Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1919 — GOOD GOVERNMENT VICTORY [ARTICLE]

GOOD GOVERNMENT VICTORY

Was Result of Tuesday’s Election in Massachusetts. While nearly always a Republican state, the Democrat' ticket was snowed under in Massk.Ausetta last Tuesday by a much greater majority than usual, as it should have been. The Democratic leaders there are out' of harmony with their party in other parts of the country, and the Democratic candidate for governor made his campaign in opposition to the position taken by Republican Governor Coolidge in the recent police strike in Boston. Coolidge stood for law and order, and called in troops to see that it was preserved. He kicked the striking policemen out of the department and refused to re-lnstate them. His opponent promised to re-instate these men if elected, and the people gave him their answer some 125,000 strong. The position taken by the Dem-ocrats<»-Aha league of nations — they Opposing it in their state convention and the Republicans endorsing it\-together with the record of "Blowhard" Walsh, the alleged Democrat U. S. senator from that state, also contributed to the defeat. The Republicans likewise elected a governor in Kentucky by some 29,000, while the New Jersey governorship went to the Democrats by about 15,000 plurality, for the first time in a dozen or more years. Mississippi returned the usual Democratic plurality, despite Jack Montgomery’s redent visit to that state. Maryland also elected a Democrat governor. In Ohio and New Jersey the "wets” won out on the repeal on the 2.75% beer amendment proposal. Politics did not out very much figure in any of the elections, and especially was this true in the small town elections in Indiana, where many citizens tickets were elected. In. many towns only one ticket was in the field. The election in Wheatfield resulted in the election of all the Republicans. The vote there was as follows: For trustee, second ward, Warren J. White, 57; Albert Stembel, 47. Trustee, third ward: John Williams, 59; H. R. Langdon, 45. Clerk —Grover Btembel, 51; Isaac E. Biggs, 52. Treasurer—Joseph Hilliard, 61; George Luse, 42. At Remington, C. H. Peck was elected clerk; F. L- Lough, treasurer; S. G. Hand, trustee, 2d wardr A. B. Coleman, trustee, sth ward.