The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-10

our deliverance there Is no cause for enthusiastic rejoicing, rather Tor season of humiliation and. searching of this great Commonweaith may dis cover how 1t came about that tnis strange and reckless desire for over- possessed so many of them. Time was when a party plurality of eo,000 in New york was held to be a great vic- ernor by 17.000 and MT .0deil in 1903 by 5000. But q plurality of 66s500 against MT. Hearst is not enough. When we siier consider the sn4se nssqse Ga 3a 'ns million and a half of voters it is 8 mere trifie, hardly to be looked upon as clearly decisive of the peoples the sober-minded,S and ight-thinking voters have been entirely convinced or Mr. Hearses unworthiness to be Cover nor of this State. Upon the evidencs addueed In the campaign they believe him to be incapable, not sincere, set- fish, reckless and dangerous He haA neither he nor any man on earth. could accomplish. Among those who reject ed him there was profound conyic- of the State demanded his defeat by an overwhelming majority, say ~200s-- 900 or 100000. Yet this morning the disappointing figures confront us show ing that he has come within 6s,500 votes of being elected.
 It is perfectly evident that several hundred thousand voters are under the Hearst spell. By his aIl-pervading his organizers he has filled their minds with delusion--the Hearst delusfon. The rest of his support, we must. con clude, is made up of voters who know him thoroughly, we know that he IS geSfIsss & Sstts and da ana snrs ke 6i
 animates them is that of suIlsnness and .discontept. They are willing to use Mir Hearst, as so many of his sup- porters in the Mayoralty contest were willing to use him, as an instrument of destruction. With both classes of his supporters, those who are deluded perfectly, the animating motive Is the vague and uniformed idea that in some way they are going to be- made better a man. They are to get higher wages for less work, to pay lower rentsy to have cheaper milk, ice and groceries. Above all, at least with many of them this desire is potent, they are to sec the capitalists humbled. Hearst has taught them to believe these things. That he has put before them 6 pro- gram of incongruous impossibiIities they do not at all perceive. The argu- nlents and demonstrations of the ca1n- paign have not reached them at all. The Republicans have lost to Mir. Hearst a great many thousand more votes than was made up 70 them by Mr he WooSPufr GTr has sAS not held his iIS paTty together Democratic votes have elect ed MT. Hughes: ..
 A policy of continued provocation, of -blooded defiance of the prevailing popular spirit, will presently bring them face. to face with more serious troubles than in the vast have con- fronted them 1t is for them to mix some reason and consideration with their schemes for power and gain. If they are men of sense. they will take as 8 special warning Mir. Hearst's un- comfortably near approach to a Vic- tory. It should serve as q warning, also, to those who have led or joined in intenperate assaults upon the busi- ness of the country, to men who in high or humble places have by pro- fuse and ill-tudged utteranee reused ton to a pitch of passion far beyond the public need. It is possible to set tablish just relations between man and man without turning loose 'social forces that produce the disorders of a gale" Mir Hearst. 1t must be borne quick to profit by every popular gust. and nobody is better equipped than he to make popular gusts serve his ann
 There are sobering lessons enough in Mr. Hughesis victory to occupy the best minds of the country for a long time to come. Socialism stands just around the corner, and 1t is the aim of Socialism to beat 1t into the heads of labor that when the two make common cause their victory is won. Labor in this election has accepted MT, Hearst. It has evidently paid little or nor attention to what was said against him. It will continue to listen to his appeals. It will cease to listen only when the material out of which he com stFucts them has been destroyed, when the minds in which his ideas now find lodgment have been enlightened and put on their guard against him. The work to be done is one of sane a---N wise reform and of public enlighten- mett.