The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-17
POLITICAL N0FEs.

RVLAhACAL NOTES.
Rep blicaps Of the higher type have ez-
Drossod the greatest regret over the defeat
OF sherman More and as Assemblyman for
Chsmung county. -MOrelsnd was leader OF
the MAORI y In the lower house at Albany
last. winter. and II reelected be was to con-
tlnue in that place. Eventually he would
have been elected Speaker.
MorsIand has carved his own way He
was a school teacher. and through ali sorts Of
drudgery became q lawyer. The Republi-
cans who said they felt badly over Moreland's
defeat remarked that they hoped that More
land would try u again next ven a. they
needed such men as MOreland at Albany
and plenty Of them.
Hugh Hastings. formerly State Historian
at Albany and now one Of Mayor McClellAn's
Tax Commissioners. tried on a recent visit 10
London TO hunt up the spot in Kensal Green
where Thackeray was buriedN After an hours
search on \ witherInRly hot afternoon he
tackled q not hated. fat. red faced English
man with the question:
will you kindly tell me where Thacksray
liz burisd?"
0Os 's?" was B. e response.
Hastings in his anger and disgust actually
ned. although IL night have been funnieT
II he had stopped and explained TO the thick
witted one who Thackeray was.
Politicians and others have observed that
the Taft people are exceedingly sensitive.
more 30 than the situation seems to warrant.
This has been illustrated a number Of times.
but especially by the interview with George
b. Cox printed in THE SUN.
Mr.. Cox In that interview said never an nm
kind word OF Secretary Taft or of the SeCre-
tsry's friends in Ohio: neither did MIR. Cox
say anything in that interview which might
be construed as unfriendly TO President
Roosevelt or Representative Burton. but
nevertheless the interview kicked up n hui
lsbaloo in Ohio Republican politics. II has
been so all the way along with Secretary Taft's
friends in the Buckeye State.
Many OF the Secretary's friends have OBJ
jected to printing the actual facts Of the stu
alton In his State. Everything that went out
must be for Taft In thirteen different ways.
and more Taft If wanted. or IL was all wrong
and bad feeling was engendered. Evidently
the Taft people take their politics very seri-
Ously.
Since election day there has been The KEEN
est interest to ascertain VIVA. folks In political
circles thought Of the Hearst vote in the State.
| The State Board of Canvassers does not meet
until December I. and IL will not be until after
this Oficial canvass thai the total Hearst vote
for Reuben r.. Lyon and John r. McDonOugh.
the two candidates for Associate Judges o.
ths Court OF Appeals on the Independence
League ticket. will be known.
The total vote for McDOnOugh in the FIVE
borOuGhs making up New York city was Of ,S46
and that for Lyon in the same territory was
1889. Political Mathematician say the
Lyon vote more properly represents the
Hearst present strength below The Bronx
than the vote for McDonOugh. for the reason
that McDODough had one or two special classes
of voters al his back. From this vote below
The Bronx for Lyon the political guessers
are estimating that Lyon got approximately
10000 votes in the State.
When Mr.. Hearst ran for Mayor OF New
York city in 1908 his total vote in all the FIVE
bOroughs was 22S. 1856. When Mr.. Hearst
a year later, in 1905. ran for Governor bis
total vote in the same territory was S3s, 5I4.
Mr.. Hearst = total vote for Governor in the
State was SOL los.
Lyon vote in New York city was Isi ,2s4
below Hcaret's vote for Mayor IN 1905 and
Lyon . vote IN the same territory was $50. s32
below Mr.. Hearst's vote for Governor. Ap-
proximately Lyons vote in the state will he
Sal los below HeaTsts total vote in the State
for Governor.
Isaac v. Baker Of Comstock. one of tbe
old timers in the New York Republican State
machine. rises to remark that Gov. Cornell,
although elected a delegate A. large to the
Republican national convention. did not
attend the convention. TIL SrN has re-
peaiedly told how Gov. Cornell did not attend
the convention, but that ne was represented
by his alternate. Jacob W. Hoys,radt.
THAT cocktail business has appe rently
finished Fairbanks said a Republican
national committeeman AZ the Waldorf
Astoria the other night, and IT is all very
funny TO me for the reason that President
Roosevelt has wine for luncheon and dinner
and serves Il 20 all his guests" Vet not \
peep NJ objection is heard in the land. while
poor old Fairbanks has been shot through
and through by the temperance folks"
Everything is upside down now anyhow"
remarked smother Republican national COM
nitt cemar who heard his brother talk on the
rum question. ~ have to smile a many
things ] hear and read.
Il have been on 4 broad grin lots ~ times
when I read in sOmc ut the newspapers the
statement from WashinRtoD: There is no
stock ticker in the white House under ROose-
welt No other inference can be drawn
from this statement than that there wss a
stock ticker in the White House under some
or ell Of Roosevelt predecessors.
u have known ely every President
since Arthur's time. and 7 have been on
intimate relations with affairs in the White
House. and I know that Arthur. Cleveland.
Harrison, Cleveland the second time and
Mckinley knew nothing about a stock ticker
or stock transactions. and they were all
upright and honorable men and Of the
highest type of American Presidents. That
It stement that I frequently read about there
being no stock ticker in the White House
under President Roosevelt IL too ridiculous
and absurd TO call for serious thought"
Speaker Cannon is reported to be quite
ANNOYED over President Rooseyelt's attitude
n persis: entity ignoring the Speaker as a
genuine candidate for the Presidency. with
the State Of Illinois at his back.
Will the Democratic organization OF the
81 late of New York and the Hearst Inde-
pendence League fuse on q State ticket next
year? This question is being asked all over
the state nOWpdsys. Chairman William J.
Conners OF the Democratic state committee
and Charles r. Murphy OF Tanmany are re-
ported az feeling that The Hearst movement.
especially below the Bronx line. as illustrated
BY the vote on election day. had more re-
siduum than they had expected.
SUBMARINE CABLES ENEHT.
LATHE Creature OI the Sea That Is Fond OF
GsUtta Percha.