Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-04-01
LOOK OUT FOR HEARST.

Whilst others are trying to make up
their minds as to whether it will be
Parker, or German. or Cleveland, or
Gray, or Olney, or Fitz Lee, Mr.. VIM.
R. Hearst Is going right along saving
wood and getting the delegates. This
is evidenced right here ia Staunton. A
Hearst club which we understand is
composed of most excellent material
and numbers about 200 has already
been formed, and is at work. Can a
club for any of the above named gen.
| tleman be formed here? If SO why
are not their admirers at work 1t
has been argued that all this is caused
by Hearst putting up money for his
nomination. Has anybody seen his
money? Is it any worse for him to
put up money for himself than for
John P. Morgan to put it up for him,
or we may mention the late Marcus A.
Hanna? Mr.. Morgan, we hear, would
turn loose a barrel for MI. Cleveland, land
Mr.. Hanna did turn loose a barrel for
Mr.. Mckinley not long ago. If the use
of money therefore is criminal IN such
cases, some very great persons in this
country should take to the woods. Mr..
Roosevelt is leaving no stone unturned
to secure bis nomination, why should
Mr.. Hearst unless Mr.. Hearst has no
right to be candidate. The only way
to get rid of Mr.. Hearst in the next
National convention is to beat him
Let this be understood. He is in the
race with both feet, and on the day the
National convention meets at st.
Louis he will be still more in evi
dence, and whilst persons may sit
around and talk. yet if they do not
want to see him nominated they must
do something more than that. We do
not profess any peculiar vision, but
unless there is something done to stop
this Hearst boom we see no reason why
he will not be nominated on the first
ballot. The objections to him had as
well be known now, and principally
those we have heard urged are as fol-
lows: That he if not man of sufi-
Gent ability. Well he may not be, but
he is the most successful newspaper
man in the United States, and outside
of few others, his newspapers are the
only ones in the United States that are
not owned and operated by syndicates
and trusts. He is TOO young we hear.
He is fortY-one years old, Mr.. Roose-
welt is only forty-three. He has never
been in public life. He is now a mem
Der of Congress. and we sometimes
think the less of public life man sees
the better be is. Assaults have been
made on his character. Have not as
saults been made On the character OF
other aspirants for that Office, to wit,
James 6. Blaine and Grover Cleve.
land? He edits Yellow Journals
we are told. Who tells you this2 You
must get that from rival newspapers.
He poses as the candidate of the
working man. Is it not equally as
commendable to do so as to be the
acknowledged candidate of the Trusts!
He is backed by VIM. j. Bryan others
say. Well OF course that is a grave
ofense if true, that is crime of the
deepest dye, in some eyes, but only we
think In those eyes which cannot tell
the difference between political deem
cy and political peridy. in those eyes
which show horror at the sight of a
Y elbow Journal, but which gloat and
sparkle over certain y elbow metal. II
this be Mr.. Hearst's greatest offense
there are millions who will forgive
him for it.
These are some of the queries about
and these are some of the answers now
made to the candidacy of Mr.. Hearst.
Let those objections be what they may.
the candidacy exists and if there are
those who do not believe it they will
wake up soon to deep and bitter disap-
pointment.