The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-27
GOTHAM IS AMAZED
FUSION OF HEARST LEAGUE AND
 REPUBLICANS SURPRISING.
Alliance Could Have N0 Effect on The National Campaign And The
 Local Advantages Are in- yfnfhle.

AMC NHthOmHI O0mpMEk0 lAu0 INB Local Advantages Are in-
 visible.
 New York special to The Chicago Tri- bune says: politics frequently has been responsible for strange ed-fellows, but never have there been more peculiar chums than those thrown together by the recent political miscegenatfon in New York. The fusion is extended and 1t has received the sanction of the elder statesmen in the curious con glomeration which goes under the i name of the Republican party in Man haitian. This fusion. which might win at the polls. since stranger 1rthings have happened in politics. hardly will achieve success with the appreciation of the substantial people who have made New York so great.
 Just remember, if you please. that Hearst and Hughes were bitter enemies but short year ago. Then conceive, if you can. that the chairman of the Republican committee in New York has deliberately made fusion with the Hearst forces. This fusion involves the nomination of Max Ihmsen, the political manager of MT. Hearst and his so-call- ed Independence league" as the com binatfon candidate for sheriff.
 Strange Reversal of Form. Less than a year ago MT. Ihmsen was actively engaged in backing up his assertion that Mir. Hughes was a candi- date of the corporations, and there fore was a wholly unfit man for the office of governor. Hughes was tfre only man elected on the Republican | ticket and Hearst was the only man defeated on Nhe democratic ticket This result was reached largely by the personal interference of President Roosevelt, who sent his secretary of state over to New York to voice his antagonism to Hearst and to Hearst's methods.
 Denounced almost openly by the President, charged in aapublic speech by Secretary Root with some share of the responsibility for the murder of President Mckinley, beaten by nearly 60,000 votes when his more obscure party associates were triumphant, it iB the marvel of marveis from political l standpoint that William Randolph Hearst should continue to exist as a political quantity. That he does live and that he still hes an ability to command the votes of his fellow citi- gems. that he is still force to be reckoned with, is shown by the fact that the personal political organiza- ton he created and continued has been strong enough to dictate a basis of fusion with the regular republican or kdniIdLlOn m WHICH the TeDuOllCHnH are distinctly overshadowed.
 Lesson of MayOralty Fight.
 To understand the strange political combination which has put New York ''on the blink" as they say in the cur rent insular vernacular it Is necessary to turn back a page or two in the his tory of American politics. Few people have patience with figures, and com parisons are inevitably odious, yet one cannot hnna tn annr0rtofn ha t- fest incongruity of this most recent political alliance unless the natural logic of results at the polls is constant ly borne in mind.
 Most people are in the habit of esti- mating MT Hearsts political perform ances by the result of his fight against I Mcclellan. That was a battle which was won and lost through the political stupidity of an antagonist. Mcclellan was declared elected Mayor and Hearst was defeated by a marrow margin. The real hero of the campaign. the actual victor of the fight, was MT. Wins the Republican candidate for Mayor. He developed unexpected strength, in spite of the fact that his age was against him, The results show that if Twins had been honestly presented and sup ported by the regular Republican or- ganization in New York he surely would have been elected.
 MOtlve or Alliance Not Clear.
 Just why MT. Parsons, the local Re- publican Chairman, should have given his sanction to a combination with the Hearst forces no one can imagine The election this fall is not important The Mayor holds over. and so does the Gov ernor. Whatever may happen in this Borough and in the rest of Greater New York. there can be no effect on national politics. Members of the Leg Tel I0 ar fA hA aIn and their choosing may have a great deal to do with the successor to Sena- tor Platt. That successor some day may be Theodore Roosevelt, because he has always had 1t in mind after he concluded his term as President to be a Senator from New York.
 The only thing which politicians are unable to understand is why Chair man Parsons consented to a combina- ton with the Hearst people The h. dependence League, which MT. Hearst organized and promoted. cast few votes in the last election. MT. Hearst was defeated, although every other man on his own ticket was elected. According to the ordinary theories of practical politics, he must have been the one man in all of New York who was lack ing In political strength.
 Deal Surprises Metropolis.
 Taking this as guide, the Indepen- QenCe League was ScafCeiy worth con sidering from a political standpoint. Mir. Hearst was personally offensive to the national administration. He was bitterly denounced by Secretary Root in a speech which was supposed to have been the turning point in the last campaign. There was really no man in the Democratic or in the indepen- dent camp who was farther away from Republicanism than William Randolph Hearst In spite of that and in face of the fact that he represents opposition to the Republican national administra- tion, first under Mckinley and then un- der Roosevelt, he and his Independence League have been selected by the Re- publican County Chairman as the ben eficiaries of political deal which has astonished the people of New York
 There is absolutely no reason why a fusion of this kind should be carried through at the present time. The Re- pubIlcans have never hoped to carry the County of New York. They never have sought to elect sheriff or any other of the County officers. Tn the present deal the Republican party management has pledged itself to sup port Max Ihmsen, who was once a newspaper correspondent In the employ of MT. Hearst, and who of later years haR haen the Hearst manager.