The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-25
WHEN HEARST KNITTED PARKER.
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Remember That N0w.

w. 9. Rode Guesses tina Democrats VIII
Remember That Now.
william s. Rode, who had charge OF the
organization work for the Democratic
State committee during the campaign OF
1904, said yesterday at the Manhattan
Club:
Il viii not vote for Hearst either now
OF at any other time. I shall never either
forget or condone the wrong he did TO
Judge Parker in 1904. I do not now refer
to the general course Of his newspapers
although that was intended with deioera-
ton to bring about the defeat OF the candl-
date. OF course Hearst has a perfect
right either to support or to oppose a candi-
date, but neither he nor any other mar had
a right really to oppose in questionable
and u~nderhanded ways the ticket which be
professed to support.
"AlI this, however, was nothing COM
pared TO the d~ishonorable and hbellous
methods which were intended TO deprive
Judge Parker for the time Of the n
dence Of men who had always held him in
the highest esteem. Over n over again,
while protesting to support Judge Parker,
Hearst published, often with the sensational
headlines which distinguishes his kind oil
journalism, the statement-alwavs attTi-
buted to some one else-that the Standard
Oil Company had contributed s., 100000 TO
Judge Parker's managers. II was only
natural that Judge Parker should resent
the injustice. To this end he had an inter.
view with Hearst, the tenor OF which he told
me at the time. He said to Mr.. Hearst:
Now you, as a man having unusual
sources of Information, know perfectly
well that neither the Standard Oil Com
raa- nar anu nfhnr nOFnOrafiOn haa OOn-
tributed a dollar toward the campaign
now being conducted. n yet you publish
these statements, to be read ny a large
number of voters in New York, New Jersey
and Connectiout-people whom you have
long taught the doctrine that the standard
Oil Company and other corporations are
public robbers who accomplish their ends
by debauching public officials. This being
the case, what must those readers OF your
papers think Of the character OF the man
for whose election such interests would
contribute g., 900, OOO2 else can they
think than that both he and they expect
that II elected he will be worth to them
many times that amount
Judge Parker insisted that the wrong
lone him by the publications should be
rirhted, and that at once; but as Hearst
is not the kind OF man to whom any appeal
for fairness can be successfully made, that
demand was UNDECIDED. Instead, the Of
fence was again and again repeated, with
the result that Thousands upon thousands
OF honest, well meaning voters went to the
polls believing these wicked lies. 1t Is in
order to ask IL ever there vas a more das-
tardly political wrong done to n man
than that which was accomplished by these
acc~usations-and that, too, about a man
against whose good name nc unkind word
was said ever by his partisan foes in a
campaign which closed in much bitterness.
Some may forget Hearst's attitude
toward the efforts of a united Democracy to
elect its ticket in 1904. but in my opinion
there are thousands Of Democrats in this
State whose memories are as keen as my
own