York on the 5th of November, says By placing Seth Low in the mayor's chair the people of New York have secured that which to them was the most import ant result—a reformation of the police force. They have not only declared that Devery and Deveryism must go, but they have put in office for the next two years the man who has sworn that he will regenerate the police force from top to bottom.
In the election of Jerome they have secured the next most important result—an assurance that there shall be honesty in public prosecutions, Thus the chain is complete. There shall be no police protection from vice for pay. Thieves and bribe takers shall not be able to escape justice.
This splendid uprising of the wholesome elements of New York is a vindication of popular self-government in America. It answers many questions, solves many problems. If revolution had not come now it might never have come. With failure today New York would have sunk into hopolessness, into degeneracy. The corr-pt and vicious Tammany oligarchy wont have fastened itself perpetually upon the metropolis.
In this great victory of civic reform and social decency, and the way in which xt was brought about, every great city in America may find encouragement. This contest has shown that even in the metropolis wholesome public sentiment may always be successfully appealed to; that no city is so degenerate or so wedded to partisanship that a combination of parties representing the best ideals and the best preformances is impossible.
By fusion of all sorts of wholesome' elements the greatest Democratic city in the country has found relief from intolerable conditions in the election of a Republican as mayor. When such a victory as this can be won in New York there need be no despair over the future of popular suffrage government in American munici-polities.
The "Times" says, the morning after the elections Men will say that Mr. Low's majority is not great enough to demonstrate the ex-instance of a potent saving force in the electorate. They are mistaken. They reason without due consideration of the facts.
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