New-York tribune., 1907-10-09
AN ENHOLY ALLLANCE.

The Tribune has not believed that current pre-
dictions of a combination county ticket be-
tween the local Republican organization and
the Hearst Independence League would be ver!-
fed. Our expectation has been that NJ. Par
sons. after deliberate consideration of the argu-
ments TO which he has been listening. would de-
termine that such alliance would be i'm
proper and impOtlc 1t has TO be admitted
however that circumstances are beginning TO
point strongly to the probability that Repub-
lcan- Hearst combination will be practically
effected at the county conventions tomorrow
night, and therefore, so far we are able to
judge. il is not creating gratuitous presump-
ton for a Republican paper to express in ad-
vance its disapprOval of such an arrangement
The Tribune does emphatically disapproVe OF IL
We are well aware that Republicans, anti
Tammany Democrats and not a few nondescript
organizations of unsavOry character or leader
ship have repeatedly combined In the past to
overthrow the dominant Democratic organiZa-
ton in this city. 1t has been fairly urged on
such occasions that Tammany was the common
enemy and that all elements regularly or tenn
porarily opposed to Tammany could be honor
ably Joined in the task of attempting its defeat
If some OF the so-caIled political bodies engaged
in such an effort personally manipulated
for the benefit of individuals. the men IL con-
troll of them were of small importance in the
scheme of things, they had no national slsnin-
cance. and they were virtually effaced by the
combination in which they were enrolled. The
ituation to-day is very different
1t is not in our Judgment. Objectionable now,
but the reverse for Republicans in their own
districts 10 combine with honest foes of Tam
many under sincere leaders for the election of
reputable men TO the Assembly and the Board
of Aldermen Those who favor the proposed
formal alliance with Hearst of the organization
which is supposed to represent and act for the
entire Republican party of the county say that
this too is local affair; but that IS not the fact
Mr. Hearst's sinister figure looms large in the
contemplated arrangement. There is no con
ceivable possibility of its being subordinated IN
the campaign. If the combination should he
made 1t would arouse the keenest interest in
every nook and corner Of the country. And
what would be the universal description of il?
1t seems TO US that only one fact would be
recognized-namely, that the Republican or
ganization of this county. for the sake of elect
ing a few men TO chiefly minor Offices had
STOPPED to increase the political resources ana
promote the political aims, whatever they may
be, of a man whom Republicans everywhere
through all their agencies OF publicity, have
ioined with their national leader in denouncing
AS Il public enemy and, on the whole, the worst
influence in American life.
Our bellpf is, apart from ulc lOltSOAAs N"4AH'N
erations that in the hroadest view or practl-
cal politics such an alliance would be a blum
der that Il would be taken as an unpar-
donable afYront by a host of Republicans, that
they would Indignantly refuse to 90 TO the
polls next month and that heavy unnecessary
burden would be found TO have been plled on
the party's back next year Mr.. Hearst has
already put state ticket IN the field and is
daily attacking with all the venom at his com
mand the honorable judges who were nom
mated by the Republicans last week for the
Court of Appeals and accepted by the Demo
Gratis On what valid plea can local com
bination with him be made in such a situation
as that and with what force and effect could so
contradictory Il campaign be conducted: We are
not blind to the possibility that If a Republican
Hearst alliance is formed in this county a ma
jOrity Of the men Jointly nominated on the local
ticket may be personally preferable to their
Tammany antagonists, and for that reason de-
serving of support on practical grounds. But If
that should prove to be true of every fusion can
ddate we should still feel that the means by
which such ticket was put in the field were
repugnant and pernicious.