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Show WHY HEARST WAS BEATEN. From East to "West a terrible effort is being made by alTtthe newspapers to explain why Mr. Hearst was defeated in New York and why so many Democrats Demo-crats below him on the ticket were elected. Some charge the trouble to" Hearst's appeals to the discontented to vote for him. Some charge that Hearst does not represent any real. Democracy and that for him, to go around the country electioneering electioneer-ing in palace cars, with a hired band to campaign with, and then to devote his. speeches to those who are oppressed by monopolies, is too paradoxical for the average voter to stand. : N The fact is, New York Democracy, is now, and has been for several years, split wide apart in two factions. The men that opposed Mr. Hearst in the Democratic party opposed ' Mr. Bryan, both ' in 1896 and 1900. . They are the same men that got on top two years ago and nominated Mr. Parker. Very. many of the men that voted for Mr. Hearst this year scratched Judge Parker two years aero or kept away from the polls. One great misforture of the Democracy in New York is that whatever their promises may be in the campaign, Tammany is still Democratic and Tammany Tam-many rules New York City, and honest men declare they never get their dues. Mr. Hearst has not half the right to be discouraged discour-aged that Judge Parker had, from the vote of the same State two years ago. We think it would be a great misfortune if he were to be elected Governor, but that he has tremendous weight in New. York, nobody, no-body, in the world can deny. |