The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-07
Election Aftermath

1.-THE day after" that season of blues ana ex-
cuses and reaction, has been weathered and sur
vived The sour cup of defeat has been qua11ed
as graciously human nature Will permit ana
erstwhile cocksure candidates are busy prepar-
ing for the next campaign and phllosophlzlhg as
to how it happened number OF dscredlted
braves are pulling themselves out OF the snow
and getting ready for their little trip up Salt
River. The sexton is digging graves IN polltlcal
burying grounds, and brave gentlemen are retlr-
ing to private life.
Meanwhile number of interesting and sug-
gestive features of the years campaign crop out
and invite comment.
There is Suzer, for instance. That good man
has become almost a public institution and re-
ceives we'll nigh much space in the press as
that other "peculiar' man, Harry K. Thaw. He
was elected assembyman by the Sixth district,
carrying the office by sweeping plurality.
What really happened, of course, was that
Mr. Sulzer merely cashed in the turbulent sentl-
ment now raging against Tammany Hall. HIS
victory shows how high the tide has lifted
against the Tiger but is in sense what he
himself claims, a popular vndication of his
record.
The ex-governor is merely poser, of sloven-
ly and picturesque habits who has trick OF cap
turing the imagination of the crowd. A slight
perusal of his printed speeches reveals little
more than a store of highly favored old fash
ioned political catch words and phrases. Boiled
down in cannibalistic pot nothing would
prove solid enough to sink to the bottom except
his unusual gift of fowery defamation, an abili-
ty not good for much in states law making
assembly.
Another surprise in the election outcome was
Schenectadys defeating her preacher-SoclallSt
mayor, Charles Lunn. Lunn pulled a thousand
more votes this time than when elected, but gave
up the ghost to three headed fusion ticket of
Progressives, Republicans and Democrats. He
was somewhat eccentric little bull headed, and
visionary in some things, but capable executive
for all that as even his dearest enemies have had
to admit. Of course he did little to set up
Socialism in the home of the General Electric
Company, but managed to set pace that will
tax his successor to the limit.
And the way Charles Sumner Bird swept into
second place behind the Democratic nominee in
the Massachusetts gubernatorial race has sent
flying back to Limbo the we'll masticated charg-
es that the Progressive party is defunct in
Massachusetts. Bird not only left his Republi-
can competitor far in the rear, but raised the
Bull Moose vote in several of the better devel-
oped sections of the state. The extraordinary in
dustrial leader and manufacturer pledges to get
back in the harness four years hence, or as
many times as necessary thereafter, to put Bull
Moose principles to work in Springfield's assem-
bly, halls.
And now put on the soft pedal. Local Repub-
lican chiefs are publicly charging up to thinner
man the disemboweling of G. 0. P.-ism in Wayne
county. His personal machine was too strong
for us in the regular organization, aver the
braves, and we had to give in to him.