The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-06
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HEARsr's PRESIDENTIAL BOOM.

"A correspondent at Washington, writ
| ing to the New York Eveneing Post says:
! In the substantial strength which the
Hearst boom for the presidency is devel-
| oping, there is a danger. lest the real
main sprnig, which gives il motion. should
| be obscured. The reason Hearst is carry
| ing so many districts and giving the
serious minded men of his party no end
of anxiety. is not that he has bought
up" the public. lavish as his disburse-
ments supposedly are. nor is it because
of the effectiveness of an organization
which has been many months in building
up. His real scource of strength is the
impression among the less intelligent but
most impulsive elements of the communi-
ty that he is the chivalrous knight Grant
of the common people in a life-aud-death
struggle against plutogracy. They pic
ture him a modern Charles Kingsley.
They belive him the special champion in
ing men. the defender of the wage-earner.
the friend Of the poor and down-trodden
and all that sort of clap trap. This notion
| has come from the rather personal tone
of the editorial page Of Mr.. Hearsts's
widely circulated newspapers. The views
there presented are instantly identified
in the popular mind with the name WIN.
Randolph Hearst which is printed across
the top of the page and these go out as
"Hearstss views" and what Hearst
thinks and what Hearst would do" il
he once could have the power.
Ridiculous as il is TO make martyr
and philantrophist out of a newspaper
proprietor, who gives to his editorial
page the very tone which makes 1t the
most attractive to the many. and so most
profitable. the fact that this has been the
result Of the Hearst editorials can hardly
he doubted Incidents showing this are
frequently coming to light. Not long ago
a man Of character and, intellectual at
tainments. who was giving a lecture in
exposition of certain philantropic purposes
and under the auspices of a benevolent
society. was amazed a; its close TO have
one Of his sinple-hearted auditors 60 up
TO the platform to tell him. IN spirit
OF congratulstion. that his views were
very much like those OF Mr.. Hearst Much
similar evidence abounds that he has
made the public take him as the personal
embodiment, Of the views If his editorial
page IL mas OSSIl a EfrNcE
whether originally intended 20 work out
this way or not
Representatives OF the manufacturing
districts in congress. with few exceptions,
republicans and democrats alike. are
viewing the possibility OF the nomination
Of Hearst for the presidency with the
utmost alarm While they expect that
In the country a. large his reception
would be even less cordial that tina; of
Bryan in 1855 they recognize that il
strictly trade union ceaters Hears; would
have sturdy support The campaign. we're
he nominated, would turn largely CT trade
union issues He Is not much % demo-
crst. in the cid sense. since he believes
in expansion and II big military and
naval academies: In the public o-1rer-
ship Of al sorts Of things. and generally
in a platform mere popoiisttc and soc4sl-
!stic His chief hold on the oI5-lin> demo
crazy comes from his suv1orr % BRIAN
60 iS-s when nearly all the 7Apsrs which
felt any ohlies;ion Of ecnsc.szce turned
away. Ee was regu.sr-" AID tais b