The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
BOOM FOR HEARST
Kansas Democrats Seem to Fa-
YOr the Editor.
Certain to Have Large Follow
ing in Convention.
MACHINE OPPOSES HIM.
Rank and File Appear to Re-
gard Him With Favor.
Horton and Smith County Pa.
pers Declare Themselves.

The Democrats are not occupying the
center of the political stage in Kansas
to any great extent, but they are siz-
ing up the various candidates who are
mentioned for the Democratic presiden-
tiaI nomination and discussing them
among themselves.
The boom of w. r. Hearst seems 10
be growing in favor among Kansas
Democrats. and it is very probable that
he will have a strong following in the
Democratic state convention next
spring While being an eastern Demo-
crat, he has given Bryan faithful sup
port both times he has been nominated,
and for this reason he would probably
be acceptable to the Bryan Democrats
The machinery of the Democratic party
in Kansas, however, is in the hands of
the anti-Bryan Democrats, and it is
doubtful if Hearst would be acceptable
to them.
Many of the rank and file of the DEM
ocrats, however, are declaring for
Hearst. Senator Harry Mcmillan led
off in Kansas for Hearst in an inter-
view in the State Journal three months
ago. Since then a considerable number
of other influential Democrats have
come out for Hearst. This week the
Horton Commercial and the smith
I County Journal declare for him. The
former is a straight Democratic paper
/ and the latter is Popullst organ
| CLYDE McManigal. of the Horton Com
merciaI publishes the following en-
dorsement of Hearst:
1.-The Commercial favors the nOmlna-
tion of William Randolph Hearst, OF
New York. for the Democratic nominee
for president. This announcement VIII
not startle the whole political system
nor will it manufacture any soeclal
sentiment in Mr.. HearstS favor, but II
is a fact today that Mr.. Hearst comes
nearer representing the political views
of the Democratic party than any nv
ing man. Mr.. Hearst is great, he IS
wise. he is honest and above all ne IS
/ a representative man. In the first place
Mr.. Hearst is the only proprietor of a
great daily newspaper in the north VINO
Loyalty supported the ticket in 1896 ana
1900 and who fought as hard for the
4 ticket as any man on the ticket. Any
man nominated in 1904 who did not
Loyalty support the ticket, or who even
/ was lCkeWarm. Will be defeated next
year, for the reason that the loyal DEM
ocrats in the states of New York, Con-
necticut and New Jersey will vote the
Socialist Labor ticket. which will give
those states. absolutely essential to
Democratic success, to the Republicans.
Mr. Hearst, who has endeared himself
to the laboring people of the country
by fighting their battles at all times,
can carry every center OIL l1idl
activity in the country. thus assuring
/ Democratic success in the states of
Connecticut. New York, New Jersey.
Delaware, Maryland, Illinois and Cali
fornia, which means Democratic victory
in the nation. and victory is what we
are after. A man who has the business
interests al stake as those possessed by
Mr.. Hearst, whose pay roll amounts to
over S4. 900, 600 year, and who has
never had a controversy with a single
man ever on that pay roll, can not help
being a satisfactory candidate to the
thousands of conservative business men
of the country who did not support the
ticket in the campaigns of 1896 and
1900. He is the very apOtheosiS of anti
trust, the only man in the country who
has ever gone after the t. usts with his
! own money and made them tremble, and
the trust question will be uppermost in
the next campaign, hence this man is
a Democratic platform in himself. He
is the very embodiment of Ieffersonian
and JackSonian Democracy. He is a
man who can hold all the vote that
Bryan got and add to it the vote of
labor regardless of past political affili-
alton. also the vote of thousands OF
men who are in business and whose
business is jeopardized by the cormo-
rant trusts of the country. He is abso-
2 lutely independent of the trusts and the
| money interests of the country, and
) possesses the money personally to give
the party the greatest campaign ever
waged in the nation. and can duplicate
! every dollar of fat fried out of the
trusts by the Republican campaigr
mana gers. He is young, an able ex-
/. ecutive, philanthropist a humani-
l tarian an honest lover of Justice to tht
people. In short. he can win if nomi-
mated"
The Smith County Pioneer extends the
right hand of fellowship to Webb Nc
Nall in his return to the Republican
fold, but it carefully warns him that he
must NOT eXnpPf TO get N he Pc.
publican pie counter too soon.
Ewing Herbert this week publishes ir
his Hiawatha World "a Plain State
ment' of why the county printing OF
: Brown county was taken away from
him and given to the Hiawatha Demo
crat, when the Republicans had a ma
jority of the county commissioners. Her.
!. bert's friends have been claiming hereto
! fore that it was because Herbert is fol
Curtis and that Cy Leland was to blame
|, for it. The Democrat last week sta tee
that the county commissioners took th'
printing away from Herbert because h,
tried to overcharge the county and go
caught at it. Herbert's plain state
ment' this week is in reply to the Dem
ocrat's charges. He does not deny try
. ing to overcharge the county, but h
+ justifes his action by saying that tn
: commissioners wanted to tcut some
thing" and so he charged the count,
. $3.50 for what the law allows at lega
rates about $SU. lie ADMITS that 1t wa
perfectly proper to cut the bill, but says
The bill was not only made in thi
form to get near the lawful rate, afte
: a cut but to satisfy Commissioner VIII
s lis, who wanted TO cut something. Offer
: he cut the Worlds bill clear to the f1eSl
|, when il wasn't put in to be cut, and so
: bill was prepared at a fat rate whicl
he could whittle at without distressins
the printers interested. This bill heIs
: him for time but in July he cut III
: $3.50 bill to SEQ. which was proper am
!; also cut the $50 bill to 1920, whicl
$ was improper