The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-26
AFRAsp or FEDERAL
MEoDLlNo m NEW YORK
New Orleans States.)

The New York Press is a stalwart
Republican newspaper and one that
believes the end justifies the means
In the matter OF securing party sue
cess In elections, but 1t regards the
movement to dragon the state with
President Rooseyelt's cabinet officers
with much apprehension. for 1t fears
that the results will prove disastrous
rather than beneficial to the canvass
now being made; hence II makes bold
to speak out in meeting In this fash
lon:
What's the sense Of Juggling Roots
apd Cannons and Cortelyous and
Shaws and others into this state cam
paign? In this situation they are of
no use. The people won't listen to
what they have to say, for they won't
talk about the things the voters want
discussed and the things they are 60
Ing to vote on.
The issue in this state for all the
million and three-Quarters of voting
citizens Is what will Hearst do or
what will Hughes do II he is elected
governor, and what will he do with
affairs pertaining strictly to New
York. Nothing else counts.
There has been too much OF a
conventional campaign by the Repub.
licans already. This isn't a conven-
tional campaign. Wed better look
sharp or we may not have a ccnyen-
tional election"
This frankness may not be relished
at the White House in Washington,
but 1t Is reasonable to assume that
the Press has a much better under
standing Of the situation In the state
OF New York and the requirements
OF the Republican campaign there
than the President and his advisers
at the national capitol. The reports
sent out from New York have led the
country to believe that ali the Re
publican managers have to do there
Is to gather in the conservative Demo
Gratis who are boiling by the thous.
ands add them to all the Republican
voters who are being held in line by
conventional campaign methods and
with perfect ease. The Press with
brutal frankness, explodes these rosy
stories by earnestly protesting that
the problem of the campaign is not
to win the conservative Democrats,
but to get back the radical Republi-
cans who have bolted to Hearst, and
1t adds: Don't the party managers
know that If the radical Republicans
are not recalled from their wander
1ngs those losses will outnumber the
gains of conservative Democrats five
to one"
Therefore the Press, evidently
alarmed by the situation, earnestly
advises Chairman Woodruff to "shoo"
away the Roots, Tafts, Cannons and
Shaws, and wake up to the fact that
they will make no more votes for
Hughes than will Pat MoCarren and
other alleged opponents OF Hearst
whom they are depending on to Sc
cure the support of conservative
Democrats for the republican state
ticket
The candid talk of the Press is H.
Eliminating when the fact Is consid-
cred that the New York World,
Times, Sun and Herald have been
asserting. evidently with an eye to
the effect it would have on the vote
of the city, that at least 200, 900 Demo
Gratis had bolted the Hearst ticket and
would vote for Hughes and assist in
electing him by an immense majority.
When a Republican paper Of the
standing Of the New York Press as
a party organ frankly admits that
the boiling going on Is largely among
the Republicans. 1t Is evident that
somebody Is guilty of wild miscalcu-
lation of the popular drift, the direc-
ton Of which must be determined by
| the count Of the votes.