The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-10-06
EIGHT ON IN NEW YORK.

FIGHT ON IN NEW YORK.
AS was to be expected. the campaign
In the state of New York has already
become one of absorbing national i'm
terest. The Irish Standard has never
been supporter of Mr.. Hearst or his
policies. but it recognizes that he has
elements of great personal strength.
He has a large individual campaign
fund behind him and he knows how
! to spend it SO as to get the best re.
suits. Whatever may be said Of Mr..
Hearsts political views his business
capacity can not be successfully ques.
toned. The remarkable campaign
which he CT rried on in the city of
New York last fall must not be for
gotten. Republican politicians and
Democratic malcontents should cease
their prophecies of overwhelming de-
feat for Mr.. Hearst before the cam
paign has commenced If he could
come within a few thousand votes of
carrying the great city of New York
as an independent candidate, opposed
by both organizations, is it not rea-
sonable to suppose that with the aid
Of Tammany he will be much harder
candidate to defeat? No doubt a great
number of respectable Democrats will
openly oppose Mr.. Hearst, yet it 10
equally true that large number Of
Republicans will support him. AS
election day draws nearer the Re-
publican leaders will learn that tho
combination between Hearst and Tam
many Hall is an extremely strong one.
Apparently he is in position to re-
celve the support of Tammany and at
the same time openly attack its leader,
Mr.. Murphy. The attempt was made
at the outset of the campaign to hold
Mr.. Hearst responsible for Mr.. MUIR
ply because of the latters support,
but 1t really seems as though Hearst
is going to be able to continue his
attacks upon the bosses of Tammany
Hall without in any great measure Loss
ing the support of that organization.
They will hardly be able to defeat Mr..
Hearst by campaign of abuse for he
seems to thrive upon that. If the
great metropolitan newspapers should
indulge in campaign of personal
abuse it would be almost sure to help
him among the people.
Mr.. Hughes, the Republican candi-
date, is an eminently respectable man,
but he has no experience whatever in
political affairs. He was not the
choice of the Republican organization
leaders, and 1t looks as though he will
nave to build up an organization Of
his own. His success on election day
would not help the old-time leaders in
the Republican party in the state OF
New York. On the other hand, MUIR
phys political life is bound up in the
Hearst campaign, and 1t is probable
that he will submit to personal at
lacks without retaliating in an effort
to save his own leadership. 1t is al
together too early to make any predic-
tons as to the outcome in New York.
but it is certain that Hearst cannot
be defeated by mere personal abuse
and that at the present time it looks
as though the Republicans are facing
a hard task. If it were not for Demo-
cratic disaffection Hearst would be
sure to win. The boiling of Mcclellan
and Jerome and of other influential
leaders may mean much or little.
Whether they voice the sentiment OF
large number of Democrats must be
left to later developments to answer.