This is for a timeline I am working on, and I will cite you guys in the work. The basic idea is that enough of the fraud is discovered, or the election results are overturned, allowing for William Hearst to become Mayor of New York City. What I do not know is how he would have governed. Would he be able to defeat Tammany Hall? Would he be popular? Would he be effective?
Charles Evan Hughes is another important figure. Hearst had wanted to run him for Mayor of New York in 1905, but he refused. Hearst has established his Independence Party in order to contest elections in New York. Hughes is promised by Hearst that if he joins the Independence Party, he will have his support for the Governership of New York. Would he do so?
Assuming these two major victories for the party, would it be able to have an effective national presence if promoted through William Hearst's Newspaper Empire?