New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-26
every state government controlled by the Re
nuhIican party
WHY THEY HOPE TO BEAT HIM


The Democratic campaign In this state IS
conducted In the hope that MARX IVAN
cynical .Be good and you viii be lonesome
viii prove TO be q summary of human naluIc
The Governor has done his duty, therefore ne
will he defeated, is the reasoning that underlles
If Doing YOUR duty, like telling the truth' does
make enemies, lots OF them, and the Governor
has made plenty of his own; but doesh 1t
mako friends as well? This election Will SNOW
It will show whether public man can aloro "
follow the high principle of preferrlng Tie gen.
eral interest Of the whole people TO an softS u
special interests that are antagonisuc 10 II
whether his course wifi be so appreciated pS
the masses that the enemies he makes may De
safely ignored.
Mr. Cbanler is the candidate of every one
who wishes TO see the Governor defeated ior
doing his duty and his whole campaign Is al
anpeal for such votes Without daring expressly
to pledge himself to reverse the 0cNe'H'i
course he broadly intfmates that every one
who Is offended at the Governors uncolhpro-
missing adhesion TO principle would nhu lin
very different man TO deal with, less harRoW'
more practical none of your OllVer oroLl"cIi0'
but a man you can do business win,
appeaI TO the racetrack vote which Mr.. Cnanler
made with vague suggestions, hints, innuendoes'
talk If personal liberty condemnation OF
interference with popular "pastimes' and the
like was Of this sort. The Governor had zone
his duty in causing the passage OF the Hill
gambling laws, and Mr.. Chanler IN shalle
faced. reluctant way has been compelIeu 10 coh-
fess desnita his vague intima tons Of sympathy
with the gamblers and his tacit consent 10 Ihelr
raising q fund in his behalf, that he Always
believed the Governor had done his duty. Yet
he is the instrument of those who want 10 peat
the Governor for doing this duty. So OF the
no
there. and all the enemies he made IN the
nrooess including the hooters driven away from
the public service corporations are trying Wlth
Mr. Cbanier TO beat him for doing his DUTY
All the life there IS in the Chanler candidacy IS
of this sort VIII Mr.. Chanler come OUT ana
say that be is in favor of violating the pflnclpIe
of home rule when teachers associations WIN
equal pay bills and patrolmen's organizations
with three-platoon bills demand 1t: NO. he
Will insnuate and raise hopes, proDaDIy lalse
in the breasts of all groups with private griev-
ances but If he were hard enough pressed ne
would probably come out and say the Governor
WAS right Still all those who want to beat the
Governor for doing what even Mr.. Chanler has
10 admit was his duty are cordially welcome to
use Mr. Chambers candidacy for that purpose
Without the men who want TO beat the GOV
ernor for doing his duty there would be nothlng
10 the Cbanler candidacy. Party TO party, the
Democrats would have no chance OF eIecung d
Governor this year.
What gives peculiar poignancy to the situa-
tion-to Mr. CHAMBERS standing as the candidate
of all those who wish to have their threatened
revenge on the Governor for doing rights Mr.
Chanler's own fervid praise Of the Governor a
short time ago for acting as he had. He praises
the light and then enters into league with
those who love the darkness. If Mr.. Chanler
were of q less simple nature the thesis might be
maintained that his applause OF Hughes was
disingenuous, that he praised Hughes's course
simply because he saw the possibilities in the
enmities it provoked. But Mr.. Chambers self
satisfaction requires no such ingenious explana-
ton. He was tempted again by the prospect or
Office as Hearst successfully tempted him to
desert the anti-Hearst movement, and as greater
opportunities tempted him in turn to desert
Hearst. The safest place for the voters to put
him in IS a place beyond the reach of further
temptation