The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-12-06

OF Whatever 1t is--call it as you like
Is the talk of the town. 1t has even
got malicious animal magnetism and
the fourth dimension" backed on to
the NTH page The occasion of the
fur0re Is the visit of Nine. Eusapia
Palladino. the Italian medium. The
way the madame levitates furniture
would make her fortune in the moving
business. Whether or not she has any
controi over spirits. she certainly can
do things to tables and chairs Those
who have seen her say she has much
the same influence over a table that a
magnet has on steel filings. Now. ia
Bile tipping has been going on since
"befo the wah. and yet New York
acts as though ii had just been dis
covered. 1t takes one back to LOwelFs
poem THE Unhappy Lot of Mr..
Knott" wherein is recounted how the
knockings and rappings pursued one
poor man until he consented to his
daughters marriage with prohibited
sutton. after which the ghostly clamor
suddenly ceased | do not mean to
make light of sacred subjects. if there
is anything sacred about table fitting.
but only to call attention to the fact
that it is not new If this thing keeps
up Gotham will some day get into Il
tine frenzy over the rediscOvery of the
fact that the world is round
There is one thing about Nine Palla
dino. however. that is new-at least
presume it is new. although not deep
ly versed in Spook lOre-it is wind
that blows out the curtains of her
cabinet and also blows, so it is said.
from peculiar scar on her head.
People who have experienced this
ghostly breeze talk mysteriously of
''the wind of the spirit Is ii not
trifie materialistic TO make the wind
Of the spirit physical thing? But
not to be carping. this method of rails
ing the breeze" on Nine PalladinO's
part should make other mediums
green with envy. Many of them have
tipped tables. knocked wood. written
on states and even materialiZed ghost
ly formS-and forms that were not So
ghostly-but what one of them before
ever blew wind from her temples:
This wind ought to furnish material
for another book by the Society For
Psychical Research
Notwithstanding the fact that Judge
Gaynor ran barely with the remainder
of the Tammany ticket and that the
combined vote against him beat him
by 10000 majority his enthusiastic
neighbOrs down on Long Island nave
already nominated him for the preS-
dency II is therefore with some dis
quietude that the Gayuor forces have
discovered that the present mayor.
George +. Mcclellan. is harboring de
signs on the goveruorship If Gaynor
is a candidate for president it is not
exactly plain why his friends should
be disturbed because another man
wants to be governor unless the old
stories that Gaynor only ran for may
or in order that he might then run
for governor and afterward for presi
dent are true. At any rate. the Secre-
tary Of the Progressive Democratic
league. a Gaynor organization. has sent
out warning against the formation
of new Democratic league. which
has called a conference al the Man
haitian hotel. charging that its pur
pose lis to boom Mayor George
Mcclellan for governor and to fore
stall the further political advancement
Of Mayor Elect William J. Gaynor.
Now, Gaynor either is or is not Il can
didate for governor next year. II he
is not. why should his friends grow
excited because another man seeks
the office: But GaynOr himself has
stated that he intends to serve out his
four years as mayor. 1t would seen;
to Il man up Il tree that there is Il
chance for few political explanations
right here.
AS au election aftermath rather
peculiar circumstance has come to
light. 1t is that several thousand
votes, possibly as high as 10000 in all,
were cast for William K. Hearst un
der the old Independence League EN-
blem. The stealing of the league by
Murphy and the subsequent vacatlng
of its ticket by the courts except as to
few minor offices left the league
ticket blank for all but these minor
offices. Hearst ran on the Civic ALL
ance ticket Yet these 10000 voters
evidently believed that he was run
ming on the Independence League tick
ct. as he had done heretofore. Now.
these additional votes would not have
elected Hearst. but they would have
swelled his vote to formidable proper
tons 1t is also interesting and not
without poetic justice that it was the
stealing of the league by Murphy that
probably made Hearst run for mayor.
which was directly responsible for the
defeat of the whole Tammany ticket
other than Gaynor. This is one in
stance in which Mr. Murphy over
reached himself Nor is it impossible
that this very thing will cause Muir
phys final undoing There is insistent
talk of new header for Tammany
Hall, and one of the grounds for a
change is Murphy's larceny OF the
league and the Tammany wreck fol-
lowing in its wake One other thing
whatever we may think of Hearst. he.
and no atone wac reSnOnSiblp for the