The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-15

with Mr.. Hearst and nominated Wins
on straight ticket
WINS Had No Chance.
Everybody knew that WINS did not
have the ghost of chance of an cleo
ton, but many commenced to figure
that Hearst might possibly be elected
He conducted a whirlwind campaign
against the bosses such as he is now
conducting throughout the city and the
State, the only difference being that
be did not receive his nomination at
the hands of bosses like Charles F
Murphy, the leader of Taulmany Hall.
He was nominated by petition merely
to protect lis position With the readers
of his newspapers here in the city. hav.
ing, however, not the slightest hope
and apparently not the slightest chance.
The people did the rest. They picked
up his Municipal Ownership ticket and
rallied to the support of the nominees,
chiefly as protest against the bosses
and graft But it was not until the
Saturday night before election that
the newspapers, the politicians and even
Hearst had the slightest chance of
defeating Mcclellan. The thing that
opened the eyes of the people of the
city was an immense meeting on the
Saturday night preceding the election,
which was attended by anywhere from
10000 to 100000 people inside and out.
side the Garden. Then the political
experts "got busy" and figured that
if that number Of citizens would attend
the mass meeting on an independent
candidate, without even the semblance
zl Eah u,
might be q possibility of some of these
men voting for him, That some of
them did vote for Hearst is demonstrat-
ed by the fact that on the face of the
returns Hearst received 5000 votes,
as against 22S,000 votes for Mcclellan
OF course. the Hearst men have claim
cd that the election was stolen ever
since that campaign. and have made
attempts 10 get at the boxes and find
out Just what the vote was here in
the city-attenlpts which have been
| blocked by the State Legislature, the
Court of Appeals, and the Attorney
General.
Possesses Strange Popularity,
But the fact that the man received
| 225.00O votes "running on g shoe"
string has made practical politicians
even admit that the man possesses a
| strange popularity This, added 10 the
| fact that when he ran as the candidate
| Of the machine in his race for Congress
both times he ran far ahead of his
| ticket. has made even the best and
wisest of politicians commence to figure
| and think as to his chances for carry
| ing the State, 1t is possible that he
will lose, but in the light Of past re-
suits the Republican nominee, Charles
| E, Hughes, does not have the clnch
| that careless reading of the daily
| newspapers here in New York would
seem TO indicate.
| There are some reasons why Hearst
will make hard fight which are not
being brought out by the New York
| dailY newspapers-not even by Hearst s
Journal and American. Among these
reasons is the fact that Hearst and the
Independence League has been organlz-
ing while Wall Street and the old politl'
pnv OF Tammary Hall did not wake
m TO the power of the Independence
| League organization until just before
the primaries. 1t is true that he was
carving on Irritation with Hearst,
| hui it was merely Irritation for the
nurnose of soaring Mayor Mcclellan
and securing the use of the Hearst
voters for primary purposes, DE was
allowed few glimpses OF the WORKINGS
| OF the independence League anu ~
his sstonishmeut, he discovered the
most marvellous organization which has
| existed in this State since the days of
| the Tilden organization by school dis,
tricts. Murphy then became. aware OF
the fact that Hearst practically had
the other leaders in pocket when 1t
came TO the conventions and TO tho
| elections. AS ne said at Buffalo. Talk
common sense We can't WIZ either
the State ticket or the local tickets
without this man Hearst II was was
take him or leave him alone, II they
left him alone, the independence
I,eap,e threatened TO sweep all OF the
in1iejal and county Offices, all Of the
Congressional, senatorial, and assembly
candidates, leaving only lndepee9dcpce
mon or Republicans in office. Murphy
knew that Democratic leaders wnlch
allowed the Republican to run hrst;
fhe Independence League second and
,be Democrat third, thereby losing q
nlace on the State ballot would be
bcId responsible. He concluded INA,
half a loNf was better than no loaf al
nil though it begins to appear os
though hS may lose MS half LOAF ''