New-York tribune., 1906-11-02
4 FATAL CONTRAST.

Secretary Root has done a useful and neces-
sary service in contrasting the achievements
and purposes of real reformer like President
Roosevelt with the reckless promises and mere
uicious activities of sham reformer like Will
lam r. Hearst. The latter's campaign man.
ayers have recently had the impertinence to
circulate a pamphlet paralleling certain utter
ances Of his with utterances of the President.
Mr.. Root, speaking for his chief, repudiates
this nauseous parallel and supplements it with
the Presidents real opinion Of Mr.. Hearst.
There could be no possible bond of sympa-
thy between the statesman who has labored
intelligently effectively and unselishly to cor
rect public abuses and the demagogue who has
merely denounced them as q means of captur-
ing popular favor The true patriot revolts at
being bracketed with the spurious patriot who
loves and serves the people solely for the sake
of advertisement. The leader who seeks to
deal with political problems in the timehon-
ored American fashion-wth patience sanity
charity and openmndedness-can have no
brotherhood with the agitator who seeks to
play on Old World class prejudices, on the envy
Of the poor and the resentments of the dis
contented.
President Roosevelt stands for "the square
DEAL" for equality before the law, for justice
alike to poor and rich, for wider tolerance.
fuller sympathy and the abolition of class In
terests and class hatreds. Mr. Hearst stands
for Continental methods of agitation. for the
VIndictiye propaganda of the European COM
munist and socialist. AS Mr.. Root put it at
Utica last night:
With his great wealth. with his great news
papers, with his army Of paid agents for his
own selfish purposes, he has been day by dav
and year by year sowing the seeds of dissension
and strife and hatred throughout our land; no
would array labor against capital and capital
against labor, poverty against wealth and
wealth against poverty with bitter and vindic-
tive feeling; he would destroy among the great
mass of our people that kindly and friendly
spirit, that consideration for the interests and
the rights OF others, that brotherhood of citi-
zenship, which are essential to the peaceful
duct of free popular government: he would de-
stroy that respect for law that love OF order
that confidence in free institutions which
are the basis at once of true freedom and true
justice.
This contrast between the methods of the
true reformer and the meretricious reformer,
between the methods of Roosevelt and Hughes
and the methods of Hearst, has furnished the
fundamental issue in the canvass now ending
Do the voters want to indorse q procedure
through which solid, orderly and substantial
results have been achieved in state and nation?
Or do they want to inaugurate system OF
government by headlines and hysterica camor?
| Do they wish to live under q regime which the
Hon. Bourke Cochran euphemistcally described
as one of riot! Do they propose to have
our public affairs conducted hereafter Sin the
spirit of malice for all and charity toward
| none. in the spirit of anarchy, of Communism
''of Kishineff and of Bialystok"?
These two ideals are as wide apart as the
| poles, and those who choose the one can have
nothing in common with those who choose the
other. Mr.. Root says that President Roosevelt
| had Mr. Hearst in mind when, after President
| Mckinleys assassination, he penned his de-
nunciation of those who OF the stump and in
| the public press appeal to the dark and evil
! spirits of malice and greed, envy and sullen
hatred" and that what he thought of Mr.
Hearst then he thinks OF Mr.. Hearst now 1t
is a bitter Indictment But who shall say that
| 1t does not express the justified contempt of
| the real reformer for the sham reformer of
/ the champion Of orderly and rational political
progress for the charlatan who would only play
on popular impulses for his own selfish ends?