The San Francisco call., 1906-11-05

the gentlemen who before them
created the Standard OIL must
contemplate with envy the present
spectacle Of the antitrust trust. They
played clever tricks with the corpora
tion law. but they did not show half
the ingenuity displayed by Mr.. Hearst
in Incorporating himself into a politi-
ca3 party and half-dozen newspa-
pers, and through a holding company
escaping responsibility for his actions
and. taxes on his property. And the
acme Of his cleverness was In the
daring strategy by which, under the
pretense Of opposing trusts. he per
fected his trust machine. Mr..
Hearst. however. does not believe in
paying any such respect to public in
tefligence. He believes with Barnum
that the public exists to be humbugged,
and he makes q humbug a fine art
by volUbly denouncing the very prac-
tees in which he ages.-New York
Tnibune.
In campaign OF the kind Mr..
Hearst is now engaging in he will
learn before It is over. il he has not
already done so, that exactness Of
statement is virtue, adherence TO
which will save him much trouble.
The converse is apt to bring about
situations that are distressing and
amaging.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The disgrace Of Mr.. Hearst's cleo
tion would be felt most keenly here
IN New York, where we know him,
whore We have some pride and some
stake in the safe and honorable ad-
ministration of our public affairs. But
the disaster Of his election would be
visited upon the whole Union. It
would instantly be felt wherever men
are already taking thought about 1908.
M Hearst is preparing his Presiden-
tisl candidacy. He has practically at
his command an immense fortune,
sometimes estimated at $4,000. 900 He
has about him men skilled in turning
TO his account every phase of discon-
tent. every available class interest
every movement Of political upheaval
disintegration. and overthrow. He is
ths most dangerous demagogue with
which the country has had to deal in
recent years If il were possible for
him 10 secure an election TO the Gov
ernorship in New York the country
would be startled by the probability
that he might win the Presidency in
1908 These are some of the reasons
why we think the election of Mr.
Hearst would be disaster-New York
Times.
The decent people of New York
State, regardless OF party. are con-
fronted by public enemy. They stand
as the defenders of the decent people
Of the whole nation against the am
biuons and pretensions Of Hearst
They have no light task before them
Hearst must be smashed and
II can only be done by Republican and
Democrats getting together and going
after him--Chioago Chronicle.
singular contest Is in progress in
California That is Mr.. Hearst's native
commonwealth, where the Hearst for
tune was made. where the young man
fresh from Harvard twenty years ago
took up the newspaper business as
owner Of the San Francisco Examiner.
and where he tried his journalistic
wings for decade before invading
New York. California knows Hearst
the Democratic party of California
knows him. Two years ago the editor
after a bitter fight, secured the in
dorsement Of the party convention for
his Presidential candidacy by the proud
margin of one vote; this year the Cali
fornis Democratic State Convention
virtually repudiated him. The present
situation is that while Mr.. Hearst is
running for Governor Of New York on
the regular Democratic ticket, his In
dependence League in California has
put bolting ticket into the field and
his two California newspapers, at San
Francisco and Los Angeles, are daily
attacking with all possible fury the
regular Democratic nominees Thus
Hearst is regular on one coast and a
bolter on The other coast with the
broad continent between as the field
of his singular anbition.-Springflel
Republican.
The Central Federated Union. New
York's most influential labor body,
cheered Chairman Hatch of the Inde-
pendent Labor party as he told the
story Of how his committee was kicked
out Of the Hearst headquarters. The
great friend Of labor and champion Of
the principle that organized labor
should take part in politics loved
them-in words-as much as ever. but
was too busy dickering with Murphy to
bother with labor committee. In his
capacity Of booster" Ihmsen landed
the Objectionable visitors on the side
walk and the candidate resumed work
on a speech declaring how his heart
beat for labor-between elections.
Hearst is the enemy Of every
man dependent on wages far more than
he is the enemy of the rich. Even
should he fill every Office with a MEM
Der of organized labor the pecuniary
damage he would inflict on the wage.
working class would far outweigh
what its members would gain in Of
fetal salaries. Hearstism implies a
subtraction from the sum of work to
be dOne-it implies this because you
cannot have prosperity in this or any
other country when Industrial partners
are quarreling instead Of cooperating.
And when prosperity goes out the one
door a lower wages scale comes in the
other. Chairman Hatch may object to
Hearst not so much on account of the
jobs he kept for Murphy as on account
Of the fact that he would take from
labor the jobs it now has.-New York
Globe.
The surrender Of New York to the
combined efforts Of a political free
booter, who hopes to be elected to
something some time, and a corrupt
boss, who is betraying his fellow
citizens for despicable bribes, shows
for how little the traditions of a fresh
party can count when the corrupt are
and the public is not aroused. The
whole United States, however, is not
so easily bought and sold as New
York.-Richmond f(va) Times-Dis-
patch CDem.).