The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-04
Hearst VS.. Hughes.

The una unity with which the press
of New York repndiates Mr.. Hearst IS
candidacy does not, dismay the candi-;
date of Murphy and the Independence
league. Mr.. Hearst will support him
self and will rejoice in the fact that
every slap from the Corporation
press'' will increase the demand for
his own newspapers to see what he
says in reply. The common idea that
Hearst spends great sums of his own
money on his political experiments is
said now to be an error. What Mr..
Hearst spends is the excess cash from
the abnormal sales of his newspapers
while he is. making the welkin ring
with political activity. *Barnum used
to say that the people liked to be hum
bugged. Barnum merely said it and
then went on to give a good show.
Hearst actually does it. He gives him.
self out as a reformer and then makes
the most outrageous bargains with bull
necked Tammanys grafters. He accepts
Mr.. Murphy's nomination and then goes
| out and repudiates Murphy to prove
his independence. He accepts seat
| in congress, given to him by the most
| corrupt political organization the world
has ever known, and then complains
that: congress is corrupt. -
Yet Hearst is a, force that must be
reckoned with in New York. He is
| held up by his eulogists as the greatest
creator of intelligent discomfort Of the
century. It is true, except the creation
part. Hearst does not create it. 1t
exists already. He merely gives it "a
voice, many voices, thru his newspa-
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The state Of New York has been ring:
ridden for years. The public men, from
it's senators to its aldermen, are dis
credited by their too close connection
: with public-service corporations: :The
city of New York is tired Of its money
kings, who steal franchises and enrich
themselves instantly by criminal issues
Of stock. 1t is tired of corporations
like the Brooklyn Rapid Transit com
pany, whose answer to a judicial dec1
sion is the bludgeon for passengers
The newspapers, or most of them, re
}, sent these things but Hearst n1ake
the loudest cutlery, and the people lool
] to him as a sort Of Dowie, who vii
call down fire from heaven to CONSUME
the tvrants. That he will not and can
not: do it is evidenced by his supln
,1stooping to Murphy and Muurphy''s OF
ganization. AS the candidate of tn
:, somewhat fanciful Independence league
>, Hearst had a. chance to appeal to tn
. discomfort he had awakened. But a
the candidate of Murphy he sinks be
low the level Of Odell or any othe
;, machine politician Of the state. Blu
because >-, Hearst has apparently q!
z stroyed himself, let not the manager
n on the other side imagine the disco1
e tent has been destroyed. That remain
n It. is not dependent on Hearst 1t
81 dependent on the continuance of into
h cradle conditions. The nomination {
S Mr.. Hughes is guarantee that the r
publican party recognizes its existen(
and will try to cure it by sane met
d DDS. This is one advantage MIR. Hugh
has over Hearst. That he may no
that advantage to the end, it is. niece
n sary that. the old bosses keep the
" hands off and that Mr. Hughes run tt
=, campaign as he ran the insurance
~ vestigation, without trammel and wit
- out fear.