Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-11-20 | Page 10 | Hearst and His Prospects

ni2Ar.3T Aiu) iii3 rr.ozrzcTS. Mr. Hearst is still the concernment of the press and people of New York. T On the one side they say, he was beaten by; so small a majority that ,he need not be discouraged; it was an off year and he has great grounds. for hope that in the Presidential year he might overcome that majority.- - . - . On the other hand, Harper's "Weekly thinks the Republicans have no occasion to be discouraged because be-cause their plurality was only a little over 60.000, and points' out that in 1902 Mr. Odell got less than 9000 plurality, and that Roosevelt himself, in 1898,1 though fresh with the laurels of San Juan hill, carried car-ried the State by only 18,000. !" 1 Mr. Hearst, in spite of the. inroads made by him upon the labor element of the Republican party, lost bo many Democrats that he turned out to be a . weaker candidate than was Judge Van Wyck eight . years ago. But we think that Mr. Hearst has gained, ; provided he does not break with Tammany Hall, the control of the New York delegation in the next Democratic Dem-ocratic national convention. That is a great thing for a candidate to carry Into" a national convention. New York overshadows , all "other States," and generally the Democratic delegates of ;New York are fighters. JTwo- of them, unassisted, . at the start-nominated Judge Parker two years ago. ' . - V. " Speaking of this, the'dispatches yesterday quoted quot-ed from a retired Democrat of New. York the prediction predic-tion that Mr. Hearst would be a candidate in 1908 and be defeated, but that he would be a candidate in 1912 and be elected. . , ' . .That retired Democrat ' must have been either Belmont or Hill, and he evidently reasoned that the , Socialistic spirit is. on the increase and .will be enough in six years more to elect Mr. Hearst, he in the meantime controlling newspapers that catch the eyes of 10,000,000 people daily. ' . Certain it is that if Mr.; Hearst won nothing else in the late campaign he gave the so-called" conservative con-servative men," -both Republicans and Democrats alike, many a gloomy apprehension for the future.