The Washington herald., 1913-11-06

Senator o'Gorman did not lingel
long in New York after voting. return
ing the same day. BY the time he
reached his temporary abiding place
at the Army and Navy Club, he knew
about what had happened to Tammany
and about his only comment was that
il had been an ideal election day az
regards weather. There was congrat-
ulation of the big, broad Senator by
! other Democrats of the Organization
and regular sort in the Senate that
he had stayed put" and a loyal Demo
| crat, even II forcing a Tammany de-
| feat by the fusion, holler-than-thou,
| conglomeration really representing
neither Of the two great parties Pos
sibly the Senator's scrutiny was more
seriously given to the returns on MEM
bers of the Legislature. His own cam
paign for a second term does not ac-
tually begin until 1916, but he can dis
Germ in the election of a Republican
Legislature this year the return of ELL
hu Root or some other Republican as
Senatorial colleague for the term be-
ginning March 4, 1915. The Root cam
paign for a second term is already un-
der way and wonderfully boosted by
the Boss Barnes control of things at
Albany after January /.
The election of Judge Fred Spiegel as
Mayor of Cincinnati marks the return
OF the old Cox organization to power. 1t
marks much else. Spiegel is a Republi-
can of the old-fashioned sort, without
progressive fancIes or furbelows. He will
be more than Mayor-he will lead the
reorganization of the real Republican
party in Cincinnati and set an example
for the rest OF Ohio. In the old days =
Republican slump in Cincinnati was al
ways followed by party distress in other
sections of the State: then when Boss
Cox and the old guard took hold again,
chastened some, but Iesentful more,
there was a general getting together that
was quickly emulated in other cities and
counties, with a rapid restoration OF nor
NAL copditions for the G. o. p. Of Ohio.
Spiegel will at once become a State fig-
ure, and he has an aggressive German
spirit with tenacity of purpose and loyal
sentiments. His victory may. indeed,
make him the Republican candidate for
Governor next year. although he is wise
enough to deprecate such talk this early
in the game.
He was once a newspaper man on Ger
man newspapers, and a clerk in State
office at Columbus. He worked his way
into law, held minor political places, and
then reached the bench as an organiza-
ton man. Several Ohio Republicans in
Washington who know Splegel person.
ally rejoiced to send him kilograms of
congratuIation yesterday, and they In
innate that he may yet lead Ohio Repuo-
leans out of the gloom.
It occurs also to the few Ohio Republi-
cans holding Office in Washington, in
cluding three members OF Congress, that
Cincinnati has not only supplied good
many candidates for Governor TO both
parties with more elected ones TO the Re
publican organization. r. 3. Hayes was
the first Cincinnati Governor elected
after the civil war for two terms. Later
on in 1915, when chosen Governor a
third time he lived at Fremont. When
Gen. Edwin F. Noyes, OF Cincinnati, was
chosen, but failed to connect with sec
ond term, r. NJ. Bishop, n Democrat
and business man of the Queen City,
was in 1877 and George Hoadly, also a
Democrat. was chosen in 1858 over For
aker. Both were eminent lawyers in Gin
cinnati and both had served on the
bench, Foraker defeated Hoadly in 1855
and won two terms out of four nomina-
tons Pattison, the Democrat elected
in 1905, claimed Clermont County as his
legal residence, but his business office
and interests were wholly in Cincinnati.
In 1905 and 1910, Judson Harmon, a
Cincinnati lawyer and Democrat, came
In and the Republicans OF the old town
are entitled to figure and that it is
about their turn again 10 supply the
Governor, pointing with pride to the fact
that they seldom failed to elect when
the head of the ticket was taken from
the banks of the Ohio.
Joseph A. Goulden will continue on the
pay roll He had thought
to resign on January 1 TO become presi-
dent Of the New York Board of Alder
men.
There were Just SSSs6 votes in Greater
New York against the Goulden wish, and |
the Fordham district is spared the worry |
and expense of a special Congressional |
election early in 1914. However. the |
Tammany organization rejoices that it
sends the Hon. Jake Cantor, long a |
familiar figure at Albany, to the Halls |
1f Congress, and he will give joy and |
diversion to Washington after he is |
sworn in next week.
A Sunday story writer recently con-
,eived the proposition of an able article |
IN the interrogative text addressed to