The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-02
PRESIDENT MOCKS
CLAIMS OF YELLOW
Thru Secretary of State, Ma
tons Executive Supports
Hughes. = '~ g ..
DENIES HEARSTISM IS .-
LIKE ROOsEVELTISM
Anarchy's Friend Unfit for Office
in View of Record, De-
;: = clares Root.

Utica, N. Y, Nov. 2.-Secretary of
State Elihu Root joined with Charles
E. Hughes, the republican candidate
for governor of New York state, here
last night in addressing political mass
meeting in the Majestic theater. The
doors of the playhouse We're closed
shortly after 7 pm, so great was the
crowd within, and the streets were
thronged thereafter with persons seek
ing admission.
Secretary Root came here direct from
Washington and, using the name or
President Roosevelt and speaking as ne
said, "within his authority he asked
the people of the state to elect Mr..
Hughes governor. -.
His address took the form of bit
ter denunclation, of W!l5lam H. hea ISL
which, the speaker said, had the full
and complete Endorsement of President
Roosevelt.
:. 81 say to you, with President Roose-
velts' authority" said Mr.. Root, that
he regards Mr.. Hearst as wholly unit
to be governor, as an insincere, SELF
seeking damagog, who is trying to de-
eeive the worklngmen OF New YORK py
false statements and false promises, and
I say to you, with his authority, that he
considers that Mr.. Hearst's election
would be an injury and discredit
alike to honest labor and to honest cap
ital and serious injury to the Work
in which he is engaged of enforcing
just and equal laws against corporate
wrongdolng.
"President Roosevelt and Mr.. Hearst
stand as far as the poles asunder:
Listen to what President Roosevelt
himself has said of Mr.. Hearst and his
kind in President Roosevelt IS first mes
!. sage in congress. In speaking OF, the as
sassin of Mckinley he spoke of him
as 'infamed by the reckless utterances
of those men who, on the stump and In
the public press, appeal to, the dark and
evil spirits Of malice and greed, envy
and sullen hatred. Wind is sowed by
< the men who preach such doctrines, and
they cannot escape the responsibility
for the whirlwind that is reaped. This
APPLIES alike to the deliberate dema-
Cog. to the exploiter of sensatlonailsm,
and to the crude and foolish. visionary
who, for whatever reason, apologies TOR
crime or excites aimless discomfort.
Worthless as Congressman. -.
.'sI say, by, the president s authority
that in writing these words, with the
horror of President McKinley's murder
, fresh before him he had Mr.: Hearst
specifically in his mind. And l say by
his authority that what he thought, OF
Mr.. Hearst then he thinks of Mr
Hearst now.'
Characterizing Mr. Hearst as vic
lent and unworthy demagog and a:
a persistent office seeker, Mr.. Root de
clared that as a congressman ne hae
proved a worthless public servant; tina
while protesting to favor an lndepenIdl
emit judiciary he had made a deal with
Tammany leader Murphy, for the nom
nation of a judiciary ticket IN New
York; that while inveighing. agains
corporations his own corporation man
agement shows the insincerity OF hi
profession; that 1t is not cal I'm and law
full redress of wrongs which, he seeks
but the turmoil of infamed passion
that he is guided by selfish motive
and that he is "not guiltless of Nc
Kinley's death. -......,.'.....>.,.
eve are witnessing in the state o
New York. said Mr.. Root, lone o
those tests of pope? n pas
always will come in the future, when
skillful demagogue attempts to ge
elected to office by exceeding all othe
men in the denunciation of real evil
and in promises to cure them. 1t car
not be doubted that many worklngme
in this state are about to strengthe
the enemies and weaken the friends Q
by voting for Mr.. Hearst, who is jus
the kind of a demagogue that [ hav
described. He is indeed an especial
dangerous specimen of the class becaus
he is generously rich and owns news
papers of large circulation, and he ca
hire many able and active men to spea
we'll of him, and praise him in speec
and in private conversation. Not onl
is the cause of popular government j
( danger of suffering injury and discredi
| from the vote for Mr. Hearst, but gel
1 uine reform, the real practical redres
h of the evils complained of by the PEI
pie, is in, danger of being .weakene
| and brought to naught by this atteml
of Mr. Hearst to get himself electe
1 governor of New York.
/ Not Praised by Neighbors.
n "What evidence has Mr.. Hearst pr
\ duced of his fitness for this Offices {
Il his private life I shall not aspea
/ further than to say that from no COZ
! munity in this state does there con
n concerning him that testimony of lif
III long neighbors and acquaintance to
III private virtues, the excellence of b
III morals and the correctness of his co
IN duct, which we should like to have Co
A corning the man who is to made go
TN ernor of our state. .. - ], .-+
NJ. :" He is really known. to us solely {
NJ young man, very rich by inheritanc
M who has become the owner of numbt
4 of sensational yellow journals; he hs
n taken in his newspapers the popult
4 side upon all questions relating to iabt
fiji and corporations and has sustained
FIJI by much violent denunciation an
H. many falsehoods, and he has been
II persistent seeker for office on tt
III strength of taking. the popular side; /
NJ has published whatever. he. though
n would please the working people +.
HI the purpose of getting the labor vote
i 13There is, however, affirmative ev
dence of Mr.. Hearst g unftness for II
Ell great office of government You wi
III perceive that to the remedy of corp
III rate wrong for which he offers himse
IN two things are necessary-frst, INTEL
sH gent and well-devised legislation an
\ second, the judicial enforcement of tt
( Continued on ID 1ase, 4th Column.