The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-11-23
THE OUTLOOK.
Today's Epoch-sfaking Election

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4. The election for the g~overno-ship Of
New York. which is held in the United
States today. is, by the judgment OF all
Americans Of d~iscernment, OF epoch
making Importance. The candidates
are Mr.. w. r. Hearst, standing as
democrat, and Mr.. Hughes. standing
republican. We have already dealt
fully with the candidates. Mr.. Hearst
is the greatest newspaper proprietor in
the United States, while MI. Hughes
is a Well known and distinguished
Special importance has been given
to the election of MI. Roosevelt's in
PREVENTION on behalf Of Mr.. Hughes.
Seldom or V in political history
has a more terrific diatribe been hurl-
ed against n man by another than
that which, by the mouth Of Mr..
Root, his minister, Mr.. Roosevelt di-
rected against Mr.. Hearst. He de-
nounced Mr.. Hearst as IAN i~nsincere,
self-seeking demogogue who is trying
to deceive the working men OF New
York by false statements and, false
promises" He declared hat Mr.
Hearst sought not the calm and law
full redress Of wrongs, but turmoil or
infamed passions and the terrorism OF
TeNtIlSSIUt lOTCe. MI. E1SdISl a.
guided by the selfish motives Of the
revolutionist, and he would plunge our
peaceful land into the urmoi and dis
cord of perpetual conflict" Finally.
he denounced Mr.. Hearst as directly
guilty of indictments to murder. and
laid at his door the assassination OF
President Mckinley. Since the great
speech which Cicero alleges that he de-
livered against Catiline, but which is
suspected to have been written for his
own glorifcation after the C~atilinarian
conspiracy, nothing has been heard like
this invective. At a stroke it has made
the issue one between Mr. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Hearst. For if Mr.. Hearst be
elected today, it will be the gravest re-
buff which the people Of the United
States have ever administered to a
president.
The iEvective was probably much
OVerdOne. So sane n moderate ar
American observer as Mr.. Maurice Low
states in the current number of the
National Review" h a many people
who believe in Mr.. Roosevelt as they
never believed before in any man can
not differentiate between the remedies
proposed by Mr.. Roosevelt and those
proposed by Mr.. Hearst. If Mr..
Roosevelt has done good and made re-
form possible, then why, they ask, may
ilOl MI. q SIudIi LIZ liC lIlSCiI1
by which good is to be accomplished? p
) Mr.. HearSt's c~andidature has been pro-
: duced by Trust abuses in the United
. States. He stands as the avoWed and
pledged advocate of limitation of the
trusts: and to call him a hair-brained
! socialist is to abuse words. Some OF
. his supporters, beyond any doubt, have
delivered foolish and ~incendiary
speeches, but he himself makes var no
on n a rita1 h11f m n apit41 i1laOitiY0 a. a
ly gained. And in this struggle he ha:
on his side a real grievance There car
be little oub that last year he wa:
really elected Mayor of New York, ant
that he was deprived of this office b,
deliberate fraud. It is, perhaps, TO
this reason that he has obtained So
much support, not only among tn
hungry proletariat, but also anon:
thoughtful professional men an
tradesmen in New York. A mere vul
gar Catiline, as his enemies represen
him might sway the masses. but cOul'
never make an effective appeal to tn
classes who think and know.
1t is the long series of Trust scandal
in the United States that hav mad
Mr.. Hearst so formidable and tn
American people SO FESTIVE. Little 0
nothing has yet been done to brin
the meat packers to book. They ar
III LIN W Noh S"A ocoNS S1AAS ~ Aii"NA
enormous. profits in the process. TIL
Standard Oil continues it's organize
piracy on a gigantic scale. A hundre
other huge and powerful trusts are q
work manipulating prices, crushin
competition, plunderfng the consume,
running the little trader, accumulatin
immense fortunes. Congress appear
impotent, and even Mr.. Roosevelt ha
not achieved any large measure of SUI
cess in his efforts to control the trus
magnates, men who hate him as bitter
ly as they hate Mr.. Hearst, who al
immensely powerful, and who are al
solutely and entirely without scrupl
All the strength of the Trusts will I
used against Mr.. Hearst today. but til
election will really be decided by tn
l moderate men. If they believe thu
) Mr.. Roosevelt can overcome obstrut
tive influences and take affective steI
against the trusts, they will vote Il
Mr. hughes. They know Mr.. Roosevelt
, admire his character, and believe hi
= to be honest and fearless. If. how
) ever. they think that he is likely to /
~OverbOrne and thwarted by the fore
D of the republican machine, which is
= some extent dominated by the r
they will vote for Mr.. Hearst.
either case the vote will be one again
:, the trusts. which may we'll tremble
i the prospects of choosing between Il
: devil n the deep sea But that M,
Hearst's success will mean, as his O.
e p%Onents allege, a general catacylsl
no one closely acquainted with Amer
can affairs for one m believ
The legislation which he would intr
duca YOU seem mild to Englishme
n at the very worst could not do
t American interests half the mischi
that the present British governme
q has caused in the United Kingdom.
This Is Worth Remembering.
!. AS no one is immune, every pars,
u should remember that Foley's Ktdn