Bisbee daily review., 1904-09-15
Joseph Pulitzer
 to Democrats
GREATEST JOURNALIST OF AGE
 TELLS SOME PLAIN TRUTHS.
Also Sounds a Note of Warning to Parker For His Continued Silence and Invites Him to Become More of the Leader He Should Be.

Probably the greatest journalist of the age is Joseph Pulitzer. editor in chief of the New York World and the St. Louis Dispatch.
 At the recent gathering of Demo cratic editors at New York MT. Pulit- ger was unable to be present on ac- count of physical infirmities. but took occasion to write a letter which was read at the banquet given at the Waldorf Astoria
 As is usual the letter from Joseph meat, and the Review reproduces it for its readers for its full worth.
 Bar Harbor. Me, Sept ', 1904
 Joseph Daniels, Esq. Chairman Com
 mittee of National Conference of
 Democratic editors. Waldorf-Astoria
 New York.
 My Dear Sir: Accept my thanks for your urgent invitation to speak to my brother editors of the Demo cratic faith upon the issues and duties of the Presidential campaign.
 It would give me great pleasure to be with you. but physical infirmi. SSS iOi blu. lOu meet dS tue repre- sentatives and instruments of Pub licity, the greatest moral force. No other body of men can do so much in this campaign for truth and pub hcity as the Independent and Demo cratic editors of the country. I firmly believe that this year the Democracy has the truth and the Right on its side, and that if sufficient Publicity shall be given to the Truth and no serious mistakes are made in the cam paign at vital points, Judge Parker GiIl be eiected.
 The result in Vermont reported to- day should be accepted as a warning, not as a Encouragement. Remember that the largest total vote ever cast in Vermont is only fifty-six thousand, about one-tenth or the vote of New York City alone. The Democratic vote is usually only ten or twelve thousand and was never more than twenty thousand, which is less than the Democratic vote in single wards in New York. It is absurd to sup pose that the result of the Presidential election is decided. or even foresha6- S"NN. HI l4lC AdolASSS anu OI luG little Green Mountain State. The contest is to be fought out in New York, the Empire State, whose habit Is to vote independently; in the rich and populous industrial cities of Con- necticut and New Jersey; on the wide plains and busy marts of Indiana, Wis consin and Illinois. and in the doubt full states of the farther West. There are signs of reaction against protection, privilege and plutocracy; against personal government. mili- tarism, extravaganza and the political power of the trust. MT. Rooseveit's weakness in his own state has been demonstrated at every election. Should he carry the country in November, as 1t is possible that he may, the ad- verse vote of New York would serve as salutary check on his usurpation of power, and no effort should be spar ca to secure this result The lesson Of the Vermont election is that the In- dependents and the Democrats must work with increased vigor and under a more thorough system. Truth may be self-evident. but it is not self-en- forcing. Truth is mighty, but it will not prevail without all the aids of pub Hcity. Truth must be proclaimed. il- lustrated, established, enforced. Most important of all, truth must have a leader.
 The result of the Vermont election makes it, in my judgment, all the more imperative that Judge Parker shall realize and DerfOrm his dutv tn tho millions of honest voters who seek no office, look for no personal gain in his election; but who see in him an ideal and hope, and aspire to preserve through him the institutions they love. The people need a judicial Chief Magistrate, but not too judicial a candidate. The judge is trained to look at both sides of a case; the can diGate should have his hands full in looking after his own. From the judge is expected cautious delibera-