Show STUD EXT LIFE votes were cast in New York City this fall for a candidate who had withdrawn from the contest Considering1 this habitual carelessness it is indeed remarkable that although it was necessary in order to vote for Jerome that the voter “scratch” the names of the other candidates and write Jerome’s in a blank space on the ballot he was elected with a plurality of about twenty thousand Such voting was unmistakably the expression of strong individual opinion It shows that New York’s population notwithstanding the thirteen thousand “dummies” above referred to has had a great moral “shaking up” Nothing could have better expressed the sentiment of the American people in favor of the honest office holder Jerome has made few promises and he has broken none He has shown his constituents that he has character integrity and courage They have rewarded him with their full support and their unfailing confidence Other instances of the success of honest men in politics could be given but they all illustrate the same principles The honest man if he would succeed in public life must operate outside the political machines: he must give the people the pure facts clearly and simply he must arouse their deepest moral feelings and teach them to look public questions squarely in the face And finally 77- - he must be a man of indomitable courage unswerving integrity and great moral force The outlook for the overthrow of boss rule for the return of governmental power to the people and the reinstatement of strict honesty in our civil life is n very bright All of the cities of the country are The results of the awakening election just past seem to indicate that the smooth subtle gentlemen with the protruding silk vest the sly evasive language and who believes that the American people really like to be “fooled” — in other words the political “boss” — is about to step down We sincerely hope that he may find some quiet secluded place in which he can nurse undisturbed the gout he has contracted while living high on the money that should have been expended in a more worthy cause With the advent of the new type of office holder or perhaps it would be more nearly correct to say the return of the good old type so well personified by William Travers Jerome it is not to believe that the future holds many glorious opportunities for the honest man in our politics and that we may again have in fact the government which the revolution gave us — the government of for and by the people boss-ridde- over-optimist- ic F D Farrell |