Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-02

yea and nay; he was present and voting at
put 70, and present without voting at 2,
leaving 1GO out of the 1856 roll calls from
/ whlch ne was absent and 442 out of the 4S7
| Gays of legislative session when there is no
evidence of his presence: his voice was
! heard in that Congress in those three years
put once, and that was for ten minutes in
| personal explanation regarding article
| pub1shed in the New York American; he
did not even contribute motion to adjourn
to the business of Congress.
He is so rich that the SIS 900 paid him for
| that neglected service may seem of no con-
| sequence but no honest poor man would
nave thought it right to take it. Others
doubtless did the work Mr.. Hearst was sent
| 10 washington to do; but 1t Is of public in
terest to know that this man, who offers
himself for great public Office on the
i strength of what he has printed in his
newspaper about legislative reforms and
| the duties of Others totally failed to per-
| form his own duty and proved a worthless
| public servant in a legislative office-the
| only of1c, he has ever held.
How does he stand regarding the courts?
| There. indeed, if he is to be taken at his
own estimate. he should be found inflexibie:
| an Independent judiciary should be his dear
est hope AS to that he has had great
opportunity, for this is exceptional year
/ of judicial elections; ten new justices of the
| supreme court are to be elected in the city
| of New York. How has he used his new
! political power concerning them? Why, he
has made another bargain with Murphy.
| under which Murphy has named six of
| them and Hearst has named four!
Six justices of the supreme court named
| by Charles r. Murphy, the boss of Tam
many Hall, by agreement with William r.
Hearst, the self-declared reformer. If he
| thus delivers the power over our courts to
the man whom he declares to be thief and
scoundrel, for the sake of getting votes
for the governorship what would he, as
governor, do for the sake of getting votes
for the presidency?
His own corporate management shows the
| insincerity of his professions. Not only
/ does he conduct his extensive newspaper
business through corporations, but he has
| established separate corporations for sep
| arate newspapers, and he has established
| holding corporation to hold the stock of
these separate corporations, and Mr..
| Hughes has plainly shown that he has
! juggled with these different interpretations
to escape his just share of public taxation
and to hinder and defeat the prosecution
| of just claims against him.
| 1t is seldom indeed that man so young,
| whose pubic career has been so brief so
| small a portion of whose life is known at all
to the public has furnished such convincing
proofs of his unfitness for office.
| But the worst of Mr.. Hearst is that with
his great wealth, with his great news
| papers, with his army of paid agents, for
| his own selfish purposes, he has been day
i by day and year by year sowing the seeds
| of dssension and strife and hatred
| throughout our land; he would array Ia
Dor against capital and capital against
| labor; poverty against wealth and wealth
| feeling; he would destroy among the
| great mass of our people that kindly and
| friendly spirit, that consideration for the
| interests and rights of Others that broth
| erhood Of citizenship which are essential
| to the peaceful conduct of free popular
| government; he would destroy that re-
| Spect for law, that love of order, that
| confidence in our free institutions Which
| are the basis at once of true freedom and
| true justice.
The malignant falsehoods of these jour-
nails. read by the immigrant in his new
home where none can answer Them are
making him hate the people who have
welcomed him to liberty and prosperity,
to abundant employment, to ample wages
| to education for his children, to indie
pendence for his manhood such as ne has
| never known before.
1t is not the calm and lawful redress of
| wrongs which he seeks, it is the turmoil
! Of infiamed passions and the terrorism
of revengeful force he spreads the spirit
| he follows the methods and he is guided
| by the selfish motives of the revolution
| list; and he would plunge our peaceful
land into the turmoil and discord of per-
petual conflict out of which the republics
| of South America are now happily pass
| ing.
| Does anyone question the justice of these
statements? Then let him turn to the pages
of the newspapers through the ownership
| which Mr.. Hearst is pressing his political
| fortunes.
What public servant honored by the peo-
| pies trust has he not assailed with vile and
| vulgar epithets; what branch of our free
| government has he not taught his readers
| to believe a cosrupt agency OF oppression!
From His Own Journal.
Listen to this from the journal:
| TT is the sad duty of the Journal to an
| nounce to the people of the United States
| that their President, William Mckinley, has
deliberately tricked Congress and the coun-
mckinley and the Wall street cabinet
are ready to surrender every particle of ma
| tional honor and dignity.
Congress and the people of the United
States have been fooled, tricked and de-
ceived from the beginning to the end"
And to this:
The board of elections has already be-
gun its disgra ceful and discred:table work.
1t has allowed the peoples petitions in
| trusted to it's care to be marked and mu-
tilated and destroyed. 1t has thrown out
petitions by the score, and its action has
| been sustained by the courts even the
| courts last year decided that you, cit
liens, had no right to have your votes hon
| turns, no matter how false, of corrupt exec
| ton officials
| And to this:
| 1.-The effort is being made now by the
| criminal trusts to crush out the power of
| the people in the American government.
| These trusts control your parties, control
your primaries, control your public Off
| GERS and deny you the right to any govern
| ment that will express the popular will.
You are deserted and betrayed by the pub
| lie officers that should sustain you, and by
| the so-caled free press that should sup
| port you"
| Joseph H. Choate, the leader of the Amer
lean bar, whose honored and distinguished
| career is known the world over, has been
the pride of all true Americans is stigma
| tized as "a servile lickspittle of corpora
| TONS
Fulton Cutting ideal citizen. leader in
| philanthropy and independent politics, as a
| worthless poodle.
| Edward NJ. Shepard, the foremost advo-
| cate of civic virtue in the democratic pol
| tiles of New York city as a Corporation
| lawyer"
William T. Jerome, the democrat of indie
pendence above all others, as political
croton bug"
| Timothy L. Woodruff, twice elected lieu
! tenant governor of the state, chairman of
/ the republican state committee, as standing
| "for everything rotten in republican pol
tics
Charles A. Towne. radical representative.
| as "a rat
| Richard Watson Glider, the leader Of the
| tenement house reform of New York, as
| having mo more manliness than an apple
| blossom"
| Thomas Taggart, chairman Of the demo-
cratic national committee, as "a plague