1894 Wyoming gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1894 Wyoming gubernatorial election Wyoming presidential November 6, 1894 31.78% of Total Population 3.35 no 1892 Wyoming gubernatorial special election 1892 1898 Wyoming gubernatorial election 1898 File:WilliamARichards.jpg 150x150px William A. Richards Republican Party (United States) 10,149 52.61% File:William H. Holliday.png Democratic Party (United States) William H. Holliday 6,965 36.11% 3x4.svg Populist Party (United States) Lewis C. Tidball 2,176 11.28% 1894 Wyoming gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 250px County Results Richards #FFB2B2 40–50% #E27F7F 50–60% Holliday #A5B0FF 40–50% No Data/Vote #808080 Governor John E. Osborne Democratic Party (United States) William A. Richards Republican Party (United States) The 1894 Wyoming gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1894. Democratic Governor John E. Osborne, first elected in the 1892 special election, declined to seek re-election to a second term, instead aiming to be elected to the U.S. Senate.July 21, 1894 Wants to be Senator: Governor Osborne Anxious to Represent Wyoming at Washington The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City, Utah 2 https://www.newspapers.com/image/10994395/ June 6, 2021 In part because of a backlash against the Democratic Party owing to the Panic of 1893, Republicans won the governorship back from the Democrats, and would hold onto it until 1914. Party conventions The Democratic Party nominated State Senator William H. Holliday to succeed Osborne, and adopted a free silver platform, favoring the coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1.August 11, 1894 Wyoming Democrats: They Declare For Free Coinage at the 16 to 1 Ratio Aspen Weekly Times Aspen, Colo. 1 https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=ATW18940811&e=-08-1894--08-1894--en-20--1-byDA-img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA June 6, 2021 The Republican Party nominated William A. Richards, the Surveyor General for Wyoming and a former Johnson County Commissioner, by acclamation. Its platform concurred with the Democratic Party's on free silver coinage at the same ratio and "refer[red] to the history of the past nineteen months as indicating the unfitness of democrats to rule the country[.]"August 11, 1894 Wyoming Republican Convention Pueblo Daily Chieftain Pueblo, Colo. 5 https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=CFT18940803-01.2.46&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------ June 6, 2021 Meanwhile, the Populist Party, which had fused with the Democratic Party in several past elections in Wyoming, declined to do so again in 1894, and nominated for Governor Lewis C. Tidball, who served as Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1893 to 1895 under the Democratic-Populist fusion majority.August 10, 1894 Wyoming Populists: They Decline Fusion with the Democrats and ame a Straight Ticket The Sun New York City, N.Y. 3 https://www.newspapers.com/image/78669845/ June 6, 2021 General election Results 1894 Wyoming gubernatorial electionErwin Marie Trenholm Virginia Cole Wyoming Blue Book https://wyoarchives.wyo.gov/pdf/WyomingBlueBookTwo.pdf 2 Cheyenne, Wyo. Pioneer Printing & Stationery Co. 1974 542–43 Republican Party (United States) William A. Richards 10,149 52.61% +9.10% Democratic Party (United States) William H. Holliday 6,965 36.11% -17.73% Populist Party (United States) Lewis C. Tidball 2,176 11.28% — 3,184 16.51% +6.18% 19,290 100.00% Republican Party (United States) Democratic Party (United States) References Category:1894 Wyoming elections 1894 Wyoming