Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-10-13


pledged to Hughes.
The Presidential aspirants of both
parties have deep interest in the
result of the New York election. On
the Republican side the success of |
Hughes might help to relieve Presi-
dent Roosevelt of the embarrassing
necessity of taking an undesired nom
ination after emphatically declaring
that he never would accept it. What
the effect of Hearts election would |
have on the ambition of Democratic
aspirants would depend on what fol-
lowed. The Hearst devil has been |
painted in such tones of midnight |
blackness by his opponents that If he
should prove in Office to be of lit |
tie lighter tint, there would inevitably |
be reaction in his favor If his |
administration failed to drag the state
of New York through the deepest |
depths of disgrace, PROSTATE it's in
dustries, and plumber it's treasury, the
reputation of his enemies as prophets
would be hopelessly discredited. If
by any chance he should make good"
Mr.. Bryan's patiently and ingeniously
built structure of card-index popular
ity would be in grave danger But,
of course, if Hearst in office justified
the predictions of his adversaries, he
would eliminate himself as a Presi-
dental candidate, and Mr.. Bryan
could gather the fruits of his industry
in peace. At present the Hearst can
didacy for governor of New York Gre
ates no enthusiasm among the friends
of Bryan, and the Bryan siege of the
Presidency has had no encourage
f,0,
which praised the returning voyager
as citizen, but had nothing to say
about him as candidate.
In general way Mr.. Hughes is ex-
pected to get the conservative, and
Mr.. Hearst the radical, voters of both
parties. If this line were strictly fol-
lowed Mr.. Hearst would be elected,
for there are more radicals than con-
servatives. But Mr.. Hearst will not
have them all. Some of them will
support Mr.. Hughes on the issue of
character Some of them will vote for
him on his record in the gas and in
surance investigations. The Republi-
can platform made bid for some by
demanding the regulation of corpor-
atoms. Others, to the number of a
good many thousands, will vote the
Socialist ticket. The election re-
turns will have to determine how
many that will leave for Mr. Hearst.
The popular unrest that has made
the Hearst movement so formidable
in New York is perhaps even more
strikingly illustrated in the success of
District Attorney John B. Moran of
Boston in capturing the Democratic
nomination for governor of Massachu-
sets. Mr.. Moran, it will be remem-
bered, secured his present position
last year by an unaided campaign of
self-advertising, beating the joint can
didate of both political organizations
at the polls. His success was more
remarkable than the simultaneous
triumph of Mr.. Jerome, for it was won
: without the help of newspapers or
civic associations or any record of
achievement. This year Mr. Moran
extended his agitation throughout the
state, with the aid of Mr.. Hearst's
Boston paper, and he swept the Dem
ocratic primaries, carrying every
: city in Massachusetts, and securing
three-fourths of the delegates to the
state convention. The Moran move
ment in Massachusetts has been a du-
plicate of the Hearst movement in
New York. There, as in New York,
: the old line Democrats have retired
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