Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-01
NATIONAL POLITICS.:

ment. had returned to their
homes. There were very few people
here to make political news for the
numerous correspondents. So long as
there is a man here who can talk for
publication and whose talk is worth
telegraph tolls be sure some of the
newspaper gang here will find him out
and make him talk. The boys were be-
ginning to complain that there was a
dearth of news, when there appeared
from Albany, New York, a telegram
in the Washington Post, to the effect
that Hon. William Randolph Hearst
was In a combination with Col.
William j. Bryan and others to organ.
ize bolt at the St. Louis convention
and organize new party and place a
izer class of the democratic party should
control that convention. Here was
| nuts for the newspaper men and every
one of them got busy with his pencil
and his imagination. Dozens OF wild
imaginative stories of bolts and utter
disruption and consequent humiliation
of the democratic party were prepared
for the papers represented here by
some of the best correspondents In the
country. The boys were chuckling to
themselves over the good "stories" they
had written, when the Hon. William
Randolph Hearst threw a bombshell
into them in the shape of An interview
in the Washington Post absolutely
exploding the Albany story and by
announcing unequivocaIiy and un-
qualifedly that he was not bolter and
that he would support the nominee of
the st. Louis convention whatsoever he
might be, not only personally but. with
all his great papers. He frankly ad-
mitted that it would be great gratifi.
cation to him should that nomination
come to him, but that he did not have
to be bribed to be a democrat. as he
had been one all his life and had sup.
ported every nominee of the democratic
convention since 1884, when be became
the owner Of the San Francisco
Examiner. This had the effect of not
only putting the kibosh on the Albany
story, which every man here comedies
came from the fecund brain of the
Hon. David Bennett Hill and shows
the kind of warfare he and his cohorts
are waging against Hearst, but it spoil
ed the good stories of the newspaper
| correspondents here, every one of
which had to be revised. This prompt
action on the part of Mr.. Hearst in
thus exploding the mendacious stories
set afoatr,by his opponents, and by
letting the world know what kind of a
democrat he is has had the effect of
| spiking the guns of his enemies and
has made lots of people say kind things
| about him, who, hitherto, have been
bitterly opposed to him. 1t has in
{ tensely gratified his friends and con-
founded his enemies. It was distinct
shock to the republican managers who
have been counting on some such thing
as was suggested in the Albany dis
patch. His position now on the ques-
tion of boiling and on regularity after
the convention, is as plain and distinct
as his position on every other question
with which he has dealt in his papers.
Every man and every democrat can
find him as easily as he can find the
Rocky Mountains in Colorado. No
man is compelled to guess where he
stands on any thing or any question. It
is the opinion. expressed here, that this
outspOken frankness on the part of
Mr. Hearst will make him
friends all over the country and that
his boom from now on will have a
healthy growth.
The latest story here now going the
rounds is to the effect that the con.
vention at st. Louis is to be
stampeded for Grover Cleveland and
that the Parker boom was started
simply to shield the real purpose of the
democratic party. This suggests to
some people here that it would be q
good idea now to interview Mr.. Cleve.
land and Mr.. Hill and others who have
been prominent in this reorganizer
movement, and ask them to come out
and explain their respective positions
on the question of boiling should Mr.
Hearst or some one else be nominated
who is not exactly suited TO them and
their particular brand of democracy.
There is really more reason why these
men should explain their attitude in
this matter than should Mr., Hearst
There was no reason to suspect Mr..
Hearst as bolter, because he never
has bolted ticket in his life. Tn,
only basis of reasoning what man will
do IN the future is by what he did il
, the past. Mr.. Hearst has never boltet
In the past and be says he Will not il
the future. All the men prominent il
the reorganiZer movement have beer
boilers for the past two presidential