The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-30
Bearing on the Presidency
ArOuseS Interest Thru.
out the Country.
Hughes Spurns Corporation
CaSh,...Gets N. 0. Party'S
=
Support.
BY w. w. Jermane.

NW AOhlNNlO1N, SepC. w.
" New York's gubernatorial
fight this year will be
watched with deep interest in all parts
of the country, for several good and
sufficient reasons:* ...',.. ~...~-' .'
First, it will be a square.toed test
between the forces of disorder as repre-
scented by Hearst, and the forces of Or
der as represented by Hughes.
Second, it will put before the people
OF the greatest state in the union the
question of state socialism as distin-
gulshed from government regulation.
Third, it will have an important bear
ing upon the presidential conventions
of 1908, for it is not too much to say
that the successful. candidate will, al
most without the slightest doubt, be a
prominent presidential figure, be he
Hearst or Hughes. ssss 81 ssss ~
Public ownership has not yet had
test before the people of whole state.
, It won a victory in Chicago, but that
is very far from saying that it could
have won in Illinois. It made phenom-
email run in greater New York, last
year, when. Hearst was the candidate
against Mcclellan for the office Of
mayor, but that run throws no definite
light upon the sentiment of the state as
q whole. ','
Party Lines Raced.
Now, however, the great empire state,
having 9 per cent Of the total popuia-
ton of the country and the nation g
metropolitan city, is to decide, DELHI
erately, whether it will swing toward
the most ultra radicalism that has ap-
peared in American politics for more
than generation, or follow the sane
leaders of carefully formed and intelli-
gent public opinion who stand opposed
to this radicalism.
It will be contest in which regular
party lines, to great extent, will be
lost sight Of, especially among the poor
er elements of the population. In
evitably, the contest presupposes the
arraying of the masses against the
classes, as these words have come to be
understood politically and to the ex-
tent to which it does this it will be
source of anxiety to all patriotic .peo-
pie, no matter Of what party. .->2
Hearst will poll his biggest vote in
the urban centers Of the state; and
Hughes will pull his biggest vote in
the rural communities. It has been in
the urban communities that Hearstism
has its strongest hold, and, in New
York state especially, it is in the rural
communities that the republican party
Is strongest and the people have the
most perfect poise. -.,.-.
Papers with Hughes.
So far as the newspapers of the state
are concerned, they will be very large
ly on the side Of Hughes. In Greater
New York it is question whether
Hearst will have single newspaper
organ excepting his own, thus dupli
eating the newspaper history Of the
mayoralty campaign of a year ago.
Heretofore the anti-Hearst press has
created sympathy and made votes for
the Hearst crowd by savage onslaught
of abuse. This year, it is said, the tao
tics are to be different. Hearst, so far
as it is possible, is to be ignored, and
the opposition press is to devote itself
assiduously to sounding the praises of
Hughes. .5-~.
This lifting of the Hearst issues to
field of action statewide in its scope, it
is believed here, will serve a helpful
purpose in American politics. In adj
dition to, the added significance which
will come from having the test of
strength made on such a basis, it is
believed that it will have been good
thing in every way to make the fight.
The atmosphere will be appreciably
cleared, and the way paved for more in
telligent and certain action, on both
sides, in 1908. The nomination Of
Hearst for governor, therefore, will
probably not be without its compensa-
lions.
A study of the urban and the rural
vote of New. York state becomes inter
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