The Penn's Grove record., 1909-11-05

Elections were held Tuesday IN
nearly every State and most of the
cities throughout the country.
All over the Union it was a day OF
elections. There were few
State contests, and the ones of chief
Importance were those which were
fought, not over candidates, but over
Constitutional amendments.
In six States of the Union State
tickets were voted for - Massachu-
sets. Rhode Island and Virginia,
which elected Governors, and Mary
land, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska,
which elected minor State officers.
But in Rhode Island, Maryland and
Alabama issues of the greatest impor-
lance were holly battled over because
of their presentation in Constitutional
amendments. Maryland faced the
problem of disfranchising the negro,
while Rhode Island decided upon a
reformation of her political system.
In Alabama the amendment dealt
with the liquor question.
Next to New York, the hottest mu-
nicipal contests were in Cleveland,
Ohio, where Mayor Tom L.. johnson
ran for his fifth consecutive term, and
i'm Philadelphia, where the reformers,
under D. Clarence GibbOney, gave
Boss McNicho1 a fight.
New Jersey elected both branches
of the Legislature, the members of
the upper branch having a voice in
the selection of a successor to United
States Senator John Kean in 1911.
Pennsylvania elected a State Treasu-
rer, Auditor General and Judge of the
Supreme Court. Nebraska elected
two Justices of the Supreme Court
and three university regents.
New York City.-Throughout the
Union, except in this city, the general
result Of the election was such as to
give no encouragement to municipal
reformers. En- ak
where that was made a pronounced
issue the verdict was on the side OF
the machine.
Elections were held in many States
and cities, and reformers, old and
new, generally suffered defeat at the
polls.
In Philadelphia, where the better
elements combined to break the pow
er of the machine in the election fol-
District Attorney, D. Clarence Gibbo-
ney, head of the Philadelphia Law
and Order League, was defeated by
Samuel P. Rotan, the Republican
nominee, by from 10000 to $4,000
votes. Gibboney was defeated by Ro.
tan at the last election by less thar
$4,000 votes.
In Cleveland the reign of Tom L
johnson as MaJU was e1nded by the
election of Herman G. q LIE Re.
publican nominee, by dSmall plural
ity. Mayor johnson wa mapdidate
for a fifth term as Mayor. me issue
were purely local.
In Cincinnati the Republican nom
inee of Boss" Cox, DR.. Schwab, wa!
elected Mayor by an increased Repuht
lican plurality. He is the man tina
President Taft wished to go home L
vote against. n
Brand Whitlock was the M
marked exception in the day of nota
BILE reform defeats. He was re-elect
ed Mayor of Toledo by an estimated
plurality of $500, a considerable los
over his plurality at the last election,
San Francisco, after one of tn
liveliest three-cornered Mayoralt,
fights in its history, but with the inter
est chiefly centredin the fight betweei
Francis ]. Heney, who prosecuted TO
the Government the land frauds il
the West, and later the briber
charges against city officials in Sa.
Francisco, and who WIS chosen by th
Democrats in direct primary, an
Charles Pickert, Republican an
union labor, for District Attorney
~~ y Tt NoCarthvA ~