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esting in view of the Hearst candidacy.
The total population of the state in
1900 was 7,726,S94, Of which {, 437 ,202
were in the great city at the mouth of
the Hudson. Counting as in the urban
class all persons who live in communi-
ties of more than 1000 population, the
urban population of the state in 1900
was 7l.2 per cent Of the total popula,
ton. Counting persons who live in COM
munities having more than 5000 popu-
lation, the urban population of the state
total population. This is the strength
Of the Hearst movement, and suggests
its dangers. In state where the rural
and the urban populations are fairly
equally divided, or where the former is
the larger, Hearstism could make no
Roadway. n. /
+ The defeat Of Hearst for governor
will remove him as a factor. in national
politics.; his election will bring him into
the foreground and make him a figure
to be reckoned with in the democratic
ilarly, the election Of Hughes will bring
him into presidential prominence, while
his defeat will retire him into the polit-
ical obscurity from which he SO regents
ly emerged.
'@ South Against Hearst.
. There are signs already Of a revolt
against Hearst in the old south. Not
a newspaper in Baltimore or Richmond
has had a good word to say for him
since the Buffalo convention. The most
and those who refer to it do so as pre-
iminary- to a hearty :denunciation, OF
the man and his methods. :: Prominent
southnrn dam0orats in, the citv TODAY
DECLARE, that their section Of the county,
will never support Hearst for a presi
dental nomination. They may relent
later on, but there is no installing the
fact that the south at present is hos
tile to him.
Broadly speaking. the nomination Of
Hearst seems to have been made equal
ly in obedience to a dominant note il
republican MISREPRESENTATION. In
t 1908, it seems fairly certain, the repub
lican party will be the party Of con
the party of radicalism. The only ques
tion at present unanswered is just how
radical the democracy is to be-. Bryan
would carry it along to more advanced
ground than it occupies at present, but
Hearst would distance Bryan and gc
the farthest possible lengths, and from
this point, Of view the New York cam
paign this year has genuine claim
upon the attention of public men every
where, and in all parties. Tt will be 6
STRAW" Of no mean character.
i Hughes Strongest Man. =.
The New York republicans have. put
forward their very strongest man. Mr.
Hughes stands for his party s best aim!
and traditions. AS counsel for the leg
islative committee which investigated
New York insurance frauds and irregu
larities, he won deserved renown. II
that work he showed courage, skill ani
patriotism Of q high order, and: like
wise the capacity for constructive re
FORM He represents regulation, no.
revolution. the pruning hook, and mo-
the ak at the root Of the tree. =, =,
:Mr. Hearst lis the exact antithesis Of
all this. 6He would overthrow all .o5
the existing order of things. Tie ZEN
courages bin dbblows at! the structure .o1
society," -andy his namey,is linked will
state socialism, in it's most rabid form
Not content|<with the removal Of wha
isrevil in the existing order, he wouli
destroy the order and set up som,
scheme Of his own. His nomination
makes the issue between conservatism
and radicalism sharp, clear and direc
in the greatest state Of the, union, an<
the. result at the polls will have an illu
! minatinng effect all over the country
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