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Show in the West; however, they all ought to be doing well. '. : " ," '. ." , The campaign in NewTork is getting down to personalities and 'they are ' "exceedingly bitter. A sample can be gathered by a remark made in a speech by Mr. Hughes, sneaking to the students of the Columbia university, in which' he said: ; "The imminent danger to be combated next election day is the systematic attempt to give the widest possible currency'to defamation, to pull down everything that is of good repute, and to make the plain people believe that everything extant is evil, and that nobody can be trusted with the work of reform re-form except a man who is notoriously striving to make of the publie discontent an elevator of himself to office." ' HOT CAMPAIGNS. They are having" exeiting campaigns in several States, thisj year. A Governor and Legislature are - to be elected in Rhode Island. The Legislature will , - have to (fill the seat now occupied by Senator Wet- taore. It is said that Wetmore has. $5,000,000; Col. . Colt,' hisi Republican rival, is said to be worth about twice as much ; and the Democratic candidate for the ' seat, Col. R. H. I. Goddard, is rated at $7,000,000. The greatest vote Rhode Island ever polled was - 66,000. If -it were a Western State under the same conditions it . would be expected that about 33,000 of the voters would retire after election with little . ..x fortunes each. But money goes further in Rhode Island Isl-and than it does in the West, and voters are easier satisfied1 when it comes ; to purchase than they are |