The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-22
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POSES HEARST.

NEW YORK, Oct. 22.--ln response
TO a request sent to him by the pub
fishers OF the Jewish Daily News os.
car s. straus has written a letter
giving his views Of the candidates and
issues in the present campaign. The
Republican State committee gave out
the letter yesterday and will have It
widely circulated on the east side.
ar. straus says:
First-I am for Hughes because l
know him to be fearlessly honest. up
right, and capable and not an uncon-
kcionable, Sensational, inslncc re sham.
second-I am for Hughes because
his nomination was brought about not
by selfgeeking and oligarchaI meth
dds, but by the honest choice Of a rep
resentatiye convention.
Third am for Hugh", l,ecauSe he
has been foremost in exposing tbs
abuses Of corporations. ana in pre-
pairing the passage of most excellent
laws correcting such abuses.
FOURTH am for Hughes because !
know when elected he win have no
ether boss but an enlightened CON
science, and no other motive than the
public welfare and that he vii! inter-
pref his duties in the light Of Justice
to all the people without fear Or fas
vor.
sixth-I am for Hughes because the
issues in this campaign are far more
important than party issues, issues
that lie at the very basis of our Ameri-
can institutions, and because We want
an Aemrican government and not 4
government by and for the New Yor!:
american.
| am against Hearst
First Because his nomination was
brought about by methods which are
destructive of Democratic government.
second-I am against Hearst be-
cause one day he pillories Charles
F. Murphy, the boss Of Tammary Hall
as jail bird and the next day he re-
celves from him a nomination for Of
flee.
Third am against Hearst because
he was responsible for throwing ott
tie Queens county Delegates who were
selected by 5000 majority, and other
duly elected delegates. and substi-
tuting his own men. and because his
nomination was brought about by
means that were autocratic and not
Democratic.
FOURTH am against Hearst be
cause he pretends to be opposed to
corporations, and yet in order to es-
cape the responsibility of persona acts
and to avoid taxation he has placed
his newspapers under triple armor
Of corporations, and finally transfer
red them to New Jersey in order 10
escape taxation, liability, and respon-
sibility.
Fifth am against Hearst because lse
through his paper he:ias systeRatlcais
" for years by every means that NAL
ice could invent endeavored to stir
up a strife and contention between
The laborer and the employer and be
tween one class and another class of
our people. l am against him because
he has done this regardless of the well
fare of the people in order that he
might profit by his own wrong.
Sixth = am against Hearst be
cause there is no abuse which he has
condemned which he has not been
willing to take advantage Of when 1t
serves his purpose.
Finally = am against Hearst be-
cause he has sacrificed the tudtcia!
Offices to his ambitions, and aul
fol Hughes because, like Gideon Of
old, he was summoned by the right
eous voices of the people. aud because
he mlflls the injunction Of Jsthro to
SIoses-that the people should select
men, men Of truth who hate
eovetousness and place such men oy-
er them as rulers. Hughes is such
a man.