Evening star., 1907-11-07
Statement From White House
on Tuesdays Elections.
RESULT is GRATIFYING
REPRESENTATIVE Bennett Defends Flu.
sion in New York.
OKLAHOMA APPOINTMENTS
Senator Gallinger Indicates That He
Might Favor Local Option for
the District of Columbia.

The following statement relating to
Tuesdays : elections was Ciyrn out at the
White House today. evidently for the
purpose of coUutaracting newspaper as
serttous tha; the small republican ma
jority In New Jersey was due to tn" de-
sire of TIN. people there to rehuk" the
President for certain acts of his admin
istratIun. as well some gloating that
the alleged candidate OF The President Tor
mayor OF Cleveland rad been defeated by
a democrat:
TIE President regards the result of
the elections a. extremely gratifying. He
has sent letter of hearty Congra tulation
tn Mr.. Henev on the result in San Fran
cisco. TIE victory in New Jersey was
precisely what happened nine years ago,
In the middle Of President Mckinleys ad-
ministration. He had carried New Jersey
by SS.rn. and two years afterward the
republican candidate for governor had
500 the vote being cut down Just as
happened in the case OF Judge Fort AS
compared with the elections next pre"ed-
ing the last presidential elections We nave
done decidedly better than we did IN 1913
Then as Tuesday Rhode Island ana
Maryland went against Ms: but TINS year
lucky for the first time since Mckinley
first election. and the victory In Massa-
chusetts was also remarkable. The show
Ing in Pennsylvania and Nebraska ~
equally good Moreover. the showing In
New York state as a whole was excel
lent far better than was the case prior
to the last presidential election. That the
result In Manhattan was due to purely
local causes is shown by comparing II
with the decisive triumphS in Brooklyn,
Buffalo. Albany and in the state gener-
ally The Presidents own home county
of Nassa u made better showing than 1t
ever las in an off year. AS whole. the
showing has been an improvement over
what 1t was four years ago and eight
years ago
Oklahoma Appointments Made.
The long fight over Oklahoma appoint
ments was settled today. when the Presi-
dent announced the following appoint
ments: John II. Cotteral Judge of the
westeruN district. John E.mbry, United
States attorney for the western district.
John Abernathy United States marshal
for the western district. Ralph F. Camp
bell, judge of the eastern district. Will
liam Gregg. United States attorney for
the eastern district Grove A. Porter,
United States marshal for the eastern
district. For Alaska; Sias II. Reid judge
of the district court of Alaska.
1t is the desire Of the President that
the appointees take the oath of office as
speedily possible and get the machin-
cry in motion for statehood. The Presi
dent will sign the statehood bill on the
18th of this month.
Claims Fusion Was Right
Representative Benhet of New York
city, close personal friend of both Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Herbert Parsons
Of
New York county. uphoIds the fusion
rangement with the Hearst people in the
recent election. IF we had TO do 1t over
again would be in favor of fusion said
Mr. Bennet 1T was the only way we
could get anything. If we had not fused
We would have elected fewer members of
the assembly than we did. Fusion also
enabled us to elect a number OF local
Judges in various districts who are pretty
close to the people
Did Gov Hughes approve fusion?''
Well. he voted the straight fusion
ticket anyway. | do not know what he
thought about ii personally"
Mr. Eennet is about to return to Europe
TO resume his study OF Immigration con-
dttons He will be absent about six
weeks. most Of the time in Italy, through
which he VIII make tour with the 1tal-
ian commissioner of immigra ton Mr..
Bennet Is a member of the immigration
commission provided by the last Congress.
and, with other members of the commits
sion. spent two or three months In Eu-
rope this summer He said that he did
not think IL would be possible for the
commission to make "A full report to Con-
gress at the coming session. Such a re-
port Will not be ready inside of a year
Representative OIcott Of New York was
also visitor at the White House He
did not care to talk about New York
politics.
Gallinger on Prohibition.
Senator Gallinger chairman of the Sem
bia. declined to express any set views as
to the agitation for prohibition in the
District. but the tenor of his remarks in
dicated that he might favor local option,
with the right of the people to vote on
the saloon in specially created districts
at any rate the right 10 express their
wishes by popular vote.
'e New hampshire senator called on
the Pre- sident to pay his respects today
and when asked about local matters to
come before Congress this winter said
Yes. there Will undoubtedly be many
important District matters for Considera-
ton AS 70 prohibition. you ask. Well
IL my stat" "" abandoned prohibition a
number Of years ago and substituted for
It local option | do not know how this
could be allowed III the District in view
Of the fact that there is no registration
anu no Hdt4Il!ifiA lor t!"'tloilS. L sup
pose this could be provided for. however.
Yes. popular vote Is the only fair way
II settle things. | do not. though wish
t" commit myself to any proposition at
this tIme.' | prefer 10 wait and watch de-
vrIupmentS.
AS 10 providing for street railway tracks
10 the new Union station. Senator Gal
hnger said he supposed there would be no
d"-ided opposition to such a measure II
think the h:ll for railway tracks to The
depot VIII be one of the first bills taken
up. ne SAID Il do not think that auy