The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-02

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concerning him that testimony of life
long neighbors and acqualntanceS TO
his private virtues, the excellence of
his morals and the correctness of his
conduct, which we should like to have
concerning the man who is TO be made
governor of our state.
He is really known TO us solely as
a young man very rich by Inheritance,
who has become the owner of number
OF sensational yellow Journals; he has
taken in his newspapers the popular
side upon all questions relating 10 Ia
Dor and corporations, and has sustained
it by much violent denunciatiOn and
many falsehoods and ne has been a
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.
Record of Hearst.
There is, however, affirmative evil
dence of Mr.. He6rsts unfitness for the
great office of governor. You will per-
ceive that to the remedy of corporate
wrongs for which he offers himself two
things are ecessary-first, intelligent
and we'll devised legislation and, sec
ond. the judicial enforcement of the
laws. 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 political purity? Why, he comes to
us covered all over with the mark Of
Tammany AMI Tammany's leader, Muir
ply, whom he himself has denounced
as seoundrel and a thief; he comes to
us not answering to the call of the
people of the state, not as the highest
candidate of the Democratic party of
the state, but named by his own pro-
curement, Though as shameful deal
with the boss of Tammany as ever dis
graced the political history of the state
Can hypocrisy go further than the will
ing beneficiary of Tammany hall
preaching political purity?
Hearst in Congress.
How stands his record as a legisIa-
tor? He had opportunity to prove his
capacity and sincerity in that field
Repres entatives are sent to congress to
attend to the business of the country.
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 papers about reforms
and better government.
What did he do? Why, he did moth
ing During the three years that he has
been in congress that body has been in
session ACT days; there have been 185
recorded votes by yea and nag; he was
present and voting at but twenty-three
and present without voting at two; his
voice was heard in that congress in
those years hut once, and that for ten
minutes on a personal matter regarding
an article published in the New York
American: he did not even contribute
a motion to adjourn to the business of
congress
Known by His Newspapers.
HE is so rich that the 900 paid
him for that neglected service may
seem of no consequence, but no honest
poor man would have thought il right
to take it.
cit is seldom, indeed, that q man so
young, whose public career has been so
brief, so small a portion of whose life
is known at all TO the public, has fur
nished such convincing proofs of his
unfitness for office.
'.The public knows the character of
Mr.. Hearst only by the newspapers he
publishes. and God forbid that we
should set up in the high station of
governor of New York. for the admir-
alton and imitation of our children, the
man whose character is reflected in the
columns of the New York Journal and
the New York American.
Sowing Seeds of Discord.
but the worst of Mr.. Hearst" said
Mr.. Root, ''is that with his great
wealth. with his great newspapers, with
his army of paid agents, for his own
selfish purposes he has been day by
day and year by year sowing the seeds
of dissension and strife and hatred
throughout our land; he would array
labor against capital and capital
against labor; poverty against wealth
and wealth against poverty, with bitter
and yindictive feeling: he would de-
stroy among the great mass of our peo-
pie that kindly and friendly spirit, that
consideration for the interests and
rights of others, that brotherhood of
citizenship which are essential to the
peaceful conduct of free popular gov
ernment. he would destroy that respect
for law that love of order, that conf
denee in our free institutions which are
the basis at once of true freedom and
true justice. The malignant falsehoods
of these journals, read by the immi-
grant in his new home, where none
can answer them, are making him hate
the people who have welcomed him tc
liberty and prosperity, to abundant EN-
ployment, to ample wages, to educa-
ton for his children. to independence
for his manhood, such as he has never
known before. What public servant
honored by the peoples trust has he