The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-12-27
GOLDEN RULE JONES'S RUN.
The Vote Received by Him Not with
out Precedent I'm American Politics.

At thls years State election 10 Ohio
Mayor Jones of Toledo, the Golden Rule
candidate for Governor, pollcd 1861
votes, prodigious total when considered
In connection with the fact that he ran
without. any political organization In his
support. without any prospect of ele.tiun,
and in a state whoss voters rank as high
In political intelligence as those OF any
In tie country. But the total vote cast
| for Jones, large as 1t was, was smaller
than the vote which had previously been
cast in the nsighDoring state of Pennsyl-
yania at the election of 1897 for another
free lanes candidate, DIR. Swallow OF Hair
risburg, who, running as the candidate
Of tho Probibitionlsts fer State Treasurer,
polled 1IS,Oo0 votes.
Such demon Vtrations Of ephenferal
political popularity are by no means I'M
usual In the United States In contests
not of the frat importance; but when the
general discomfort OF large bodies Of vot-
ers with tue regular party candidates
manjfesls itself in such an outside move
ment of protest 1t Ia almost as soon disst-
patsd. Thus in the case of DR.. swallow,
|
candidsiure preserved no poltiticsl or
ganizstion any mo than she Hurparters
of ar ,ther candidate tf protest in tie
sam, ate, Charles +. Wolfe, who polled
30 o. /1tes when running on an indie
per 4tJ .cket IN ISL. were able to hold
- f,,oes together afterwnrd. In the
. 9Th. of 1857 In New York Henry
rge pol.ei a total vote Of 70,c00, but
be year succeeding the political or
z.tion which bad nominated him
able to poll less than 2.Ot0 votes In
< state
heDomenaI runs by independent can
hates in American politics are often US
foh matter Of surprise TO the candi-
stes themselves as to their more active
Apporte 8. IN the state of California
fswsnty yeErs ago there was IN election foI
Governor, the Democrats and Republi-
cans being pretty ere1ly divided In the
State. AT that period a new Constitu-
ton, altering the previous one In many
essential particulars, was up for the oon-
| sidsration of the voters. and after the
reg clar parties had made their nominn-
tions what was called workiDgman's
ticket was put up, with candidate
nemed White at tbs head OF IL for Gov
ernor. de had no organized political fol-
lowing, but TO the profound surprise OF
everyone concerned he po)led 1000 votes.
against Al coo for the Democratic oa1di-
dats. the Republican NOMINEE George q.
a
Senators, being chosen. In kansas In
1880 Willis, the nopine, of the Farmers
Alliance for Governor. polled n 200 votes,
Il quarter of the total e'e storate with four
nominees In thu field. In the State Of
labama Reuben Kolo polled, few
years ago at the August election. nearly
$1,000 votes, and there are few States In
the country in which at soma time or
other some outside, independent candi-
date, without serious organized support
record by securing vote large enough to
lions.
onstration of sudden popularity by q
is to be found in the unrest which at
good times (extren es meet In SUCH mat
by the nominations made by the regular
ditions seem impressed with the oppo:-
tunity Of smashing things by way of gen.
eral protest, and the candidate who hap
pens to be running ESPECIALLY IL he Is the
Only man on his ticket. as In the CASE of
Mayor Jones( is pretty apt to find him
sslf sustained by an army of followers
which soatters usually before the next
election. Few people now recall that 1t
is only four years since Coxey ran for
Governor of Ohio, the came office to
which Jones aspirsd, and polled 81, 900
votes in the State. The Coxey party
amounted TO more then than at any time
afterward.