The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-11-17


eLsctd to office In New York s a'p
tha Mar ufactming i'y OF Sdhennpa dy
chose Rev. George r. Lunn as mayor
by 2O52 plurality and along with him
he ccnfrol Of the. city councils and
minor offices. From that legislative
district Hsbsrt Mcruill was cl c.ed
10 the Sn5s Legislature khIe first
Socialist member Of that body. Tho
vote in Now York City and the state
nsarly doubled. In Rhpdle island, for
the first himls. a SOCIALIST broke into
the State Assembly, DR.. jam p.
Reid. In Massachusetts, Assemblyma
Morrill,, Socialist, was re-slnct1d from
HaverhilL In Ohio the Socialists
e'cetsd mayors of the Important ci-
ties of Carton and Lima and nine
lesser cities, as follcws:. Loraan, Eos
toria, BarbGtpn Cuyalhoga Falls,
St Marys, Martins FsFry, ,Amtl.er-
dam, Sugar Grove.
Pennsylvania industrial oenters
showed astonishing gains for iIhe So
cialists, and New Castle, thsa CENT n Of
the big minsts' strike of last year,
alected Walter Tlnrya railroad brake
man, as mayer by 500 palGhaty and
control of the city Council The So
cia.liet w1ekly papSr, the Free Press
is 10 be ISSUED as daily. The lar
ger city of Reading barely escaped
a Socialist regime, LsffiJr, the Social
ist candidate for mayor, bsing only
fdw hundred voJas short of a plur- |
ality, which was cc.dved by tlhe Re
publican candidates, S.ua15on. The
Socialist vote in Chicago ,incrlsased to
10 per cent of the total cast In Mis- |
sss'ppi, Lester, the Socialist candi- |
date for lieutenant governor, lacked
only few hundred vo.os of def at
ing the Domocrat.c candidate.
PHILADELPHIA REDEEMED.
No lorgsr can the mucker's jibe at
Pennsylvania's great industrial m e.
5nopolds have fierce or point since
the counting OF tho votes cast on
ru sday disclosed the fact THAT
clsar majority eff 1897 had besn cast
for Rudolf B'anlzenIbuHg, cand date
of the reform Keystone and ID mo-
cratic PARTIES, as mayor over Gorge
H. Earle, Jr., THE finara4ar nanhsd by
the regular Republican oilganizat ion
con5roll I'd by Senator Penross and
the local contractor combine. Cor
rupt and cOntenIstd,'' this city have
been, but Certainly can not b. justly
so dssoribsld to-day The national
wave of proglrcssiveism has reached
evan this conservative Republican city
Blalhanballg has an unquestionabla
rapu;aeion as a sincere iNfomer.
Along with him the reform novamam.
swept Mitchaal j. Bryan into office
as city solicitor, but The rgss of
The local ticket was elected by the
r Republicans. From all quartars of
The country came Messages of con-
gra ula1ion to B.anlOenburg cn Che ~
lamp5.on of Philadelphia from the
ranks of the unrx genTate. La Foil
ate wired ehat it was triumph for
good citizenship.
STUNNING BLOW TO TAAIAIANY.
In New York Stals the Republicans
a majority OF the ASS mbly
Of nearly two to one, and the G.. o.
?. LEADERS interpret this as a sort of I
Endorsement of Taft, although tho is
;ues wlsre largely local. But the re-
suit in New York City, whare the swa
Of Charles F. Murphy and his Tam
nanny organization was rudaly shocked
'y the Hears--Rapublican fusion forc5
axes ON some national Significance.
Il is Thought TO foreshadow change
n tho Democratic lad rsihlp for tIhe
residential camraigm, and already
Fight is on to THAT sind. This shock
in a big reduction of the
ormer Tammany majorihcs and The
ictual dafaat of it's judicial oandi-
iatss in Brooklyn, one of whom. wal Z
as, was ohang,sd with using $4,000
'illbe to gst ncmnation. r
)HIO REBuKES ADMINISTRATION. |,
But this most unxindest cut of all
lgainss tho Taft administration is crsd
ted ito the presidents home city and
lome staba In Cinclnnati,, where
ir, Taft want to cast his vote for the 4
OF the Republican organi- y
aton controlled by the friends of
boss Cox, Henry t. Hunt, Democrat, Z
vas elsctd mayor by about 5000 plur, 4
llidy ohlar Mayor Sohwab. r. publican. c
/ was recalled how Taft i'm 1905 had
pudla'ed Cox I'm his Akron sr.lsah.
Again the City OF Cleveland, which /
wo Years ago elected Republican,
mayor. Baahr. over the late Tom John {
on. ON Tuesday the political heir a
nd FORMER official associate OF John Z
ON, Newton ID. Baker, Democrat, was v
lsctad mayor over Frank Hogan, Re- a
by from 10000 10 25. 900 ma a