The Ocala banner., 1906-10-12
HEARST A sA DICTATOR.

friends.
In New York and Brooklyn he /
received with an enthusiasm not III
lequalled ny Bryan in his first can
lpaign.
| Eesides being an easy sneaker h
has developed auickncss at reparte
which is adding a great deal of ginge
Ito his campaign.
For boldness, satire and uniQuenes
1.-THE speech that he delivered her
Monday night scarcely has al
lequal and rank beside the utter
ances of any of our public men.
4 He thus paid his respects facet
liously and satirically to his boltin:
friends and thanked them for thei
Opposition.
My Friends think the lines o
this campaign should be clearly drawn
between those who are in favor o
Especial privilege and those who are
in favor of popular rights of govern
Those who are in favor of govern
|ment by corporations for their pri
vate profit and those who are in
favor of government by the people
for public benefit
| The independence League was ere
ated for the purpose of freeing the
government from the corrupt and
communicating control of corpora.
tions and liberating the people from
such unequal and un-American con.
ditions.
The democratic convention openly
and scornfully repudiated the corpor
alton agents who were there to invest
their masters money in the purchase
of delegates, and that reputation
was the one thing that made it pos
sible for the nominees of the inde-
pendent league to accept the demo-
cratic endorsement.
The corporation forces are now
united behind the corporation attor-
ney of the corporation party, and
the line | have so long labored to
have clearly drawn is clearly drawn
at last.
In all my speeches and in all the
acts of my life I have endeavored to
make my position clear in this i'm
portant matter. but wish to po-
litely acknowledge the assistance
have received from others.
Nothing has helped me more TO
make this distinction clear than the
opposition of Alton B. Parker, viii
liam F. Sheehan, Edward II. Shep-
ard, Paul D. Crayath, District Attor-
ney Jerome and other corporation at
torneys and paid political agents Of
corrupt interests. Alton B. Parker is.
. typical corporation lawyer. He can
be feed to hold any opinion On any
subject and argue any side of any
case.
alton B. Parker IS tie attorney who
4ppeared in the election case On tl,4
side Of the election criminals IN t.
vegy court he had formerly gracas
ana argued against The very opinion
he ulmseh had formerly rendered,
and there succeeded in securing q re-
yersal of his own verdicJ.
II is possible that the arguments
# Judge Parker were not as effec-
tive as the arguments Of the en-,
ployers OF Judge Parker. but never
theless it cannot be denied that Par
se- argued TO secure the reversal Of
Parker and to deny the people their
po''ti al rights.
And he did this because the cor
20 1t ons who employed him as their
corporation attorney wanted him TO
do It.
| wish publicly to thank Judge
Parker for his opposition to me.
William F. Sheehan is the attor-
ney for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
and other public service corporations
who buy politicians in order to be
able to steal franchises and who de-
debauch the representatives of the
people in order to be able TO exploit
the property of the people.
William F. Sheehan was driven out
of Buffalo because some of his cor
rupt political practices had been ex-
posed.
He was able to live in New York
only because the rest of his corrupt
political practices had not yet been
exposed.
l wish publicly to thank William
F, Sheehan for his opposition of me.
Paul d. Crayath is the corporation
attorney of Thomas Fortune Ryan.
the speculative financier who put
through the criminal merger of the
New York City transportation COM
panies with the assistance OF Attor-
ney General Mayer, and secured con-
troll OF the Equitable Life Assurance
Society with the assistance of the