The annual fall elections were held this week and the results are a source of much gratification to the Republicans in general and to the Adwministration in particular. The chief Sight was in Ohio, McKinley's home State. The Democrats sought streng nously to carry the State, or at least to cut down the Republican plurality, so that it might be interpreted as a rebuke to MeKinley's Philippine policy. The contest was complicated further by the independent candidacy of Mayor Jones of Toledo, whose popularity is due to his profession and practice as a friend of the labouring man, and who adopts as his political platform the Golden Rule. In spite of all this, Nash the Republica ernor, was elected by nearly 60,000 plurality, a generous increase over the usual vote.
The results in the other States which held elections were almost equally favourable to the Republicans. The one exception was Nebraska, Bryan's State, where the nominee of the Fusionists (made up of Republicans and_Populists) carried the State by some 13,000. The Republicans are not grieving at this much, however, as it seems likely to ensure the nomination of Bryan by the Democrats next year, and they feel that he will be less to be feared then than he was three years ago, when he was defeated by McKinley.
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