Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1912 — 29 DEMOCRATIC governors. [ARTICLE]

29 DEMOCRATIC governors.

With the admission of Arizona the Union will be composed of 4 8 I states. There are now 27 democratic I governors, and as both Arizona and New Mexico have effected democratic executives, the number will be increased to 29. Ajiiong the republican governors only 14 are classed as “regulars,” four of the others calling themselves “progressives, and two frankly admitting that they are “insurgents.” The governor of Tennessee can be classed with neither party, as, he was ejected by a fusion of democrats and republicans, though he himself is a republican. What a change has been wrought in a few years! Not long ago the old-time republicans held most or the country. Today the democrats and progressives have pusted them fiom all but 14 state.-—less than a third of the 48. And the big campaign is only beginning.