The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-09
HEARST PLACED
IN NOMINATION
Californian's Name Presented
by D. N. Delmas.
WORK AGAINST THE TRUSTS
ISSUE FOUND TO BE TIE LEAD
ING ONE.

st. Louis. July SIN presenting the
name Of William Randolph Hearst to
the Democratic convention. D. n Del
mas of California spoke as follows:
For the arst time in history Califor-
MA presents as a candidate for the
great Office of chief executive OF the
republic one born and reared upon her
soil She bespealzs your indulgence
while she sets forth the motives which
animate her hopes and the claims
which justify the aspirations of her
son.
DO YOU want as your nominee a man
whose past political career stands as
an assurance of victory in the future?
CaIifornia's candidate is no stranger to
public life. He is today the representa-
tive in congress Of the imperial state
which is now his home. To the real
ization of your hopes the vote of that
state is indispensable. Without New
York it is confessedly idle to look for
victory next November Can he carry
New York? Let the experience OF the
past answer. Less than two years ago
he ran for congress in a district which
the year before had given the Demo-
cratic nominee for mayor OF Greater
New York a majority of only 1900.
That district he carried by more than
5000. Such a majority exceeds by
over 1000 that given in the same dis
trict a few years ago to the learned
and distinguished jurist who was then
elected chief justice of the state; and
it is greater BY nearly 5000 than that
given a year later to the Democratic
candidate for mayor, though he threw
| into the contest that which posterity
II - -
name That majority represented sew
enty-twO out Of every one hundred
! votes cast
An Unprecedented Victory.
Was such a percentage ever before
! equaied? Was such q majority ever
! before attained? Was a triumph so
complete ever before achieved in any
congressional district of New York?
Never. II, instead of running in a
mere district, he who won this unpre-
! cedented victory had been a candidate
! in the whole municipality, he would,
according to this ratio, have carried
the city of New York by majority Of
$50. 600. Had he been running in the
state at large-even conceding to his
adversary the prepOnderance custom
arily claimed by the Republicans in the
rural districts-he would have carried
the state by majority of 10000.
Gentlemen, If it be true that the
| state of New York is Indispensable TO
your success. who is the man that af-
/ fOrds equal guarantees Of his ability to
carry it? VIII you find him in a
| stranger to that state? Or viii you
! find him in either of the men whose
ma jorities our candidate has thus al
ready eclipsed at the polls?
/ Do you want nominee OF proved
and unquestioned fidelity to your
party?
! Where VIII you find one whose party
fealty can claim superiority to his in
hours which tried mems souls? Others
/ have deserted the ship in the days
when idolatrOus allurements were
1 spread forth: others have fOresworn
] the faith of their fathers and have
| FRUSTRATED themselves before the gold
en- calf. His allegiance has not wa
/ vered; his devotion has been marred
/ by no scheme. In prosperity and in
| adversely, in sunshine and in storm.
| through good and evil repute. his De-
! moeracy has remained steadfast and
Constant as the northern star.
| OF whose true fixed and resting quality
| There is no fellow in the armament.
Always a Democrat.
During the five presidential elections
/ which have taken place since he has
reached manhood's estate he has ever
| abandoned personal preferences, sur
| rendered Individual opinions and IN
/ grudgingly acquiesced as soon as the
! partys choice mas been made and its
creed proclaimed Three times did he
support Grover Cleveland, and twice
him who yonder sits and him who. un-
! touched by ephemerai obliquity, mis-
representation and SANDER, VIII be-
| queath to pOsterity a name as pure, a
| character as lofty, and fame as
! bright as any recorded in the annals
Of Democracy
Nor does the fealty Of our candidate
! belong TO the past alone. 1t exists to-
| day in amplitude as complete, in de-
/ votion as absolute as Of yore. Though
/ aspiring 10 this nomination vet if your
| assembled wisdom SHAH deem another
! wOrthier. he Will not be found a dis
/ contented gTuTnbler, sulking in his
tent: still less viii he be found organ
ling fellow deserters into naraudine
! bands Of hostile malcontents. No. and
/ above all viii he not be found workine
FOR the perty's defeat and exulting in
! its overthrow. Even though dis
appointed in his aspirations. he viii re-
main at his post, ready as Of old tc
battle for the cause. and, If not chosen
TO lead as commander of'the fighting
as a private in the ranks.
Do you want for your nominee a mar
Of truly Democratic impulse, one ever
in sympathy with distress. ever. ready
TO stretch out a succOring hand to suf-
fering humanity?
Not here is the place TO recount the
numberless instances in which thos,
traits OF our candidates nature and
disposition have been displayed. Time
would not permit even the enumeration
of countless acts of benefaction-ot
asyiums founded. hospitals established
universities endowed. of private dis
tress relieved, Of the thousands nightly
assisted, FED and sheltered during t:-e
long and bitter winters Of the great
metropolis.
A Cheerful Giver.
Indulge me. then. in one single H.
lustratiOn, and even OF that I need no.
IN person speak TO you who sit under
the constellation Of the lone star. Il
you, representatives OF that great state
whose imperial bounds embrace thu
vast territory stretching between tht
Rio Crande. and the Caribbean sea. Il
YOU I turn and bid you speak for me
When. on that -be-forgotteT
| night of four years ago the breath OF
the hurricane swept over the southern
coast and the waters OF the deep, defy
| ing the laws Of gTavitatiOn, stood lik'
! duid mountains. Threatening TO deiug'
a continent, and in a few brief hours
the metropolis of the gulf was made
a scene of desOiation; when human
sympathy was stricken dumb and hu
man energy stood paralyzed in tn
presence Of the countless dead and tn
| spectacle of universal havoc. who wa