Arizona republican., 1904-02-27
Troublesome William Hearst.

The signs multiply that the perSua- Stye methods employed by MT. Hearsts aEtute financial managers are bearing fEuit-delegates are being roped and branded in many states. As was to be expected, the Hearst infection spreads more rapidly in some sections than others. Thus, in Arizona the boom IS % far confined pretty closely to the patriots originally "converted' by the aforesaid financial managers, but this may be due to our climate. which is not conducive to the spread of contagion. In some of the states however, Hearst and Bryan are the whole thing, and it now looks as though these two states men may, by combining their forces at St Louis, succeed in naming the candidate. But the Hearst band wagon does not evoke the cheers everywhere that it should, considering the reason ably generous financial outlay and the personal merits of the candidate. In Kentucky, for example, the Old-line democracy, led by Henry Watterson, is bowling like a timber wolf. Hear Marse Henry in his CouTier-Journai:
 MT. Bryan is nothing to him (Col. Watterson). Neither is Governor Beck ham. Still less is that curious emana- ton. that mysterious shade of modern journalism, that fantastic figure of speech which proposes to rescue the country from the plutocracy by buying is outright known on the billboards as William Randolph Hearst. but person ally unknown even to the Tammany constituency, which elected him to the present congress, and equally a strang- CT to his colleagues in the house of which. though an aspirant for the presidency, he is a silent member.
 MT. Bryan is making common cause with Mir. Hearst, BeCkham is making common cause with MT. Bryan. All three expect to control Kentucky's rep resentative5 in the national democratic convention to their own ends. As to Hr. Bryan and Mr. Hearst, their ends are as plain as the placard on the wall. MT. Bryan looks to keep himself alive public force at a cost of the loss of the third presidential election of the democratic party. MT. Hearst, in any event. will get his moneys worth of advertising. What Governor Beckham expects to gain by a return to the evil passions of 1898 and 1899 and the em- bittered factionism of 1895 and 1896, we know not. It is not the intention of the Courier JcuTnal to make any war on the governor, nor shall it be its pur- pose to raise a hand against his plan of sending a BryanHearst delegation Co the national convention.
 The Hearst barrel is already on tap tn Kentucky. The governors machine iS reasonably intact. We see no reason Why the combination should not prove all powerful. There is not likely to be anybody to resist it. Truth to say, if we are 10 lose another presidential election through the agency of MT, Bryan, let Mir Bryan and his friends carry the whole responsibility. In q word. if the democratic party has not within itself saving grace to save it. self, TO individual or newspaper viii suffice to save it.
 "Bryan's motives are as plain to he seen as Mir. Hearst's millions. Can any one with thimbleful of knowledge of human nature seriously belive that MT Bryan wants his party to win a presidential election. except under his his own leadership when he has lost two elections in succession? Does any sane democrat believe that MT. Hearst, person unknown even to his constituency and his colleagues with Cut word or act in the public life of his country, past or present, that can be shown to be his to commend him, could by any possibility be elected president of the United States?
 "But there is the Hearst barre. There Is the Bryan propaganda and there stands at least a governor of Kentucky to order, through the organ ized channels to which he owes his place. that moral weight and political influence of the state shall he thrown on the side of this impossible. pre- pestCrous alliance of moonshine and money once again to cost the brave b0s credulous democracy of the union presidential election.
 "st is lamentable. yet there seems. no Assp fer it. All the Courier-JournaI can do. all it means to do is to enter e protest. Having lived through the fast ten years of disaster. it can fairly hope to live through the next. But after these evils have come to pass what availeth its protest? Tn case they do we shall have four years more of Mir. Bryan and MT. Hearst, and if tAe party survives at the end of them precisely the same claims and preten- sions which now seek to abuse it's confidence and to overreach it's judg- ment"
 No properly constituted republican can fail to sympathize with the un- fortunate democracy in it's present plight. Col. Watterson fails to do jus 
 uce to Mir. Hearst, however. Mir. Hearst may be unknown to his con- stituency. and he may be unknown to his party, but there will be no com bisint on that score while his barrel remains on tap. Indeed. the complaint in Arizona, we understand, is not that &y Hearst himself is modest and un- kaown, but there would be more satis-