Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-05
TAMMANY HALL is
AGAIN In SADDLE AT
NATIONAL CAPITAL
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| possible to give this result in Ohio Is
that local issues were ignored in favor
| OF the broad national issue involving
protection and prosperity.
In Illinois the haze returns favor Sem
ator Sherman, the Republican candi-
date for reelection, who had to make
! struggle against the powerful Demo-
cratic organization built up by Roger
sullivan, the Democratic candidate, as
we'll as against the popularity of Ray
mond Robbins. the Progressive candi-
date. Robbins is a Socialist. He is q
millionaire, but is a Socialist as we'll as
Single Taxer. He was the only candi-
date for the Senate In Illinois who
was indorsed by organized labor. Yet
with these odds against him, Sherman,
the advocate of protection, has won
the fight.
Indiana Lost Through Progressive
Although the Progressive vote in
| Indiana was cut to the bone, it was
just large enough to keep the Repub-
lican candidate for the Senate, Hugh
t. Miller, from defeating the present
Democratic member of the Senate,
Benjamin +. Shively. The same con-
dition prevailed in Kansas. where Vic
tor Murdock, the Progressive candi-
Curtis. the Republican candidate,
leading George A. Neeley, the Demo-
crat, in the late returns.
In Illinois, Indiana and even radical
Kansas, the Progressive candidates
have been crushingly defeated. The
only significance of their votes is that
sufficient impairment of Republican
strength might result in a Democratic
victory.
Newlands May Have Lost
The Republican sweep apparently
uh
cratic candidate for reelection in Ne
vada, in its grip. Because of the un-
settled character of the State, the
final returns may be delayed for sew
eral days. But Democratic leaders in
Washington are fearful that they have
| lost Newlands.
The best that the Democrats hope
for is that they will lose no more
than Newlands' vote in the Senate and
| that they may gain two new Demo-
cratic votes, one in Illinois, which they
do not yet concede to Sherman, the
Republican, and one in Kansas, 'hich
they do not yet concede to Curtis, the
| Republican.
| Aside from the complete annihila-
ton of the Progressive party and the
reunion and rejuvenation of the Re-
publican party. leading almost cer-
tainly to complete restoration of the
government to Republican control in
1916, the most significant feature of
| the election is the manner in which
| Tammany Hall. whipped out of its
boots by the triumphant victory OF
| Charles S. Whitman, for Governor,
and James w. Wadsworth, Jr., for Sen
ator, has yet intrenched itself in Con-
gress at Washington.
Tammany Well Intrenched
1t was thought last night that Tam
Imany Hall faced long, hard winter
Murphy had lost control of the vast
patronage of New York city when
John Purroy Mitchell, the fusion can
didate for Mayor, was elected year
ago. The election of Whitman, the
regular Republican candidate for Gov.
lernor, meant the dislodgment of Tam
many from the seat of patronage
Ipower at Albany.
In city, State and nation, then
Tammany seemed to be an outcast
but suddenly the smoke of the wig
wan Is seen rising from Capitol Hill
son controlled the House of Represen-
tatives by a majority of las he found
that he could laugh at the importuni-
ties of Tammany. The dozen votes oi
Tamr ny meant nothing. They might
be turned over to the Republicans al
any time and President Wilson still
would have had more than 100 ma
Ijority
There is no doubt in the minds ot
the Democratic leaders that the plain
Imeaning of the Republican landslide
is mandate of the people for an end
of etislation hostile to industry and
business.
Governor Baldwin, Democratic can
didate for the Senate in Connecticut
ISSUED a statement, saying frankly that
his defeat and the entire Republican
landslide was the result of q public
lprotest against business agitation. He
lsaid that the people were tired of agi.
ltation.
While there was minor contributing
Icauses for the repudiation of the Dem.
ocratic party and the utter annihila.
ttion of the Progressives, it is generally
admitted, even by the Democrats II
their private councils, that the people
voted for protection and prosperity
The Democrats control the mex
House by a margin narrow enough t
make it uncomfortable for them. The
Figures show that the Democratic ma
jority over all will be seventeen, while
1.-THE Democratic plurality over the Re
lpublicans alone will be twenty-seven
The next House will be made up a!
follows:
democrats ZZN