Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-11-02
ROOT attacks HEARST.

The brand of assassin" was placed
upon the forehead of William R. Hearst,
at Utica, n. Y last night. 10 scaIh-
ing speech Hon. EIihu Root, Secretary
of State in The Presidents Cabinet, held
Mr.. Hearst responsible for the death of
Mckinley He declared that ne spoke
by authority of President Roosevelt
This was one of the most sensational of
the many climaxes that have punctusted
the closing days of the gubernstorial
campaign in that State. II was the most
relentless denuuciatioD of & public man
ever heard "Is there no one left who
loved McKinleyp' the speaker asked,
after rea5iug extracts from Mr.. HearsFs
newspapers previous to the assassination,
in support of his charges that Hearst
urged the shooting at Buffalo. care
there no workingmeu left in New York, "
he demanded, "who cannot see with
satisfaction bonors heaped upon the man
who is not guiltless OF Mckinley s
death :"
II say to you, with President Roose-
yelt's authority" said Mr.. Root, that
he regards Mr. Hearst as wholly unfit to
be governor, as an insincere, self-seeking
demagogue, who is trying to deceive the
workrngmen OF New York by false state
ments and false promises; and | say to
you, with his authority, that be con-
siders that Mr.. Hearst's election would
be an injury and discredit alike to
honest labor and TO honest capital and a
serious Injury to the work 10 which he is
engaged Of enforcing just aud equal laws
against corporate wrongioing."
Characterizing Mr.. Hearst as violent
and unworthy demagogue, and per-
sslent officeseeker, Mr.. Root declared
that as congressman he had proved a
worthless public servant.
these charges. concluding a speech OF
unusual bitterness, fell with astounding
force upon the Secretary's hearers, be-
cause Of the understanding that it WAS
this portion of his speech that he Presi-
dent had prepared by his own hand, to
meet the recent claims OF the Hesrs,
managers that their candidate and Presi
dent Roosevelt entertained the same
views upon all public questions. During
his speech he said: at is seldom, in
deed, that a man so young, whose public
career has been so brief, so small Dor.
ton of whose life is known at all 10 the
public, has furnished such convincing
proofs of his unfitness for Office.
1.-The public knows the character Of
Mr.. Hearst only by the newspapers he
publishes, and God forbid that we should
set up in the high station Of governor OF
New York, for the admiration and imi-
tation of our children, the man whose
character is ref cted in the columns Of
the New York Journal and The New
York American.
"But the worse of Mr. Hearst" said
Mr.. Root. sis that with his great news
papers, with his army of paid agent,
for his own selfish purposes, he has been
day by day and year by year sowing the
seeds of discussion and strife and hated
throughout our land.
"An absolute cipher in Congress
"Czolgosz had no real or fancied wrongs
of his own tOaveuge against McKi ley or
McKinley's government; be was answer
ing to the lesson be had learned, that 1t
was service to mankind to rid the earth
ofa monster; and the foremost ofthe teach
ers of these lessons to him and his kind
was, and is William Randolph Hearst
and his yellow journals.
81 say, by the Presidents authority,
,',L.st in penning these words, with the
horror of President McKinley's murder
fresh before him, he had Mr.. Hearst
specifically 10 his mind"