Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1904-03-24
MUD SINGING POLITICS.


The wonderful similarity of the
editorial pages of republican weekly
papers is being further attested by the
Willingness and evident avidity with
which they pass around the comment of
the New York Evening Post on the
presidential candidacy of Congressman
Hearst. The last issue of the Hannah
Noon, after vouching for the Post being
COED democratic authority, gave space to
the following unwarranted personal at
tack on Hearst which has the combined
pleasantness of taste to the republican
palate of being scurrillous. vicious and
filthy:
sWe have been reluctant to speak Of
the presidential candidacy of w. X.
Hearst. We have felt it to be one of
those things that need much washing to
be touched, and had hoped that its
grotesque and humiliating aspect would
the bought and rotten. But it is evident
that this unblushing campaign-bassd,
as democratic senator has said, purely
upon check and check books max
ing some Roadway Hearst stands today
as the greatest temptation to the demo
cratic party to play the fool and break
its neck against. Almost any other
candidate prominently mentioned would
have chance of election, but Hearst is
enough to sink any cause and damn any
party We are convinced that it is only
necessary to set forth the fact in order
to make an end of these unspeakable
candidates. Hearst's record will crush
him as soon as it is known. An agltator
we can endure: an honest radical we can
respect: fanatic we can tolerate: but
a low voluptuary, trying to sting his
jaded senses to fresh thrill by turning
from private to public corruption, is a
new horror in American politics. 10
set the heel of contempt upon it must
be the impulse of all honest aen."
The New York Evening Post is the
recognized organ of Wall street and the
trusts and is an emasculated paper that
panders to the prurient appetite of the
satiated six hundred. And yet it has
the audacity and the temerity and the
idiocy to attack the personal character
of William Randolph Hearst. 1t was
the first shot from the locker of the
trusts against the only man that ever
made them tremble and fear the wrath
of the great common people of the coun-
try. This attack has created great in
dignation and has made Mr.. Hearst
many friends who otherwise were against
him up to this time
One thing that is pleasing and has
made many friendly toward him and his
ambition is the manner in which he is
replying to this dirty attack. The
owner of the New York Evening Post is
Mr.. Oswald Willard, son of the late
Henry Willard. railroad wrecker and ex-
ploiter of the people, a general buccaneer
in high finance and one of the pioneers
in the game that has ruined more honest
and unsuspecting people than any game
of chance or gambling ever started in
the country. Mr.. Hearst shows in his
papers that the son from the standpoint
of dishonesty has degenerated He re-
fuses to take the risks of the father.
He will not try to rob the entire public
but is satisfied to rob his own unpro-
tected and helpless sister of her inherit
ance from her father and no man can
conceive of a crime less likely of de-
lection or less likely to bring trouble to
the perpetrator thereof than robbing
ones own sister.
Another thing that has enraged the
trust magnates against MIR. Hearst and
made him friends among men who hate
the trusts and their rule in this country
is his recent showing up in the New
York Journal of the manner of the rich
men of New York, who gamble, lose
money and make the poor laborer pay it
back by reducing his wages. He cites
case to the point in that of young
Reginald Vanderbilt, drunken young
scion of once respectable family whose
brows before he was born. It is news
item of the papers within the past few
days of how this man went into one of
the big gambling houses of New York
and lost 100000 in three nights and that
the very next day the wages of the men
working on the Vanderbilt system of
railroads were chopped down, although
all of those lines of railroads admitted
that their profits were increasing at the
time.