The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-26
HEARST MAY YET
BEAT MCCLELLAN
Radical Municipal Ownership
Platform Winning Thousands
of Adherents.
WARMING IN CHICAGO
ELECTION RESULTS
ra1nmany Confidence, Like the
Republican Faith in Chicago,
i - May Ride to Fall.
Ra w. w. Jermane.


washington, Oct. 26.-The mayoral-
~ campaign in greater New. York IS
tbsolutely unique in the history of
lat city, and it has but one parallel
n the history Of American municipal1-
les. That is the mayoralty contest in
thicago, last spring, resulting in the
lection of Judge Dunn and In the de-
Feat of John NJ. Harlan, the republican
lominee.
The republican organization in Chi
ago thought it had the situation so
,ver it might nominate for mayor
would be elected by an overwhelming
majority. When Harlan walked off
With the nomination it was conceded
hat his election was as good as Sc
-ured. Harlan and all his friends felt
his way about it, and so did the lead
ng democrats.
conservative municipal ownership plat
,C1m. The republicans Of Chicago, in
hat platform, had taken advanced
ground, and it was widely believed that
hey would attract practically the
whole of the socialist and labor vote,
Usually strongly democratic, and that
HARLAN s majority would be so large as
o make him a gubernatorial and posi-
9ly presidential possibility.
Coup by the Democrats.
But what actually happened9 The
democrats, feeling that the ground had
oeen cut from beneath their feet by
he republican platform, realized that
heir only chance for victory lay in
heir taking position of ultra rad
calism. They would declare for mu:
1icipal ownership in a way that would
make the republican position seem ultra
+T
attract the labor and socialist vote
hen inclining to Harlan, and retain
control of the city.
The democratic city convention met
md adopted the proposed radical plat
form. Judge Dunno was made the
nominee for mayor, and then cam
3aign was begun which, on the demo
5ratic. side, "earried the war into AT
rica.' Appeals were made to class
prejudice and hatred; the rich were
reviled and the poor were applauded
and it was made to appear that the
republican position, while seeming, t.
cater to the laboring classes, was, il
fact, position that was entirely sat
isfactory to all the various financial in
terests.
The Dunno campaign did not SHOW
It's strength at the beginning, and it wa
not until week or two before cleo
ton that the republicans began to real
ize that they had fight on their hands
paign, at first matter of surprise
became at last matter of alarm. A
the close of the campaign public ser
timent was unable to say with certain
ty who would be elected, and whe1
after the votes had been counted
Dunno was found to have won, tn
city was not surprised.
Parallel in New York.
The mayoralty campaign in Ne
York has thus far reproduced practi(
ally all these features except the las
Mcclellan had for months been ce
tain of denomination, and the only il
terest taken in the contest during il
earlier stages was in the size of h
majority. He had made a good recor
in the mayors office. The plane
had occupied had been so high that
rampant reformer as DR.. Parkhur:
was quoted as saying that he would [
elected, and that the city would NJ
suffer because of such reelection.
The Tammany convention was hol
and Mcclellan was renominated. TIL
Tammany platform, like the Harla
platform in Chicago, was eonserv;
lively for municipal ownership. Tan
many felt that it had made a great col
CoSS1On IN Gl1S respect, anu Jne EMIL
city seemed to feel so, too.
After it had been discovered that tt
opposition in New York would be u
able to get together, McClellan's m
iority was figured at considerably mo-
than 100000, and many shreWd p
litical observers already thought the
saw him the nominee Of his party f
governor next wear, and possibly tt
nominee for the presidency in 1908.
Hearst Steps In. ~.,
Then it was that William Randoll
Hearst put in an appearance. He h;
made the leading fight for Judge DUN
in Chicago in the spring, thru his CT
cago newspaper and was more prom
identified with the municip
ownership question than any other M
in the country. l...s.
The municipal ownership leaders
New York, deciding that the position
Mcclellan and (Tammany was not rat
cal enough for their purpose, held
convention of their own and demand
of Hearst that he be their candida
for mayor.
- 1t is probably true that Hearst &
not want to make the race. He had n
thus far put himself outside the res
lar democratic organization, and {
viously he did not care to do so
running for mayor against the regul
democratic nominee in Greater n
York. Such course he felt mig
imperil his presidential chances, a
besides it would place him in an
- consistent attitude before the party,
asmuch as he had been reelected
congress as a democrat in 1904, fir
the eleventh New York district.
But Hearst was overruled. AS I
leading exponent of municipal own
ship in his city and as the man W
thru his newspapers, had done m,
than any other to foster munich
ownership ideas. he was informed ii
he could not afford to decline to ma
the mayoralty race. He was mora
bound to come to the relief of his
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