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^[[Mary E. Dreier
3 pp. only letter incomplete]]

[[preprinted]] 118 EAST 54TH STREET
NEW YORK [[/preprinted]]

November 8th, 1912.

Dearest Dodo:

My last letter to you was rather hastily written, because of the rush.  Now, the great day has passed, and we have been gloriously defeated, and really won the thing that we set out to do.  That is, the Republican Party has been nationally practically wiped out of existence, and we have won in a few state issues.  I cannot, at this time, tell you exactly what the returns are;  they have not all come in.  Illinois which seems to go to Roosevelt is now apparently going for Wilson, and California, which apparently went for Wilson, is now going for Roosevelt.  We, in New York, were very badly beaten, not running second, as we had hoped and expected, but third, and not a very good one.  There is one tremendous advantage in the whole thing, and that is, the Democrats are practically in absolute control, and they can do what they want.  There cannot be any question of inability to carry out their pledges, because of not having a majority anywhere, because they have it.  Sulzer declares he is independent of any bosses.  We shall see how much an independent governor, this man, who declares himself to be, can do with an assembly and senate Tammany controlled, as it is.  It will be the very best thing in the world to show that we shall have to make a clean sweep from top to bottom.  Sulzer may be able, and he may make a tremendous

[[stamp]] ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART [[/stamp]]
^[[Mrs. Peter Voorhees 1959]]

Transcription Notes:
*Drier? The name is Voorhees, very clearly written here. I don't think *Voorkers is a name.