Abstract

The Week

The article focuses on various issues related to politics. The defeat of the disfranchising Constitutional amendment in Maryland is the most important single result recorded in the State elections of Tuesday. It ought not to be too much to hope that this second emphatic rejection of the proposition by the people of Maryland will put an end, for a long time to come, to the mischievous agitation that has been kept up by the Democratic politicians for the purpose of securing their hold of the government. As an indication of public feeling on national issues, however, nothing in the returns is so striking as the close shave by which the Republicans carried Massachusetts. The plurality for Governor was only 8,000, against 60,000 last years, while the Lieutenant Governor's plurality was cut down from 96,000 to only 5,000.