The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-02


people for their approval or disapproval,
and it is confronted by two dangers. -,
The first danger is lest the people should
refuse to return a majority OF Republicans
in the House of Representatives, which has
stood SO loyalty by the President, and should
return a Democratic majority which will be
in opposition to the President. DO not be
deceived about tina n our system
Of government effective, Affirmative gov
ernmental action requires the cooperation OF
both President and Congress; that CO.
operation can be had only with a House
OF Representatives of the Presidents own
party. II canno be had by rejecting and
furnishing the members OF the House who
rave been working with the President in
the past.
fict with a Republican Senate, would not
really help the Democratic party, but II
would hinder, embarrass, weaken and dis
hearten the President and his assistants in
carrying OH the policy in which they are
engaged. Independent and patriotic Demo-
Gratis equally with Republicans ought to
avoid a result so disastrous TO our country.
II would be unpatriotic to deprive u
Government of the help and this State of the
credit found in the able and experienced
service OF our respected and beloved Con-
gressman James s.. Sherman.
The second danger il lest in this greatest
Of States, the Presidents own State, the
voters shall reject Mr.. Hughes, who was the
Presidents own choice for the nomination,
who by his character and his achievements
has shown himself fit and competent
in the great Office of Governor of this
State to help hold up the Presidents hands
and to carry on in the State the same policy
hat the President is carrying on in the
nation, and should elect to that great Office
a violent and unworthy demagogue in the
person of Mr.. Hearst.
HEARST s UNFrTNEss FOR OFFICE.
What evidence has Mr.. Hearst produced
of his fitness for this officeY
o. his private life l shall not speak fur
Their h a to say that from no community
in this State Toe there come concerning
him that testimony OF lifelong neighbors
and acquaintance TO ms private virtues,
the excellence of his morals and the cor
rectness of his conduct which we should
like TO have concerning the man who is to
be made the Governor OF our state.
What evidence comes from his public
career2 He has been a Member III Con-
gress from New York city, and ne owed
his Office TO a Tammany organization n
Tammsny votes in a Tammany district;
but he has been an absolute cipher in Con-
gre 80. That il his entire public career.
He is really known TO us solely as a young
man, very rich by inheritance, who has be-
come the owner Of a lumber Of sensational
yellow journals; he has taken in his news
papers the popular side upon all questions
relating TO labor and corporations and has
sustained it by much violent denunciation
and many falsehoods, and he has been a per-
sistent seeker for Office on the strength OF
taking the popular side; he has published
whatever he thought would please the work.
ing people for the purpose Of getting the
labor vote. II is difficult to believe that
the hard headed, shrewd workingmen OF
America will give him much credit for that.
There is, however, Affirmative evidence OF
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Of Governor. You will perceive that to
the remedy Of corporate wrongs for which
he offers himself two things are necessary
first, intelligent and well devised legislation,
which shall strip from the wrongdoing cor
porate managersthe advantage OF laws made
under their influence TO facilitate their prac-
tees, which shall clearly prohibit their
wrongful acts, and which shall provide the
machinery and procedure and the neces-
sary agencies for enforcing those laws, and.
secondly, the judicial enforcement OF the
laws, which requires upright and coura-
geous Judges who will administer the laws
without fear or favor. uninfiuenced by
wealth or popularity or personal friends
or political bosses.
Underlying both of these and necessary
to both is political purity, for without that
neither legislatures nor courts can be pure.
HEARsT's RECORD AS TO POLITICAL PURITY.
How stands Mr.. Hearst's record as to
purity? Why, he comes to us
covered all over with the mark of Tam
many and Tammany's leader, Murphy,
he himself has denounced as a scoun-
drel and a thief; he comes to us not answer
ing to the call Of the people of the State,
not as the honest candidate of the Demo-
cratic party of the State, but nominated
by his own procurement. through as shame
full a deal with the boss of Tammany a
ever disgraced the political history Of the
~ ,ta-a Iaal unAar which n uroat hO6v nf
the regularly elected delegates to the
Democratic convention were unseated and,
in their absence, the nomination of Mr..
Hearst was made by the solid vote " the
delegation.
Can hypocrisy &C further than the willing
beneficiary of Tammany Hall preaching
political purity?
HIS cor AS A LEGISLATOR.
How stands his record As a legislator?
He has had opportunity 20 prove his ca
pacity and sincerity in that field. Repre-
sentatiVes are sent TO Congress- TO attend
to the business of the country: there are
hundreds of members of both parties work
ing upon that every day Of every session
in the performance OF their duty; the in
terests Of the country cannot be cared for
in any other way; Mr.. Hearst was sent to
Congress 20 do that; he had an opportunity
then to show now much sincerity there was
in all the talk of his newspapers about
reforms and better government.
What did he do? Whv. he did nothing.
during the three wears that he has been in
Congress that BODY has been in session t67
DAYS: there have been 1875 recorded votes
by yea and nay; he was present and voting
at hut twentv-three and present without
voting at two, leaving 100 Jut Of the lS5
rollcalls from which he was absent. and 442
ont of the 467 DAYS Of legislative session
when there il no evidence Of his presence.
His voice was heard in that Congress in
those three years but once. and that was
for ten minutes in a personal explanation
regarding an article published in the New
York American. He did not even contribute
a motion to adjourn to the business OF
Congress.
He is 80 rich that the $4,000 paid him
for that neglected service NAV seem OF no
consequence, but no honest poor man
would rave thought it right to take 1t.
Others doubtless did the work Mr.. Hearst
was sent TO Washington to do; but II IL Of
public interest to know that this man. who
offers himself for a great public Office on
the strength Of what he has printed in his
about legislative reforms m
the duties of others, totally failed to per-
form his own duty and proved a worthless
public servant in a legislative oftce-the
only Office ne has ever held,
THE JUDICIAL DEAL.
How does he stand regarding the courts?
There, indeed, il he Is 10 be taken at his
own estimate. he should be found infiexible;
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