WI Hearst wins 1905 NYC Mayoral Election

[wilcoxchar]

William Randolph Hearst ran on the Municipal Ownership League against the Tammany-dominated Democrats for the NYC mayor's election in 1905. He lost by a recorded 3,000 vote margin.

So what if Hearst wins and becomes mayor of New York? Does this propel him to another run for the presidency in 1908 or 1912? What happens with the Municipal Ownership League?

 

[David T]

FWIW, since New York City was consolidated in 1898, not a single mayor of the city has ever been elected to state or national office. I don't think Hearst would be an exception. If he ran for governor of New York the next year, he would lose to Charles Evans Hughes as he did in OTL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_state_election,_1906 Elihu Root would make the same devastating speech against him, blaming him for McKinley's assassination: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/cFvOj9VkoqQ/URgSsN-dI4YJ

Nor does Mayor Hearst have any chance of getting the Democratic nomination for president in 1908. The conservatives in the party hated him, and the radicals preferred Bryan.