Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-03-16

A Washington correspondent writes.
Democratic national politics ls agair
holding the boards here IN the political
nerve center Of the nation. The so
called leaders Of the party In Wash
in-tou are beginning to line up for
some one candidate. In other words
they are beginning to see daylight and
to know that they must take sides and
they a e getting busy. Many Of them
who have hitherto been opposed to
the Hon. William Randolph Hearst
are beginning to veer around and to
hedge somewhat. The fact that be is
the only candidate so far who has had
any delegates instructed for him leads
to the conclusion that bis friends and
supporters all over the country mean
business and It has thrown a scare
into the Parker men the size Of an
Iowa barn. Another thing that has
helped the Hearst boom In the last
week is the scurrillous, vicious. filthy
persolal attack upon Mr.. Hearst by
the New York Evening Post, the rec
OgnIzed organ Of Wall street and the
trusts, and au emsculated newspaper
that pandors to the prurlent appetites
OF the satiated six hundred. And yet
it has the audacity and the temerlty
and the idiooy to attack the personal
character of William Randolph Hearst.
1t was the first shot from the locker of
the trusts against the only man who
has made them tremble and fear the
wrath Of the great common people of
the country. It has created great in
dignation here and has made Mr..
Hearst many friends who otherwise
wer- against him up to this time. An
other thing that has pleased the poll
ticiaus here and made them friendly
to him and his a naition is the manner
Ia which Mr.. Hearst Is replying to this
dirty attack. The owner Of the New
Y rk Evening Post lie Mr.. Oswald VII.
l,.l, son of the late Henry Willard,
rs'i'oid wrecker and exploiter Of the
Pc e, a genuine buccaneer in high
finance and one of the pioneers in the
game that has ruined more honest,
unsuspectlng people than any game Of
chance or gambling ever started in
this country Mr.. Hearst shows in his
papers that the son, from the stand
of dishonesty, has degenerated. He
refuses to take the risks of the father.
He will not try to rob the entire pub
lie, but is satisfied to rob his own I'M
protected and helpless sister Of her in
heritence from her father, and no man
can conceive of a crime less likely of
detection or lees likely to bring trouble
to the perpetrator thereof than rob
bing ones own sister. Another thing
that has enraged the trust magnates
against Mr.. Hearst and made him
friends here among men who hate the
trust rule ia this eouAtry is his recent
showing up in his New York Evening
Journal OF the manner Of the rich men
of New York who gamble, lose money
and then make the poor laborer pay it
back by reducing bis wages, He
proved that young Reginald Wander
bilt, a drunken young scion of q once
respectable family, whose money was
made from the sweat OF mems brOWs
before be was born, went into one Of
the big gambling houses Of the city Of
New York and lost 5000 0 in three
nights and that the very next day the
wsge 8 Of the men working on the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad, owned and controlled by the
Vanderbilt, we're chopped down al
though the road admitted that its pro.
hts we're increasing. Exposes Of that
kind cause the violent hatred Of MIR.
Hearst held by the trusts and should
rebound to his credit with the peo-
pie Of tue country. If men who were
sired by Satan, damned by Sycorax
and spawned in he'll, viii continue
treir I'll hJ attacks upon bis personal
character, It IL the consensus Of opin-
ian here that he will be nominated on
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