The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-09
KNELL OF BOSSES
IN VOTE AT POLLS
Tuesdays Election Upheaval as
Much Social Protest as
a Revolution.
In Cities and States the People
Rose to Drive Out Political
Autocrats.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Chicago, Nov. 9.-Walter Wellman, in
a Washington special to the Record
Herald, says: " 49,.
Most public men who comment on the
elections ascribe Tuesdays upheayal to
popular discomfort with bossism. with
insurance frauds, with corrupt combina-
tions between political leaders and the
manipulators of franchises and corpora
tions. 1t was almost as much social
protest as a political revolution. OF
itself, it carries no decisive word as to
the future of parties.
The republicans missed an opportu-
nifty in New York city such as they are
not likely to~have again in a genera
tion. But for treacheTy in the republic
can machine, and the fear. among the
better class of republicans that Hearst
might win, Ivins could have been
elected. ~
The republicans meet with disaster
not unmixed with good in Ohio, they
hold their. own in Massachusetts and
illinois, New jersey and Rhode island.
| in New York city and suffer marked
rebuff in Maryland. SO the honors are
divided.
| Uprising Against Bosses.
The first thing that strikes everyone
| is the magnitude of the popular upris-
! Ing against bosses. In New York CITY
Boss Murphy is practically dethroned.
Even It Tammany saves the mayoralty,
which is to be fought out in the courts,
! it has lost the most Of it's power. tt
has lost control of the. aldermen and the
board of estimates. The tigers claws
are clipped and well clipped, for he is
very, dirty, ravenous beast. If Mayor
Mcclellan retains his office, his friends
| predlCC he will do as Weaver did in
adelphia-throw the machine over
and serve the people. Boss Murphy and
Boss Odell are both repudiated in New
York. ~
In Philadelphia the cause of decent
government has won a notable triumph
Boss Durham is crushed so completely
he can never recover his clutch upon the
city.
Boss German Beaten.
In Maryland Boss German is beaten
and discredited, and his unworthy po-
litical scheme to disfranchise the ne
groes of the state is repudiated. Cor
man is still a senator and at the head
of remnant of the democratic party,
but the other senator, Mr.. Rayner, and
the governor, Mr.. Warfeld, are against
him. It is believed Tuesdays election
marks the beginning of the end of Boss
German and his local lieutenant, Boss
| Ransin. A
In Cincinnati Boss Cox is down at
last, after a reign almost unparalleled
in the history of American cities.
New National Issues.
Government ownership Of railways
and telegraphs, municipal control Of
public utilities and general opposi-
gress, of legislature and of city gov
ernments. All this, in the opinion of
many observers here, is foreshadowed
by Tuesdays elections for the demo-
cratic issue in the presidential compaign
in 1908. Democrats as a rule feel en-
couraged over the national outlook for
4 their party. On the other hand, repub-
licans do not admit that they are dis
couraged, despite the party reverse in
Ohio.
Said by ''Hod'' Taylor.
Assistant Secretary Taylor of the
treasury said that in his opinion the
election in New York and the Chicago
: election last year make it certain that
) in the next presidential campaign the
democrats will nominate candidates on
a public ownership and antitrust plat
form. In Chicago last year the mayor
was elected on that issue exclusively,
and the big vote in New York for
Hearst Tuesday shows the democratic
JrenQ Toward munlclpdl ownership anu
. antitrust as their platform for the. fu-
ture.
"This is an off year," remarked Mr..
Taylor, - and in such years the people
) 90 on the rampage and work off all
their grudges. The results of Tuesday
= are healthy signs of crusade against
graft and corruption in Office. It is q
{ sort of protest against machine rule.
The people are getting independent and
tired of political bosses. I do not think
the result forebpdes disaster to the re-
. the party and strengthen it. By 1908
the party will be in line to win the
election easily