The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-03-09

form was an announcement that there
+ were no party policies TO fight for
/ William Randolph Hearst was more
( than a Presidential candidate. he
/ controlled newspa 1ers that covered
/ the country, from Boston to San
/ Francisco, and he and Bryan gave
the country the inside truth of the
convention. There has been 10
other newspaper aud news speech
torpedo firing as that at St. Louis.
/ The files of Hearst's papers for ten
days, including the convention, are
important in history because there
+ were 10 secrets from his representa-
tives, and 10 hesitancy about public
/ itY.
The country would have welcomed
the South, fell front, on principle
There had been very serious consider
alton of committing the most fatal
error possible. That was the free
trade, third term Cleveland move
ment. But the New York moneyed
men, of old and new millionaires, in
time thought better of raising third
termery; and the eX-President him
self preferred not to bear the burdens
of office and probably was not con-
WINGED of the wisdom of the managers
of the Democracy of New York City.
The South has a crop of public men
who are of responsibility and person.
al character without faint. They
were carried away by the emotional
rush into the arms of the New Nor-
kers who rallied around Hill, and he
lacked in an astonishing degree to
! to know the West
1t was service to journalism that
was profound when the proprietor OF
newspapers in hall dozen States,
and a candidate for the Presidency
before the Democratic Convention.
insisted that the people should share
/ the secrets Of the committees and the
mysteries of manipulation, using the
name OF the Almighty as the immedi-
ate author Ct the gold plank. Upon
| this presumption all matters of mo-
ment were rated as mere forms, and
the convention became representa-
tive of something that was not the
manhood of the country. Perhaps
| Wall street statesmen would be able
to guarantee to the South and West
that the Almighty will establish a
high protective tariff system.
Hearst and Bryan turned electric
lights on the Swallowed paths, and
the influences and personages on New
York who shouldered all responsible
ty and played the game" with
sharpers' style lost sight Of the con
victiCns of a majority of the Demo
Gratis of the Ohio, Upper Mississippi
and Missouri valleys, the mountains
States West and the Pacific coast.
The theory of the game was that
the South had yielded all the power
OF the section to one street in New
York-did it in confidence of winning,
and lost The managers did not
know the people, and the strong light
thrown on the convention by the in
dependent journals, and the only
| Democrat who had ever received o.
500, 900 votes for President was not
needed when he denounced the ignof-
ance of the country and declared there
were no remedies offered for the
wrongs asserted. 1t was conceit and
not character that ran the conven-
ton.
President Roosevelt dealt fairly
with the people; made clear he was
the same man who fought hot battle
and won in New York as member of
! the Assembly. He won the West and
received the hitherto unheard of ma
jorities for the great Office. Another
such Democratic abdica ton in the
solid South and the reorganization of
the party will have to be a resurrection
/ Even that is not in the programme as
! far as declared purposes of the leaders
who rush into comatose condition
of vanity and dream it is reform to
repeat bIunders and aggravate them,
as has appeared in the commissioners
of strategy and performers of folly be-
| fore Congress and the country, to
! the astOniShment of constituencies in
Mississippi and Massachusetts.
/ MURAT HALSTEAD.
Letter to Chas. Ashby.
Oakland.
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