The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-10-26
w. r. HEARST's GREAT
FIGHT lN NEW YORK.
Atlanta News.

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The misguided democrats who were
engaged a year ago in the unwhole-I
some and ungratefuI pastime Of criti-
cising and maligning the Hon. William
R. Hearst, must now be very greatly
edited Dy the present position which
he now occupies in New York politics.
As candidate for mayor of the
municipal ownership league, Mr..
Hearst is rapidly assimilating to him
self the honorable and reputable ele-
ments of good citizenship from all
I PARTIES in the metropolis.
One hundred and thirty-seven thous-
and members of the municipal owner
} ship league stand as a solid phalanx
behind him with their votes and with
all the additional votes which their
I influence can secure. The reform ele
ment of the democratic party stands
also, with a united front behind him,
and it Is even true that the reform
/ element of the republican party pro-
! testing against the corruption and
graft of the Murphy machine, are lin
/ ing up in solid phalanx behind the
candidate whose platform is embodied /
I in two words.
HONESTY and JUSTICE.
I The friends of Mr.. Hearst can safely /
I defy the worst and the most malicious /
and malignant enemies of that gentle /
man to discover any occasion within 4
the last ten years in which he and his /
great tide of democratic newspapers !
has not stood clearly and unhesita- /
tingly and faithfully on the side OF the
people against oppression, and upon
the SIDE of public honesty against pub 1
lie corruption. We simply challenge
any man to lay hand upon an aGvo-
cacy in the Hearst chain of news
papers that has not been set to a high /
and pure conception of public rights
and public liberty.
The common people Of this country,
the masses of the people and the
labOring element of America have
never had a better, ADLER and more
faithful friend than this man has been,
consistent and unfailingly, from the
establishment Of his great newspaper
properties.
Men may differ with his views. the
orists may challenge the correctness
Of his conclusions, the conservatives
may protest what seems to be the radi-
cal trend of his advocates. But no
man, for OF against him, can assert or
prove any variableness or shadow of
turning ia the loyal, patient, persist
ent, fearless and startling warfare
which this man has waged against
public greed and public corruption in
favor Of private rights and private I
prosperity.
He is reaping now in New York the {
splendid fruits of his years Of powerful
and consistent service. And it is {
gratifying beyond measure to the
friends who championed him in the {
hour Of his greatest persecution to see '
him now vindicated in the metropolis
OF America by the ballots and the con- [
fdence of so many thousands of the {
best and highest citizens of the Amer
lean republic.
The predictions are that Mr.. Hearst
will win this fight The betting is
about even at this time, ana the fore
cast of the expert politicians give him
more than even chances to be the next
mayor of New York.
If he is so elected it will establish .
Kim with men as a forsmost and focal
force in the great battle of the people
against the grasping and selfish in
huences of the times. A brave, bold
and able champion of popular rights o
ind popular libeTties-he is triumph :
ing at last above the most malicious
and malignant tide of misrepresenta- y
ions and abuse that ever encompassed -
The pathway of private citizen.
And. in the hour when New York, :,
both city and state, shall have put the :
zeal of her high and honorable apprOv- !,
ii upon his public career, The News, =
which has been his constant friend, :,
sill demand and receive the full and :
sweeping vindication of its loyal faith -
IA the purpose and mission of this i
man.