Graham guardian., 1904-04-06
MACHINE POLITICS,

east the vote OF New York Tor
Parker, They overrode the will
of the "common people" and are
using every effort in their power
TO put at the head of the democru
tic ticket, . man, while PERSONAL
a orthy and able man has dor
nothing to commend him to tn
peopis, except as it seems to max
himself acceptable to the "conser
vatiye" democratic wing of the
republican party,
The TammaHy Times Of New
York, reads these machine politi
clans q wholesome Lesson upon th'
subject that they should heed
But they will not heed it, as their
intention is to prevent the nomin-
alton Of any man who is not o'
their Conservative" ideas. The
Times says;
For a hundred years over the
heada Of the Democratic hosts has
waived the banner of equal right,
for all, special privileges for none.
Thomas Jefferson nailed those
colors to the mast Thank God
hat nag is still flying! In season
and out of season, in sunshine and
in storm, in victory and defeat,
through evil report and good re-
port that flag has never been haul
ed down. Men of New York ar,
you going to try to haul it down
now?
You. who have loYed this grand
old Democratic party, who have
shared your goods with it when it
has been a-hungered, your fires
when it has been cold and wet,
your bed of leaves and straw when
it has darted o hunted thing
through the fields and forest, you
shall not desert 1t now.
Often disappointed, sometimes
betrayed, kicked and cutfed and
hadgered and beaten, it is never
lheless true that millions and mil.
lions of American citizens today do
believe in the principles Of the
Declaration of Independence ard
the idea of equal opportunities be-
fore the law.
"We want to beat " R. HearstP'
is the cry. "Put him In q pocket"
Put him in a hole"
Why has this order gone forth
to destroy W, R. Hearst, She great
est of all American editors? Is it
because he has always remained
true to the principles of Democra
cyl 10 it because he is the only
man Of prominence who today has
courage to stand between the or
ganized forces of plutocracy and
The common people!
There is one way. and only one
way to beat W. R, Hearst, put bim
in a pocket put him in a hole.
That is to compel the predatory
rich to stop robbing the protesting
poor. This will not be done this
year-next year--the year after.
The never o-be- forgotten fact
alone spells the ultimate triumph
of w K. Hearst.
Beat him at Albany, and he will
loom up at ST. Louis more power.
full than ever, Go ahead ss you
are going now, and you will make
him even more the idol ofthe com
mon people of this countryside
most powerful force in the political
world of today,
If Mr. Hearst had only cared for
prehistoric clubs and race tracks,
houses on Fifth avenue, fashionable
hotels at Newport and Saratoga,
palace cars and fast horses, he
might now have dared to aspire to
the Presidency. But because he
has preferred to build great news
papers and use the wonderful en-
gines of publicity in the interests
of the Democratic party-because
he has dared to attack the men in
high places who are robbing the
many for the benefit of the few, he
has become the best hated as the
hest loved man on the North
American Continent, He is hated
by the few but he is loved by the
many for the enemies he has made
Can you afford to say to the
workingmen of our great cities, to
the planters of the South, to the
farmers on the prairies of tie West,
to the miners far out in the Rocky
Mountains, and even to our own
people in the shops, the mills and
stores:
ave do not care for you! We
do not need your votes"
If for the FIRST time in the his
tory of the Democratic party this
stand is taken, do you not know
can you not see, will you not
understand, that you make W, R
Hearst a thousand times more
powerful than ever. GO on! Sow
the wind-reap the whirlwind--
hut learn, as you will learn, that
IDEAS do win-that brain power,
NOT hrnte fnrcn mnves the yvnrld