Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-01
HEARsT's NOMINATION INSULT
But II Gives Honest New York Voters
a Chance to Declare
TheuoseIves
From the san Franclsc9 call.

From the San Francisco Call
The Republican party welcomes the
nomination Of William r.. Hearst for
governor Of New York. The action OF
the Buffalo convention raises an issue
so clear cut that no mistake can be
made. To doubt the result Is to cast
an inputation on the capacity of the
American people for self-government.
Sooner or later this issue must have
come to a showdown and the question
could not be raised In more acceptable
shape than this. The nomination of
Hearst is q triumph of cynical and
dishonest politics, union Of the forces
OF anarchy and corruption, OF Hearst
and Tammany.
BY what devious paths that union
was reached it is not necessary to In
quire. Like his predecessor, Richard
Croker, Charles F., Murphy, the Tam
many boss. is working for his pocket
all the time" Hearst on the other
hand makes his appeal to the spirit of
destructiveness in one breath and In
the next offers a brlbe In the shape of
fantastic promises for the fulhllment
of impossible dreams. One moment he
Is loud in denunciation of the political
boss; in the next he comes arm In arm
with Murphy, naked in corruption, but
not ashamed to ask for the votes of
an American constituency
This is cyuical and dishonest politics.
Tt Is insulting to the electors of New
York state to believe them capable of
condonation for stark and impudent
dishonesty. The platform that Hearst
accepts at the bidding of Tammany
gives the lie to most of the fantastic
pledges and promises of the Indepen-
dence league. Hearst, the boss killer,
embraces Murphy.
Hearst says to the whole world:
"You need not believe a word / say or
expect me to fulfill my promises.
will deny them all and get down in
the dirt for the sake of Office
1t is pitiful and melancholy to see
man of brains degrade himself so
low. We have never been of those who
deny Hearst's natural and acquired
ability. What he does is done with a
full sense of it's meaning and so is all
the worse done. None of us but should
regret to see a man so sunk in dis
honor that he will give himself the lie
and crawl in the dirt.
1t is not in the sense of partisan
politics that these things are said. That
which may be printed on this side of
the continent can have no effect on the
vote in New York. But if the govern.
ment of this republic is to endure there
must be some regard for common hon
esty and it behooves every man to
speak out and not be shouted down.
Take the clamor out of the Hearst
movement and there is little left.
Not many months ago Representative
Bourke Cochran, as the accredited
trumpeter and spokesman of Tam
many hall, denounced Hearst as a So
cialist and worse. On Tuesday, at the
Buffalo convention the same Cochran,
eating his dish of crow at the bidding
Of Murphy, announced that he NOM
mated Hearst not because he approved
the man or his doings, but because, in
his view, the choice lay between riot
and rottenness." That was his strange
apology and excuse. Standing hand
in hand with Murphy on one side and
Hearst on the other Cochran appears
to have chosen both.
We thank Cochran for the phrase
riot and. rottenness. Hearst in COM
bination with Murphy stands for both.
1t is not often that the voter can kill
so many birds of prey with one stone.