The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-01

Hian bclONcu tuIOQknOut lHC ASAA6 htt Ne breadth of the land for her munincent generosity, her endowment of great university, her aid to schools ana her 'open-handed help of all charities ana good works. The millions who respect and admire her will hope that her for goose chase of the Presidency which her energetic and peculiar son has just finished. No one planes her Tor standing by her son and giving him a chance to test his theory that the Presidential nomination of a great poll tical party in this country can be pur- chased like any commodity, and that the Presidency itself is within the reach of a man with long enough purse who will go after 1t on the plan of smashing every man who has dol- lar and giving a dollar to every man who has none.
 Mrs, Hearsts friends here. some of them very we'll advised as to the state of her affairs, say she will not be em- barrassed by the losses of the estate in the political field. Mrs. Hearst is a good business woman and has managed admirably the great properties left her by her susband. former Senator Hearst of California. Her income is estimated doubtless has been prudent enough to stop the outgo through the political bunghole before 1t was too late.
 Though there is not much surprise at the politico- financial collapse of the Hearst boom, it's completeness has caused a distinct shock. Mrs. Hearsts advisers urged her not to cut off her subscriptions to various schools and philanthropio enterprises until after the St. Louis convention, arguing that such thing could not be done with out attracting attention and hurting her sons cause. Even those who thus advised her were not prepared for the sudden announcement that Hearst himself had reached the end of his rope inference is that when Mrs. Hearst cried "enough" and shut the purse, there was nothing for her son to do but to follow her example.
 One of Mir. Hearst's friends with whom I talked today said he had been expecting this denouement for several weeks. He denied that the Hearst finances were in bad shape, and said the explanation of the change or tactics was that MT. Hearst had become satls- fled he could not reach the nomina- tion, nor even make a satisfactory showing in the convention, and that 1t was useless to send good money after bad. According to this gentleman, Hearst is not bad loser lie taxes the whole thing philosophicaIIy, says he has learned lot and that he ex- pects to be heard from in the future.
 One of MT. Hearsts conKdents tells me the late candidates chief regret is that he permitted himself to be work ed so fiagrantly by gangs of political grafters who have been hungry for his money. He realizes now that he has been imposed upon by men who pose as his friends and admirers, but who were simply vulgar grafters working him for all he would stand. Not all the men who have favored Hearst for the Presidency have been hired to do so. There are honorable exceptions. There are men who actually believed in him and who thought him saving of his country and his party. But it Is safe to say that the great majority of active workers for Hearst were ac- tive because they were paid salaries and expenses. At one time the friends of Richard Olney knew of sixty cheap politicians of Massachusetts who were on the Hearst pay roll, averaging $l0 or $15 a day each. and doing almost nothing to earn their money. In New Jersey Hearst was worked" to the queens taste by gang of grafters shrewd enough to make him believe he had a chance even after the State con vention had assembled and shown by test vote that 1t was overwhelmingly anti-Hearst. In California, it is de- clared, a game was deliberately set up by the leading politicians to make
 the first showing adverse to Hearst by small majority. compelling him to put | up thousands to buy the margin and win out. By these means Hearst got l California, but the victory did not help 1 him elsewhere. As some one has said,
 the immoral effect was unfavorable.
 Thus comes the inglorious end of the
 most extraordinary and picturesque
 movement known to the history of
 American politics. Hearst's candida | kAa fa ha
 barn of Hearst himself. He fed 1t
 with his money. That was about all | there was to it-his newspapers an his
 bank book. If the full history of this wonderful effort could be written it
 would make a startling tale--a story
 of how one nervy man set out to put himself into the White House, and by
 sheer force of cheek and intrepidity managed to make himself the most | taIked-of man in America, and to
 plunge the Democratic party In more | than a score of States and in a thou sand counties into a Kilkenny sort of fight, in which his followers wielded | their sticks as lustily as their oppo- nents. As Mir. Hearst is reported to
 have said. he has had a run for his
 money; and 1t was great fun while 1t | lasted.
 There is a serious side to the strange | episode which cannot fail to attract the attention of thoughtful men. Rich,
 reckless, daring, and by his side some man or men with a genius for organiza-
 tion unsurpassed in the annals of our l politics, Hearst has failed to buy the
 nomination. of the Democracy. He 1 has only a hundred votes out of total
 of 1000 in the convention--a pitiful Showing for the expenditure of $2,000,-
 00O-$20. 900 to the delegate. The les
 son is that no man in America can be
 rich enough or bad enough to buy his
 way to the White House.