The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-11-11
The ELECTION.

p to bow themselves to the ground ant
say solemnly, "May the Lord make Il
r pleasing to thee The victim wa.
expected 20 reward the barber Will
coin and to say, ''May the Lord make
1t pleasing to thee" Aud Mark add.
that these customary |salutations were
in evidence OF the fact that 1t required
a special d~ispensation Of Providence
to make the transaction pleasing to
anybody concerned.
1t is very much so with the elections
Of last Tuesday, The results are
hard to interpret. The Kansas City
Star says that these elections were a
great triumph of the independent
voter. But the Star is not very
conscientious about what it says.
For instance, If Jerome really stands
for righteousneSs-at this distance it
is impossible for those who have only
the ordinary means Of information to
know whether be does or not-his
triumph is a lame and pitiful one.
With a record such as his friends
claimed for him aud with the in
dorsement Of the republican party as
its candidate, though himself a demo-
crat, with no considerable opponent
but the democratic candidate, who
was a highly qualified and worthy
man by the way, if would seem that
Jerome's plurality of 10, OOO or 1000
out OF a total vote Of over 600, 600 is
no cause for very great e%xultatiOn.
McClelland's slender plurality over
Hearst is no cause for comfort either
to democrats or republicans. 1t
indicates almost as strongly as the
clean sweep in San Francisco that the
union labor organizations are ceasing
to affiliate with the parties of ortho.
dox political faiths and are making
ready to 90 it alone with prospects
which no man can calculate.
The results in Massachusetts are DO
cause for happiness to anybody.
They indicate an intense public con-
viction in favor of a narrow, selfish
form Of tariff reform which neither
political party could think Of
adopting. A year ago Douglas, a
democrat, was elected governor upon
a platform of free trade IN leather,
hides, and other Jaw material used In
New England manufactures and pro-
lection on the manufactured product.
This year Guild, republican, vas
elected by a'Slmilar majority upon a
platform %consonant with the republic
can national platform, while Whit
ney, democratic candidate for the
lieutenant %governorship, who made a
personal platform similar to that Of
Douglas with a narrow reciprocity
With Canada addendum failed by
only a few hundred votes.
In Ohio, which went republican in
1900 by 10000 and in 1904 by $50, 900,
Patterson, democrat, has defeated
Herrick, republican, by about AZ, 900
votes and the whole state ticket and
Legislature is republican. Herrick
and Patterson are both good men and
Herrick has made a good governor,
But unfortunately for himself and
his party Herrick is a man who has
great genius for unpopularity and he
offendedrthe greatest religious demon.
nation Of the state by an unnecessary
act Of d~iscourtesy. This would prob
ably have hurt nobody but himself IL
it had not happened to occur contem-
%pOraneously with a local option
agitation 10 which he Involved him
self and his party unnecessarily. The
preteuse that the upheaval in Ohio
was a revolt against boss rule is an
afterthought. Boss Cox would have
Zee tolerated two years more as
compiaisantly Is he has been tolerated
for the past thirty years, If 1t had not
been for other things.
Ia Pennsylvania the mixed results
seem to have had their cause in an
outraged public conscience. An In
dependent republican ticket in Phila
delphia defeated the regular republi-
can machine gang by a decisive
majority and In the state, normally
republican by from $50, 900 to 400, 600,
an honest democrat was elected state
treasurer over a corrupt machine
republican by 100, 900 votes.
Rhode Island, Kentucky, Virginia
and Utah behaved about as usual and
the city OF Chicago reversed its record
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