The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-12
HEARST LOOMING
LARGE AS LEADER
OF The RADICALS.
Mounts by Municipal Own
ership Campaign to Com
manding Height.
Certain to Head a Radical
Ticket in Next Race for
the Presidency.
BY w. w. Jermane.

WV YAsHINGTON, Nov.l1.-Aboye
A/N the ruin wrought to Tam
many and to the regular re-
publican organization in New York city,
as the result of the late municipal cam.
paign towers the form of W. R. Hearst
as potent presidential probability,
dominating the situation. His nomina-,
tion on radical presidential ticket,
with public ownership Of quasi-public
utilities as it's main issue, it is believed,
can now no more be prevented than
Bryan 8 nomination in 1896 could have
been prevented after he had made his
"crown of thorns and cross of gold'
speech to the Chicago convention.
Hearst s nomination on such ticket
will draw heavily upon both the old
parties, more especially in the urban
districts, and the line Of cleavage be-
tween frightened conservatism on the
one hand and rampant radicalism on the
other will probably make the 1908 cam
paign a duplicate in many essential fea-
lures of the campaign Of 1896.
Bryan as Prophet.
The result of the municipal campaign
in Chicago last spring was the first
reliable intimation the country had that
municipal ownership, with pro-radical
tendencies, had taken a strong hold on
! the imagination of the laboring masses.
1t was shortly after the result in Chi
cago had become known that W. J.
Bryan, with an instinct whose iner-
rancy was not appreciated at the time,
announced that he proposed during the
year; to go abroad for more careful
study Of the public ownership question
Bryan had sailed from San Francisco be.
fore the American public realized that
his quest was a practical one, for Hearst
had not at that time become menace
to the Tammany organization in New
York, and there was no intimation thai
the great metropolis was to duplicate
SO far as the moral effect is concerned
the earlier result in Chicago.
I Z, Spread Of ssM. o. Idea.
:. Now, both the leading cities of th,
7 country have put themselves on RECORD
. unmistakably as having pronounced
public ownership opinions, and no san
man questions that the sentiments con
trolling those cities also control urbal
populations from one end Of the countr.
: to the other. This urban vote has bee
largely democratic vote-two third
of it has been unquestionably demo
cratic, and perhaps the ratio is create
:: than that-and so, with public owner
ship presidential ticket headed b
Hearst, or it may be by Bryan himsel1
: the democrats would be struck a morts
blow in their: strongholds, the citie
) and the republicans would be at tn
same time SO weakened as to give
!, popular interest to the campaign con
parably only to the interest existin
: in 1896. .e.,s ,...
: Graft Breaking Up Parties.
This threatened breaking up Of tt
old parties and rise of radicalism hs
been due to several causes. One is tt
e general knowledge thruout the count1
y now that graft exists in both thes
t parties to a criminal degree. Tar
) many; Odell; the Weaver campaign
" Philadelphia; the situation in Pennsy
d vania, growing out of the failure Of tt
n Enterprise National bank; the expo
r ures in Ohio, eliminating with Seer
e tary Taft's sensational declaration tn
if voting this year he would vo
l. against the Cox machine in Cincinna'
n the campaign in Maryland, whi
e brought to light the plans Of the &C
r man machine to disfranchise thousan
It of republican voters of foreign parer
IT age in Baltimore, under cover of co
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