Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-18
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
some Impartial Reflections ON the
state CnmpalHn.

| progress of the campaign FOR the gov
ernorship of the Empire state, other
sources Of information than New YORK City
papers must be sought. The Daily News.
! "a Tammany organ Is the only paper out
! side of the Hearst publications, which sup
port Hearst for governor The World,
/ Herald, Tribune. Sun, Times, Mail, Globe,
| Evening Post, two German dailies, the
| commercial dailies the Brooklyn Eagle
| Harpers Golfers and Leslie 's-practicauy
all the respectable papers of the metropolis
are lined up against Hearst hearst's
| three papers coniine their political news TO
| that which favors the owner excepting
burlesque reports of meetings of the op-
| position. This feature of journalistic
partisanship IL carried to the extent of ex-
| Guiding convention resolutions compl-
mentary to william j. Bryan. Opposition
dailles publish the speeches of both Hughes
and Hearts, but the local color is gen.
orally favorable to Hughes Several cor
respondents Of outside papers sketch the
situation without partisan spectacles and
present features OF that remarkable cam
paign highly instructive to onlookers.
one of these impartial observers is James
p Hornaday, stan correspondent of the
indianapolis News Mr.. Hornaday is an
Indiana editor Of ripe experience, discern
ment and judgment. From series of
letters to the News these extracts are
taken: The strength of the independence
| League QHearsD movement lies in the fact
that the abuses which it promises to cor
rect do exist. The people know this and
in their desperation they have turned to
Hearst; the politicians know 1t, and that
is what has put them in flutter of un-
certainty as to what the result at the polls
| Ixpiu CO a. Ic
papers have attempted to prove, that the
Hearst campaign is based althogether on
imaginary evils. Whatever may be said of
| the man, or Of his methods, his campaign
is well grounded, and leaders of public
opinion here are beginning to realize this as
a fact.
Hearst has increased his strength by
promising to do certain things II he Is
elected-and in general they are things
the people of the state want done.
He points out that the state railroad
commission is paid by the railroads, ap-
pointed by the railroads through a gov
! ernor whom they choose, serves the rail-
roads. and remains passive in the face Of
deliberate violations of law" He says
he will, If elected. run the railroad COM
mission out of office and the people ap-
plaud. He will, he says appoint a COM
mission that will represent the travelling
public and not the railroads. Now, that
| sounds good to the people of a state who
have been helpless at Albany for so many
years. He further promises that he will,
II elected, remove one Kilborn, the head
of the banking department at Albany. and
as a reason he specifies instances OF faith
lessness and dishonesty in trust companies,
banks and building and loan associations
| that have gone unrebuked.
4 20 nIa ho
should be defeated because he is not the
kind of a man to bring about reforms,
much as they are needed; these facts are
set out simply to show why his campaign
is making headway-why the old school
politicians and the corporations are fright
ened half to death because they fear he
may be elected.
| Before the campaign is over the re-
, publicans and those democrats who have
been abusing Hearst and his cause, will
have to deal in facts. They are beginning
| to realize that they can not laugh the
man and the cause he represents out of
court. They may abuse the candidate. but
! they can not put down the issues on which
| he is running. The great mistake the re-
1 publicans made Immediately after the con-
ventions was in assuming that Hearst him
| self was the issue they had to meet.
| TN a sense President Roosevelt's pro-
gram for controlling the corporations is
| on trial in this campaign. It must figure
| in the discussions because candidate
Hughes is simply echoing the presidents
views Mr.. Hughes and the republican
! organization are ready TO go as far as the
president would go in dealing with the cor
porations. and many leaders of public
opinion here believe when the people of the
state have a sober second thought they will
| say that what is good enough for Roose-
| welt is good enough for them The per-
sonality of Roosevelt is likely to figure
more and more in the campaign as the
election approaches Hughes is the presI-
dents candidate. and his defeat would
mean that Hearst had defeated the presi-
dent. No one doubts that such a result
would give wonderful impetus to the
radical cure for corporation abuses which
| Mr.. Hearst advocates. Before the cam
paign ends speakers will be laying great
stress on the Roosevelt issue involved in
the campaign. There will be an appeal TO
stand by the president by supporting his
representative Mr.. Hughes.
1T Is the first campaign in the history Of
New York state politics in which the cor
porations have had to take a back seat
Presumably they prefer Hughes 10 Hearst
but thev are not welcomed I'm either camn-
not openly and perhaps not secretly even
by the republicans. A standing notice In
black-faced type In the newspapers tells
them contributions will not he received
from them Their wrong -doings are the
subject ot discussion at every meeting.
whether republican or Independence league
democrat. At last they realize that whnt-
ever the result OF this election they will
have to prepare to respond to both state
and federal laws for their further regula-
tion and control.
Those democrats who declared at the
Buffalo convention that they would stump
the state for Hughes have. after reflection.
changed their minds William T. Jerome
will not make any speeches for the repub-