The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-04
HEARST AS A MESSIAH
DTsCONTENTED ELEMENTS IN NEW
YORK RALLY AROUND HIM.


New York Special to Baltimore Sun.
vote for Hearst and for GOOD
Wages Good Business and Good Gov
eminent" is the admonition the boom
ers of William Randolph Hearst have
put on banners. posters and whoie
pages In newspapers.
But this is by no means all the mar
velous promise that Mr.. Hearsts fol-
lowers hold out IL he is elected Mayor
Of New York. In the quarters where
laboring meDIcongregate and along the
Bowery many men hail Hearst as their
deliverer from all the troubles ana
evils of the present time.
Capt. Gus" Lehman, a well known
Bowery character, proclairns that II
Mr. Hearst Is elected the following
things will occur
EVERY child win be given a free
ride on any street car In this city;
fares on the street cars win be re-
duced; landlords will cut the rents,
landlords will lower the rents still
more every time new baby arrives in
q home; price of gas to be reduced to
50 cents a 1000; price OF beer reduced
to seven cents pint; Russia will be
freed at once; the eight-hour law Will
be enforced; workingmen Will get
more pay; we shall have more police
men, more firemen and more street
cleaners; there will be no more politf-
cal BOSSES everybody will have a good
time"
From Anarchist TO Millionaire.
Every element of the discontinued
seems to look to Hearst as, sort OF
political Messiah. As a consequence,
his following embraces some represen-
tatives of every class, from the long,
sst-haired, wild-eyed anarchists to the
young millionaire philathropist, ]. @.
Phelps Stokes. who looks like poet
and is devoting his life and fortune to
the good of humanity.
This following Is not attracted by
Mr.. Hearst's personality, but by the
ideas he has set forth in his news
papers and public speeches.
Doesn't Look Lige Popular Idol.
Mr. Hearst is tall and slim, clean
shaven, with the most serious face. He
appears to be half-embarassed when
he speaks. Speaking Is a serious bus
mess with him. His rare smiles are
smiles Of the lips and not of the eyes.
His voice Is almost a treble, and when
he raises it to address a crowd. 1t
sounds rather harsh and shrilL The
Sun correspondent followed his tour
up the West Side and heard him speak
at his first big open air meeting. A
baggage truck, plastered with litho-
graphs of Hearst and Stokes, stood In
the wide, open street in front of the
immense piers of the White Star Line.
When the dinner whistle blew hum
uTcQ5 OIL QOck laDOFeESt ClcThSs uTlReIS
and workmen from factories, sailors
and men of the sea crowded around
and cheered for Hearst
Clamor, "Voiee of the People.
Slowly, deliberately, he talked to
them, declaring that this was a cam
paign for the people against the
'.grafters' and bosses. He told them
he was working for cheaper gas. cheap
er rents and good wages for good
work"
My attitude as Mayor will not be
a defiant one" he said; II intend to
listen to what some people call clam
or because regard clamor as the
voice of the people. If l am elected
Mayor / don't intend to do what Char
lie Murphy wants or McCarren wants
or Thomas Ryan wants, but what you
want and tell me to do. l will follow
your wishes
Mr.. Hearst is undeniably a poor
speaker. He does not appear to pos
sess a single attribute of the great
popular leader--not show of feeling,
not spark of magnetism.
His power seems to lie in the fact
that he is against present conditions
and has succeeded in convincing the
masses that he is the friend of the
workingman.
A man who has worked in the docks
for twenty years preceded him In an i'm
pRssioned speech, in which he declared
that the reason he was for Hearst was
that he offered the first chance in
twenty years for the workingmen to
rise and assert their rights in New
York; that he advocated the principles
of Henry George and would bring
about the good time when the laboring
man would get all that was due him
and the capitalists and corporations
would be torn down from their places
OF power in which they had plundered
the people.
Thousands Follow HIS NIotOrcar.
So that, night after night, thousands
OF working men follow this tall, SOL
enan faced young millionaire from
meeting to meeting. his automobile ris-
ing out of a blaze of red stage fire,
preceded by the music of many brass
bands and followed by cheering thou
sands
This uprising of the disconnected has
stirred up the conservative element,
and they are fighting Hearst as they
never fought a candidate before.
Anarchists Wave Red Flag.
The other day couple of hundred
jewellers in the darkest East Side left
their beer and socialistic arguments
long enough 20 carry lot of red flags
zip and down the street and proclaim
that Hearst was the hope of anarchy
Tammany then started the cry, Hearst
IL an anarchist: do you want the red
flag waving over the City Hallg
Hearst declares that Murphy organized
this anarchist procession. Murphy as.
serts that it was the spontaneous ex-
preston of the hope of anarchy and
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