Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1903 — NEXT TUESDAY'S ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

NEXT TUESDAY'S ELECTIONS.

At last reports Bro. Swains of the Lake County News, was still wearing bis top-knot and paying no attention to “Tillman” Knotts' threats. Oxford Tribune: We are told that when an Oxford man makes a kick to the tax ferret the town’s share of the taxes is taken off. This is generosity without a string to it. Louis Ludlow, who for several years has been engaged in special correspondence work for the Indianapolis Sentinel, has taken a position with the Indianapolis Star syndicate of papers and will act as their Washington correspondent. President Stone of Purdue University published a card in the Lafayette papers and says the general impression that Purdue is conducted exclusively for football sports is incorrect. It teaches other things, he says. This will indeed be news to the public. C. J. Orbison, attorney for the Anti-Saloon League of Indiana, has resigned that he may give attention to other business. Mr. Orbiaon has been here several tiroes in the interest of the antisaloon fights, and is quite well known to many of our readers.

The Wolcott Enterprise says the Monticello papers failed to report in fall the recent "Korn Carnival” held at the latter place. The omission was a prize tight whioh the Enterprise says took place at the opera house on Friday night of the carnival. Carnivals are carnivals, some better than others, some worse, and it makes little difference what name they sail under. Judge Plummer of the Wabash circuit court rendered a decision last week that is of especial interest to temperance people and saloon men all over the state. If a blanket remonstrance is filed, Judge Pinmmer holds that it will be good against all applicants for the period-of two years, and that the namea can not be takeD from the remonstrance by the signers themselves. The decision is an important one for the temperance element in Indiana, since it largely guards against the audden changes of mind on the part of remonstrants, who are frequently subjected to pressure from saloon influence at the last moment.

Elections will be-held in eleven states on Tuesday, No. 3. Full state tickets are to be voted for in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Mississippi, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky and lowa, while in New York, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Colorado a justice of the upper courts, regents of the state university or minor state officers are to be chosen. Municipal officials are to be selected in Greater New York, San Francisco and Salt Lake.

The prohibitionists have a ticket in all the states except Colorado, the socialists in all except Nebraska and Colorado, the populists in two states, lowa and Colorado, and the socialist labor party in three—New York, Massachusetts and Ohio. Fusion wrs effected in only one state, Nebraska, though the republicans of New York indorsed the democratic nominee for judge of the Court of Appeals. The most interesting contests in the east are the state elections in Maryland and Rhode Island and the municipal and county elections in New York city. In Maryland the offices of governor, comptroller and attorneygeneral will be filled. Edwin Warfield, the democratic candidate, is fighting the issue with Stevenson A* Williams, the republican nominee. The officers of governor, lieuten-ant-governor, secretary of state, attorney-general and treasurer will be selected in Rhode Island. Samuel P. Colt heads the republican ticket and Lucius Garvin, the present executive, occupies the same position on the democratic ticket. Last year Garvin upset plans of the republicans by securing an election, although every other successful candidate was a republican.

Massachusetts will choose a full state ticket. All the republican candidates were renominated. Bates, besides having been governor this year, was previously lieu-tenant-governor for three years. Gaston, the democratic candidate, was last year’s nominee for governor. Pennsylvania will elect an audi-tor-general, treasurer and two judges of the Superior court. Court of Appeals judge is the only state office to be voted for in New York. Judge Dennis O’Brien democrat, will have the race to himself, having been indorsed by the republicans. The interest in New York will center in the municipal and county contests in Manhattan and Kings boroughs. Seth Low, the present mayor, is the fusion candidate and George B. McClellan is the democratic nominee. Ex-Deputy Police Commissioner Devery is an independent candidate and the prohibitionists and socialists have also made nominations. The result will be watched with interest, owing to the split between Tammany and the Brooklyn organization, headed by McLaughlin. The Brooklyn organization indorsed McClellan but bolted the nominations of Grout for comptroller and Fornes for president of the board of aldermen. Grout and Fornes were the fusion candidates, but on account of their indorsement by the democrats their names were taken off the fusion ticket and

those of Hinricbe end McGuire substituted. The liveliest contest is in Ohio, where Myron ,T. Herrick and Tom L. Johnson, both of Cleveland, are the leaders on the republican and democratic tickets, and Marcus A. Hanna and John H. Clark are struggling for members of the legislature, which will elect a United States senator. In lowa, Albert B. Cummins is making his second race for governor, bis oppohent being Jeremiah B. Sullivan, who is depending on the democratic vote, the populists having their own state ticket in the field. Geo. Beckham is seeking reelection in Kentucky, the republican candidate being Morris B. Belknap, who is making an active canvass. Democrats will have a walkover in Mississippi, neither the republican nor any other opposition party having put a ticket in the field. The contest in Nebraska isfora justice of the Supreme Court. The republican candidate is John D. Barnes, the democrats and populists fusing on John D, Sullivan. Two regents of the state university are also to be chosen. In Colorado the democrats made a straight nomination for judge of the Supreme Court, the popblists putting up one of their own party. The fight for municipal control of San Francisco and Salt Lake, particularly the former, is warm.