Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-22

MAYOR ELECT GAYNoR OF NEW YORK.
1.-THE Of the interest inspired by some
of the municipal fights. Altogether it
was great day for local political man
ifestations.
In New York city the Tammany can
didate, William .Gaynor, was elected
by satisfactory majority, but the re-
mainder Of the ticket was defeated. In
Cleveland the redoubtable Tom John
son lost his political grip and went
down to defeat at the hands Of his Re
publican opponent, Herman @. Baehr,
Brand Whitlock proved himself still
to be the choice Of Toledo. Indianapo-
lis elected Samuel Lewis Shank, Re-
publican. Cincinnati elected DR.. Louis
Schwab, Republican. New Jersey went
largely Republican as far as its new
legislature is concerned, but Jersey
City elected 81. Otto Wittpenn, Demo-
crat, for its mayor.
Louis P. Fuhrmann, Democrat, Is
the new mayor Of Buffalo, but the ma
jority of his political associates on the
ticket were defeated.
Eben S. Draper succeeds himself as
governor of Massachusetts, Aram j.
Pothier does likewise in Rhode Island,
and William Hodges Mann, Democrat,
is the new governor of Virginia.
McCarthy's Campaign Slogan.
In San Francisco the political reform
movement received temporary check
by the triumph Of. the Union Labor
candidate, p. 81. Mccarthy, whose
campaign slogan was, "If I'm elected
FL make San Francisco the Paris Of
America"
A few days before the election Mr..
Mccarthy stated as follows what he
and the members Of his party would
do for San Francisco If he were elect
ed mayor:
when am elected mayor propose
to give San Francisco decent, clean,
honest government for the people, by
the people and of the people. I in
tend to stand by the platform of the
Union Labor party, which guarantees
improvements in every district, includ-
ing the outlying sections; the building
OF sewers AID schoolhouses, for which
the money has already been secured,
but which has not been expended as
arranged for; the bringing Of pure wa
ter from the Hetch-Hetchy in the least
possible time, In the best possible man
ner, at the minimum cost compatible
with good work, and the erection Of
city hall, where all the municipal
$N$S Uvv&1 1,n
hese discussions which have divided
our citizens and stop the waste Of
money on automobile joy rides and
trips to Europe, using it instead In
Improvements for the people,"
Friend Of the People.
l. William ]. Gaynor, the mayor elect
Of the city Of New York, has always
been an anti-Tammany man and an in
dependent Democrat True, he was
nominated by Tammany this year, but
not until he had been named by vari-
GUS independent organizations. He
first came into prominence by his pros
4 ,ecution Of the notorious boss John Y.
McKane, whom he sent to the peniten-
itiary. He afterward was elected SUI
preme court justice as an independent
Democrat with Republican indorse-
ment. OF the bench he was noted for
his radical views and for the manner
In which he occasionally stood the law
iyers on their heads. He has generally
been regarded as friend of the peo-
pie and foe Of bosses and corpora
lions. He twice declined to run for
mayor and once refused to become q
candidate for the Democratic nomina.
ton for governor.
III the recent campaign Judge Gay
nor occupied an anomalous position,
In the,spring and early summer before
the nominations he was generally re-
garded as the most promising indie
pendent and anti-Tammany candidate.
Then appeared his famous letter in
Which - SAID that he would accept the