The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-09
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THE CITY ELECIL0N.

James B. Martin, the Democratic candidate for Mayor of the city of New Haven, has been elected over Minotte E. Chatfleld, the Republican candidate, by plurality in excess of l,50O serious votes. This reverses a popular decision made two years ago In favor of Mayor Studley which in figures reads 2,9Ss. An electorate capable of reversing itself in that impressive manner is an electorate worthy of the best traditions of self government. It shows that if 1t can exercise great patience under condi- tions in themselves irritating, 1t can also administer the cure for them with resolution,
 Mayor-elect Martin has triumphed over a man worthy of his mettle. MT. Chatfleld is good representative of the business interests of the city, who by his conduct in appealing to tho voters demonstrated the fact that as A matter of contrasted personalities there was little or nothing to choose between them. It was a gentleman's campaign they made of the struggle for partisan supremacy and 1t will be long remembered to their indi- vidual credit that it was so. We shall be surprised if together they have not set up standard of political conduct which means much for the public peace of mind, on the one aand, and on the other larger sense of official responsibility. Each has made a convincing display of self restraint and respect for the good name of New Haven. The Journal and Courier takes the liberty of con graduating both gentlemen, and it ean say in particular to MT. Chat field that though it is not his part in the impending political drama to play the leading role, he retires to the wings of the stage with the con- fidence of his friends unimpaired and the good will of his opponents in- creased.
 It would have been Impossible for MT. Martin to overcome such a man after six years of Republican rule had not MT. Martin personified an issue. which has long been a-forming in the public mind and which merely awaited champion to disclose it's
 
 inherent strength. The issue was that of machine rule versus popular rule. The Republican machine of New Ha- ven has been closely organized and arbitrary machine, increasingly SO In some respects it has been a more tactful machine than many which have had their existence here and elsewhere, which accounts for it's long life, but it has been a machine made ID of human beings nevertheless and demoralizingly sensitive to a self-cen- tered measurement of what is good for the people at large. Tn it's failure to receive an endorsement at a criti- cal moment it has no one to blame quite as much as itself, Its own hu- man weaknesses made It's downfall inevitable. Had it, for example, used it's great power to persuade a more judicious consideration of the sched- ule of salaries offered the Board of Education instead of using that great power to discipline the school teach CTS, themselves, too, fellow servants, one dominating cause of it's downfall would have remained uncreated. For another thing, had lt employed or dinary tact and judgment in conceal ing it's bold purpose to nominate whom 1t chose and to suppress, with iron hand, budding ambitions among the faithful, it would not have had to meet a Republican resentment which was the more difficult to con- tend with because hidden in vest pockets until the polls were reached.
 That these and similar forces of dlseontent confronted the machine to