Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1898 — The Political Pot [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Political Pot

Elections This Year. This may he an “off” year in politics, but the importance of the elections does not make it appear so. Twenty-eight States elect Governors and State Legislatures, as follows: Rhode Island (last April), Oregon (last June), Alabama (in August), Arkansas (Sept. 5), Vermont (Sept. 6), Maine (Sept. 12), and New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Minnesota, Kansas, Tennessee, California, Nebraska, Colorado. Connecticut, ' Georgia. New Hampshire, South Dakota, South Carolina, North Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada on Nov. 8. Besides these Illinois elects a State Treasurer; Ohio, Indiana and Iqwa a Secretary of State; Missouri, North Carolina and Florida justices of Court of Appeals or Supreme Court, nnd Delaware, a Treasurer and nil Auditor. • The importance of the State elections lies in the fact that Legislatures elect thirty United States Senators. The Legislatures electing are in the following States: New Y'ork. Pennsylvania. Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Massachusetts. New Jersey, Minnesota, Tennessee, California, Virginia, Maryland, Nebraska, West Virginia, Connecticut, Maine, Utah, Washington, Mississippi. Vermont, Rhode Island, Montana, North Dakota, Florida, Wyoming and Nevada. In some of these States, notably Maryland, Ohio aud Rhode Island, the Legislatures have already elected Senators. The control of the next United States Senate depends on the State elections to be held. Again, the last congressional elections lie fore the presidential election of 1900 are to be held this fall. Upon their results depends the composition of the next House of Representatives, which shall determine the future course of the United • State* relative to the territories acquired tgr the war, and solve many perplexing questions arising from the war. Democrats of Utah have made the war n political issue. William McMillan is the Republican candidate for Governor of Nevada. The State convention of Colorado Republicans nominated Henry R. Wolcott for Governor. Connecticut Republicans nominated George F. I/Otinsbcry for Governor over John Addison Porter. Senator Thurston <>f Nebraska, in a speech at Cincinnati, warmly opposed the annexation of Cuba nnd the Philippine*. As a result of “the election in Vermont, the State Senate will be Republican and the House will have an overwhelming Republican majority. The silver Republicans nnd tlie Democrats of Nevada were unable to agree on terms for fusion, and each iwrty has nominated its own ticket. Frank W. Rollins of Concord was nominutc.d for Governor of New Hampshire by one of the largest Republican convene Uous ever held iu the bts*a.