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Show HEARST PUZZLE TO THE ENGLISH Undecided Whether Democratic Demo-cratic Candidate for Governor Gov-ernor Is Great Anarchist or Extreme Socialist. LONDON, Oct J. Few American, Presidential elections have created such intense interest in Europe as has arisen over the New York State conventions. Hearst is the problem of the moment Men of his type and methods are unfamiliar-as public characters' here and people are all at sea whether to Relieve him the "greatest anarchist on earth," as some cable messages describe him, or a sincere opponent of existing evilx. His projection by almost all writers as an extreme Socialist and the possibility possi-bility of his reaching the White House fill the average Englishman with undisguised undis-guised alarm. "What America thinks today and Europe does tomorrow," has come to be regarded as often true, and the specter of an extreme Socialist directing the destinies of the most powerful republic in the world naturally creates uneasiness. uneasi-ness. Only this week Lloyd George, president of the Board of Trado, nsarlr precipitated a breach in the t'aMnct by a speech notable for its Socialistic tendencies. The Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, is bitterly opposed op-posed to the spread of Socialism, which threatens to wipe out carty lines. Tho middle classes, thanks. to the anti-Socialist campaign now carried on by various papers which freely use anti-Hearst anti-Hearst arguments to make their points, have wakened to the danger with which they are threatened and as a resuir there is likely to be a strong revulsion of filing and reversion toward to-ward extreme Toryisn.'. 1 |