The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-11-06
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The Elections.
But FOR the intense interest taken bv
the whole nation i'm the effort Of the
decent people Of New York 70 rid the
great American metropolis Of the rule
OF organized vice and crime under the
auspices OF Tammauy Hall yester-
days elections would have been
treated as off-year affairs and would
have passed over without creating 4
ripple IF excitement As IL happened
the contest IN New York resulted in a
clean sweep for reform. and Croker.
DcVery, Van Wyck. and their kind are
or the cold outside FOR the next two
years at any rate. Tammany has ut
terry lost its grip upon the municipal
administration. the police. the power To
prosecute or not To prosecute criminals.
according To their influence or ability to
pay, and the purse Of the great city is
no longer in its hands. Mayor. Comp
trnlleT, President OF the Board Of Alder
men. the Presidents Of the Boroughs
of Manhattan Brooklyn and Richmond.
the District Attorney. and the Supreme
Court Justices are all Fusionists
The people of New York and Of all
the United States are To be congrau-
lated upon this signal triumph OF de-
CenCy over indecency and vice. The ex-
ample is a noble one for other commu-
mites 10 follow The futile effort of the
respectable clements in Philadelphia on
the same day, 10 shake off their mu-
nicipal incubus Of organized corruption
M ID
ing Is that politics must be thrown 10
the winds and forgotten if the moral
force within a large city is TO be utiI-
lied successfully to achieve good gov
eminent. New FORK has shown the
country how rosis tess that force can
b. made under lanest. earnest, and
strictly non-partis = auspices
Although a faint doubt is still ok
pressed in regard TO the result in Mary
land, the strong hope is that it
Is Democratic by a safe majority. and
that Senator Wellington will be sue
Ceeded by a Democrat. We observe that
journals Of influence Close to the Re
publican National Committee early this
morning practically conceded Demo-
cratic success by a narrow margin.
Since Maryland is normally Democratic
on an honest vote. Il merely has re-
turned to its own again. The change is
not due 10 the Acknowledgement Of Hit
crate negroes, as we presume the Re
pubiicans viii claim. Marylands suf-
frdEe law acts equally upon white and
black, and IL is reported from the Va
rious parts Of the State generally that
the negroes showed up a good deal bet
ter at the polls than the lowest class
of the other race. There is. however
H. doubt that the election law will ac-
count for the result in another sense
Beyond any question il prevented the
wholesale Importation of negro repeat
ers from the District Of Columbia. Viz
GINA. and West Virginia. which has
been customary for several years. In
fact, il is safe 20 say that the State
never would have broken loose from its
Democratic moorings but for this Re
publican practice. Since 1896. every
Maryland election has Witnessed negro
colonization on a huge scale. The po-
htciai waters Of our neighbor Common
wealth have been as regularly and as
layishly stocked with blackfsh as Bow
ers. Of the Fish Commission. stocks an
other sort Of waters with bass and
trout The method and the organiza-
tioE for its application have been strik-
inGly alike in both instances.
Connecticut. Rhode Island New Jer-
sey. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa. and Ne
br,ska were Republican before. and
there is nothing in their remaining so
IN an of year 20 surprise or excite any
body Some people thought that the
time had come for New Jersey TO
change front Time was when il was as
safely Democratic as Georgia But il
became Republican and the Jerseyman
j. not subject 10 frequent political som
ersaults. Some day there will be a
stampede. but nothing Of the kind hap
pened Yesterday.
Kentucky is safely Democratic. and
the legislature just elected will send a
Democrat To Washington i'm succession
4 the present Republican Senator De
Doe Virginia is Democratic Of course.
ana the election there mas been inter
esti"s 60 the people Of the District.
since the successful candidate for the
lieutenant Goyernorship. Mr.. Willard.
IS well known in Washington. As an il
lustratiOn OF the oG-year apathy in some
Of our states. fifteen Of which held cleo
tions yesterday. only seventeen thou
sand votes were cast In Mississippi out
Of a registration aggregating seventy
thousand. II is perhaps unnecessary to
state that Mississippi went Democratic.
just as Iowa went EepUblicau-that is.
~ "A matter Of course