Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-11-02

New York" said Mr.. Root, zone OF
those tests of popular government
which often have come in the past and
always Will come in the future, when
demagogue attempts TO get elected to
office by exceeding all other men in
the denunciation of real evils and in
promises to cure them.
Mr.. Hearst was sent to congress,
and had opportunity 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 nothing. During the three years
that he has been in congress that body
has been in session 4G1 days; there
have been 167 recorded votes by yea and
nay. He was present and voting at but
twenty three and present without vot-
ing, at two. His voice was heard in
that congress in those years but once.
and that for ten minutes on person
al explanation regarding an aticle pub
lished in the New York American; he
did not even contribute a motion to
adjourn, to the business OF congress.
NOT A BEAUTIFUL CHARACTER.
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 American.
But the worst of Mr.. Hearst" said
Mr.. Root, lis that with his great
wealth, with his great newspapers.
with his army of paid agants. for his
own selfish purposes he has been day
by day and year by year sowing the
seeds OF dissensiOn and strife and hat
red throughout our land. He would
array labor against capital and capital
against labor; poverty against wealth,
and wealth against poverty with hit
ter and vindictive 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 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
dence in our free Institutions which are
the basis at once of freedom and true
justice. The malignant falsehOods of
these journals. read by the Immigrant
in his new home, where none can an
swer him, are making him hate the
people who have welcomed him to lib
erty and prosperity. to abundant en-
plOyment to make ample wages. to
education for his children, to inde-
pendence for his manhood. such as he
has never known before. What public
sevant horored by the peoples trust,
has he not assailed with vile and vulgar
epithets; what branch of our free gov
ernment has he not taught his readers
to believe a corrupt agency of oppres-
sion?"
INClTEMENT TO MURDER.
Continuing on this subject, Mr.. Root
said: "Only once has this method of
incendiary abuse brought out it's nat
ural consequeuces-in the murder of
President Mckinley. For years. by vile
epithets and viIer cartoons. the readers
of the Journal were taught to believe
that Mckinley was a monster IN human
form, whose taking off would be a ser
vice to mankind. Let me quote some
of these teachings: Mckinley condones
the treacherous murder of our sailors
at Havana and talks of his confidence
in the honor of Spain. He plays the
coward and shivers white faced at the
football of a progressing war. He makes
an international cur of his country. He
is an abject, weak. futile, incompetent
poltroon.
&c Mckinley. bar one girthy Prince
ton person. who came to be no more
nor less than a living. breathing crime
in breeches, is therefore the most de
spised and hated creature in the hem
isphere; his name is hooted. hissed, his
figure is burning in effigy.
The bullet that pierced GoebeTs
chest.
Cannot be found in all the west:
Good reason; it is speeding here.
To stretch Mckinley on his bier
"And this. in April. 1901: Tnstitu-
tions. like men. will last until they
die. and if bad institutions and bad
men could be gotten rid of only by
killing, then the killing must be done.
What wonder that the weak and ex-
citable brain of Czolgos answered to
such impulses as these" said the speak
er. HE never knew Mckinley; he had
no real or fancied wrongs Of his own
to avenge against Mckinley or McKin-