Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-11-06


a splendidly significant vindica-
ton of the President and his adj
ministration.
National issues were clearly
drawn in most of the contests,
and the opposition left no stone
ulturned to discredit Democratic
management of national affairs.
In the Presidents home State of
New Jersey, the lowering of the
tariff was blamed in vain effort
to brighten the army of industrial
workers in that. great manufac
turing commonwealth. The pend
ing currency bill was also used
in an attempt to array business
men against it, but Carter Glass
seems to have been able to Con-
vince them, from the stump, that
the measure bearing his name
and that of the brilliant Owen Of
Oklahoma was what honest busi-
ness really needs.
Despite the knitting of the
Smitli-Nugent gang, Governor
Fielder will return to Trenton to.
complete the reforms iffaugurated
by Woodrow Wilson when Gov
err1or.
In Massachusetts, Protection
was the shibboletll used against
the Democratic candidate but in
vain.
Governor Foss elected as a
Democrat and who bolted the
ticket and violated the pledges
of the Democratic platform on
which he sought the Presidential
nomination at Baltimore, ran last
of all four candidates. Let him
move his factories to Canada and
himself with them---No attempt
at extradition> will be made.
Maryland put herself square1y
back in the Democratic column
and Blair Lee is elected to the
Senate by splendid majority,
giving the Democrats an addi-
tional much needed vote in that
body.
McNulty's. election to the
shrievalty is leartening proof
z that the public refuses to condone
election larceny and ballot box
stufing.
And New York Tammany
who thought it had gobbled a
rabbit---in Sutherland found it
had swallowed a full quilted por-
cupine, is down and out at last,
and her meal ticket lost in the
cyclone.
An honest Board of Estimate
and Apportionment will spend
the billion dollars for subway
and other improvements to which
the Tigers crime stained claws
were stretched.
Sulzer goes back to the, Assem-
bly, to turn the knife in Murphy's
political death wound.
The militant young Mayor
Elect had splendid lieutenants,
Dudley Field Malone will not
much longer remain in Washing
ton, but be called home to COM
plete the work of party regener-
alton in the Inauguration of which
he was so potential a factor.
Naturally Southerners were to
the front, there as everywhere,
Adamson who managed MitchePs
campaign is an Atlanta boy.
Hennessy, Murphy's Nemesis
is the SON of Confederate sol
der.
Last but by no means least
in the record of Democratic
achievement is the reelection to
the Mayorality of Cleveland of
that splendid young West Vir-
gilman, Newton D. Baker on
whom the mantle of Tom. John
son has fallen.
The one fly in the ointment is
the defeat of Mayor Hunt of Gin
cinnati at the hands of the Cox
machine, aided by corporation
serving Democratic renegades.
But there is glory and encour-
agement enough in the result of
the Democracy's first appeal to
the country since entrusted with
power.
Perhaps now Senator Hitchcock
of Nebraska, who last week voted
with the Republicans ofthe Senate
Currency Committee in favor of
the Central Bank expressly re-
pudiated in the Baltimore plat
form, and other hot and cold sup