Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-11-08
The people have triumphed.

in generation, if not in its history, hai
taken place.
William H. Berry has been elected
State Treasurer of Pennsylvania by ma
jority estimated all the way from $4,000
to $4,000.
The political corruption in Philadel
phia and the tragedy of the Enterprise
National Bank aroused the entire people
of the State, and they have answered al
the ballot box.
Arrogant bossism has met its doom.
Popular unrest and party discomfort
with the Encouragement of its affairs by
so.called State leaders have found expires
sion in a rebuke so staggering that its af.
feet will be felt for decade to come.
The reign OF graft is ended.
The result means purer politics, a con-
scientious administration of the peoples
affairs, and, above all, a reorganization Of
the potent forces Of Republicanism.
As startling as the result in Philadel-
phia has been, the result in the State is
none the less impressive.
Rock-ribbed Republican counties like
Dauphin and Lancaster and others OF less
imposing strength, have been torn from
their moorings by the shock of an awak-
ened public conscience.
Some conception of the tremendous
force of this upheaval can be gathered
from the more conspicuous features OF
yesterdays election.
]. Lee PIummer, the Machine, candi-
date, lost his own county, Republican
stronghold.
Philadelphia, which will sweep Berry
into office with the City party's triumph,
will give him, it is now estimated, from
10000 to $4,000.
Two hundreds of thousands Of dollars
Of corporation money spent by the bosses;
the hiring OF hordes Of repeaters and the
attempts to carry slum wards by means
of crooked election officers and the en-
ployment of thugs-all these devices
failed.
Under command Of Mayor Weaver, the
police force stood firm against fraud and
intimidation wagon loads of repeaters
and even some Gang ward bosses we're
arrested, and, with the ballot-boxes open
only to honest votes, the ballots OF the
people simply overwhelmed the corrupt
and criminal combination masqueradlng
as Republicans.
The vote was unprecedented i'll volume.
In residential wards, such as in West
Philadelphia and Germantown, the out
pouring of ''stay-atshome" voters was 20
tremendous that the ballot-boxes were
filled early in the day and others had to
be sent for.
The Gangs plans to create disorder at
polling places in the slum wards and to
work their repeaters and ballot-box stut-
fers created serious disorder i'll some
places, but the presence Of mounted and
unmounted policemen and special police
men recruited from college students rap
idly quelled these outbreaks.
The most amazing feature was the
singing defeat of the bosses in person.
"sam" Maloney lost the Fifth Ward !;
David Martin the Nineteenth, for the
first time in thirty years Senator PEN
rose the Eighth, and so OH down the list.
The proposed loan bill authorizing the
corporate authorities to increase the in
debtedness OF the city by 100000, to
be applied to removal of grade crossings,
was approved by good majority.
Avalanche Swept All Wards
The Machine depended on the first
fourteen wards in the city to save its
ticket, relying on the vote in these wards
to overcome the conceded plurality for
the City party in the West Philadelphia
and Germantown wards. The avalanche
affected the Machine wards as well as
those of an independent tendency.
The Second Ward turned up with sur
prisingly large City party vote. The
Fifth Ward smashed the hopes OF the
Machine leaders when IIarbormaster
"Sam'' Maloney threw up his hands
early in the day and disappeared. He
made no further attempt to stem the tide
there, which swept that notorious Ma
chine stronghold into the City party col
umn.
The Machine looked for substantial
majority in the Sixth, relying on Select
Councilman Thomas ]. Ryan, Democrat,
to turn the ward for Durham and Nc
Nichol. Ryan refused to enter into
deal for the ward and early in the even
ing announced that the Sixth had gone
for the City party by probably 800 major
ity.
City Commissioner Jacob Wildemore,
one hour after the polls had closed, con-
ceded the Fourteenth Ward to the City
party, which marked the loss to the Ma
chine of another OF its strongholds.
In the Eighth Ward Mercantile APP
praiser Devlin battled all day to return a
Majority. AT O'Clock he claimed to