The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-11-11
"Hozv 1t Happened" i'm Mesv York

Atlanta Georgian.

1t is easy enough when it is all
over to find an explanation for the
thing that has come to pass.
Perhaps the briefest and most COM
prehensive explanation is to be had
in the statement that Mr.. Hearst was
defeated because Mr. Hughes received
the largest number of votes!
But there are those of us who find
some comfort and others who find
some diversion in looking for the rea-
sons and causes Of victory and defeat.
Hearst was defeated within the last
seven days.
Croker and Roosevelt and the
Doodle bag were the trinity that over
came the people and their champion
in New York.
Much as 1t was protested at the
time, the fear of Croker fell upon the
New York Democracy on Thursday
last. Neither Murphy nor Nixon nor
any other chief has ever filed the
seat Of Croker in the Wigwam OF
Tammany hall. They are all dwarfs
beside him. He was the great boss
and all the others we're feeble imita-
tons. There has never been a real
ruler since his time For twenty
years, since John Kelly's day, that
grim old man of great capcity sat In
the door of Tammany and ruled its
fortunes and its votes with an iron
hand. There are men In New York,
middle aged men and old men who
for SO many years have known no
other political law than Croker's will,
that when his voice sounded even
from across the seas, they went by
sheer force of habit to obey it. Muir
ply has never had Cookers hold upon
the wigwam, and when the trumpet
of Croker blew against the bugle of
Murphy, the old chief three thousand
miles way blew strong enough to blow
more loyal voters from the wigwam
polls than had gone astray in many
years. With Tammany loyal and
Joined to Hearst's own strength, Man.
haitian Island should have rolled up
100000 more votes than Hughes re-
ceived.
Secretary Root, with the message of
the president did deadly work. Mr..
Roosevelt's was a mean and dastardly
blow as was ever struck by presi-
dent or private citizen. 1t was SHOT
with a poisoned bullet and was out.
side the ethics of war. II was a blow
below the belt and in any prize ring
OF pugilistic pugs would have been
called "a foul" The president knows
as well as any man that Mr.. Hearst
had nothing to do with the murder of
Mckinley. He knows that the agita-
ton which Mr.. Hearst invoked at
that time was fully and abundantly
vindicated in the disclosures of rot
tenness and tyranny brought out in
the insurance scandals, the exposures
of Depew and Plat, the meat mon
strosity and the gas grab. He knows
that without the agitation and the
light of fearless publicity flung by
fearless newspapers the boodlers and
grafters would be swindling untouch.
ed to-day. He knows, If he will con-
fess it, that his own activity against
the Northern Securities Company wa.
quickened and inspired by the mar
shalled testimony which Mr.. Hearst
flung as challenge at his feet. And
for the president Of the United States
to leave his high station, lower his
great estate, and come down into the
arena to levy charge of murder
against an opponent who had simply
agitated the economic wrongs wrought
by lot Of selfish and heartless
trusts. Is the unworthiest act that has
stained the escuteheon of the presi.
dent.
But 1t won. 1t was low but it was
effective. With all Of Theodore Roose-
velt's undiminished prestige and pop-
ularity behind charge OF murder
with the wrath Of the martyred Nc
Kinley rising behind the motor car
of Hearst, there were thousands of
workment pledged to his cause who
either betrayed him or did not vote.
And for labor to betray a friend
like Hearst. was the stab of the Bru-
tus who should have been loyal when
all else were false.
Last and greatest of the controlling
causes were the money bags of the
opposition. Held In reserve until the
last moment. and even sounding the
cry of poverty as misleading ruse.
the uncounted millions OF the trusts
let go the purse strings after the pres
ident had spoken, and no man will
ever know the money that walked
amid the masses in temptation and
corruption on Saturday and Sunday
nights preceding the election.
Well, the battle will go on. Hearst
told four thousand common people
on the Bowery and repeated it an
hour later to more people In Carnegie
Hall that as long as he had breath
and brains and a dollar to spend, he
should keep up this fight in the
| ranks or at the front. He IL YOUNG