MR HEARST.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 5, 7 January 1908, Page 2

MR HEARST.

The elections in New York, though they have once more restored the prestige and power of Tammany, have at least one shining merit. They have -dealt a crushing blow at Mr Hearst as ■A practical politician, and fully vindi«ated the critics of the unholy *'fusion" between him and the Republicans. His progress is thus aptly summed up by The Times corresponpondent in New York: "Two years ago, when he ran independently, he was nearly elected Mayor, and it is believed in. some quarters that he was elected. Last year, in alliance with Tammany as candidate for Governor, ho was defeated, while all the other candidates on the Democratic ticket were elected. This year, in alliance with the Republican organisation, Mr Hearst's influence seems to have dwindled even more.'^ Nothing could illustrate the sinister influence exerted by Mr Hearst more strikingly than the fact that his opposition should have lent a new lease of life to Tammany Hall.

The strange and unholy "fusion "between Mr Hearst and the Republicans during the electioneering campaign recently prompted The Times to recall the tremendous philippic delivered against the editor of th« Journal by Mr Root on behalf of the President, arid endorsed by the Republican Party. Mr Hearst retorted by cabling a violently abusive letter to The Times of Saturday last, and .followed ifc up by a speech to the IrishAmericans on Saturday night in which lie ridiculed the notion that England's .friendship for America was sincere. Before he had retired permanently from politics—this announcement is unfortunately far too good to be true —he thought that if ever he were elected President he would send to the Court of St. James's a good Irish.!&merican, " who would know English well, and would not be wined and -dinetl and feted and jollied into forgetting the real interests of the people he was seat abroad to represent. 1' Mr Hearst's sudden and violent attempt to conciliate the Irish vote, -while simultaneously assailing Tammany does not argue complete confidents in his Republican allies. 'We may further note that his chief cause of wrath against The Times was the assertion of the New York correspondent that he had instigated the war with Spain. This he indignantly denied. But "X.," writing to Tuesday's Times, points out that the charge was made totiden verbis in a book published in America in 1901. by as professed' admirer of "yellow" Press methods.