Life — September 19, 1912 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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R STRAUS for Governor of New First rate! First rate! Thank you, Suspender Me- Gee! Thank you, good Pro- gressives! That is a real help. Oscar is a man whom everybody knows; shrewd, benevolent, reputable, compe- tent, experienced. We suppose he would make a good Governor. He was « Cleveland Democrat; then a Roose- velt_ Republican. Now he is a Pro- gre We do not guarantee him election, nor even the support of this paper, but it is a help to have him nominated. He ought to do for the Democrats of New York a service like the one that Roosevelt, with Bry- an’s assistance, did for the Democrats at Baltimore. With him running, Mur- phy can hardly name the candidate Governor Dix can hardly be renomi- nated. It will be necessary to put up a Democrat who can run. Also a kepublican who can run, if Mr. Barnes wants a look-in for his party in the State on election day. It is a real help to have Mr. Straus in the field, He will raise the standard all around. There are more things, wise and otherwise, in the Syracuse Progressive platform than there is space here to consider, but nothing about that proj- ect to have such State officers as the State Engineer and the Attorney Gen- eral appointed by the Governor instead of elected. That is a good project for the Democrats to urge. In Massachusetts, too, our Bull Moose friends have found an excellent candidate for Governor in Charles S. Pird, of East Walpole. It is hard on Mr. Bird, who is a busy man, a paper manufacturer, with lots to do, and a Cisposition to go off into the wild woods from time to time and commune with the tall timber. If he should be elected it will be bad for his business, an interference with his wholesome pleas- ures, and troublesome in many. par- ticulars. Nevertheless, the Massachusetts vo- ters who know Mr. Bird, or find out about him, will be very strongly tempt- ed to vote for him, even at the risk of causing him inconvenience. For he, too, like Mr, Straus, is a man in whom shrewdness, and sympathy, and experience in affairs combine to make for unselfish efficiency. He is as able a man of business as Governor Foss, nd of a more engaging spirit, though possibly not so sound on the tariff question. But Massachusetts voters will not be constrained this year to e press their tariff sentiments in their vote for Governor. HERE have been elections in Ohio and Vermont. That in Vermont seemed to give universal satisfaction. No one was clected Governor, but very one rejoiced; the regular Re- publicans because they beat the Bull Moosers and will get their Governor by election in the Legislature, the Bull Moosers because they showed that they kad strength enough to split the vote, and the Democrats because they beat their recent records, gaining votes ap- preciably from Republicans or ex-Re- publicans instead of losing any to Roosevelt. The moral is that the Democrats can do considerably better than hold their own, and that with the Republi- can vote divided Wilson must win, and everybody will be happy. It is suggested that about October 1 Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt will re- tire in favor of somebody*else, but the carefullest scrutiny discerns nobody warming up for a running start. At Chicago, it will be recalled, Mr. Roose- velt insisted that he and Mr. Taft should be the candidates (rejecting VOL. LX. SEPTEMBER 19. 1912 No. 1860 Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY Je Miz wen. Pres’ AL Mitten, See’y and Treas. 17 West Thirty-first Street Kagtish Offices, Cannon House, Breas Sew Vork es. Loatoa. H.C Hadley and compromise), and he gives every sign of sticking to that determi- nation. In Ohio they voted on forty odd con- stitutional amendments and carried all of them except, naturally, No. 23, which was lost by about two to one. That was the woman suffrage amend- ment. We congratulate the Ohio anti- suffragists in this evidence that public sentiment is still so much more with them than with their sisters. Our suf- frage friends will try to get a luckier number next time, and they say their cause was prejudiced by being mixed up with the liquor question, and they mean to get another vote on it very soon. Very well, but this vote looks fairly conclusiv [* is to applaud the ingenious and energetic Edward Bok for a grand device to reduce the cost of living. He proposes to have the fashions for the clothes and hats of American women designed in these States— meaning Philadelphia and perhaps New York—instead of, as heretofore, in Paris. He says the Paris design- ers have commercialized their busi- ness, and get up fashions for our women, not for sincere purposes of embellishment, but merely to help their accomplices sell clothes. He says the French fashions don't suit American women anyway, becaus our ladies are not built like the French ladies. That may be true. We don't know, But it is obviously true, as he says further, that-the French fashions kcep changing so fast that women who follow them can't wear their clothes a reasonable time, and are constrained to apply far too large a share of their minds and money to dress. Mr. Bok has been working for some time in his Ladies’ Home Jour- comicbook