The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-11-07
tOificiaI City. State and County Newspaper
The Eastern Election

Election returns from the east hardly gle answer
o uncertainty exeeps IL the single instance OF VIZ
,inia There the on19 raean.nglul victory has peeh Seossa
Clerical interference With free government mas eeea
taniped on III the Old Dominion. The voters h&o % go
PACK and fight over another battle CT the dark ages
O demonstrate tina. this country still is committed 10
separation OF church and state. This fact was de'no''-
tratrd with a considerable majority II tho election OF
governor there.
No church. however, was sat down upon. The lineup
II virginia VAS such that either the people ssooa 20
vim cut or Bishop James Cannon, Jr, tlo VAL STREE
pccl,lator. would be inflicted on them as Their fohsio-
,oltical boss. Tire people voted to be their own master
q preserve democracy in preference to cceie5iastlcai
.licsrchy. The motto of the state is Sic semper tyran-
lis or SO be it TO tyrants.' The electorate OF sr-
inia seems TO have indicated this slogan. BISHOP
sannon's hopes of dominating the politics OF virginia
ook like a mirror ~accideatly dropped from the twenty
ourth story Of a skyscrapeT.
Bishop Cannon set out several years ago TO MAKE NM
eli the political master OF Virginia. He worked through
Ne Anti-Saloon league and he managed 70 set control
II the legislature. Then hc cssayed TO elect a governor
tut Harry Flood Byrd foled him by getting nlinsen
lcctcd. The bishop saw another chance III the flt
rca;cd By the presidential candidacy OF Al smith. he
wung the state for Hoover Then, IN the gunernatofiai
ampaign. he set up his own candidate for governor III
he person of DR.. William Moscly Brown. a Hoover Demo
rat. The regular Democrats, under the leadership Q!
Governor Byrd. named John Garland Pollard. Ike
3rown. another university professor. Both q lne isaoels
,crc drys, but Pollard was Of the wing which supported
nc vet AL Smith for president, hence was anathcma 70
ti5ilop Cannon
!. The Virginia campaign was fought out OH the lines
nus laid down, whether the people should prevail o.
rh,.hcr a cleric should become the political boss.
Bishop Cannon is of the type Of Musso.nl. The poo
lie said they didn't want a dictator. They turned III
md elected Pollard governor by an overwhelming major
iy. The victory probably was aided along by thnuSands
I Bishop Cannonts church followers. Even they gave
Indication during the campaign that they resented IN.
sisl,cp's purpose to exploit them for his own and his
EXAMINATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
In New York the victory Of Mayor Walker probably
surprised few who follow the trend Of politics there. y
.ns a Tamnany year and the only question % polltica
PROPHETS was whether Walker would have 100000 q
90 900 majority for mayor. He had nearly 100000 Thcrt
Jas no opposition. so to speak. Rcformcrs were not II
ne saddle and the Republican candidate, Florella La
;uardia, did not even have the full-flcdged support OF
he Republican, party of tho greater city behind MN
Ike Police Commissioner Richard Enrig!t he. in effect
Gagged a personal contest for the mayoraity. Ana ~
aged it windily and blustcringy and got nowhere.
However, one may quarrel with the sidewalks OF NcV
FORK. there is no disputing that Tammany understand
nc greater city and that its brand Of loose and liberal
] corrupt. administration is preferred by the vast major
v Of tue electorate to anything that the opposition <
iammany, consisting of the Republican nucleus and
heterogeneous element of reformers and lmpracticals
rs to offer. It is just like in the days when the Roman
abblc was ruled by free bread. New York IS hlgh!
lateral. It does not enthuse to idealism. II Lies Jazz
nd Jimmy Walker. Tammany candidate for mayor L
iccccd himself. had proved in his term OF office tina
e was tMat-jazz.