Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-30
APPEALS TO PASSION
MCENDLARY SPEECHES OF THE
HEARST WORKERS.

A well-posted department official, whose
voting residence is in New York city, and
who returned to town this morning after
spending few days in the metropolis.
looking over the political situation. said
to Star reporter:
ION the surface things appear this way:
Take three parts Of stripped tiger. FIVE parts
of ordinary back-fence cat, eight parts bull
dog ten parts monkey, twelve parts par
rot and eighty-four parts pure, unadulter-
ated scare; mix thoroughly and give poor.
sick Father Knickerbocker a full dose
every second.
Talk about demagogy spreading Its spe-
cious specter over a staggered community;
Of the deadly blight of socialism eating its
insidious. sinuous course into the robust
body polite: of the Shiny trail of the vile
octopus obliterating the pure paths OF
rugged honesty, as its terrible tentacles
crush the plain and terrorized citizen into
mincemeat; of the curse Of capital stran-
Cling Individual effort into mummified
corpse; of the honest working man. the
struggling clerk and the common people
WELL to hear those spellbnders talk upon
the streets and in the halls of the greatest
and richest city on the continent would
make man who had been asleep and just
walked up imagine he was in a den of wild
cats and snakes and a camp of highway
robbers and house-breakers.
A New Element in Politics.
ut is unique, unparalleled, unprecedented
and beyond being summed up in a few
words. This campaign in New York intro
duces new element in American politics,
and one to be deeply and sincerely de-
plored. l give you my word that the In
cendiary utterances / heard fall from the
lips Of some of the Hearst speakers were
positively paralyzing. When it is borne
In Ind hot To- l., H. IL
man it was actually stunning to the senses
to hear his speakers declare in plain words,
without equivocatfon or the customary
veneer, that the wealth of the metropolis
was In the hands of men who were merely
thieves; that organized corporate interests
of all kinds practically deserved the torch
and the men in them the rope. To hear them
incite the passions of their hearers by the
rankest kind of political hypocrisy and
sheerest sophistry, one might think that
all the citizens of Gotham were a lot of
idiots, incapable of Independent thought.
EVerybody's wages are to be doubled.
with corresponding decrease in expenses.
It's to be free beer and freer grub Taxes
are to go, yet all kinds of costly improve
ments are to be made The working people
are to work no longer; the rich must dis
tribute their wealth broadcast. cent or
two shall be the car fare per trip. All
sorts of free things are promised. In brief,
the people are to have everything they want
for nothing and all In two years-if they
will only elect Hearst.
Business Men Stirred to Action.
But when 1 came away last night there
were signs that the business element, the
element which really gets in it's work when
the last hour comes, realized that the in
terests of the city are really in danger of
serious disturbance. They don't like MUIR
ply, but Mcclellan is a clean man person.
ally and an honest one 1t is the choice
nd he hax,n rIon
the less-Tammany may be bad but my,
as compared with the Hearst contingent
the tigers cohorts wear white linen and
spotlesS sandals
shout you would think that the whole city
government, from the civil service en-
pioyes to the firemen and policemen, had
gone over to their side from boots to he'll
met, hook and ladder to hose. But they
haven't. l have lived in the big town many
years If anybody supposes that all this
tremendous political force and great body
of voters, constituting the very ribs of the
Tammany machine. have forsaken 1t In a
minute for f1edgling and the greatest dis
turbing element this country has ever seen
Stree Mr.. Bryan flashed his meteoric light
into our blinded eyes he does not for
moment understand New York politics.
Mr.. Mcclellan will be reelected and it
is my opinion. from what / know of the
finer, inner side of politics. there will be a
combination of interests which will have
for its purpose the crushing out now and
for all time of Hearst and Hearstism in
New York politics. AS nearly 1 could
understand it there will not be many votes
lost on the republican candidate 1t seems
to have resolved itself down to question
of self-preservation and protection from Il
future calamity
rs the administration taking any interest
actively in this free for all, knock-down and
dragon contest?" was asked
No" replied the official. Except such as
would naturally attach to tussle in the
Presidents home. and in a state now claim
ed as a fixture in the republican column. !
It is bound. however, to have marked eff
feet upon the next presidential election"