The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-09
HEARsr ArD HTs MrrHops.

I1SdfsN prOpdgdHua 10 poisctE up ~ Woah and failing cause. Instead of accepting the pa1pable sentiment of the American people against such an absurdity as his selection would be. he and those behind him persist in their efforts to stem the tide which is so plainly against him, and are using every art and trick known to professional politicians who work for a reward. When it is known that even a fraction of any State delegation Is favorable to him the announcement IS forthwith sent out in flaming characters that 'another State Is for Hearst" In most of these claims the element of truth is conspicuous by it's absence, the object aimed at being to hoodwink the people who read his papers into believing that his cause is progressing and his strength increasing.
 Never in the history of American poli- tics has there been such an utterly shameless effort to debauch the Democ- raey and buy the Presidency. It Is known to all who care to know the truth that this man has nothing to rely on but money and the supposed influence Of his yellow newspapers. To speak of his qualifications for the Presidency is n travesty on the term. To claim either fitness or merit is an insult to the h. he has neither. It Is brazen attempt to attain highAposition by buster, bribery and misrepresentation, It Is an outright scheme to get the Presidency by bargain and sale.
 Nor do they hesitate to add threats to their other nefarious practices. The case of Congressman Theodore A. Bell of the Second Congressional District of Califor- mia Is a case in point. MT. Bell Is Democrat who appears not to have en- tered heartily into the scheme to pur- chase the State. In fact, it appears that he has not entered into it at all, for the following letter is being distributed among prominent men in Bells District. the letter being sent out by the manager of the Hearst forces. He says:
 Advices have been received here to the effect that Congressman Bell has ex- pressed himself several times in Washing ton and elsewhere to the effect that wniie he will take no active part in opposing Mir. Hearst's candidacy, yet he is not for him.
 DO you not think this most unfortunate and sure to rebound to Mir. Bells injury as well as Mir. Hearsts?
 Will it not stir up strife between MT. Bells friends and Mfr. Hearsts friends and do much to prevent that unifcatfon of the party, now so near accomplishment and so much to be desired? ,Will you not please. wire MT Bell anu | advise him to openly advocate MT. Hearst | and procure your friends as well as MT | Bells friends throughout the District 10 | do likewise?. It will be most beneficiai | all around.
 That of course can mean nothing but to serve notice on MT. Bell that unless | he gets to work in the Hearst interest he may expect to be retired to private lie | if the powers behind Hearst can accom- | plish it. We know little of MT. Bell ex- cept that he is one of the three Demo | cratic Congressmen from his State. Evi- | dently he has not made himself con spicuous in the Presidential matter and fl seems equally evident that the Hears; men think he should come out for their man. That he has failed to do this has aroused the ire of the editor-candidate
 and he. is being threatened by that mans friends. Whether those threats will have
 any effect remains to be. seen, but The
 Sacramento Bee declares that "any at,
 tempt to injure Bell because he will not
 throw his cap high in the air for w. R
 Hearst will only make him stronger
 among the people of this District whc
 know bis worth.''
 /This attempt at coercion is a departure
 from the usual plan of bribery, and was
 resorted to in this case because MT Bel
 is not purchasable. This fact was doubt. less ascertained before threats were re.
 sorted to. The usual Hearst plan Is tc
 buy support for him, but where this fail:
 there are other methods to be tried. He
 and his are too shrewd to put all theil
 eggs in one basket.
 | In this connection it is not out of placl
 to say that the action of the New York
 Democracy is both unsatisfactory and in-
 applicable. Possibly that last word is
 not precisely appropriate, for we may | always expect Tammany to have some
 scheme of its own to exploit. That
 organization has always been a power in
 the Democracy, and when 1t works in entire harmony with the State Democracy
 the combination is irresistible. But un-
 fortunately this harmony does not always
 exist, and this seems to be one of the
 times when 1t is lacking. The Democ-
 racy of the State is overwhelmingly for
 Parker but Tammany Is apparently try
 mig to prevent unity and harmony.
 Whether that organization is working for local advantage or whatever may be the cause, the result is the same. There is discord and apparent division where there should be absolute harmony and oneness of purpose.
 l This ought not to be so. The Democ- racy of the whole country is looking to New York as the pivot on which the fate of the contest depends. Without New York Democracy's case is hopeless, and without harmony in that State there is ample ground for doubt. It ought to be evident to Mir. Murphy that the senti- ment of the entire Democracy is now for
 Parker It ought to be plain to him
 that MT. Cleveland is not to be consider
 ed in the list of candidates. and it should
 New York cannot be committed tc
 Hearst It may be that he Is at work
 for some local advantage, but if that Is