The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-03-26
HEARST BOOM Gets
IMPETUS IN DULUTH
ENTHUSIASTIC DEMOCRATS JOIN
IN SUPPORT OF JOURNALIST.

Launch First Hearst Club In the State.
Rousing Time Is Had. Sentiment
IS ,a Unsnmoss for M: Hear stnt Is
as Strongest Supporter Of the Rights
Of the People.
Down with aeaction. On with Hearst
and progress" With this as motto,
512 loyal advocates of new Demo-
cracy at the city hall last Tuesday ev-
ening launched the first Hearst Club
in the state.
Ex-Mayor Chas. d AutrOmont started
the meeting off with an old time Dem
ocratic ring by nominating Joseph
Mannheim for chairman. D. G. Cash
was elected secretary, and a committee
on permanent organization consisting of
of P. j. Neff, Harris Bennett, Morris
Thomas, II. T. Hudson, G. d'Autromont
and W. E. McEwen were appointed to
recommend a plan of organization.
They reported that the club should con-
sist of president, vice president, secre-
tary, treasurer and an executive COM
mittee of eight members.
The election of officers resulted as
follows: President, JOS Mannheim,
vice president, D. G. Cash, secretary,
Frank Cutting, treasurer, John Mason.
''The reason why I stand for Hearst
is that he stands for Democratic prin-
ciples, the principles we have fought
for in the last two campaigns" said
Charles d'Autremont, the first speaker
of the evening. There are others who
stand for those principles and some
who do not, and some whose sphinx
like silence does not permit one to
guess where they stand
1--WE stand for the new Democracy,
and the object in forming this club is
not to elect officers Of St. Louis county
or of the state Of Minnesota, but to
carry first the St. Louis county con-
vention for Hearst, and then the state
convention, and see that the delegation
from Minnesota goes to the national
convention instructed to vote for Will
liam Randolph Hearst for the Demo-
cratic nomination for president Of the
United States
M. H. MccMahon was the next
speaker.
1--WE up here in St. Louis county," he
said, "are looked upon as the fighting
Democrats Of the state. We gained
the title in former campaigns, and now
we have proved our right to it by the
organization of the first Hearst club
in the state. We do not stand for
man who is going about with his head
down, afraid to acknowledge his prin-
ciples. but we are supporting man
who has the backbone to declare his
beliefs, and they are sound ones.
LAS I look around here tonight and
49,
whose advocacy of Bryan principles is
a byeword. Bryan principles as repre-
sented by Hearst is what they stand
for, and these 511 members secured
within two or three days will prove
that Bryan Democracy is living force
in Northern Minnesota
Thomas Nixon, the next speaker,
stated*that he was first and foremost
a Bryan supporter ~- - .+...o*
,r"If Bryan is beaten for the nomina-
ton, however, or refuses to accept it,
he said, II will support any Demo-
crat who truly represents Democratic
TITS up to us to get off our coats
and HUSTLE" said r. J. McKeon, who
was the next speaker. I'VE have
good nucleus of club here There
is no reason why we should not in
crease the membership to $500 before
the state convention assemblies here in
June, and if we can we will have a
strong argument to present to the con-
vention."
'Perhaps it would be interesting for
you to hear from one who was once
Republican," said J. T. Dow, the next
a ha1 nf hot
party, but now it is anything with me
to beat the Republicans Why have I
left that party? Because the Republic
can party today is one Of the "has
beens.' 1t has drifted into the control
of the moneyed class. 1t is not only
corrupt but I believe that the stronger
term Of rotten applies to it. The
time has come when the lovers of lib
etry and equal Justice to all must arise
and elect some other party to power"
Porter J. Neff was the next speaker
called upon.
II came here tonight" he said, "be-
cause l want to see the Democratic
party controlled by a Democrat and
follow true Democratic principles. I
don't blame any of those men who left
the party in 1896. Those that believed
in the gold standard had a right to
get out, but when they left the party
they wer out of it unless they came
back and again subscribed to it's prin-
ciples. They have no right to dictate
its policies now, and should have no
voice in it's councils"
D. A. Petrie and Joseph Nylander
followed with brief addresses.
w. E. McEwen stated that he was
long time in deciding to vote for
Hearst because he feared the yellow
peril.
But while the headlines in the
Hearst papers may be yellow" he said,
the editorials are not. They advocate
the principles, good economics and
equal justice to all.
You hear much about the antagon-
ism Of the trusts to Roosevelt, but when
1t comes to the fight between Roosevelt
and Hearst, which side do you thing
the trusts will be on?"
Il am an original Bryan Democrat -