Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-11-14
Election Results.

ElCCIlOu NCSu4tSs
The striking fact in the elections of
Tuesday is the gain made by the So
cialists. In districts where heretofore
the party had been unable to muster
a counting vote, it attained power.
Ohio alone elected ten Socialist mayors;
the large cities of Cleveland, Column
bus and Dayton, notwithstanding they
elected Democrats, were highly favor
able to the young party. Schenectady,
N, Y, elected a Socialist mayor and
all the city officials save one, and
majority of the county board. In Min
nesota where Crookston elected a So.
cialist mayor, and in Kansas, New
Mexico and other states great gains
we're recorded. In many places where
the Socialists were beaten, progress
siyes more or less radical in their
views were returned successful.
Next to the fact Of the Socialists
gains is the success achieved by the
Democrats. They won Kentucky back
to the fold by unexpected majority OF
approximately 10000. Foss, Demo-
crat, was reelected governor OF Mass
achusetts by $1,000 Democratic loss
of z per cent. and a Republican gain OF
4 per cent. The campaign there was
fought out on the textile schedules ct
the Payne Aldrich law and the Demo-
cratic victory is Massachusetts, notice
to President Taft that it does not ap-
prove his veto of the wool bill nor fave
awaiting report of his tariff board
before proceeding with revision of
schedule he has himself described as
"indefensible. The Democrats loss
of the lower house of the New York
legislature is another victory for prog
ress. This branch of the Legislature
was controlled by Tammany and one
term of Tammany government was
enough to sicken the upstate. Tam
many, however, elected its judicial
ticket in New York county and thus
defeated the leadership of William R.
Hearst and minimized his influence.
Democrats success in the second Kan
sas district indicates the temper of the
west on national issues and forecasts
turning of the Republicans of that
state to the Democratic party in 1912
Cleveland, Ohio, which two years ago
turned from Tom L. Johnson and cleo
ted Republican mayor, turned back
and chose for mayor the man regarded
% Johnson's successor. Cincinnati,
notwithstanding President Taft's pub
licly declared purpose to vote the Re-
publican ticket from top to bottom,
elected a Democrat mayor. Toledo
and Columbus similarly elected Demo-
cratic mayors. These are all progress
sive victories, as was the choice of
Fletcher D. Malin, champion of the in
itiative and referendum, over James
r. Garfield, unpledged, for delegate to
the constitutional convention of Ohio
The latter state is to revise its consti-
tuition for the first time in twenty
years and the progressive victories
throughout Ohio insure the insertion in
the organic law of the initiative, ref
erendum and recall
Considered by and large, the returns
indicate that as between progressive
Democrats and Socialists tine voters
generally preferred the former; as be-
tween reactionary Republicans and So
cialists, they preferred the latter. AS
between machine Democrats and Re-
publicans, as in the election for the
New York assembly, they preferred
the latter. In nearly every single in
stance progressives won when the ST
cialists, who commonly come under the
designation radical, did not win
The lesson of the elections is that
the people of this country demand not
less but more democracy, not less
power for themselves, hut more power
That the returns forecast the election
of democrat president in 1912 is toe
obvious to require demonstration. But
this condition viii, attach to any prop
hecy of democratic triumph in 1912,
that the democratic party must nomi-
nate progressive on a progressive
platform and make no cause with the
predatory and reactionary influences.
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