The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-01
fellow Journalist Hasn't Ghost
of a Chance of Being
Seated Mayor.
DIFFERENT AUTHORITIES
DODGE RESPONSIBILITY
Hearst Is Spending Fabulous
Sums to Prove Mcclellan
Was Defeated.


here III New York as to whether the
recent action by the State Legislature
foreshadows an opening of the much
discussed ballot boxes and the seating
of William r. Hearst in the Mayor s
chair instead of Col. George b. Me
eddy is that Hearst hasn' the
ghost of chance of being seated
Mayor, and that in the event OF
the present incumbent growing tired
uf the abuse and the attacks which
have been heaped upon him as a
minority Mayor, and deciding TO
resign ss president of the Board of
VIII succeed him.
The point has been made that Con
gresham Hearst now has the support
OF the Republican organization. if the
voice of Gov Hughes can be said to
he the voice of the Republican
organization, as well AS the support
Of the Democratic organization, if the
voice of Lender Murphy of Tammany
hail can be said TO be the voice of the
Democratic organization, and that with
these powerful factors behind him Nh
Hearst ought not TO find any difficulty
in getting the ballot boxes open and
in having a few of the friends of
Mayor Mcclellan. who are alleged to
have counted him in on election day,
sent to Jail for their election offenses.
But the fact should also be remem.
bcrcd that the Court of Appeals of
the State of New York, is the
power which has the final say in
this matter, and the court of APP.
peaIs has never appeared willing to
90 out of It's way to help Mr., Hearst
read his title clear TO the office of
Mayor. Up to the present time the
method or procedure has been some
thing Ike this:
Tossing the Case Around.
Court of Appeals. The Court OF APP
peals says go to the Attorney General.
The Attorney -Gcacral and other emi.
nent legal authorities say 90 10 the
Legislature. The members of the
Legislature, meanwhile. are saving go
TO the courts. A more perfect game
of ring around the rosy polltically--a
more perfect example of a disposition
To dodge responsibility it would be
hard 10 find,
But even the friends of Mr.. Hearst
arc now disposed. in large measure,
at least, 10 accept the inevitable
Perhaps it would be more accurate to
say that they fear that the future
bolds for Mr.. Hearst and his followers
the State Legislature says "Open the
b boxes and see who really was
elected, y that minute the question Of
tho constitutionslity of such legisla.
,lnn VIII be called into question And
some of the best lawyers in the
city who have always supported Mr.
Hearst in his fights do not hesitate
to say that while the. previous State
Legislature. and Attorney.General
Mayor might have allowed the
opening of the boxes, the President,
State Legislature and Attorney
General Jackson are without lurisdic.
tion in the matter All of which,
may not be ethics, may not he com,
mon sense, but it would appear TO be
politics and law, as politics and law
are understood here in the Empire
State And all of which would make
II appear as though Mcclellan and not
Hearst would be Mayor for the next
two years and half.
Hearst's Staying Qualities.
Meanwhile Mr. Hearst appears 10
bc possessed Of unusual STAYING quail
ties from the view point of the
politicians, For instance, his right
hand man, The editor OF his Evening
Journal, Arthur Brisbane, at the re-
cent banquet of the New York Press
club, at which Gov, Hughes was the
guest of honor, openly declared that
Mr.. Hearst had already expended over
100000 of his Own money, and was
willing 10 spend as much more, ii
necessary, 10 prove that Mcclellan
was not elected. Brisbane declared
that the paramount issue of the times
was whether the citizens of New
York were IN reality mice or men. The
ceptlng the Brisbane interpretations
of the situation at their face value
Mayor Mcclellan has physical posses.
sion of the office. has unlimited
money 20 bring law suits, and the
Court of Appeals has generally beer
found 10 be conservative In its de-
cisions. Hence when things are lost
IN forest OF lawsuits and an under.
brush Of special pleadings, it is diff
seult to see what the average man can
do 10 rectify the situation. And
Mr.. Mcclellan s lawyers will not be
any kind of lawyers at all II they
cInnct dig up enough law 10 keep
the courts busy for the next two
years. Even Albert S. Patrick from
knowledge of laws and procedure g.
Stavc of execution 81 twice that
length of time, and h.. was almost
without friends and money.
M'clellan's Popularity Waning.
But though in a legal sense Hearst
has not been able 10 break down the
legal defences erected by his opponent,
Mcclellan, IN q practical sort OF way.
he has gone a long ways toward
breaking down Mcclellan MS n
POPULAR figure. Even were tbhe Mayor
spotless and pure politically. and too
much cannot be expected from
man who has lived all his life in
an atmosphere of Tammany hall,
and who has held Office for the last
fifteen or twenty years by virtue of
the effective work of Tammany thugs
and plug uglies, a man who, while not
perhaps participating personally in any
of the political robbery, must have
known something of the crooked
work going on nj the time that he was
elected president of the Board of
Aldermen and "a member of Congress
over and over again, representing the
gas house districts, in many respects
the worst in the city-while too
much cannot be expected from this
kind Of men, nevertheless if Nc
Clellau had been far better man and
a far greater mau than he really is hs