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Show Hearat'e Platform. In a speech accepting the Democratic nomination for congress in the Eleventh New Yoik district, William Randolph Hearst announced himself aa In favor of public ownership of certain cer-tain public utilities, specifying, aaa nalnral beginning, railroads and telegraphs. tele-graphs. Existing conditions, he declared, de-clared, made It advisable for the government gov-ernment to take poeession of and manage man-age the authracite coal mines for the people's benefit. He favored the election of United Slates senators by popular vote u a means to the end of the deullng with monopolies that "compel the payment of extortionate prices by the helpless public." |