Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-04-12
LOYAL TO IDEALS.
Hearst REEVES Faith and Hope
In True Democracy,

Vigorous and Fearless Editor Of Seven
Great Democratic Newspapers Sustalns
Principles of Conservatism and Justice
IN American Government and Combats
Corporate Greed.
BY the Hon. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
of Georgia.
The movement in favor of w. K.
Hearst for president is founded on the
essentials of Democratic tradition and
Democratic principles.
The Democratic party in its incep-
ton, mission and history has been a
party of the people. Its work and its
record have been one Of supreme consid-
GRAFTON for the rights and interests of
great bodies of citizens as opposed to
the privileges Of class or to the favorit-
ism expressed by legislative enactment
for the few.
The reason why Mr.. Hearst has de-
veloped a strength so remarkable and
80 sustained in the ranks Of this great
party is because of the fact that he,
above all the men now active in jour-
nalism or in politics, has been con-
sistently and vigorously true to these
traditions and to these ideals.
Vigorous, Eloquent, Successful.
Without q break within the last
| decade and with all the combined
| forces of his great newspapers, scat
tered in different sections of the re-
public, he has been the vigorous, elo-
| quent and in most instances the sue
| cessfu champion of the rights of the
many against the few. He has fought
corruption, he has opposed e1trava-
gance, he has combated the greed Of
syndicates and the selfish propositions
| Of corporations.
| 1t is the force of this record, which
has had no change or variation, that
has endeared the editor of the seven
Democratic newspapers to the hearts
and fixed him in the confidence Of the
people of this country.
More than this, the strength Of the
Hearst movement is in the magnetic
and rallying force Of dedniteness
against uncertainty. He came to the
front in period of uncertainty, de-
moralzation and general Democratic
depression. While other leaders, how.
ever loyal and however interested, were
dangling their plumes and holding their
tongues in uncertainty and discourage
ment, the young and vital editor of
seven Democratic newspapers struck
boldly out in behalf Of the traditional
principles of his party. Without a
note of hesitation or uncertainty he
rallied the fainting spirits of dis
couraged Democracy and inspired the
rank and file of his party with new
faith and new hope in the ultimate tri-
umph of principles which had found q
champion bold, clear, definite and elo
Quent.
1t is the old, old story-whenever ,
mass is demoralized the one clear ant
definite spirit in it finds the opportunity
in Selling the reins of authority in the
sublime mastery of his own purpose
and Of his own clearness and rallie.
the multitude about the one man VIII,
sees things clearly and dares to d,
them.
No fractional Candidate.
Mr.. Hearst has definite strength il
almost every state in the Union ant
] stronger than that of any individual
q candidate suggested by any faction o
the Democratic party, and in most o
the states of the Union stronger thai
the forces of all other candidates CON
bined.
. It is no reflection on the merits. capac
: ity or the service of these old and hon
D ored names in Democratic annals tina
: this young and vital figure of Journal
I ism and politics should have gone S
fast and SO far to the front. They ar
doubtless as true and as loyal and a
capable as he, but he has had the coul
age and the clearance of initiative
The clarion notes he has been soundin
for the last six years logically and In
Z evitably have rallied the Democrat
: host around him.
j Unless l am greatly mistaken, AM
' unless all the political signs of tn
times are at fault, the early primarle
Of the spring will register a confdenc
in William Randolph Hearst as ma
tional leader which will be an inspir
ing augury Of the Democratic success
in the November election.
With the ranks Of labor for him a.
5 most as unit, with the conservativ
i American people looking to him wit
J. confidence and hope, with the SCUM
business interests of the country con
!. PEELED by his own record and his ow
). immense vested interests to respeo
y him. and with the magnificent admin.
II tration Of his journalistic equipment t
q sustain and diffuse his ideas, Williar
= Randolph Hearst is at this momer
Y easily the most formidable candidat
for the leadership Of the Democrat
party in the next national election.
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