The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-04
HEARST WRITES
HIS ACCEPTANCE
Independence League Gets
Letter From Its Candidate
for Governor. .
TELLS WHAPHE WOULD DO
HUGHES AssAILED AS CORPORA
TON LAWYER.
TELLS WHAFHE WOULD DO

New York, Oct. 3.-The Independence
league, which nominated William r.
Hearst for governor, today received
from Mr.. Hearst his letter accepting
the nomination. In his letter he says:
The great problem of the hour, the
problem that the people must solve
with their ballots and in legislation, is
10 do away with corporation control of
the government. That control is now
practically absolute. 1t rests mainly
upon our system Of partisan politics,
directed by boss rule and subject to
trust ownership.
1 accept your nomination with the
luii knowledge that the independence
league ana its candidates for governor
are pledged in honor to the extermina-
ton of bossism by putting into opera
ton throughout our state the system
OF direct nominations and open prima-
ries.
The league has so aroused the peo-
pie upon the fundamental issues of
government by trusts or by citizens
that already they have called for the
Democratic action by the masses of
the Democratic party.
Calls Hughes Corporation Lawyer.
You see a corporation lawyer put
forward as the standardbearer of the
Republican party in this campaign.
You see corporation lawyers and vio-
lent partiSans of monopolies held I'D
TO you as the only men fit TO select
your judges.
The people know that their enemies
are the originators and managers of
oppressive TRUSTS. They know that
these trusts are in control of the ma
chine of the Republican party i'm this
state. They see Mr.. Sheldon chosen as
treasurer TO raise and spend the
money for Mr.. Hughes, the corpora
-don attorney. And when they realize
that Mr.. Sheldon. director in twenty
one corporations, VIGOROUSLY connect
ed with the collapsed shipbuilding
trust. is the financial reliance of the
ticket which Mr.. Hughes heads. they
| cannot look on that ticket as promis-
ing much for the prosperity of the
mass of the people.
Drastic Action Demanded.
I'm regard to the violations of finan-
cial trust and the uneasiness repeat
eddy caused by revelations of dishon-
esty in banks, trust companies, build
ing and loan associations. such as the
Merchants Trust company. the Ger
man bank of Buffalo and the New
York Building & Loan association.
there is no question that the public
welfare demands drastic action.
1T is alarming that these instances
of faithlessness and dishonesty should
occur with without effective opposi-
ton or rebuke from the banking de-
partment. if not with it's connivance
1 purpose. if elected. to remove Kill
burne, reorganize the department and
have il administered so as to carry out
both the letter and the spirit of the
law.
THE corporations have juggled with
the funds of insurance companies in
open disregard for common honesty
contempt for the penal code and for the
insurance law. There is incompetence
I'm the state department created for the
especial purpose Of detecting and pre-
venting these crimes and the breaches
of trust. l purpose, if elected. to re-
move the present incumbent and re-
organize this important department.
Would Bounce Mcclellan.
Il purpose. if elected, to exercise
fearlesSly, with due regard for the
principle of home rule, the power OF
removal given by the people to the
governor. / purpose TO end control by
the corporations.
Not only I'm these state depart
ments. but i'm the county officers
charged with laXity of enforcing the
original laws of the state. L purpose
TO put a premium upon the enforce
ment of the law, instead of encourag-
ing its violations by tOlerating in Of
fee officials who grant immunity 20
powerful and influential offenders.
Il advocate making the public Of
ficials' term of Office so short that he
= viii not have time or inclination to for
get who it is that elected him, and
that ought to control him. In particu-
lar. ] favor undoing the mistake that
heightened the term of office of mayor