Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-02

policy that the President is carrying on in
the nation, and should elect to that great
office violent and unworthy demagogue
in the person of Mr.. Hearst.
What evidence has Mr.. Hearst produced
of his fitness for this office?
OF his private life / shall not speak fur
ther than to say that from community
in this state does there come concerning
him that testimony of lifelong neighbors
and asquaintances to his private virtues
the excellence of his morals, and the cor
rectness of his conduct which we should
like to have concerning the man who is to
be made the governor of our state
What evidence comes from his public
career? He has been a member of Con-
gress from New York city, and he owed
his office to Tammany organization and
Tammany votes in a Tammany district;
but he has been an absolute cipher in Con-
gress. That is his entire public career.
He is really known to us solely as young
man, very rich by Inheritance, who has
become the owner of a number of sensa-
tional yellow journals; he has taken in
his newspapers the popular side upon all
questions relating to labor and corporations
and has sustained 1t by much violent de-
nunciation and many falsehoods, and he
has been persistent seeker for office on
the strength of taking the popular side !;
he has published whatever he thought
would please the working people for the
purpose Of getting the labor vote. 1t is
difficult to believe that the hard headed,
shrewd workingmen of America will give
him much cred1t Tor that.
There is, however affirmative evidence Of
Mr.. Hearst's unfitness for the great Office
of governor. You will perceive that to
the remedy of corporate wrongs for which
he offers himself two things are necessary
first, intelligent and well-devised legislation,
which shall strip from the wrongdong
corporate managers the advantage Of laws
made under their influence to facilitate
their practices, which shall clearly prohibit
their wrongful acts and which shall pro-
f1o bA nnnf on6 ha
necessary agencies for enforcing those laws,
and, second, the judicial enforcement of the
laws, which requires upright and courag-
eous judges who will administer the laws
without fear or favor. uninfiuenced by
wealth or popularity or personal friends or
political bosses.
Underlying both of these and necessary
to both Is political purity, for without that
neither legislatures nor courts can be pure.
How stands Mr.. Hearst's record as to DO
litical purity? Why, he comes to US covered
all over with the mark Of Tammany and
Tammanys leader. Murphy, whom he him
self has denounced as scoundrel and a
thief; he comes to US not answering to the
call Of the people of the state, not as the
honest candidate Of the democratic party of
the state, but nominated by his own pro-
curement, through as shameful q deal with
the boss of Tammany as ever disgraced the
politicai history of the state-a deal under
which great body of the regularly elected
delegates to the democratic convention We're
unseated and. in their absence, the nomina-
ton Of Mr.. Hearst was made by the solid
vote of the Tammany delegation.
Can hypocrisy go further than the willing
beneficiary of Tammany Hall preaching po-
litical purity?
How stands his record as a legislator? He
has had opportunity to prove his capacity
and sincerity In that field. Representatives
are sent to Congress to attend to the busi-
ness of the country: there are hundreds of
members of both parties working upon that
every day of every session in the perform
ance OF their duty; the interests of the
country can not be cared for in any other
way; Mr.. Hearst was sent to Congress to
do that; he had an opportunity then to
show how much sincerity there was in all
the talk of his newspapers about reforms
and better government.
What Did Hearst Dop
What did he do? Why. he did nothing;
during the three years that he has been in