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[[archival note:]] Mary E. Dreier

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[[logo:]] Trades Council 12

118 EAST 54th STREET
NEW YORK
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November 10, 1913.

Dearest Dodo:

To my dismay I discover that I cannot send any more letters to Europe and if I want to catch you, I must send this to Southampton; but I hope that it will be a delightful surprise to you to get a letter there, so here goes.

I cannot remember whether I have written you about election, but in case I may not have done so, I want you to know that we are perfectly delighted with the result in New York City. It was really a tremendous sweep for Mitchel and a glorious defeat for Tammany, and if the people would only keep it up, it looks as if we might starve Tammany out of existence. That would be a most fortunate thing to do. I should be most happy. He won by over one hundred and twenty-one thousand votes, and Messrs. McAneny and Prendergast also won by a good majority although nothing like this, due to the fact that Hearst's paper was against those two men.

Judge Bartlett was nominated for the chief justice, and the vote was so close for the republican judge that they do not yet know whether he has been elected. It is just a question of a few hundred votes either way. I just had a talk with Alice over the telephone and she said that they were feeling most queer--one minute they had telegrams of congratulations and another telegrams of condolences. Judge Bartlett telephoned Judge Werner his congratulations and in reply got a telegram saying that he will turn the tables on him.

The Progressives are very happy over the results in Massachusetts where their candidate was almost elected, though in New Jersey he was badly beaten--Mr. Colby he was. Some years ago he made a good fight there. I was frightfully disappointed in our election here--at least in the judges who pulled a comparatively small number of votes, and yet we have twenty seats in the legislature instead of one and a good many independent democratics and republicans as well, so that makes a very happy situation. The legislature is no longer democratic but 

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[[archival note:]] Mrs. Peter Voorhees 1909