An Off Year

Chicago, Aug. T - This is to be decidedlv an off year in state politics. Out of "the forty-four states in the union only thirteen will hold state elections - lovva, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Virginia and Wisconsin, all November 7. Iowa, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wisconsin and Virginia alone will elect full tickets. New York elects both branches of the legislature and all the state officers with the exception of governor, and also delegates to the constitutional convention. The other remaining eight states will choose jtidgos or legislatures. Only three of these legisla tures will elect United States senators - Iowa, a successor to James F. Wilson; Kentucky, a successor to William Lindsay, and Virginia, a suecessor to Eppa ilunton, appointed to fill out the unexpired term left vacant by the death of Senator Barbour. Of the remaining thirty-one states all will hold their general elections in 1894 except Florida, which has no general election until 1896, and Louisiana, whose general eleetion is also in April of the same year. Montana and Mississippi also do not elect state officers until 1895.