Items of Interest September 20, 1900 Issue

Items of Interest

The biennial state election for choosing of a governor and other state officers, representatives in Congress, and members of the State Legislature, was held in Maine September 10. The Republicans carried the State by a plurality of 33,245. In the State election in September, 1896, the Republican plurality was 48,377, showing a Democratic gain of 15,132.

It is said that of all the line and staff generals in the United States army to-day, only two—Ludlow and J. M. Wilson—are graduates of West Point. The men who are now at the head of affairs are those who filled up the reorganized army at the close of the Civil War, coming from the volunteers as lieutenants and captains.

Tammany Hall, under the leadership of Richard Croker, controlled the Democratic New York State convention in Saratoga last week in spite of the strongest opposition that David B. Hill could offer. John B. Stanchfield was nominated for governor.

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