Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-05-25
FROM WASHINGTON

pecial Correspondents Of tho cornsn.

Washington. May "a.
National politics was on the
wane i'm the national capital for
the past few days, inasmuch as
nearly all the members of Con
gress, who had fingered here after
adjournment. had returned to their
homes. There were very few peo-
pie here To make political news for
the numerous correspondents. So
long rs 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 begin
ming To loaf and to complain that
there was a dearth of news. when
there appeared from Albany. y.
Y. telegram i'm the Washington
Post. to the effect that Hon. Will
liam Randolph Hearst was in a
combination with Col. William j r.
Bryan and others to organize a
bolt at the St. Louis convention
and organize n new party and
place a new ticket in the field. pro-
yided the reOrganizer 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 pen
ell and his Imagination. Dozens
of wild imaginative stories of bolts
and utter disruption and conse-
quent annihiIation of the demo-
cratic party were prepared for the
papers represented here by some
of the best correspondents in the
country. The boys were chuck
ling TO themselves over the good
stories" they had written, when
the Hon. William Randolph Hearst
threw bombshell into them in the
shape Of an interview in the Wash
ington Post absolutely. exploding
;he Albany story and oy announc-
ingunequivocally and unqualifiedly
that he was not bolter and that
would support the nominee of the
II. Louis convention. whosoevcr
he might be, not only personally
but with all his great papers. He
frankly admitted that it would be
a great honor and a great gratii-
cation to him should that nomina-
tion come To him, but that he did
not have to be bribed to he a dem
ocrat, as he had been one all his
life and had supported every nom
inee of the democratic convention
since 1884, when he became the
owner of the San Francisco Exam
iner. 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 il
spoiled 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 i'm thus
exploding the mendacious stories
set afioat 10y his opponents, and
by letting the world know what
KIND of Democrat he is has had
the effect of spiking the guns of
ms enemies and has made lots of
people say kind things about him.
who, hitherto, have been bitterly
opposed to him. 1t has intensely
gratitied his friends and con
founded his enemies. 1t was a
distinct shock to the Republican
managers who have been counting
on some such thing as was sug-
geSted in> the Albany dispatch.
HIS position now on the question
OF boiling and on regularity after
the convention, is as plain and dis
unct as his position on every other
question with which he has dealt
IN hls papers. Every man and
every Democrat can find him rs
easily as he can find the Rocky
Mountains in Colorado. No man
rs compelled to guess where he
stands on any thing or any ques-
tlon. 1t is the opinion, expressed
here, that this outspoken frank
ness on the part of Mr.. Hearst
VIII make him friends all over the
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