Arizona republican., 1905-11-09
The Events of Tuesday.

After every election resulting in
 great changes of political surfaces it is the practice of political moralists
 to draw lessons from them and point
 out the causes which produce them. These lessons are shortlived. and the relation between the causes and the effects are so simple that they re- quire no explanations. These cata- clysms, like earthquakes, occur at ir- regular intervals and will no doubt continue to do so so long as men en- gage in politics. The voters of all de- grees of intelligence in Ohio and Penn sylvania know why those states tenn pOrarily change their political com plexion on Tuesday and all voters throughout the country who nave fol- lowed the course of events know why certain things happened in New York. There was in Pennsylvania and New York a popular uprising against graft. The fight after the furry is over will be found to have centered about Jer- Ome and Tammany. Other seemingly AihpNA bdiAl SUI NCIC dLlOI c1l Ollly incidental. Jerome stood for reform and Tammany against it. Both had be- come national figures without either being definitely understood. They were to the country at large rather signs of principles than actual man and party. Men were heard to say in Phoe- nix yesterday that they were glad that Jerome had been elected. Yet they could not point to a single act that he had performed. They knew. though, that he was right.
 The republican overturning in Penn sylvania was a long time in course of preparation by the men who were overturned. There had been built up in Philadelphia an elaborate machine, whose wheels were running industri- ously In every county of that state. That it was a republican machine was an accident; that it may nave been used legitimately in the beginning is probably true, but 1t became a great engine of corruption. Several things have recently directed popular atten- ton to 1t. such as the rottenness in Philadelphia, the brazenness of the leaders, but the late footing of the En- terprise National Bank of Allegheny showed the people how extensive and intricate the machine was. They, re- publicans and democrats, resolved to break it.
 r1nr. ft4. s,. Ohio, but there were two factions which only the genius of Hanna could keep from flying at each others 1 threats. One faction was the stronger, | and the other set up the cry of boss ism. An off year was a convenient | time to have it out, as republicans of | the Buckeye state have been having 1t | out at intervals for forty years. Now nobody is boss, but Pattison is the | democratic governor. This suggests | that there is something in a family | name. The Pattisons are johnnies- on- the-spot. In 1889, the republicans of | Pennsylvania fought among themselv- | es while Robert E. Pattison mounted | the governors chair for four years. | Eight years later he repeated the per formance under the same circumstanc-j es. MT. Pattison appears to have been moving in eight-year cycles, for iIi l 1903 he appeared again, but this time | the republican factions, though vigor- ously engaged with each other, each kept an eye on MT. Pattison to his dis comfiture.
 After all, what happend on Tuesday | dented, or even quite unexpected-I merely unusual.