SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Special Correspondence The Passing of the "Bogey" New York, April 23, 1910. R OCHESTEE is about 350 miles from New York city. It is far- ther away than Philadelphia, Washington, Boston and all of...
...And now it is discovered that the Republican machine had its power through the same kind of a bogey that Tammany used...
...It was as if the contest was vitally important to the people of New York city, yet Rochester is 350 miles away and few of the voters in the Rochester district would see the editorials in the New York papers—so it is reasonable to think...
...It was far bigger than a partisan victory...
...R. d...
...Something strange was in the air...
...Few have thought about it as a partisan victory for the Democrats...
...As the special election of April 19 drew near, it seemed that the whole population of this city was keenly interested, much as it would be in a championship contest between the Giants and the Chicago Cubs...
...The people of the metropolis are sometimes casually interested for a day or two in the political affairs of the big cities, their neighbors of other states...
...The second was the awakening of a wide, intelligent interest in the operation of the Payne-Al-drich tariff.—p...
...They felt the impulse to get in the battle themselves and destroy their enemies...
...Almost unanimously the editors denounced Aldridge and wrote editorials urging that he be defeated...
...Have you heard the news...
...It would have gone hard with any machine candidate for any office in New York city, if he had had to face an election on the day after Aldridge was beaten...
...It was a. victory of the people over the "up-state Republican bogey...
...It is far- ther away than Philadelphia, Washington, Boston and all of New Jersey...
...The average voter despaired of beating the big Republican bosses upstate...
...The average citizen had come to believe that it was impossible to beat Tammany...
...On the night of the election, the New York evening papers got out exfra editions announcing the result and at all sporting resorts a crowd was at t he ticker...
...The moral effect of the Rochester election, in this city, has been enormous...
...The news spread all over the city before nine o'clock...
...The average New Yorker likes to be the first man to tell big news...
...For many years Tammany had been the bogey of New York city...
...The effect of the election in New York city was phenomenal...
...But along came Mayor Gaynor and a few modern Republicans who swept away Tammany like chaff, and the people were amazed to find out that Tammany had been frightening them for years with a bogey...
...The bogeys have been destroyed in New York State and many thousands of voters are itching to get even with those who have been fooling them with bogeys for years...
...It cannot be recalled that they were ever interested in the political affairs of Rochester until this month, when George W. Aldridge, well known Republican boss, ran for Congress in the Rochester district...
...he said to his acquaintances...
...It was as if the voters of this city had got a whiff of the battle smoke and perhaps a taste of the blood of their enemies...
...The first effect of the Rochester election upon New York city was the destruction of the bogey of invulnerable machine power...
...Aldridge is beaten...
...All the newspapers printed details of the battle each day, giving the speeches of both candidates...
...The Republican machine has owned the rest of the State as Tammany owned New York...
Vol. 2 • April 1910 • No. 17
