Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1906-11-16
HAVE NOTHING TO
BE PROUD OF
Bryan Says Tuesdays Election Shows Trend
to Democratic Party

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menting on the results of Tuesdays
election, William J. Bryan tonight is
sued Il statement, i'm part as follows:
The election of 1906 indicates a trend
i'm favor OF the Democratic party. It
proves that the Democratic party is
growing stronger rs Republican party
is growing stronger as Republican
policies are developed. In New York
the party has won signal victory i'm
spite Of the tremendous efforts put
! forth in behalf OF the administration.
The Republicans had all the money
they wanted. They had the support of
all the great corporations, and at the
close they had whatever influence the
administration could lend
The fact that the Democrats elected
every State officer excepting the Gov
ernor shows that in the Empire State
the Republican party has been repudi-
ated. The defeat of Mr. Hearst, the
Democratic and Independence League
candidate for Governor, while a great
disappointment TO his friends and to
the party, is explained by facts which
rob Mr.. Hughes's victory fboth glory
and political significance
Forces Divided.
Mr.. McCarren, whom Mr. Hearst de-
nOunced as "a boss, threw his influence
TO Hughes and cut down Mr.. Hearst's
vote in Brookln. Mayor Mcclellan, the
legality of whose election Mr.. Hearst
had denied, used his influence for Mr..
Hughes, and cut down the Hearst vote
in New York. Mr.. Jerome, prosecuting
attorney of New York, who had also
been attacked 10y Mr.. Hearst support
ed the Republican ticket, and his in
fluence was felt in Greater New York.
"Mr. Croker, during the last days Of
the campaign, made an attack upon
Mr.. Hearst, which doubtless weakened
the Democratic candidate among the
Tammanyitcs. Mr.. Murphy, the head
of Tammany, while supporting the
ticket, could not put much enthusiasm
into the campaign, owing 10 the per
sonal controversies which he had had
with Mr.. Hearst. 1t is evident. there
fore, that Mr.. Hughes owes his victory.
not to Republican votes, but to Demo
cratic votes brought to him by the
very men whom he and the Republi-
can leaders have been denouncing for
years.
president Roosevelt cannot find
very much cause for rejoicing in the
New York returns.
"To have his own State 90 Demo-
cratic cannot be gratifying to him, and
TO find that his personal attack upon
MIR. Hearst had little influence on the
result compared with the influence ex-
erted by Mr.. McCarren, Mr.. Murphy
and Mr.. Croker will not gladden. his
Thanksgiving Day. The PRESIDENT
personal attack on Mr.. Hearst was in
bad taste TO say the least.
"Mr. Hearst is, of course, disappoint-
ed, and yet when all the facts are
known, he has much TO congratulate
himself upon. He made a tremendous
fight against great odds, and while he
himself failed of election, his heroic
struggle brought victory to the rest OF
D the ticket.
Il His personal enemies have con.
tributed to his defeat, but the triumphs
of his ideas still leaves him in a posi-.
ton to continue the fight for the pro.
lection of the public against the en-.
croachments of predatory wealth.
No Third Term.
''If the trend toward Democracy con.
tinues as stryng for the next two years
las it has been for the last two wears