The Nome nugget., 1903-06-20
THE AVAILABILITY OF HEARST.

Republican politicians and editors are busy en- gagged these days in trying to determine who is the strongest man the democrats could select for their presidential candidate. And singular it is that the men to whom they give the most consideration are seldom heard of in the councils of the democracy. Judge Parker Grover Cleveland and Richard Oiney the that the republicans regard as the most important of the available timber in the forests of democracy. and they appear to be obvious of the fact that none of those estimabe gentlemen is taken seriously by the people who most likely to dom mate the convention that will select the democratic standard bearer. If the moncyed interests of the republican party were vouchsafed the privilege of selecting the democratic candidate they would not dispute very long over the merits of Parker Cleve- land and Olncy, and with any of those three the candidate they would not be very enthusiastic in the cause of Theodore Roosevelt, says exchange However. the probability is that William J. Bryan will be conspicuous in the next democratic national convention he was in the last two, and that he will exercise considerable influence upon the various delegations. And at this time the indications are that Mir Bryan will advocate the nomination of William R. Hearst. The most powerful capalstic interests throughout the country arrayed against
 Hearst, and they are intent upon pooh poohng and making light of his prospects. The subsidized press and the cnvous rivals of the young prophet Of yellow journalism studiously avoid giving publicity to the Hearst boom, but it is steadily growing, and it is becoming more apparent every day that it is some thing more than mere newspaper sensation. Mr. Hearst is certainly presidential quantity today, and if he be nominated his chances of election will be much greater than were those of William J. Bryan, who really made remarkable showing despite the full dnner-pail and the magnetism of Mckinley Bryan had never accomplished anything. He was merely job-chaser with wonderful gift of gab. He had long represented the down-trOdden worklngman, with his mouth, but his achievements were eXclus- ively oratorical William R. Hearst has done things He has befriended the masses and he has inspired them with courage and with sense of their rights. Grant that many of his ventures and much of his double-leadcd bowling for advertising purposes; that his newspaper policy is of demagogc tnge and that his trusbusting is largely spectacular and the atrica nevertheless the solidarity of labor hroug bout the country today is mainly due to his persistent efforts. There is no doubt that labor would respond to his call were he nominated for president, but the laborng element does not control the destinies of this country. There is a powerful conservative ee- ment that dstrusts aggressiveness whatever the dl- recon 1t takes, and that is the element which Mir. Hearst would have to concae. His aggressiveness in the cause of labor has the confidence of the workingman but it may have alienated the sentiment of the conservatives who opposed to revolutionary methods and experiments William R. Hearst stands for certain principles which have long been identified with democratic doctrine No other prominent man in the party has conspicuously proved his alcg- lance to those principles and if the issue in the next campaign is to be clearcut one, free from equivoca tion and not to be juggled there is whose availability quickly suggests itself that of William Randolph Hearst.