The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-02

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gave him deserved national replta-
Etion. gone te the bottom Z the in
H~srrance scandals. Neither Hughes nor
Higgins nog the Republican L@gisla-
.ture deserved any credi. for opening
tine running sore. Mr. Hughes was
Ibu.v practising his profession and ut-
TERED no word a. q citizen I'll condem-
nation IF thu theft II widows and or
iphans. II was only when ne vas paid
TO probe the matter that he took any
Interest in the frauds. When employed
he gave his clients the best thai was
lin him. shielded nobody and brought
to light under oath facts that proved
more than Mr.. Bryan charged in 1895
land that The New York World and
1.-The New York American had asserted
existed in their insistent demand for a
fun investigation-a demand which
Governor Higgins and the Republican
Legislature sought to circumyent in
every way in their power. The New
York World did more to compel the
Investigation than any other single
lagency. and Mr.. Hearst's paper was a
close second. and most Of the press
coined these widely circulated papers
in fighting until they forced Higgins
and the Legislature to act, unwilling
as they were To take in hand the in
v~estigation which showed that the big
insurance companies officials were
stealing the money of widows and or
phans to keep the Republican party
in power. If the World, the Ameri-
can and other newspapers had KEEP
silence, the whole scandal would have
been smOthered up by Higgins and
the rest. Mr.. Roosevelt himself. who
had discharged faithful attorneys be
cause they insisted upon prosecuting
RooseVelt's Secretary Of the Navy for
Violating the rebate law, gave Morton
a certificate of character as an ideal
man to reform insurance abuses when
he knew that Morton's illegal acts
were not far removed from AleXan-
der's. AS to Mr.. Hughes, his only con !
Inection with the insurance scandal
was as a paid lawyer. He did his duty !
with conspicuous ability. As soon as
he had ended his professional duty, |
he returned TO his private practice,
and later went to Europe. If, except
as Il paid attorney, he did one thing
to help pOlicy-holders and help to end
the gigantic schemes of graft, nobody
ever heard of it. And yet, like the
New York dramatic way of rendering
to one star performer the homage thai
belongs to others, there is q hysterical
aGulation of Mr.. Hughes for doing
faithfully what he was paid to do aPd
an equally hysterical abuse of MI.
Hearst whose did much
to force the Republicans to hire Mr..
Hughes to do for pay what Mr.. Hearst,
Mr.. Pulitzer ana other editors We're
doing without pay and in the face of
knowledge Of loss Of big advertising
from the insurance companies under
fire. But that's New York's a
The "delirium tremens' spectacu-
of New York was seen
equally in the Democratic as in the
Republican State convention. The
strange spectacle was seen Of a con
test between Mr.. Jerome, whose sue
cess in politics has all come through
opposing the nominees of the Demo-
cratic party, and Mr.. Hearst, already |
the nOmine of the Independence
League who openly asserted that he
run for Governor as the League
candidate against the regular Demo- |,
cratic nominee unless the n
vention made him the candidate.
Both candidates had been con- Il
spicuous boilers in city politics and
based their candidacy largely upon the /
ability to get votes outside the party
because they despised party regularity. Il
And it was we'll known that if either
won in the convention, the other would I
bolt the nomination. Could two men Z
with such political records have been I
anywhere else eXcept in t
New York? When the convention met {
it was clear that Jerome had no {
to win, he sought to defeat {
Hearst, and failing in that, he now t
declares that he Will actively support
the Republican nominee. The {
Hearst men expected this and the :
platform gives a severe rap to Jerome
not enforcing the laws against the l
big insurance thieves and other high I
criminals. But the delegates to |
the Democratic State had
little more to do With the nomination
of Hearst than the delegates to the
convention had to do with
he nomination of Hughes. 1t became .
apparent that, while there was a real +
and a hot fight between the Hearst z
and anti-Hearst forces, the Tammany
delegates would determine who should 7
be nominated, and it was soon clear Y
hat Murphy by the use of the unit /
rule could control the Tammany vote. !
He threw it to Hearst and thereby en-
lbled the Hearst forces to control the
organization Of the convention. de-