Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-27
HEARST AND LINCOLN.

IL William II. Hearst In his New
York Journal had not said of William
Mckinley, HE is an AFFECT, weak,
futile. incompetent poltroon;" If he
had not said. Mckinley, bar one
gfrthy Princeton person, Is the most
despmed and hated creature in this
hemisphere: his name is hooted, his
| figure is burned IN efigy;" If he had
not said, Mckinley and his Wall
street cabinet are ready to surrender
every particle of national honor and
Integrity" If he HAD not said. "Insti-
buttons like men, will last until they
die, and II bad institutions and bad
men can not be got rid of only by kill
ing, then the killing must be DONE"
Hearst would probably now be liken-
ing himself to the martyr Mckinley
But the time has been so short that
the people have not forgotten all of
this and he can not do that. He must
go back farther, so he uses the name
OF Abraham Lincoln in his campaign
for the governorship of New York
But who knows whether or not Il
Hearst had been publisher Of the New
York Journal during the life of Abra-
! ham Lincoln, he would not have had
the name of this martyr in the place
OF that Of Mckinley in the following
which his paper published:
The bullet that pierced Goebels breast
Can not be found in all the West
Good reason-it is speeding here,
To stretch Mckinley on his bier
However, Hearst's opponent in the
canvass for the governorship of New
York, Charles E. Hughes has taken
the publisher to task for his use of
the names of great men, speaking as
follows:
Nov great names are used in this
campaign, and certain people are shell
teTing their own conduct and their
own professions behind these great
names, which we all revere. Now, if
Abraham Lincoln was alive, would he
organize corporation and keep the
onicials of that corporation so con.
cealed that court would have to
make an order to serve by publica-
ton? Would Abraham Lincoln run q
corporation or any blsiness so as to
dodge its taxes
Would Abraham Lincoln hold
slaves and then go out as an anti
slavery apostle? Would Abraham Lin
coin appear as champion of political
liberty and then take political NOM
nation from boss? Would Abraham
Lincoln denounce a man as worthy of
stripes and then take his hand to get
a nomination.
There was one thing that Abraham
Lincoln stood for first, last and all
the time, and that was his sincerity;
that was his love Of truth, that was
his desire to be just even when he
was going through that great conflict
which would have bowed to earth and
crushed a lesser soul. And, although
detraction was heaped upon him, al
though he suffered from abuse of
those who should have known better,
although he was condemned, that Sc
rene soul stood pure before it's Max.
er, because of his own innate self.
respect and because he walked always
in the light Of his conscience.
"And If there is going to be an Abra-
ham Lincoln issue in this campaign
want my opponent to answer some
of the question have Just put; and
when he straightens out his own cor
porate activities, and when the New
York American and the Star COM
pany, which runs the American, pays
its taxes and acts like a decent citi.
zen, and does no longer evade the law
which protects, then it will be plenty
Of time to discuss Jeffersonian demo.
cracy and Lincoln republicanism.''
1t is for Mr.. Hearst to answer.