Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-16
HEARST PRAISED TOsKY
Former Democratic National Chair.
man Says the New York Editor
Would, If President, "Restorc Popu.
lar Government" and That Bryan
Would Do the same-sixteen Years
for Two Men.

Les Moines, Jan. 13.-"Sixteen years
OF the presidency administered by
William Randolph Hearst and William
Jennings Bryan on behalf of the people
OF the United States would restore
popular government in this nation
said O. A. Walsh, former secretary OF
the national democratic committee and
iowa member Of that organization, at
the chamberlain hotel last night He
mas Just returned from New York
Where he was engaged with Mr. Hearst
In the effort to secure fair count OF
the ballots recently cast there for
mayor.
II am not authorized to speak for
either Mr.. Hearst or Mr.. Bryan" said
Secretary Walsh, but really it is not
necessary, in view of the way that the
people have expressed their approval
OF the principles of popular government
for which they stand and for which
recently Mr.. Hearst has been actively
fighting in New York.
"The corporations have begun to sit
up and take notice of Mr.. Hearst. The
managers Of these institutions are
shrewd, long headed, clear eyed. They
know what it means when he carried
an election in New York City like that
of last fall Think OF it: A candidate
without a party and a campaign in
two weeks and half long only, and
elected mayor of the greatest city of
the nation.
mo wonder corporate influences are
alarmed about him. The influence of
that kind in the democratic party is
just as bitterly opposed to him as he
same gang in the republican party
and they are turning to radical people
whom they hated formerly, but whom
they hate less than they do Mr.. Hearst
in order to prevent his ascendency.
Messages to Congress.
II am not speaking as Mr.. Hearst's
agent n any sense. but only as demo
GRAFT, but if Mr.. Hearst were president
he would do things. That is the kind
of a man the times seem to demand
The people have thought Roosevelt in
dependent and loyal in fighting the
overweening corporation Influences
at Washington, but let me tell you
that his administration would be a
smiling, gently waited zephyr of lazy
May morning compared with a cyclone
III lCopOCI, dlOASoolaC tlIC iiOSSoSOS
which President Hearst would send to
congress. Things would be doing in
Washington, d. G.
"Mr. Hearst has the strength that
has elected the democratic presidents
when it votes where it should; the
strength which makes the republican
party victorious when it is divided
the strength in the industrial centers
The laboring man is for him.
Think of it: In California Mr.
Hearst twenty years ago began
the fight against the Southern Pacific
and kindred octopi and won. In 1900
he went to Chicago and two and hall
years later his ideas were indorsed BY
the people at the polls, and in 1906 he
was elected mayor Of New York City
the greatest center in the nation.
! Industrial Vote for Him.
"Why was he victor in these great
centers? Because he represents the
people and they appreciate the fact
that his sole ambition is not the presi
dency or riches, but to stand as the
advocate and if possible the success
full advocate of the interests of the
people. He viewed the situation. He
saw the railroads represented, the
banker represented, the wholesaler ant
commercial interests represented
more or less, but the great mass o.
the people exploited by greed and sci
fshness had no voice. His papers ant
his voice and his wealth were put tt
their service and today 2500,000 mer
daily. take his newspapers while in
Vulnerable multitudes read them.
HE is the greatest single force II