The Irish standard., 1909-11-06
THE ELECTION IN NEW YORK.

THE ELECTION IN NEW YORK.
After a most strenuous campaign
during which the three candidates for
mayor of Greater New York were eulo-
gized and vilifed to the queens taste
by their respective adherents and OPP
ponents, Judge William j. Gaynor,
Democrat and candidate of Tammany
was elected on Tuesday by plurality
of 1900 over Otto T. Barnard, Re-
publican Fusion candidate. and Will
liam r. Hearst, the independent candi-
date, the latter of whom entered the
race for the purpose of defeating the
Tammany ticket. Hearst succeeded IN
defeating the entire ticket with the
exception of the head, and had he not
entered the field and left the battle be-
tween Tammany and the Fusionists,
the former would undoubtedly have
elected all its candidates AS it Is, the
| Democrats, and not the Republicans,
have won the victory.
The Fusionists and Hearstites had
anti Tammany Democrats for the most
important Offices, such as comptroller
and president of the board of alder
men, and these Democrats will have
a majority in the board of estimates
and apportionment which will spend
more than a billion dollars during their
term of office. That board as elected
will consist of five anti Tammany
Democrats and two Republicans, and
on ballot they will stand nine to four
and control the finances of the city.
Mayor Gaynor has three votes on that
board and will cast them with the anti
Tammany Democrats when necessary,
making IL against for the Republt-
cans. John Purroy Mitchell, grandson
of John Mitchell, the Irish revolution
list of 1S4S. is the president of the
board of aldermen, and William A.
Prendergast is the comptroller elect.
Both are sterling Democrats elected on
the Fusion ticket, but they have no
use for Tammany under the leader
ship of Charles F. Murphy. The board
of aldermen will consist of ~ Demo-
Gratis and SO Fusionists, so that though
Tammany has gone down in defeat
saving only the head of its ticket, the
| Democrats and not the Republicans
have won the victory In the nations
metropolis.
The Irish Standard has no sympa-
thy to expend on Tammany in the day
OF disaster. Though disbelieving that
the charges preferred against that or
ganization during the contest were
true, and that any crookedness was
sanctioned by Mayor Mcclellan dur
ing his administration, yet the meth
DDS employed by Tammany in presi-
dental elections in caring more for
local control than for the national
success of the Democratic party, i'm
press us unfavorably. That Tammany
needs reorganization to succeed in flu
ture campaigns In Greater New York
is apparent. Though its candidates on
Tuesday were clean and capable men
and guilty of no corruption, still they
were not satisfactory to the majority
of the voters. Had Gaynor been an
out-and-out Tammanyite he, too, would
have gone down in defeat with the
rest of the ticket All the press t,f
Greater New York fought Gaynor, with
the exception of three, and one OF
them gave him but little support. The
World stood by him, but sold its space
to Hearst for cash. His personal pom
ularity and fine political record elected
Gaynor and we predict that he will
give Gotham one of the best admins
trations in its history.