Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-03-01
Mr.. Hearst for President.

Mr.. Hearst for President.
The Telegraph-Herald urges the
nomination Of Congressman w. R.
Hearst, OF New York, for president
to oppose Theodore Roosevelt. 1t is
for Hearst because
He is closer to the people-the mil
lions who toll with their hands than
any other living democrat, possibly
excepting Mr.. Bryan.
He is out of reach of every influence
that is corrupting our national life.
A millionaire, be does not gamble with
them on the stock exchange, he does
not consort with them in their draw
ing rooms, he does not seek for his
profit in legislative favorftism at the |
expense of the masses. If he were
president, he would be president, it, /
dependent of every pull that works in
an hundred ways for its own selfish
pocket, at the expense of the masses. +
Bond syndicate manipulators, tariff
barons, high finance pirates-all would
stand on the same level and be esti-
mated by him at their proper worth
common enemies, and dangerous enc
mics of equality.
His sympathies as reflected in tie
editorial columns of his papers, as ex-
pressed In many addresses, as revealed
in innumerable kindly and charitable
acts, stamp him Enthusiastically as what
he processes to be, as all he strives to
be, as all he hopes to be-a man of the
people, in sympathy with the people,
and eager to help up the rugged steps
of life the average man whose way is
blocked by the selfshness, the avaric-
iousness, the unscrupulousness, the
bigotry and the assumption of class
ism.
There is a struggle as enduring as
the ages going on always, in every
hour of every day, between two forces
10 American life, working for radical
~ different ends the forces of plutoc-
racy and the forces of democracy.
Deplore it if you will, minimize it
II you will, yet the great fact remains
that we are in class struggle in this
republic, and that every step marks
more clearly the cleavage between the
forces. On the one side is the wage
Garner, the man on salary, the mer-
chant, the professional man and the
small manufacturer. On the other
side are the men who have waxed rich
of the people, who elevate the dollar
above conscience, who insolently ig-
more the Christian doctrine of
brotherhood and who hoist aloft the
doctrine Of the survival OF the fttest.
This wealth entsenched and fortified,
perpetuated by corruption, by innane
admiration for the wealthy though
the blood Of humans drop from every
dollar, will never give way without a
fight that shall carry 1t back to and
over the last ditch.
tits this predatory wealth, this
class Of economic parasites, who are
opposed to Mr.. Hearst. They will
fight him with every weapon known
to modern day, and that because, and
let the fact sink into the inner CON
seriousness of the reader-he stands
for equality Of opportunity.
Who does not recognize In the
events of the day relationship to the
greater struggle Of criminal rich for
greater riches, Ut the poorer to keep
from becoming poorer, Of the one
class to pour human blood into the
money die and of the other to get
enough Of the worlds production t.
nourish the blood, has not yet awaken
ed to the evils stalking in our legisla-
tive halls and corrupting politics. 1,
Is today reaching cut for control of
the democratic party, to prostitute il
to itsiservice.
The man who stands out most ag-
gresstvely, and as the most potent in
fiuence against this movement to
make the democratic party the tool
OF selfish, sordid, mercenary interests,
- Congressman Hearst. He is the
logical standard bearer of the demo.
cratic party in fight against mono
poly and all that 1t implies. He is
working for the same ends that Mr..
Bryan looks to-for the elevation of
the man unfavored by fortune, un-
polluted by sordidness, asking moth.
Ing nothing but that he shall have OPP
portunity to get fair share Of the
fruits Of his labor and that his chill
dren shall not be born into the world
with Jokes. about their necks.
We are for Mr.. Hearst because he
stands for progress, not for retrogres-
sion, because he is independent Of the
extraneous influences that bear on
public servants, because he is honest,
conscientious. and fearless and in the
light against predatory waalth for all
time.
-r1Owever 1nucn repupl,ean,sn,
might like to return to the type it Loaf
at Buffalo, to tact and caution anf, con.
servat1sm, as distinguished from ~.
lmpulsive and headlong. it is dan,od A.