The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-23
WM. RANDOLPH HEARST
THE LOGICAL AND SERIOUS OPPONENT OF THEODORE
ROOSEVELT
As Viewed by Murat Halstead Brilliant Veteran Republican
Journalist
Journalist
Concluded from last week. j

The Importance of Mr.. Hearst in
the presidential year was generally
overlooked until thecampaign OF. 1904
was fairly opened by spontaneous
movements of the people. The nations
al nominating convention will, ac-
cording to precedents. be held in June
and July next year. the party in pow
er moving tirsi; that is to say, Roose-
yelt will be placed formally in the
field about nine months from this
time, and the opposition less than ten
months. One year from this date
the armies will be arrayed, and they
will be armies with banners.
Those who have been giving at
ttention to the DRIFT OF affairs have for
some time beet largely Of the opinion
that the main question before the
people is whether Roosevelt
shall be elected or Soc ialism
should be inaugurated. The
word used is as itsllould be, Socialism,
not Anarchy. Mr. Hearst is well
e.c g Bic &c &c ST.. .ta.ais o.si. purposes and
position with Il frankness and preci-
sion unusual in political and social
discussiod. 1t is not as well under
stood as 1t should be that he is a
ready and powerful writer, and that
he has had a great deal to say in adj
dresses and letters. Naturally, lie
was careful to give his views full force
In the letter accepting the nomina-
tion for congress in a democratic
district which he carried largely. He
favored government ownership OF
railroads and tclegraphs as objects as
legitimate as the postal service.
We quote him In his signed editor
ialS, pubic speeches and letters, with
out annexation or discussion. The
object is not debate, but to show the
advance Of the views Of Mr.. Hearst
and the temper and color OF his mind
in grasping public policy or rejecting
the principles with which lie is not
in agreement. He says:
My interest is in the average
citizen, that lie may secure fair
share Of the advantages of pros
perity. The Democratic
man must join with the laboring
citizen, the backbone Of the ma
tion. do not seek to divide the
nation into classes. \ The
editors personal success should
be contingent on the faithfulness
Of his leadership. Pros
perity can not last il its fruits
are to be more and more absorbed
| by tariff protected trusts and
trusts that protect themselves
by killing competition"
The trusts and the republican
party are alliad, as everybody
knows
''If the democrats would sue
ceed, they must establish with
| labor the relationship which the
republicans have established with
the trusts.
| There Gati not be good govern
ment or enduring prosperity while
our republic is ruled by it's money
and not its manhood.
ssIt is democratic mission to
war on that hateful spirit OF
| sectionalism which for political
would array one part of the Amer
lean people against the other.
Recent attempts to revive old en-
] mites. to stir un race hatred and
unsettle peaceful social conditions
in the South, have had the effect
OF revealing a powerful Northern
sentiment which rebukes those
disturbing attempts and demands
that politicians leave the South
while it works out in it's ownSway
the solution of the race problem. y
The coal trust is perfect spe-
cimen Of the criminal trust. ;,
Trades unionism is the seed