Show y ri FALL ELECTIONS ohio and iowa have had their state elections the one with ft a considerable confide rab letho atio other with an immense republican majority this year closely following the year tear of the presidential election is the least important off on year of the f four our year cycle of political revolution the public sentiment as evinced at the previous is years ballot boxes is generally so strong as to throw a distinct shadow forward into the next twelvemonth and render re n improta improbable ble any important mutation of the political aspect still there arc are no less than twelve states which will hold bold elections of a more or less serious character on tho the ath of next m month anth and adding the elections held a few days ago we have over one third of the united states which are called upon this fall to render a verdict on the results of the election of last november however national questions and party principles havo have been so much overshadowed by tho the recent great grief of the whole people that there is little likelihood of the elections to result in anything more than a more or less tacit acquiescence in the result of the campaign abich lifted james A garfield on the executive chair which unfortunately became his death couch As far as the prospective state elections arc are concerned we find that on the ath of november a dozen states will see their citizens gathered around the polls new york state elects a secretary of state and four other state officers an associate judge of the court of appeals its legislature and four congressmen pennsylvania elects a state treasurer and county officers massachusetts elects a governor and the other state officers and its legislature new jersey elects its house of representatives and a part of its senate maryland ejects elects its comptroller its house of delegates and half its senate minnesota elects its governor and other state officers and its and part of its state officers its house and part of its senate virginia and mississippi each elect a governor and the other state officers and the legislature wisconsin elects a governor part of its senate and its assembly colorado elects judges and county officers nebraska elects a supreme court judge judo and two regents of the university uni aversit T neither Neit lier of the elections involves anything like a radical change of politic politics or a sweeping expression of popular preference still theophilo observer of the signs of the times will even note the way of a straw to tell which way the wind blows and in some smile of the states enumerated above a slight indica indic 11 tion luay point tho the way to predictions of what is to be the order of the day in 1884 PRESIDENT bod body y liko like john browns lies in in the grave there is no doubt that his soul is acting in in a different far more sensible way than what some spiritualistic mediums pretend him to be acting one medium asserted with the customary professional profundity that gar fields spirit affirmed with regard to his assassin that tho flie poor maniac should have justice done him and if the people raw fit to send him to the spirit world he garfield would be the first to receive him by the hand this is of a cloth with the doctrine that a few moments repentance pen tance on the gallows would dispatch guiteau straight into the bosom of abraham |