Show HEARST CAN FIGHT lp we look forward with the greatest interest and wo believe all our readers will too to the news of the fight which william randolph hearst is waging on tammany As things look now we should not be in the least surprised in fact wo expect to seo hearst win As yet tammany has made no reply to He arsta charges while the newspaperman has bis troops captured the ballot boxes and has in tact rushed tammany right into tho campaign before it has had time to draw albreath thai public sentiment in new york is on the side of hearst ia plainly shown by the coming ot ivans his republican rival into his camp he will aidt foe him in the capacity oft counsel the on ly move tammany has yet made in the fight though by the time this is read more may be known is to retain the legal services of parker Sli echan and hatch you may possibly remember the patronymic its present possessor pleads guilty to having had once a short presidential pipe dream the bringing ot these two men into the fight alone gives it a certain interest there arc two classes 0 people who talk about hearst one class calls him a genius of the highest water the other calls him a degenerate of the lowest type tho wise man when be hears these opinions at says that hearst is neither the fact that by inheritance he is a man of wealth and by inclination a champion of the plain people has set many wealthy men not only the corporation po ration men who would suffer by his municipal ownership theories against him ho has alao estranged many 0 o the plain people who cannot forge j hia wealth asiain emr has one quality it brems to us is foreign to moat and despised by many americans As the outcome of a vivid imagination he has an eye to dramatic effect many men have it most vain men have it it is common in europe but in the american make up it seems to he lacking we thought we once saw a glimpse of it when we we read of Rockefeller 1 turning over a big philanthropic gift in actual cash but that was a glimpse only this characteristic however hearst has and the dramatic effect generally centers upon hearst himself in the quickness of bis campaign on tammany we see it at its best in the bold full page announcement no in his papers hearst Is elected with his picture but with no word of Tamm anys apparent majority wo aee it at its worst we will see a fine example of it it we see hearst the victor in bis war on tammany As mayor of new york it is said hearst will be a failure we know not why be should of the charge that he has no brains himself but only the wherewithal to buy the service of others brains it la only necessary to say that it takes brains to buy brains you cannot buy oven gaoa mining stocks with money alone you roust use some discrimination K hearst ahsu has succeeded so far there ja na reason why ho should fall down when he becomes mayor of new york his lawyers aiu see that his plans to utilities and get full value borall charters afen do not fall tor want ot legal talent he himself will bear himself with all cpr may not a man in that position look with more chance ot success upon ho democratic presidential nomination than a newspaperman 0 o was only a congress 1 man may make minor breaks but we believe be will conduct himself as one in the public eye and whua wedo hot go so far aa be does in his ideas as to tho functions ot the municipality we believe that ho will increase liis followers and disciples and that the only obstacle outside of himself he has to fear is the failure of his plans out in practice it that takes place disaster ablo win overtake his political career |