Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-09
MR.. HEARST AS A NATIONAL
FIGURE.


congressman from the Eleventh dis
trict of New York, mo one in that
body" says the Springfield Republi-
can Qnd.), will attract the personal
attention that he will" for, continues
The Republican, 'if Hearst ever was
dangerous, he never was so dangerous
as he is today, as a factor in national
politics." Both the manner Of mis-
campaign for mayor and it's result, as
well as his conduct now" the Chicago
Public (Single Taxi asserts, make
him loom up no longer as a self-seeF-
err, but as a genuine leader in a great
cause" He has become "the Bryan of
the east" in the opinion of the Chi
cago Tribune (Rep), and, as the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep) pre-
diets, he Twill be far more powerful
between now and election day in 1908
than he would be if he had obtained
the mayoralty." He will grow more
threatening as time goes on" re-
marks the Macon (Ga) Telegraph
Dem.). The Detroit Journal (Rep.)
AYERS that he is at last real presi-
dental possibility" while the Chicago
Chronicle (Rep.) declares that his al
most winning fight, single handed,
against Tammany will probably sub
stitute Hearst for Bryan as the Dem
ocratic idol, and cause a reorganiza-
ton of the Democratic party on a
purely socialistic and revolutionary
basis" The Spokane Spokesman-Re-
view Qnd. Rep) likewise thinks that
the Democratic choice will be be-
tween Bryan and Hearst" and then
makes the following observations:
Though Mcclellan, the Tammany
candidate, has been reelected, the vic
tory Is such close one that it must
very materially reduce the Tammany
influence in the party in a national
campaign. Heretofore it has been
customary to refer to that organiza-
ton as one of the most perfect and
powerful political machines in the
country The blow which has been
struck at it in this election can not
but injure its prestige, and though
Mr.. Hearst was in the campaign as ID
municipal ownership candidate, it will
be an easy matter for him to resume
his place as Democrat and seek the
nomination for the presidency.
"Those who believed that Mr..
Hearst was nothing but rampant
yellow journalist are learning that be-
hind his sensationalism there is a
power strong enough to elect him to
congress and almost able to down the
most powerful Democratic machine Iii
the country. He may be able to win
over that same machine to his own
side, and if he desires it's support in
the presidential field, and the race in
the national convention between him
and Bryan, as predicted by Mr.. Wat
terson, may be very interesting
one"
The press are, however, by no
means united in assigning such great
importance and significance to Mr..
Hearst's sudden development of pop
ular strength in New York City. The
Sacramento Union (Rep.) predicts
that even If he gains the mayoralty
on the recount, his victory will hard
ly tend to put him in the line of fu-
ture and larger political honors." The
papers which take this adverse view
claim that his show of power was due
to adventitious aids and peculiar cir
cumstances which are not likely to oc-
cur again in combination, and further
more that, although he may be accep-
table to the electorate of New YorR,
he is an impossibility in the eyes of
the country at large. The Kansas
City Star Qnd. DEM states that the
causes which contributed largely to
the remarkable vote polled by Mr.
Hearst were dislike of the regular