The San Francisco call., 1904-04-19
PERSONAL ISSUES.

TT HE Democratic managers in New York have their
/ pockets stuffed with personal attacks the Pres-
dent While the different factions
matters of party policy they all that abuse of the
President is party expediency Among the preliminary
reports idea is said be all subdivisions
The supporters of Hearst and of Parker the clans
Tammany and the all agree that the President
be made odious and painted black if brush pot
can do it.
Oddly enough they propose do this by contrasting
him with Mckinley They think of declaring that
the death of Mckinley the Republican party has riot
with Roosevelt at the head of the disturbance and that
has failed carry the promise that McKnleys poll
cies should be continued This is interesting 1t is
pledge that Mckinley had lived the Democratic party
would have died in his arms passing glorious
rection in Republcanism Or it implies that his poll
had survived the Democracy would now be support
ing his successor.
One is at loss characterize politics of that kind
No President since Lincoln has been much abused for
his policies in his lifetime as Mckinley Mr. Hearst is
leading candidate for the Presidential nomination This
candidate said in his a few months before McKn
es assassination "The President of the United States
is commander chief OF the army and navy of the
United States The control the present command
ernchief OF the and navy of the United States
1t be it may be far, but winter
the American peasant will walk by window of the
White House 1t will have been some hard winter
winter with the coal trust with the gas trust
with the beef trust with clothing
white, fat hand will toss its of the window
"A trust can do no wrong. Then the commander-in-
chief of the army and navy will issue procamations,
to the protection of property and other procamatons
he VIII call out his and his and there will be
awful bloody quarrel between the
and the peasants"
Continuing in the editorial, Mr.. Hearst drew
picture of the beginning of the French revolution closing
with this: In few years all the peasants in France
were eating, but the King dead So when hint
that this republic is in danger just remember what
short time interviewed between the King alive and
drinking and the King dead and the peasants all eating
Now with amazing effrontery the party whose be-
half that incendary and murderous stuff published
proposes to make personal issue against Roosevelt for
carrying the policy of his predecessor whose
assassination invited by its leading newspaper or
gans the property of candidate for its nomination.
The policy of Mckinley a protective tariff, with
such reciprocity would promote and destroy our
domestic industries; it for sthmian canal pre-
ferrng the Panama the complications could be
cleared away; for navy adequate the needs of
nation with the longest line in the world and
with the greatest amount of property exposed
quest in cities that pe for such influence as
this republic may egtimatey have in the politics of the
world, without entangling alliances
All of these have been projected and promoted faith
fully b. President Roosevelt The greatest economic
feature of them all is the canal He has gone forward
the Mckinley lne and has the canal ready for
ton, though opposed every step by the Democratic
leaders. He has instituted and suits against every
trust that has been lmpeached tor illegal1ty Con-
gres put into his hands fund for that purpose amount
ing half million BY the expenditure of only $25 900
of that he has broken the back of the trusts and
through the has secured line of decisions that
wall in the whole system of combination of capital set
bounds to it. and arrest at the line where popular
rights begin
1t will be spectacle gods and men to see Hearst
and Hill crocodiling Mckinley, and weeping that
his policies have been carried out remembering that
Hill accused him of destroying the constitutions and
Hearst said of him: AcKnleys speech proves that at
the head of this nation there dull brain 1t milk
and water BRAIN Within it there is conception of the
exalted station held by chosen lead great ma
ton The brain that plotted planned and begged for the
place. the brain that gladly accepted the advice money
and domination of a Hanna to creep into the White
House. conceive of any mental operations supe
rior to the plotting planning and submissive order"
Read that and then the size of these men who
backwashing Roosevelt for not they say follow
ing in McKnley's footsteps!