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Show THE DEFEAT OF TAMMANY'S CANDIDATES. The victory ot John Purroy Mltchel, Fuslonlst, over Edward K. McCftll, Democrat, is a pleasing one to the great majority of the American peo pie, regardless of politics McCaJl was the Tammany candidate and the opposition to that powerful ialltlcal organization waa centered in Mltchel, so the conflict really was for and against Tammany 81nce the beginning of the impeachment impeach-ment proceedings against Governor Sulzer. the limelight has been focused on Tammany, a6 Murphy, the head of that organization, had decreed that Sulzer should be decapitated because he could not be handled by that po litical boss The lengths to which Murphy would go to make a "horn ble example" startled the entire country. coun-try. Everyone knew that Tammany's bo6s was vengeful, but no one thought of such drastic action as the deposing depos-ing of a governor, so when the task was undertaken, the whole nation was i taken by surprise and the progress of the political assassins was watched with deep interest. Tammany overreached, with the result re-sult that the organization has been hoisted b Its own petard. Greater New York rolled up a greater great-er plurality for Mltchel than had ever been gheu a candidate for mayor in that city That Is the response of the people. Even Sulzer. with hie shortcomings U elected to the legi lattire In a former Tammany stronghold, strong-hold, and many of the city assembly-men assembly-men who voted for Sulzer's Impeachment Impeach-ment have been defeated Many up-'Btate up-'Btate members of the legislature who voted with the Tammany forces to Impeach were defeated. That is exactly what the people of the whole country would have done, had they been called in to pass judg ment Tammany, as a political power, j should be destroyed The Influence of the organization in city, state aud I nation has been bad. With. Tarn-j Tarn-j many should go Dames and his cor rupt forces The cleaning out of both the Democratic andv Republican ringster8 would make for better ioli tics. A biographical sketch of John Purroy Pur-roy Mltchel, the mayor-elect, encourages encour-ages us to look forward to the clean ing of the Augean stables Mltchel was born in New York City. July 19, 1879 He Is the grandson of John Mltchel. tbe Irish patriot, who WSJ banished to Australia in 1848 because of his political activity in Ireland. Mr Mltchel eutered St. John's college when ho was 12 vears old. Later at I Columbia university h made a rec-1 ord as a debater. Mltchel'i first public office was thal of assistant corporation counsel, to j which he was appointed by William B. Ellison, who was a gTcat personal friend or the late "Big Tim" Sulli van When Mayor McClellan began hie investigation of tho office5 of borough presidents, Mr Ellison recommended vnunK Mltchel to the mayor to act Ins commissioner of accounts. On April 22, 19117, Mitchei was appointed commissioner of accounts to continue the examination of Borough President Ahcarn, who was later removed Irom office. The removal of Louis Ha fen. borough president of the Bronx, soon followed, and President Borrnoi of Queens resigned Mr. Mltchel was 27 years old at the time. In the two peer that followed the commissioner of accounts Investigated the fire de pertinent, the water and police de pertinents the city record and tax deivirtmpnts. and his reputation as a successful investigator was cstab lished In 1909, when he was being sought by the Fusion randidate for president of the board of aldermen, Mr Mitchei almost upset harmony by announcing that he would not go on the ticket until he know who the nominees for borough president were to be.. The lenders were obliged to submit the list for Mr. Mitc-hel's Indorsement before be-fore he was satisfied that they were not selected with partisan purpose President Wilson appointed Mr. Mltchel collector of tho port to sue ceed William Loeb last spring, and he look office on June 1 with the understanding, un-derstanding, however, that his ap pointmcnt to the lederal office should not interfere with his running for mayor Through his appointment as collector of the port and by other tokens, strengt li was given to tho general belief that Mr Mitchei stood firmly with the Democratic adminis tratlon at Washington in President ll6on s Tight against Tammany hall and the leadership of Charles F Murphy, Mur-phy, a belief which gave great prestige pres-tige to him in the contest for the Fusion nomination as mayor. |