The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-10
THE ELECTIONS

New York Herald: Party politics-re- publicanism, democracy, or any other badge of local political belief or sign or factional tie-was cast to the winds yes- terday by the people.
 New Orleans Picayune: The state and city elections in eastern and western states yesterday we're not only important to themselves, but they are expressions of the uprising of the people against po- litieal corruption and graft so startling and emphatic that they will make the grafters and bloodsuckers everywhere shake in their shoes for fear of the oalamities that are sooner or later to fall upon them.
 New York Tribune: George Brinton Mo- Clellan is surrounded by evil influences of great power, and he has attained po- ltical fortune through complaisancy to them. Can he now, like John Weaver in Philadelphia, rise above the machine? Has he the idealism hidden away in his character? Has he the heroism to follow the vision; or, when his four years are over. will his highest praise still be that he has been ''Hs good a mayor as Mir. Murphy would allow him to be-? We wish him a better fate and better fame.
 Washington Post The aggregation of abuses has angered the people of the Roosevelt, always opposed to political chi canery, has powerfully aided in the growth of the sentiment which yester- day uprooted vicious elements in our lead ing cities. The bosses in Pennsylvania and in Ohio found no aid or comfort from his administration. No federal influence as of yore could be invoked in their be- half. They found themselves assailed as enemies to the public, and their careers honesty and reform.
 New York World: It is a great victory. But suppose the newspapers of New York had all been as silent as the Herald. Suppose they had all been struck dumb by party spirit, once they would have been, republican and democratic as their masters had fashioned them. What would then have been the chances of Jerome? {? Would not the word have gone out to the country today that the people of New York were shamed and beaten in their own might.
 It was a great victory for free people and an independent press. It will bearten everywhere those who are defending against the brutal bosses the principle of American democracy.
 New York Commercial: The Uearst o.,,, paisn from the beginning grew in vital ity' Its appeal had its honest sde-it came as an offering of, satisfaction to many right minded citizens tired of boss rule and disgusted with the numerous ex- posures of misapplied energy in hipher financial walks of life. The Hearst nrona- ganda, In the main, however. defeated it's best ends by its appeal to prejudice and unreason.
 In the hopeful outlook for William Travers Jerome all good citizens rejoice and if his election by even narrow mar gin is confirmed. New York will have reason to be proud of the position it has taken in the avowed purpose to cut loose from bossism, to expose and punish graft in high and low places, and to continue to purify the moral atmosphere of the city through a district attorneys office. directed by man whose conscience is free of all pledges except his pledge to the people to do his duty without fear or favor
 St Louis Globe-Democrat: The shrink age of the Wins vote indicates that some republicans went to Mcclellan. In the mayorality canvass of 1886 thousands of republicans swung from their candidate, Roosevelt, over to Abram s. Hewitt the nominee of Tammany and the county democracy, in order to render certain the defeat of Henry George, the independent candidate. Probably thousands of republi- cans followed this example yesterday so chair It is evident nevertheless. that Hearst received some republican votes. His big total could not all have been drawn from the democratic side This renders him an specially interesting per sonage. He has, for his municipal owner ship fad. many friends in both the great parties It is possible that socialism. in new phase. will have something of the same prominence in 1908 that silverism had in 1896.
 New York Sun: Never before in our his tory did a decent man claim the suffrages of his fellow citizens to be met with