Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-30
H0USECLEAN|NG TIME
Coming Next Month, Par
ticularly in Politics.
REFORMBRS ON TOP
THEY WILL COME INTO THEIR
OWN IN SEVERAL STATES.
Grand Times in New York City and
State-Pennslyvania and Ohio
Also in the Deal.

Next month will be housecleaning time
In politics In several states. The reformers
VIII come into their own and they are raj
lying, Jealous and Industrious. with scrub
Ding broom and pail. to clean up the politi-
cal doniciles. phere will be both state and
municipal cleansing, and the suds Will fly
before the reformers knock Off
There will be grand times In New York
city and state. Young Mayor Mcclellan has
mace up his slate of city officials and shows
mat ne intends to get away from the odium
OF Iammanyism, If possible. He has not sep
arated himself from the organization, but
ne Is going to break loose from some of its
systems. be Is surrounding himself with
men whose names are guarantees of good
government for the future
Men who Were in touch with Mayor Nc
Clellan during the recent campaign realized
that he smarted under the criticisms leyeled
against the organization which was back
Ing his candidacy for reelection and that
he was determined If victorious to relieve
his future administration from the possi-
bility of the taint of control by Tammany
1t was evident even before election day
that Murphy would have to be kept in the
background and the amazing vote rolled UP
by Mr.. Hearst on the issues OF anti-Mur-
phyism and anti-bossism generally clinched
Mr.. Murphy's fate.
Mayor Mcclellan will have the confidence
support and encouragement of the best
elements among the democrats and repub-
licans of New York city. He will have NOR
al support from other than merely local
quarters, too, in his enterprise of reform
and rehabilitation of municipal affairs.
New York State Politics.
In state politics the reform will be in
augurated inrepubk can policies and poll
tics. 1t will be manifested first at AL
bany, when the legislature meets and the
speaker of the assembly is elected. 1t is
impossible to magnify the Importance of
that reform in It's effect upon New York
politics. The election of James W. Wads-
worth, jr., to the speakership will mean
that the domination of the legislature by
Odell and his allies has ended.
That cessation will mark the beginning
Of the surcease of OdelPs power through
out the state. Next September when the
republican state convention meets. Odell
Will be depoSed from the Craftsmanship of
the state committee, and his administration
of the management of republican politics
will pass into history.
The new regime in the legislature will be
made under the nominal leadership of Gov.
Higgins and Speaker Wordsworth, but all
the time there will be watchful eyes upon
their doings. and republicans of national
prominence who are determined to strength
en- the party organization IN the state will
keep close tab ON every movement.
Pennsylvania House-Cleaning.
Pennsylvania will have a house cleaning
at Philadelphia. Pittsburg and Harrisburg
The situation in Philadelphia is amusing In
one sense; the eagerness of the politicians
to get into the reform ranks. 1t is case
of When the deli was sick, the dell a
monk would be-" Out in Pittsburg a new
machine Is being formed and the friends
of Senator Knox and President Roosevelt
will be tn control. At Harrisburg when
the legislature meets in extra session, some
reform measures will be pressed. Taken
altogether. the old keystone state is exper-
fencing a spasm of reform and political
houseceaning.
vania Is the reform in railway passes The
decision of the Pennsylvania railroad and
the Baltimore and Ohio and the Reading 70
discontinue free transportation has caused
terror to strike to the hearts of the faithful
in a degree to which most other considera-
lons are secondary. Passes and politics
have been closely bound heretofore 1t Is
a coincidence that reform has struck in in
both cases.
Out in Ohio.
In Ohio the legislature will meet the first
Tuesday after New Years day. 1t Will
be reform legislature, having been drag
geo into reform by the scruff OF the neck
SO to speak. The lower house will be re-
publican The state senate will be half
republican and half democratic with the
balance of power held by Mr.. Sylvester
Lamb of Toledo. He Is man with =
record of adherence to municipal reform
a democrat who voted for Mckinley and
Roosevelt. He says he will vote with the
democrats when they are good and with
the republicans II they are better. The
question of an inheritance tax Is at pres
ent the burning issue.
House cleaning comes off in Cincinnati
the first Tuesday after New Years day,
when the new machine, the handiwork OF
the independent voters of Hamilton county,
will take over the municipal government
This is to be reform in the name of democ-
racy, however, not republicanism.