The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-16
POLITICAL VOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
Horace Greeley said 60 West. young man."
and Nothing is certain but oblivion" The
former admonition was Of value In Its day.
say the wise old politicians who knew Greeley.
and IL may even now be accepted by many
in the crowded cities Of the efYets East. but,
it Is asked. is the latter dictum Of Greeley's
quite correct?
Adaily Socialist newspaper has been started
In Chicago with this declaration as q fore
word: This paper lost its muzzle the day
before It started" IAN inquisitive mortal
has been led to ask: what has become OF
the Parlor Socialists who met at Noroton.
Conn, a little more than q year agof Have
they 'divvied' the unearned increment OF
their vast wealth among their humble. grimy
handed followers in Chicago. Paterson and
other towns where Socialists delight to con-
gregate?"
Bob O'Brien. Republican Councilman.
gambling house proprietor. saloon keeper
and political boss In Cincinnati, declares
that: IF In all the world there is q man who
will show me in the Bible. the book We all
swear by. a passage in which Il says thou
shalt not gamble l will never do so again as
long as l live"
In Missouri In November the Democratic
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the vote for the same ONCE in 1904 fell on
1879. The Republican vote fell OF no less
than S3.491. and consequently the Demo-
Gratis elected two supreme Judges by purall-
ties OF s.s7s and 9,O04.
II only $4,000 Republicans had neglected
to vote tho party would still have carried
the State. and the Supreme Court would
stand four Democrats. three Republicans.
instead Of being Democrat tic by o to /. The
s3.4ei stay at home Republicans lost all the
State officers voted for. lost the Legislature
and lost several Congress districts where the
vote was close. The vote on Supreme
Judges in 1904 was $40 .sos Republican. sos .7ss
Democratic. Last month IL was 292 .42i
Democratic and 2s3, All Republican.
In March. 1906. the Republican Legislature
Of the State elected William Warner United
States Senator TO succeed Francis Marion
Cockrell.
In the present Congress Kentucky has two
Republican members; in the Sixtieth Con-
gress she will have four.
Race and religion for thirty wears and
more have had little weight in New York
State politics. Francis Herman was elected
TO the United States Senate and William
r. Grace became Mayor OF New York city.
Both were Catholics and thisf fact Is reca lled
as dlsproof Of the utterance of the late
Frederic Il. Coudert, one of the ideal Demo-
cratic statesmen and probably the most
renowned international lawyer OF his day.
Mr.. Coudert was a Catholic, and felt that his
religious belief operated against his ap-
pointment as Ambassador to the French
republic in President Cleveland's second
administration
Oscar S. Straus of New York. TO be Secretary
OF and Labor in the Cabinet Of
President Roosevelt, is the first member Of
fha Jew Sh raRa tn Orpunv "a pIana in N Eadaral
Cabinet. II is recalled. though. that Jefferson
Davis made Judah z. Benjamin Secretary OF
State in the Confederate Cabinet more than
forty years ago. BefOrethat BeniaIIin had had
a brilliant career in the United States Senate.
There have been four other Jewish Senator's:
David l.. Yulee. Is45-0l; benjamin. F.. Jonas,
Is7e-sS; Joseph Simon. 1870. and Isado
Rayner. 1905.
A number OF Catholics have been Cabinet
members.
The simon pure Republican bosses OF the
counties in New York State were said yester-
day to be: Albany. William Barnes. Jr.: Alle-
gany. A. Minor Wellman; Broome, George
W. Dunn; Cattaraugus, Frank W. Higgins:
n. V. V. Franchot and James s. Whipple:
Cayuga. Benjamin Martin Wilcox and George
Benham; C~hautauqua. Charles II. wicks;
Chemung. j, Sloat Fassett: Chenango, Nelson
Bonney and lothian p. Aids: Clinton, John
+. O'Brien and l.. l.. Sheldon: Columbia.
Louis F. Payn; Cortland. Supreme Court
Justice Nathan l.. Miller and Frank L. Hilton:
Delaware. J. ID. Lawrence; Duchess. Robert
II. Hunter: Erie, Fred Greiner and Clark
Zimmerman; Essex, Walter c. Witherbee
and r. L. p. Mason; Franklin. Billy O'Neill.
Frederick D.. kilburn and Martin +. McClary:
Fulton and Hamilton Lucius W. Littauer
and John A. Cole; Genesee. j. NJ. Hamilton:
Greene. Frank ID. Cole: Herkimer, B. A, Rus
sell and Seth HeacOck: Jefferson, Addison b.
Parker and Zion X. Brown: Kings. Timothy
l.. Woodruff: Lewis N. A. Phillips: Livingston.
James w. Wadsworth, Sr.; Madison. A. r.
Carpenter; Monroe. George w. Aldridge.
Mont gomery. John Stewart: New York.
Herbert Parsons: Nassau, Charles F.. Lewis:
Niagara, John T.. Merritt: Oneida. John C..
Davies: Onondaga, Francis Hendricks; On
tario. John Raines; Orange. B.. b. Odell, Jr.;
Orleans. Irving L'Hommedieu: Oswego. John
I. Mott: Otsego. George I. Wilbur and E. r.
Ford; Putnam. John r. Yale: Queens, Leander
Faber: Rensselaer,. Cornelius v. Collins:
Richmond, George Cromwell: Rockland.
Arthur Tompkins; st. Lawrence, George r..
Malby Saratoga. Edgar +. Bracket: Schenec-
tady. Pop" Callinan and James W.. Yelverto on;
SchOharie, Horace G.. Tenant: Schuyler.
Fremont Cole and Owen Cassidy; Seneca.
j. b. II. Mangin; Steuben, William FULLY:
Suffolk. Samuel Parrish: Sullivan, Frank
ANDERSON llOgA, william A, Smyth and
A. W. Parmalee: Tompkins. John Dwight
Ulster. George Smith; Warren, Loyal L..
Davis; Washington. Isaac v. Baker; Wayne.
Charles II. Belts; Westchester, William l.,
Ward; Wyoming. Frederick C. Stevens. and
Yates. William S. Cromwell.
The changes in the Fifty-ninth Congress-
In the second session, which ends March 3.
1907, are as follows:
A. r. German. Senator from Maryland.
died June 4. 1908. William Pinkney whyte
appointed TO I'LL the vacancy.
J.. r.. Burton, Senator from Kansas, re-
signed June 4. 1908. A. W. Benson appointed
to fill the vacancy.
II. A. DUPONT. elected Senator from Della
ware June 10. 1905. thus completing the men,
berhip of that body.
j. Hampton Moore. elected to ali the va
cancy caused by the death of e.. A. Castor,
Representative from the Third district OF
Pennsylvania. and C.. n. Brumm. to fll that
caused by the death OF g. r. Patterson, Rep
resentative from the Twelfth district Of Penn
sylvania.
T.. ". Saunders. elected TO I'LL the vacancy
caused by the resignation OF G. A. Swanson.
Representative from the fifth district OF
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