New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
The Man With the Dough

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CT are alight with geam Of hope
Once more the precinct captains Of
tens and the ward captains of hun
dreds axe able to promise their fcl-
lowers that there's q good time com
ing. Tattered political prodigais
foresce The day when they can wear
checked waistcoats and rcd neckties
and rub elbows with the prosperous
in the corridors ci gilded hotels. Mr.
Hearst is returning t. policies.
Never was Il millionaire a more
liberal spender than Mr.. Hearst
when he is out for something for
himself. The golden days of the St.
Louis Convention. where he sought
The Democratic Presidential nomina-
tion in 1904, still bring the tears to
the eyes of gaunt political workers
who know too we'll that sorrows
crown Of sorrow is remembering
happier things.
What man who protited by them
can forget the bands and the parades
and the free and unlimited flow Of
cash in New York City in 1905, when
Hearst was a candidate for Mayor,
or the still more auriferous autumn
of 1906, when he was a candidate for
Governor?
The Tammany boys shared in the
general prosperity in the latter cam
paign. Mr.. Hearst had fought the
Hall when he was running for
Mayor and eartooned Murphy in the
stripes Of the convict; but he made
his peace with the organization the
next year, took the stripes off Muir
ply and accepted the nomination for
Governor at Buffalo from the Boss
after what poor old Tom Grady said
was the dirtiest days work of his
life.
Glorious times were those for the
Wiewam. Mean indeed was the
brave who didn't order new suit OF
clothes and get his meals in one of
the expensive caravansaries that
served as Hearst headquarters. The
defeat of the candidate brought them
to a dismal end. Lean years have
followed in which the faithful had
nothing but memories.
But they are sitting up now,
watching and listening with eager
ewes and ears for the developments
of the new Hearst movement; for
the affluent gentleman who once
made elections a pleasure for those
who worked for him is after another
office. 1t is an Office important
enough to insure the resumption of
his widely known prodigality. 1t is
nothing less than the United States
Senatorship.
Already Mr.. Hearst's political
manager has organized the Political
Union for Progress in Government
ia title which the boys who know
where the votes are will speedily
translate to the Political Union for
Prosperity Among the Panhandlers
They know that Mr.. Hearst never
does things by quarters or halves
when they can be better done by dol
lars. They know that of all the
many rich men who seek office II
this country Hearst is, if not
quite the richest, at least the most
lavish. He has never concealed ms
belief that the way to get what yS-
are after in politics is to pay as yot
enter. Not even defeat has abatee
that belief. If he has lost in the
past it was because, munlticent as ne
was. he was not munificent enough
He can be counted upon to atone fol
that this time.
Mr.. Hearst cannot be elected Sen
ator. Of course, until he is noinl
mated. He cannot be nominated til
he can brush aside other Democratic
candidates. All this will take tlm'
land money, especially money
Money Mr.. Hearst has, in practl
= cally unlimited amounts. Beside
his newspapers, there is the Home
stake mine in North Dakota ant
vast oil and mining properties IL
Mexico. Such wealth will hardly b.
dented by even more unstinted cam
paign expenditures than even Hears
has made in the past.
You may not agree that wealth
ought to be a factor in helping
man to high political preferment
You may not agree that Mr.. Hears
ought to be elected to the Unite
States Senate. But if you are fair
minded individual you are bound t
admit that his candidacy is certainl
going to promote the personal pros
!; perity of vast number of election
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