Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-04
Yesterday.

Tn the national ASPECT of the case there
70 something for both sides in yesterdays
results The republicans where they were
already intrenched held their own very
Handsomely. and showed an organization at
once alert and compact. Majorities for an
Off year were large. Pennsylvania. of
course heads the list. Ohio follows with
poll which appears to wipe Tom Johnson
off the face of the earth. Massachusetts
New Jersey and Iowa are in line. and Ne
braska and Colorado show how little Is left
Of Organism in a quarter where 1t was
very strong Apparently the republicans
may feel easy as to all of these states In
their calculations for next year.
The democratic victories of significance
were recorded in New York city and Mary
land That Mr.. Germans friends will urge
his claims upon his party In connection with
the presidency with more energy than ever
is plain enough. They will pledge Maryland
TO the cause under his leadership. and argue
from renewal of his power at home that
he is pre-emnently the man of the hour.
New York will be the object Of their atten-
lions not to the extent probably of asking
for instructions. but with a view of having
his case favorably considered next after
New York's own son. whoever he may be
And in New York Mr.. German has some
strong friends.
Tammany's victory is not TO he appraised
exclusively on national lines. but Tammany
restored 10 power will bend all Of its ener-
gtes toward carrying the state for the
democracy next year. That was leading
feature Of the democratic campaign. Mr..
Mcclellan expressly declared that non-par-
tisan government for the city was both a
failure and unnatural and that the demo
cratic majority should rule through its own
representatives in the party's behalf. And
all OF his orators dwelt upon how valuable
and handy an asset the metropolis would be
In the great fight for national control They
asked for votes on the promise that success
should mean all that Tammany could pos
siby do toward electing democrat TO sue
coed Theodore Roosevelt as President of
the United States.
Tammany has won. partly as the result
of that appeal. The Tiger resumes full con-
troll of the huge town. with all the power
that control gives in shaping the politics of
the state. Leader Murphy, then, and his
lieutenant the mayor may be expected to
address themselves to the problem of New
York and the presidency. We shall hear in
louder tones than ever that the democracy
cannot win without New York and that
Anew 10TH s suggestion must De weighed at
a high valuation. For whom will New
York declare at the national convention?
Tammany does not like Mr.. Hill, and 1t
may try to connect him with the McLaugh-
lin bolt in Brooklyn. The ex-senator and
the now ex-boss are old friends, and have
long pulled together The Parker boom has
from the start been largely an upstate
movement. Tammany has had nothing to
do with 1t. Edward NJ. Shepard Is no
longer possibility. Shall we hear of a
Mcclellan boom? The mayor-elect will be
thirty-nine next year. But he has been in
ONCE almost since the day he left school,
eight years of the time in Congress, and
consequently is something of a veteran.
The south would vote for him. VIII New
York present him for this highest honor, If
the suggestion of ineligibility, based on the
TACT of his birth in Germany, proves to have
no weight?