New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-05
GoVERxOR oDELUs RB-ELEC7IoN.

GOVERNOR ODELL'S REELECTION.
Governor OdeiI has been reelected by plu-
rality, according to the latest returns. of not
less than 1900. This certificate Of public ap-
probation is exceedingly gratifying but not
wholly satisfactory. 1t insures a continuance
for two years TO come Of a State administra-
ton which has served the people with con-
spicuous efficiency and perfect rectitude. but it
Is not so commanding a proof of the Intelli-
gence Of the great commonwealth which has
been benefited by such service as we had hoped
TO record The Democratic leader from whose
tongue has been dripping the poison of mali
ciOus SANDER ought TO have been smitten harder
on the mouth by those be sought to deceive.
Nevertheless Hill has encountered a bitter dis
appointment and is likely TO discover when the
noise Of conflict has subsidized that be has sunk
still lower than he was before in public con-
tempt. His plan was to make himself so pow
erful in the State OF New-YOrk that the Demo-
cratic party throughout the country would
deem il expedient TO give him the national
leadership. To that end he made Mr.. Coer his
candidate for Governor. with a well founded
confidence in the lexbity of the instrument he
had chosen. Doubtless it was a wise selection
from his point of view. If there is a Democrat
in the State who might have polled more votes
he is a whose added chances of election
would have been offset in Hills mind by dread
of his more resOlute and Independent temper.
1t would not have suited the trckster's game at
all TO promote a Democrat who might apprO-
pirate the role he designed TO play. His obvious
blunder was not IN debating the nomination of
candidate who was destined to be beaten. but
in striving 10 elect him by a campaign of ven
Omous fasehoods. He might have survived an
honorable defeat but the new revelation of his
Own depravity ought to ruin him.
The majority for Mr.. Coler in this city is sur
prisingly large. and would have prevailed II the
country voters had betrayed, even in a small
degree. that lack of interest in the issue which
had been so confidently attributed to them by
the Democratic leaders. On this side of the
East River we have always with US the i'm
pregnable rank and file of Tammany Hall
Moreover, the administration that replaced
Tammany has been subjected ever since its
advent 10 a fire of hostile criticism which
though far from being Just, has been known by
disinterested observers 10 be effective. Such
dissatisfaction could scarcely have been avoided
by any reform government which had inner
tied colossal burden of arrears from a gov
eminent of all the vices But in ATTEMPTING TO
account for the vote in this part of the State it
IS safe and necessary TO say emphatcalIy that
the result in the Borough Of Brooklyn, due in
some measure. doubt, to local sentiment ia
ForaDIe TO MI Coler. Is due IN far greater meas
ure 70 the sins and follies of the Kings County
Republican organization. Discredited before
and now condemned. il stands in urgent need
Of such Transformation as we fear it is not
likely TO get under its present leadership
Governor Odell will be still more useful 70
the State during his second term than he has
been during his first His honorable purpose
will not be hrmer. but the broader knowledge
Of public requirements and the surer admin
istrative capacity which he has derived from
experience viii rebound TO the common advan-
tage. A Republican majority in the legislat-
ure large enough TO transact necessary business
promptly has been chosen and may be trusted
under the Governors leadership TO enact the
economies TO which he is pledged, TO promote
canal improvement IN a safe and rational man
ner and TO deal wisely with other important
measures of policy. We have no doubt that
when the partisan feelings which an election
stimulates have been composed, a great major
ity Of the people will be glad to realize that the
State government is not to pass to the Democ-
racy under Hills perfdious direction, but that
a sagacious honest and energetic Republican
administration is to De continued