The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-14
HEARsTs sTATEMENT.
New Yorker Interviewed as to Clash
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New Yorker Interviewed as to Clash
 Washington. Feb. 4s.s@Fte tepreseata- tive Hearst, in an interview tonight on today's incident in the House of Rep resentatIves. said: YetN
 T need not say that I consider to- days session of the House disagree able to all and absolutely disgraceful to those who deliberately planned such a scene and forced 1t upon myself and other unwilling members. feel that they deserved the disagreeable shock and diseomfiture that, met them when they learned through me the extreme ly appropriate kind of man whom they had selected as their mouthpiece
 'The one interesting feature to newspaper men and to the public whom they serve is the question which was raised of the right of an editor to sit in Congress without making his news papers subservient to the opinions of his Congressional associates. say as emphatically as I can that 1t would be of the greatest possible value to the United State if a hundred editors of important newspapers could be elected to Congress wish that these men could see for themselves and tell the people of the country, much better than am able to do, exactly to what extent the House of Representatives is a representative body, that they might guided by actual knowledge obtained as members of Congress, use their newspapers to force upon the House the needed reforms and compel action and definite obedience to the wishes of the people.
 My stand is this, and, as far as know the editors of this country, I think there are very few that would not agree with me.
 "As a member of the House. speak ing in the House. I expect to be bound by the rules of the House.
 "As an editor of a newspaper. rep- resentinR a constituency much larger than that of any other congressman. I expect to be bound now, as have ben In the past, by newspaper ethics, that tS to say. by the real interests of the readers whose approval gives my newspapers what force they have. I nm perfectly certain that no Ameri- can newspaper editor worthy of the name would allow himself or his newspapers to be controlled by the membership of any club or any lAeis- lative body to which he might be- long.
 T am not interested in Knowing who 1t was that actually prepared or tnspired the lengthy and elaborate att tack on myself which Mir Sullivan read from manuscript this afternoon. This strikes me as the one feature in 1t of interest to the public: The gen. tleman from Massachusetts spoke as the representative of the 'respecta- ble democracy He spoke about pro- testing on behalf of the respectable element in the Democratic party. Ac- coTding to men of this type he who fwFN fA anarchist. Mir. Sullivan illustrated this tendency of hi5 class interesting ly. not only by attacking an individ- ual Democratic congressman as an an- archist and a socialist. but declared the whole Republican party to be pushing the country into socialism because of the recent effort urged by the President to bring about a reform in railroad rate Legislation.
 The original attack upon me by Grove Johnson was due to my oppo-' sition to the will of the Southern Pa cific Railroad and, incidentally to my having defeated him for reelection. And this attack by Mir. Sullivan is ap- parently due to my efforts to force the Democratic party in the House to take a stand more advanced than that of the Republicans and in harmony with the professions of the Democratic plat form for the last eight years in reg ulating railroad rates
 T am glad to be contrasted as an anarchist or a socialist or under any other appellation with the 'respectablel element of the Democratic party, as represented by Mir. Sullivan, and have no doubt that the honest Republicans who have insisted upon some measure of railroad reform will also view with their denunciation as So- cialists from this particular sonree.'