Evening star., 1933-11-08
Yesterdays Elections.

Election day 1888 will go down in
history as a bad day for the bosses
Tammany and Boss Curry were top
pied from their high estate in New
York. William S. Ware and his Re-
publican machine in Philadelphia went
down before fusion ticket there.
Pittsburgh apparently has defeated the
G. o. P. local machine and elected a
Democratic mayor, result difficult to
conceive. Up in Boston Mayor James
NJ. Curley's candidate TO succeed him
self, District Attorney Foley, was de-
feated by another Democrat, Mansfield,
in race which saw six candidates go
to the barrier
National prohibition was virtually
wiped from the Constitution by the
action Of the voters in a handful Of
States The three States needed to put
across the adoption Of the twenty-f1rst
amendment were obtained-Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Utah With these
States and the 80 which had earlier
voted prohibition repeal the requisite
SO for ratification Of a constitutional
amendment are at hand. Not until
December S or 6, however, will the final
formalities Of repeal be accomplished,
because the State constitutional con-
ventions to which delegates have now
been elected will not have had oppor-
tunity to act until that time. If the
count in Kentucky today shows the
State to have voted for repeal, the date
Of formal ratification will be December
5, for the Kentucky State convention
viii be held November ~. If Kentucky
should oppose repeal, then the repeal
lists viii have to wait until December 9
for the final defeat of national prohi-
bition, for Names State constitutional
convention takes place on the later day
Maine has already elected repeal del
egation to the convention.
The dry forces. however, broke the re-
peal line yesterday. They carried North
Carolina by q wide margin and South
Carolina by a smaller majority. No
longer may the repealists point to an
tnbroken list of victories in the States.
The vote yesterday indicates that two
States, If no others, will continue to
stand for prohibition under the new
deal And the chances are that very
considerable number Of other States
viii cling to their prohibitory laws.
Certainly the results in the Carolinas
viii give heart to the prohibition forces,
which have been routed again and again
this year.
In the field of national politics the
elections yesterday showed no definite
trends. While efforts have been made
to hook President Roosevelt to the Nc
Kee candidacy for mayor of New York
and Postmaster General Farley, the
Democratic national chairman, actually
indorsed Mckee, the President has in
sisted that he was taking no part in
local elections this year, New York City
included. His own vote was cast in
Duchess County. It is true that the
Republicans helped to elect La Guardia
mayor of New York, but it is obvious
he could not have won had he not also
been backed by large number of Demo-
Gratis and Socialists. In addition, La
Guardia has been a member of the
Progressive group in Congress which in
cluded such men as Norris, La Toilette
and Blaine, all of whom year ago
deserted their party ticket.
1t is true that Postmaster General
Farley's effort to take over the Demo-
cratic organization in New York City
failed. But Mr.. Farley had at least the
satisfaction Of seeing his old enemy, John
r. Curry. the Tammany boss, and the
greater number of Tammany candidates
for the principal Offices go down be-
fore the Fusionists. The rebuilding of
the Democratic organization in the
metropolis may bring into control an
element more friendly to Roosevelt and
to Farley. That Curry will be able to re-
tain his grip on the organization after
the beating he took in yesterdays cleo
tions is doubted on every side.