Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-11-04
TAMMANY'S MAYOR Is Elected
In new YORK CITY.
In San Francisco the Union Labor
Candidate wins rfayOralty, While
Heney Is Defeated. Tom Johnson
Loses In Cleveland, as Do the Nor
mons in Salt Lake.

Municipal and state elections were
held over a great part of the United
States, Tuesday. Interest in the New
York city fight centered in Tam
many's effort to retain control of the
municipal machinery. The Tam
many candidate, Judge William j.
Gaynor, was elected by 10000 over
o T.. Barnard, Republican. who in
turn ran we'll ahead of Hearst, but
that was the practical extent of the
Tammany victory. The fusionists
won control of the board of esti-
mate. which will have the eXpendi-
ture of nearly a billion dollars for
municipal improvements within the
next two years. The Tammany's S
hold on the New York finances has
been pried loose.
In San Francisco the Heney for
ces met their Waterloo at the hands
of the Union Labor party. P. H. Nc
Carthy, Union Labor. was elected
mayor while Charles M. Fickert,
Labor Republican, beat Heney by a
plurality greater than that of Nc
Carthy. Mccarthy has announced a
liberal policy.
In Cleveland Tom l.. Johnson went
down to defeat before Herman Beahr,
who will be the first Republican
mayor Cleveland has had in ten
years. Brand Whitlock was re-elect-
ed in Toledo. In Salt Lake the Nor
mons were defeated in their fight
for control of the city by the Amer
lean party.
In New Jersey the Republican can
didates held their own everywhere.
In Indiana the Republicans scored
several important victories, partlcu-
larly in indianapolis.
The Democratic victory in Virginia
brings Judge Mann to the office of
governor His majority apparently
will be the usual one for his state
In Pennsylvania the chief interest
centered in Philadelphia, where the
reform element endeavored in vain
to break the power Of the local Re-
publican organization.
New Jersey elected eight members
of the state senate and full house
of sixty members of the assembly
The Republicans will control both
houses.
New York state elected an assem-
bly, that will show a Republican ma
jority of about SO.
In Maryland the paramount issue
was the so-called disfranchising
amendment, designed to eliminate
the negro as a political factor. The
result is uncertain. but the indica-
tions are that the amendment has
been defeated.
The Republicans carried Massach-
usetts by the narrowest margin in the
history of the Bay state for nearly a
quarter of century. The entire
party ticket was reelected, but Gov
ernor Eben Draper's plurality was
cut down from 10000 last year to
5000.
1t is apparent that Governor Aaron
J. Pothier, Republican, has been re-
elected over Olney Arnold. Democrat,
in Rhode Island by several thousand
majority and that the next legisla-
ture will remain Republican.
Tom L. Johnson, for four terms
mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, was de-
feated by Herman c. Baehr, Republic
can county recorder. Unofficial re-
turns from approximately half the
city indicated that Baehr's plurality
over Johnson was at least 1000, and
might run to 5000.
The returns received indicated that
the vote on the head of the state tick
ct in Nebraska is in doubt. Both
Republicans and Democrats claim at
least a partial victory.