DEMOCRATS LEAD.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 114, 10 November 1910, Page 7

DEMOCRATS LEAD.

UNITED STATES ELECTIONS. ' GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK. REPUBLICAN DEFEAT. By Telearaph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received November 10, 9.39 a.m.) NEW YORK, 9th November. Mr. John A. Dix. the Democratic candidate, has been elected to the Governorship of New York by a majority of fifty thousand votes. It is expected tha.t the Republican majority in the Senate will be much ducedThe Democrats are in the lead for tho House of Representatives, amd they will probably have a smadl majority where the Republican majority was 43. The outbreak of negroes in the Southern States was not seirioua. A GREAT BLOW. MR. ROOSEVELT'S NOMINEE BEATEN. DEMOCRATS STILL GAINING. • (Received November 10, 11 a.m.) 4 NEW YORK, ,9th November. Mr. Dixs defeat of Mr. Stimson (Republican), Mr. Roosevelt's nominee, is ''a great blow to the Republican Party. Mr. Roosevelt conducted a campaign for a month id aid of Mr. Stimsou's candidature. He declares that a realignment of parties is necessary; the Republicans are going through the agony of becoming progressive. Mr. Roosevelt rested at home throughout tho day, and ordered that no election news lie sent to him. The Democrats are still gaining numerous victories. Their control of the House of Representatives is- assured, The Speaker (Mr. Joseph Cannon) has been re-elected. The Women's Suffrago candidates had wins in Washington State. The prohibitionists claim many victories. SENATE AND HOUSE. The'-Uiu'teci States Senate consists ot 92 members — twe chosen by each State Legislature for six years — and the- Hove© of Representatives of 391 members, chosen, every *t wo years by all adult male citizeairf duly qualified accdrdung to the laiws of their iraspective States, a.nd apportioned among the States according to po'pula.tioai, as de'termhied by the census takeii every teai years. GOVERNOR HUGHES'S SUCCESSOR. • Mr. Hughes the retiring Governor ol New York, is a Republican. Mr. Dix, at) Chairman of the Democratic State Lommittee, has dome excellent work. He spent several weeks in touring New York State on behalf of his party. At that time, his name was not nietntioined for the Governorship. It was thought that . Ala*. Gaynor, Mayor of New York, would be the Democratic choice. The New York Post recently stated : — "Dix has little of tliie conventional politician about him. When he started on his tour he was almost wholly u'lia-cquainited with ths party leadars. He has seen Charles F. Murphy of Taanmaaiy only twice ei'uce he was elected to the Chairmanship. He saw the up-State leaders moa'e to assure them of his support thrift to ask how many of them would support him. But, he came back full of the can\ ictiotn that tMe people were behind him, that they would rise regardless cf politics or pati-oaiage, or any other form' of future reward, and smite tho dominant party a blow which would make Ultimate Con. sumer and aill his downtrodden company timglo with joy." ON THE ROAD TO REHABILITATION. • Tins New York Post a few weeks agu remarked : — "The widespread dissatisfaction among Republicans with Mr. Iluose ve'lfs treatment cf Mr. Taft, and with his Bryaniisd policies,, togeithcir with the still girea.tea 1 antagonism to the 'Old Guard' and tha bitter factional fights everywhere, all augur tire election of a Democratic Governor — some ai'ci even saying a. Demo-jratic Legislature. But no cne must thi'iik that there will not be a vigorous Republican campaign. If Mr. Roosevelt himself does not run, a Roosevelt ca.ndidata in all probability will. personality of the ex-Prasideai't and his views will bulk more lairgely m the public eye than anything else on the Republican ride, unless the unforeseen and undesirable should happen and tho Old Guard triumph at Saratoga. . . The Democracy everywhere must not forget that if it is only on the road to it is yet cm trial. Good leaders meant much ; "but more important is the making cleai- that, as before, the Democracy stands far the rights of tha States as against the aggression of the Unica^ tho cemtralisatiun *J all power ni Washington ; that Bound Democratic principles of ths past aro to-day more than ever ,-ital and essential to tho country's welfare. With them, however, must go a dc-mciwtr&tiDui that the party is free from ths entangling alliance*, of the past that have made it at times but little Jess thai ths Republicans the wrvarat cf privilege. No candidate tod;i.y wj".l have a uegl hawing who iroea not, niakb it plain that lib m oppu&cd to privilege of e»ery kVid. Even in Tammany Hf.'l they c ught to note the change of times — to vcr'.ica that, with all the iavoiviug elements, this is a }ea.c to tako no cliances. Sad as it may seem tc. the professional Democratic politician, it is a year, as the other States show, whsa there is safety only in pandering to decency.