Show ry i NEST MONDAY A week from yesterday elections will take place in twelve states of the union aa As we have already referred to them at length wo we will simply record the fact here that since our last writing upon the subject the chances forthe for the election of a democratic majority in the next new york legislature arc are steadily increasing and improving the fierce assaults aa of the half breeds in the E empire state arc are only equaled by the furious rejoinders rejo inders of the stal warts and vice versa the two factions of the great and glorious party of purity patriotism probity bit y are tearing the mask from each other with merciless bitterness and many unsavory things arc are being uncovered As it is an old and good saying that a house divided against itself cannot stand t there here appears to be a great probability ability that the democrats whose int internal ernal chasm seems to be bridged over P at least outwardly will get the better of it this time but a democratic legislature this year would almost certainly mean a or in a twelvemonth and the latter emergency would prove a sort of forerunner fore runner to a democratic president dentin in 1884 hence the state election of new york next monday has a national nation al signification and is looked forward to with more interest and greater suspense than arc are the prospective results in ill the oilier other eleven states taken together the election in nebraska is the the only other one in which the people utah have some sort of an interest as agthe the people of that state will have to vote on an all amendment to the tile constitution con conferring ferrii g the franchise on the women of that state and if adopting it establishing in llense and an djuth truth the tile motto of odthe the state equality before the law |