Show THE ELECTIONS Elections will be held today in the following states Maryland Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Minnesota Mississippi Nebraska Neb-raska New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Virginia and Wisconsin None of these elections is important import-ant in a national aenaeso far as party is concerned except those in New York and Virginia In the latter there is a combination of republicans and rsadjasters or rather debt repudiating re-pudiating democrats under Senator Mahone to defeat the regular democratic dem-ocratic or conservative party Virginia Vir-ginia is as thoroughly democratic in sentiment as Iowa is republican but the party leaders permitted disagreements disagree-ments as to what should be done with the state debt to divide them as to other political principles The aspirations aspi-rations of individuals also had much to do with creating divisions in the party The quarrel has been going on for some years and since Mahone was elected to the Senate has assumed as-sumed proportions which threaten the supremacy of democracy in the state Mahone deserted the democrats demo-crats and sold himself end his faction to the republicans whose tool as well aa master he haD since been The whole influence of the administrations administra-tions of the late President Garfield and of President Arthur has been thrown on the side of Mahone and his political traitors Even r publicans pub-licans have been turned out of federal offices to make room for readjustee who bad influence in the community or who could gain more votes from being in office The business has been disreputable from first to last even in this day of dirtiness in politics pol-itics Should the readjusfers be successful suc-cessful at the polls today in choosing choos-ing the legislature another democratic demo-cratic senator John W Johnston would have to give way at the close of the present Congress in 1883 to another Mahone However the chances appear more than even in favor of the regular democratic ticket At the last presidents election elec-tion the debt paying democrats cast S8449iTOte3 to 31527 by the read fasters It seems hardly probable that the federal patronage placed at the disposal of Mahone could have changed the convictions of enough kemocratio voters to give the read vuetera a majority In New York the fight is even more interesting r It la nearly ten years since the democrats had a majority i ma-jority in the leg alatare of the empire state They have a handsome majority ma-jority of voters in the state bat the A legislative districts have been BO gerrymandered that it has seemed impossible for the democrats to gain their rightful supremacy However this year tyre is a bright hope that New York will once again come under the control of the democracy The republicans are certainly divided among themselves The feeling is extremely bitter between the faalfbrseds and stalwarts and while is i will not go so far as to cause either to vote against the patched up ticket it will lead to much scratching scratch-ing and induce many stayaphonies The democrats are well organized throughout the state their internal quarrels being confined to New York City There ia a suggestion in this mornings telegrams that John Kelly baa again bargained with the republicans repub-licans to sell hia party for some city offices Thi may be true The probabilities are it is trae if Kelly bus any assurance that the gco3s can be delivered The Tammany boss is that kind of a politician Last year his trading with the enemy for some petty spoils whish he did not get coat he democracy the Presidentcy The year before the same thing defeated the democratic candidate for governor of New York This year it may fasten upon the Empire State for another period republican rule The democracy democ-racy will always be in doubt and die tress so long as it hangs to the Tammany Tam-many chieftain and permits him to have a voice in its councils |