Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-07
LOST VITAL FORCE
WEAKENING OF THE HEARST
PRESIDENTIAL BOOM.
It's Financial Support withdrawn
Deals Now Going on With
Other Factions.

In the opinion OF many leading democrats
the presidential boom of William r. Hearst
of New York has lost its vital force and Is
daily becoming weaker.
The withdrawal of the financial support
of the boom which has been in progress Tor
several weeks, and is constantly becoming
more and more pronounced, caused many
politicians to wonder what was going on.
The Hearst boom is pronounced the most
unique development of political campaign
the country has ever known, as 1t was dis
tinctly the result of organized effort, con-
Quoted very much a patent medicine
business might be. Men of energy and po-
litical experience, backed by sufficient
money to pay all necessary expenses, have
conducted a campaign in the interest OF a
principal whose financial backing has been
great as to cause wild thoughts OF pos
sible rewards to run in the heads of many
ambitious men who have been ready to
bask in the rays of a rising star.
Now the financial support of the boom
has abandoned it, and 1t is going on with
the momentum 1t was given by the Shrewd
managers who for months have been push
iEg it along on big round dollars.
The Illinois Deal.
The most recent event that has been &C
cepted as evidence here that the Hearst
boom has lost its vitality, at least in the
port that a deal has been effected in that
state by which Hearst is to be Endorsed
by the democratic state convention to meet
within a few days. The men who are re-
ported to have made the agreement to sup
port Hearst in order to beat the Harrison
faction are regarded here as the most i'm
pla cable opponents of Hearst. The deal
will give them control of the state ma
chine for q time at least. and 1t has been
made it is declared, by men who have fol-
lowed every move in the game that Is being
played, only after firm conviction that
the support cannot result in the nominal
ton of Hearst.
But this manner Of playing the political
game Is looked upon as being attended fy
danger. If the feeling that the Hearst
boom Is no longer menace to the ambition
of other candidates. say some democrats
who are opposed to that candidate, IT is
apt to gain more strength than is safe in a
political convention. Some of these have
even gone SO far as to suggest that while
the Hearst financial support of the boom
has been withdrawn his managers are tax
ing too great advantage of the confidence
of other candidates and are adding to their
forces very materially.
A Local Effect.
The Hearst victory in Illinois is looked
upon as a direct result of the failing con-
fidence in Hearst. Strangely enough, at
lust about the time the deal to give Hearst
the Illinois delegates has been reported cal
culatons are being made for using the
same tactics in order to divide the vote In
the convention between the German and
the Hearst delegates from the District OF
Columbia.
The delegates named by the convention,
MAJ de up of the Hearst men who bolted the
democratic convention in the District, pro-
pose to make a proposition to the Parker
ma Layers that they cooperate with them
in helping them to get half the representa-
ton in the convention. as they had four
years ago, in order to weaken the German
strength. The basis of this proposed deal
is the proposition that Hearst is not really
formidable to Parker, while his candidacy
might be threatened by German.