Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-23
HEARST STRIKES
 BACK 1T CRITICS He Says That the ''Enrious Editors Are Rowling Their Lies to
 HeaYen' HOW HE FOUGHT TRUSTS
'orced Price of Newspapers Down Say. That He Will
 Get l5O,OOO Majority.

New York, Oct 23.-The announce
 ment that William R. Hearst, who
 heads the Independence league and
 democratic state tickets, as well as
 other candidates on these tickets,
 would address a meeting held under
 the auspices of the league last night,
 served to draw crowd that put a
 premium on standing room in Madi-
 son Square Garden. After all who
 could be comfortably accommodated
 had been admitted, those left out
 side were entertained with moving
 picture show and later addressed by
 speakers from the indoor meeting.
 MT Hearst made the principal ad-
 dress in the Garden. His arrival and
 his appearance upon the platform
 were signals for enthusiastic demon-
 strations, and the applause and
 cheering were renewed frequently.
 He opened his address by saying that
 he had just returned from a tour up state in the so-called republican coun- ties and declared that he would come
 down to the Harlem river with ma
 jority and that all the votes he would
 get in the city would be velvet" He
 believed, he said, that he would De elected governor with majority or 150,000.
 He told how he had fought the trusts" in the interests or the peo- pie. He first fought and killed the "gas and fuel trust" and next tackled the '1ce trust" and put the ice trust mayor" out of office. He then made war on the beef trust" and the re- batting system. When the S0-cent gas law was secured and the gas trust refused to obey 1t" the speaker continued, we went into court and got an injunction to prevent the shutting of of the gas supply Of the people.
 T have fought the World and the Herald" he said, "and tn!s afternoon the United States grand jury brought in an indictment against Games Cor don Bennett for sending indecent matter through the mails. And now my friends, did these things for the public alone and the greatest proof of my sincerity Is the powerful ene- mics I have made. You have been told that have made corrupt politi- cal deals, and have made no deals at all. I have made no more deals with Murphy than l nave with Me Carren."
 Mir Hearst continued:
 While I have been away New York newspapers have been lying as industriously and consistently and as ever. They have had this time a little assistance on the side from Boss Murphy, the gentle man who the newspapers have de- clared is so enthusiastically for me.
 If the lying newspaper proprie- tors and editors of this town were all put on oath before the grand jury there is hardly political statement that they have made during the whole of this campaign that they would not be compelled to petract and admit false in every particular.
 There has never been more dis graceful spectacle in American jour nalism than this long line of envious editors viciously bowling their lies to heaven like dogs paying at the moon. There has never been more pitiful sight than the crowd of newspaper degenerate opponents of rather than journal ism, who are spotted from head to foot with the mire in which they have been wallowing, and who fran ticany follow Tallyrand's advice: Throw mud. throw mud: some of 1t | may stick and most of it has stuck | to the throwers.
 'They have told you that my news papers were a trust. as if the people | of New York were ignorant children and did not know what trust was. A trust is a combination formed to | raise the price of product or limit | the output. When I came to this | city I did not increase the price of | but I reduced them. and | compelled the World and Times and | other newspapers to come down in price. Again. when I came to New | York you were getting ten and twelve | pages day in your papers. and I did not only cut the price. but dou- bled the output. Did you ever know Df trust that halved the price and ioubled the product?
 Secondly. my friends. these fren- lied papers and my political oppo- nents tell you I am insineere. Insin- serity is to say something you do not mean. to profess something you are not willing to perform"
 Mr Hearst enunciated the fights he iad made on corporations and for an honest ballot count. and continued:
 'I will never cease fighting these ,ases. and if necessary I will spend .very dollaf I have in the world to nave those votes counted as cast. II ion't want the support of the Captain lidds. the so-called captains of indus ". I defy them and they can vote or Hughes if they want to. I want Q he elected by the people do mt Isk any man in this audience for his -ote. but I want his good opinion"
 A crowd that rivaiIed h nropor- ion the audience within the Garden ,eard Mir Hearst outside. where he made two brief speeches