The Irish standard., 1904-05-14
INCONSISTENT HEARSTlTES.

The stock charge of the Hearst
boomers against every Democrat who
is opposed to their candidate is dis
loyalty to the party in the past. Every
Democrat who does not see fit to favor
the nomination Of their particular can
didate is accused of being an assistant
Republican, This position is SO illogi-
cal that no comment should be neces-
sary. Hearst is the only candidate
for whom any general organized effort
has been made. Yet he has fewer dele
gates instructed for him than has
Judge Parker, who has not even OPEN
cd his mouth in his own behalf. The
movement to Judge Parker is the logi-
cal result of present conditions. 1t is
due to the issues now before the peo-
pie. to the character of the man him
self and to his evident popularity in
the great state in which he lives The
Hearst movement is not logical and
natural, but forced. 1t is engineered
by paid workers in every part of the
country. Nothing can better illustrate
the character of the two movements
than a comparison Of the men who
have been chosen delegates to st. Louis
from the states of New York and Iowa.
OF the seventy-eight men chosen to
represent the former state at st. Louis.
every one is representative Democrat
who has either rendered service to the
party or who represents men who have
rendered great service. The Iowa dele
cation is headed by James B. Weaver.
He is well-known throughout the coun-
try, but not as Democrat. 1t is very
doubtful whether he would now admit
that he is Democrat. During the
period Of reconstruction after the war
he was a Republican and held federal
office under General Grant. He then
became green-backer and was elected
to Office as such by the aid of Demo
cratic votes, but never as a Democrat.
FIe then became populist and was
the candidate of that party for presi-
dent in 1892. This is the man who
heads the delegation to st. Louis, with
instructions to dictate to New York, In
diana, Connecticut and the South
whom they should nominate. This is
the man whom the Hearst boomers are
about to bring to Minneapolis to tell
the Democrats of this city what should
be done at st. Louis. The Hearst bri
gade are very jealous of past political
records. They profess to be the only
true Democrats. They are quick to
throw the suspicion of past disloyalty
upon any one who is against their par
ticular candidate, and vet the mar
whom they have invited to Minneapo
lis to guide Democrats in the true patti
is a man who has never been Demo
crat. We are not opposed to Genera
Weaver becoming Democrat. WI
are not believers in the policy of selec
ton by which thousands of voters arc
read out Of the party. We simply
think it worthy Of comment that those
who are themselves in the business O
reading Democrats out of the party
because of past political acts. shouit
feel called upon to present to the Dem
ocrats Of Minneapolis n man who ha
never in his long political career poset
as a Democrat. General Weaver is
man of ability, and if he believes il
what the Democratic party now stand
for, he has as good right to represen
a state in a Democratic convention a
anybody else. The same test, how
ever, should be applied to other mel
y Of equal ability who have for the mos