New-York tribune., 1906-11-20
HEARST AND THE DENOCRACY.

Everybody will commend Mr. Hearst's resolu-
ton never again to be candidate. Nothing in
his public life so becomes him as his retirement
from ii. II shows his good sense, too. His only
qualification for further nomination at the hands
of the Democratic party is his ability TO run
sixty thousand behind his ticket in New York,
and it is not such a qualification as to commend
him to the consideration of delegates to the
national convention He has Mr. Bryan's
eagerly consolatory assurance that his ideas
have triumphed. Mr.. Hearst himself does not
go so far as his pragmatic consoler. He thinks
these ideas sufficiently understood by the gen.
eral public that it will be no longer necessary"
for him to be a candidate If we were to offer
any emendation should suggest that the
man as well as his Ideas are sufficiently under
stood to make his further candidacy super
fiuous Still, for all that, we do not underrate
Mr.. Hearst. We think he is the most consider
able figure in the national Democratic party,
its most powerful individual and its most I'M
possible candidate. he will be the Warwick Of
his party, the maker of its candidates and of its
presidents if it ever elects any. 1t is no wonder
that the great Commoner showers him with OBJ
sequious attentions.
The Times is right when it says that the
Democracy, like Gaul, is divided into three parts
1t used TO be arrayed only in the two hostile
camps Of Bryan and anti-Bryan. There is now
in addition TO these, a powerful Hearst faction
Mr.. Hearst will have great authority in deter
mining the future course of his party both as to
candidates and as to policies. He has the New
York state machine, and that is an important
asset in the eyes of the national Democracy.
He has his powerful array of newspapers
throughout the country, and they are n force
10 be reckoned with in the counsels of his party.
He has his own personally conducted parties in
various states, and while his purse is long and
open he will have difficulty in maintaining
these as weapons TO whip the recalcitrant Dem
ocratic organization into line with his wishes.
With his fortune and bis ambition his dom
NANCY in the Counsels Of his national party
should never grow less But he has won his
success at the cost of his highest ambition. He
will never be a candidate for the Presidency.
Bosses are seldom candidates. and his power
and influence in his party are those Of a boss.
There is nothing more futile than the efforts
of the so-called conservatives to reorganize the
Democratic party Mayor Mcclellan and his
friends and allies up the state will accom-
plsh nothing. The corresponding group in the
national party are powerless to elect President.
Their last futility was the Parker campaign.
Mr.. Hearst has sufficient power in the party
nationally TO prevent the nomination of another
Parker He has only TO threaten TO put up his
own radical Democrat in opposition to any
conservative to convince the convictiOnless, as
he did in this state, of the folly of opposing his
mandates He is in a strong position to control
the future of his party, all the stronger for
his dsavowal of intention to seek Office himself.
The next Democratic candidate for President
can get his nomination only as a result of some
deal with Hearst The conservative Demo
Gratis" says The Times" which is usually their
spokesman. will continue to vote for Republican
candidates"