so-called aristocratic
Republicanism is passed in Massachu.
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