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Show WEW YORH FOLITICS. The New York Nation thinks "the election of Charles Ej Hughes as Governor of New, York by a majority of merely 55,000 cannot afford Republicans much, ground for elation." It points out why many Democrats voted for Hughes, and that thousands and tens of thousands Toted for" Mrv Hearst "because they "were tired of oppression and dishonesty in the management of our huge corporations, and tired of the corrupt alliance between corporations and machine politicians." In its bitterness the Nation. declares that "the warning is unmistakable. If Mr. Hughes fails to do his "utmost to check abuses and redress griev-ances,"Hearst, griev-ances,"Hearst, or one of his kind, will surely have his innings."- a Then it cites some of the men who must be . downed, and says: "Such men as John D. Rockefeller and Henry H. Rogers of the Standard Oil; Thomas F. Ryan and Anthony N. Brady, the manipulators . of traction stocks ; President Charles A. Peabbdy of the Mutual Life-insurance company, and other life insurance officials who are trying to prevent a free vote by policy-holders; such buccaneers in , high" finance as E. H. Harriman, have heretofore-shown little appreciation appre-ciation of popular sentiment. They have acted as if no power on earth had right or might to check th ' ' 'greed of their corporations. To them, also, the vote of Tuesday should carry its lesson." . In considering that, we should say that if any of . the men named are disobeying any laws of this country they ought to be arraigned and tried, but they ought not to be arraigned simply because they have more money than other men, because,, no matter how much money a man may have, until it is estab-. lished that he obtained that money dishonestly, he ought not to be held up to public scorn. - The people should get to understand that corporations corpor-ations are not bad in themselves. They are one of the necessities of modern times. It is to them that laborers can look for wages and the question is so simple that it seems to us that it is not a matter of getting a great reformer to regulate things, but to execute the laws as they stand. . , This world is struggling mostly for money. Men talk about certain other men having more money than their share. Perhaps they have, but most men who talk that way are not angry because certain . other men have been able to obtain fortunes, but they are vexed that they, themselves, had not the capacity or the opportunity to do the same thing.' ' Five men out of every ten, for instance, who cry out against Rockefeller, if placed in charge of his business today would be harder customers to deal with than old Rocky is himself and it would be better bet-ter if accomplished newspapers like the Nation, instead in-stead of hurling indiscriminate anathemas at certain rich men, would point out wherein these men are disobeying the laws and what remedies should be applied to make them stop it. One remedy would be graduated income tax. New York City is the great commercial capital of the United States, but the men in control are either toughs of Tammany or high-bred gamblers of Wall . street. One of the great financiers and one of the . oremost politicians of New York went to St. Louis and obtained the nomination of Judge Parker. If the Judge had kept still he would have been judged by the men who forced his nomination and would not have been beaten. But he would not keep still and every time he opened his mouth up to election day he put his, foot, in it, with the result that he neither got the respectable nor the disreputable vote of New-York, and was snowed under. Generally, ' the appeal there is not to the intelligence and patriotism pa-triotism of the people, but it is to down this or that thief, and the trouble is that the grafters almost outnumber out-number the decent men of the State. |