The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-24
GOLDEN RULE JOyEs.s RUN.
Tho Vote Received by Him Not without
Precedant In American Politics.

AT this years State election In Ohio Mayor
| Jones OF Toledo, the Golden Rule candidate for
Governor, poilcd 100 900 votes prodigious total
whcn Considered In connection with the fact that
he ran without any political organization in hi,
support, without any prospect Of election and in
STAT" whose voters rank as high in political
intelligence as those Of any in the country. Blu,
the total vote cast for Jones' .arge as IL was WAS
smaller than the vote which had prev iously been
cast In the ncirhbonnS State of PENNSYLVANIA
at III" election of 1897 for another free lance can.
didatc. III Swallow 81 Harrisburg who, running
as the candidate Of the Prohibtionists for State
Treasurer. pollcd IFS 900 votes
Such demonstrations Of ephcmeral political
popularity arc by NO means unusual in the United
STATES In contests not OF the nrst importance: but
when the general discomfort of large bodies of
voters with the regular party candidates m anies,,
Itself IN such an outside movement Of protest /, Il.
almost as soon disipatcd Thus in the case ~
DR.. Swallow, in Pennsylvania. those who sus
tanned his canddatura preserved no political or
ganiLaiion any more than the supporters Of an
o.hct candidate Of protest in the same State.
Charles +. Wolfe who pooled 10000 votes when
running on an independent ckct in 1851 were
able to hold their forces together GticTwarl. In
the election OF 1887 in New York Henry George
polIcd n total vote OF 20 900 but in the year sue
cecding the political Organization which had nom.
mated him was able To poll less than 1000 votes
In the State
Phenomenal runs by independent candidates
IN American politics are often AZ much a matter
81 surprise (" the candidates themselves as 10 their
more active supporters In the State Of California
tMrntN years az" there was an election for Cow
crn = the Dem CraiS and Republicans being
pretty evenly divided in the State. At that period
a new constitution, altering the previous one in
many essential particulars, was up for the con.
sid'tatun oi the voters and after the regular rar-
ties had made their nominations what was called
q wufsinSmnn ticket was put IN, with a candi-
date named WHIT" al III" head 81 IL for Governor
profound suTpfiS" OF every one con rrrned he poCd
iiup votes. ~ hcltnst 1900 Z r the Democratic
Gnnrdalc, tn" Republican nrmincc, George {.
r.thinS mn' OF the present United States Sem
the nominee OF the Farmers Alliance for Gov
crhnr' pulIod 600 votes, u quarter al tho total
Scctnraie WIN four nominees ia TIE field In tho
STATE Of Alabama Reuben kolb ROLLED n few
years ago at the August election, nearly 30 600
Not y ana there are few States in the country n
Whlt II AZ some time or other some outside indie
pendent candid1ic without serious organized
SuppvTi mas not been able to smash the preceding
record py securing a vote large enough TO disar.
range all estimates and prugnusiicatlons
ne ,cnntilun most faruta bic lu a dcmnnstfA,
Tun ol sudden popularity by a candidate like
Jones or swallow or White is To he found in tho
uhfrst winch az times and especially in very hard
oINcfy good tmCs extremes meet in such mattcrsI
Is rather aggravated than eppcas"d by tho
Voters under such conditions seem impressed with
lhc opportunity al smashing things by WAY Of
genera! Protest, and the candidate who happens 10
pc running especially II he Is the only man on his
10 ma himself sustained by AN army Of follower,
which scntters usually before the next election
Few people now recall that il is only four years
s n ."AcE ran Tor Governor of Ohio, the same
votes in the State. The CoNcy party amounted
W more lhch man al any time aftcrward