The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-02
SECRETARY ROOT
ARRAIGNS HEARST
In Name of Roosevelt He
Charges Candidate With
Murder of Mckinley.
CLIMAX OF CONDEMNATION
BLlGHTlNG, BLASTING, WITHER-
ING SPEECH.

Utica, Nov. IA bitter denunciation
OF William r. Hearst which, the speak
er said, had the full and complete in
dorsement of President Roosevelt, was
delivered i'm a public address here to-
night by Secretary of State Elihu Root.
Al the same time Mr.. Root paid an
Eloquent tribute to Charles e. Hughes
ana announced that he was authorized
10 say that the president greatly de-
slres the election of Mr.. Hughes as
governor of New York.
L say to you with President Roose-
Velts authority" said Mr.. Root, that
ne regards Mr.. Hearst as wholly I'M
fit person to be governor. as
an insincere, self-seeking dema-
sogue. who is trying to deceive
the Workingmen of New York
by false statements and false prom
lses, and / say TO you, with his au-
tnorlty. that he considers that Mr..
Hearst's election would be an injury
and a discredit alike TO honest labor
and TO honest capital. and a serious
injury 10 the work in which he is en-
gagged of enforcing just and equal laws
against corporations wrOngdoing.
Have Nothing in Common.
vPresident Roosevelt and Mr.. Hearst
stand as far as the poles asunder.
Listen to what President Roosevelt
himself said of Mr.. Hearst and his
kind. In President Roosevelts first
message to congress. in speaking of the
assassin of Mckinley he spoke of him
as inflamed by the reckless utterances
of those who, on the stump and in the
public press, appeal to the dark and
evil spirits of greed, envy and sullen
hatred The wind is sOWed by the men
Il. 4 Il
cannot escape the responsibility for the
whirlwind that is reaped. This applies
alike to the deliberate demagogue, to
the eXplOiter of sensatiOnalism and to
the crude and foolish visionary who
for whatever reason. apologies for
crime or excites aimless discomfort
Had Hearst in Mind.
"I say by the presidents authority
that i'm penning these words, with the
horror of President McKinley's MUIR
der fresh before him, he had Mr.. Hearst
specifically i'm his mind. And / say, by
his authority. that what he thought of
Mr. Hearst then he thinks of Me-
Hearst now"
Characterizng Mr.. Hearst as a vio-
lent and unworthy demagOgue and a
persistent office seeker, Mr.. Root de-
cared that as a congressman he had
proved worthless public servant; that
while protesting to favor an independ-
ent judiciary he had made deal with
the Tammany leader, Murphy, for the
nomination of a judiciary ticket in New
York: that while inveighing against
corporations his own corporation man.
agement shows the insmcerity of his
profession; that il is not calm and law
full redress of wrongs which he seeks,
but the turmoil of inhamed passions
and the terrorism of revengeful force;
that he is guided by selfish motives,
and that he is mot guiltless of McKin-
ley's death
A Dangerous Demaeoeue.
I'VE are witnessing in the state of
New York" said Mr.. Root, zone of
these tests of popular government
which often have come in the past and
always will come in the future, when
a demagogue attempts TO get elected
TO office by exceeding all other men
in the denunciation of real evils and in
promises to cure them. 1t cannot be
doubted that many workingmen in this
state are about to strengthen the en-
emieS and weaken the friends Of pop
ular government all over the world by
voting for Mr. Hearst who is just the
kind of demagogue / nave described.
He is indeed an especially dangerous
specimen of the class because he is
enormously rich and owns newspapers
of large circulation, and he can hire
many able and active men TO speak well
of him and praise him in speeches and
In private conversation. Not only is
the cause Of popular government in
danger of suffering injury and discredit
from the vote for Mr.. Hearst. but gen.
uine reform, the real practical redress
of the evils complained of by the peo-
pie, is i'm danger Of being weakened
and brought to naught by this attempt
OF Mr.. Hearst to get himself elected
governor OF New York
Question of Fitness.
What evidence has Mr.. Hearst pro-
duced of his fitness for this Office? OF
his private life ] shall not speak fur
Their than to say that from no COM
rnunity in this state does there come