The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-11-21
MUST Be COLD COMFORT!
Republican Majority in New
Jersey Nearly Wiped Out.

washington, ID. e., Nov. 10. 1t Is
diflicult To express accurately the DO.
iitical view OF the elections In New
York, Massachusetts, Cleveland, O.
and other sister states. What |
might think would be equally unim.
portant and interesting. Put | have
been furnished with statement OF
the presidents own thoughts which
offer:
He thinks that New Jersey has
been victory. AS matter OF fact
IL was SO far from a victory that II
took twenty.four hours after the clos.
Ing OF the polls TO find out whether
Mr.. Roosevelt's man had been elect.
ed, or whether the state had gone
democratic. The victory In New
Jersey was like that of which Napo.
leon once said; lone more such vic.
tory and we are undone." The re-
publican ticket was elected, true,
but the long time republican major.
ity was brought down TO pitiful
plurality.
Then we have Rhode Island. The
democratic candidate for governor
was elected by fine plurality; so too
Maryland. The presidents serious
statement is that he can place against
this sweeping victory in Kentucky.
That is entirely true, but Mr.. Roose-
welt was not in issue In Kentucky.
What the democratic party failed TO
do there was largely due 10 democrat.
ic weakness. The really vital points
were Cleveland, o., New York,
Rhode Island, MARYLAND and Massa-
chusetts. Even Massachusetts Is
not fair to be tested for there the
split was between the democl attic
factions as against an anti Roosevelt
republican candidate. Some day the
real truth about the Massachusetts
campaign will be told. Sometime
the story as to how greatly certain
republican senators would like to
have seen Henry NJ. Whitney elected
on the democratic ticket, TO the de.
stIuction OF Curtis Guild may he
made public. That fine and aristo.
cratic old state of Massachusetts
plays politics In way that even the
Bowery In New York could not un,
derstand. And the scholar In poll.
ties" plays his game cleverly and
we'll
Two men in Ohio are we'll worth
watching One is a straight out.and
out democrat avowed and loyal. The
other processes npartisanship, but
is democrat essentially TO his fingel
tips. | have known both for nearly
twenty Yeas. The avowed democrat
is Tom Johnson, just triumphant,
reelected for the fourth time mayo
of Cleveland: tie other is Bran'
Whitock, Just reelected mayor 0
Toledo. To me Whitlock is the IT, or
interesting character OF the two
though | know both and admire then
equally. But Whitlock is so far as
know a man OF slender means, a ma
; who has been newspaper writer an
. magazine writer and novelist. II
3 has been carried upward by his IN
: varying adherence to the things !
} which he and his sponsor In politics
t Golden Rule Jones'" believed. ii
! has done what TO my mind is one {
D the most extraordinary things !
y politics, secured election twice q
e mayor Of a great city without usin
D patronage and without any person;
0 fortune at his disposal. | think h
D will go far, and deserves To 90 far.
And yet Whitlock, OF Toledo,
y man OF no means, and Johnson, {
= Cleveland, very rich man, al
i working along the same lines and al
a men of like character. Neither or
II is machine politician. Neither OF
S is man who would subordinate h
0 personal views TO the immediate NJ
J, cessity OF being elected. They a
1 talking Brand Whitlock now for 90
/ ernor of Ohio. Yet democrat
candidate was run against him
IS Toledo. My own guess is that II
l. should be nominated for governo
u the influence OF Tom Johnson won
IS be thrown for him. Indeed, IT. a
81 pears that In the state OF ohio the
II is an inclination to discard the q
ID line democracy which urged Veto
N at any price, and which had no SC
a OF principle. That political plan d
D. not succeed, hut now with Johns
In Cleveland and Nhitlock IN Tole
sc there seems to be some oppOrtuni
10 for real democracy in the state
u against machine democracy:
lg a few days ego Washington v
IL full Of politicians from Okl1bon
~ Today 1t is full OF prom inent new
10 paper owners from all parts OF I
De United States The Oklahoma
re we're begging for appointments
Judges and ~ marshals: that v
AZ politics. The newspaper OVID,
Sc were pleading for presidential acti
&c to control the eXtortionate pri'
u fixed by the print paper trust up
As white paper. There was politics
81 the oklahoma appeal but there v
~ nothing except an endeayor TO {