The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-08
EDITORIAL COMMENT


! The voters of this great city did the
best days work yesterday that they
have ever done. BY an impregnable
majority they decreed the absolute eX--
tinction of Tammany government and
the conversion of the American me-
tropolis into a place fit to inhabit ana
be proud Of Seth Low Is to be the
next mayor. He will bring to the per
Torrance of his duties a sagacious
mind, cool judgment and a resolute
purpose to employ his large powers IN
promptly substituting an honest anu
efficient administration for the hldeous
misrule under which the people have
long suffered intolerable shame and
loss. Van Wyck has not been promo
ted from the City Hall to the Supreme
Court, but ordered back into private
life with the excavations of the multi
tude ringing in his ears. Jerome, the
most striking figure in ma uneXampled
campaign, has been commissioned to
utilize the vast resources Of the pubic
prosecutor in the pursuit and punish
ment of evildoers The unspeakable
Fromme will not disgrace Manhattan
in the conspicuous office of Borough
President At all important points au-
thority has been securely vested IN
men competent and determined to ex-
ercise it for the common welfare.-Tri-
bune.
New York has been delivered from its
shame and bondage by the intelligence
and moral sense of it's voting popula-
ton. Had the intelligence of the voters
been less keen they would have been
hoodwinked by Cookers audacious and
desperately skillful trick of nomina-
ting Shepard. Had their moral sense
been duller they would not have re-
Volted in such numbers against the
crimes and infamies of the Tammany
Government; they would not have
been aroused by the appeal for decen-
cy and clean administration. The
election of Mr.. Low is the clearest pos
sible demonstration that Croker, even
with the aid of Mr.. Shepard's good
name and great ability was unable to
deceive the people, and that the cor
ruptions and the abominable offenses
that have sprung from Tammany rule
have really shocked the moral sense of
the communicable
Most of the countries which, accord
ing to the Treasury Bureau of Statis-
tics, show a balance of exports over
imports belong to the two Americans,
while none of the great majority which
show an excess of imports over exports
the exception of Canada and Cuba.
The United States, with difference of
$42, 900, 900 a month in favor of its eX
ports, is far ahead of it's nearest COM
petitor, British India, with a difference
of 100000 .-Philadelphia Ledger.
Gov. Cranes reelection by a plural
ity in the neighborhood of 10000 in the
most emphatic popular Endorsement of
HI ,fest TOW, rrfTr
en- in Massachusetts for many years.
The lead over the democratic candi-
date is larger by 10000 than the most
sanguine of the republican managers
dared to predict, and is from 10000 to
10000 larger than had been confidently
expected by them.-Springfel Repub-
lican.
Deveryism and Van Wykism have
brought disgrace and defeat on the
whole Democratic ticket, and the or
ganization has been served exactly
right
Since Tammany had the audacity to
approve of Van Wyck and indorse his
outrageous administration by nominal
ting him for the Supreme Court it is
well that Tammany has been rebuked.
Journal.
One of the happy results of yester-
days election is the enforced retire.
ment from politics of Mr.. Edward M.
Shepard of Brooklyn. He can never
again pose as q character of lofty
ideals" deserving of confidence be-
cause of his superior moral elevation,
and the period of his usefulness to
Tammany or for any political purpose
is brought to an end.-New' York Sun.
A very miserable, a very contempti-
BILE character Edward NJ. Shepard has
proved himself to be, and he will not
be missed in the field of politics from
which popular revulsion has now re-
tired him. Not even Tammany is
mourner at his political grave. 1t sheds
no tears as it sees it's worthless tool
buried out of sight and out of mem
ory.-Sun.
Grander New York! There are its
outlines in the rough of a splendid
civic virtue, unperchasable by pelf
unintimidable by power, unresponsice
to the calls of party cosmopolite, poly
glot raw in it's new citizenship but
Puritan and Cavalier, of jamestown
and Plymouth Rock.-Press.
This punching of European warships
at the eastern end of the Mediterranean
is eloquent of the nervousness with
which the cabinets regard any pros
pect of a disturbance of the existing
conditions in that part of the world. 1t
is also eloquent of the vlgilant jealousy
with which they are watching one an
other.-Hartford Courant.
A young man in New York has mar
ried a young woman because, as he
tersely expressed it, she is a lovely
cook" Again the time-h onored theory
of the route to the heart of man has
been Observation-Disclosures American.
When the Nevada senators openly
admit that the silver question is dead
it is time for William J. Bryan to put
Grape on his hat.-Kansas City Jour
nal.
"Touchin' on an appertainin' to lit
tie tin soldiers" what does Devery
the Chesty think of them now?-Tri
bune.