Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1906-11-14

hsd centered upon New York,
growing in intensity each hour.
In that State Mr.. Chas. +. Hughes
had been nominated by the Repub-
licans, and Mr.. VIM. X. Hearst by
the Democrats and boby of citi-
zens styling themselves the Inde-
pendence League. Mr.. Hughes
WAS a puppet candidate; he had
been selected by President Roosc-
welt and the trusts and had
nothing TO recommend him above
the average man save that he had
been counsel in the investigation
which disclosed the robbery by
insurance officers of the large Life
companies, and disclosed further
and hundreds of thousands of dol
lars had gone into the Republican
campaign till. Mr.. Hearst was an
entirely different kind of candidate.
He has by his indomitable enegy
pushed himself to the front in New
York until he has become the
cynosure of all eyes. No figure in
American looms up as his does to-
day for possible political honors
save that of VIM. j. Bryan. Mr..
Hearst has for a long time been
engaged in the hottest and bitterest
fight against corporation plumber
and greed which infeste New York
as maggots infest a carcass.
Through his newspapers he has
stirred the hornets in their nests
until no newspaper in New York,
no trust, no corporation, no organ
lied system for rapid money
making, but has opposed him with
hatred and bitterness uprecedent-
ed. He made a fight for the peo-
pie, the first and only one ever
waged in New York City or State.
This antagonzed every money
king from Rockefeller down,
whether claiming to be Democrat
or Republican, and all that money
could do. aided by every newspaper
in the city outside of Mr.. Hearst's
own papers, every thug that could
be hired, every device known or
conceived of for cheating and
defrauding him were at hand, and
lastly but not least Theodore Roose-
welt himself who for the first time
in the history of the nation be-
smearched the White House from
ceiling to cellar floor with the filth
of State politics, rushed to his as
sistance with all the power of the
administration. Never in America
has such fight been made by any
man. Never has a man, save Mr..
Bryan, who was opposed by exact
ly the same combinations, been set
on by such pack of wolves. Even
French newspapers were hired by
James Gordon Bennett to carrica-
ture and denounce Mr.. Hearst, and
SO in every place where there was
likely to be any weight given the
utterances-and these were copied
with great gusto in our home press.
Thus was Mr.. Hearst beaten.
The mere results of the election
are not so painful TO us as the
manner of the bringing it about.
A gang in New York composed of
such men as August Belmont who
handled the Democratic campaign
fund in the last campaign. Mr..
Thomas f. Ryan who went from
Virginia as a delegate to name a
candidate at St. Louis for the
Democrats were heralded along
with the lesser who trail after them.
and like barnacles cling to their
hulls, as too virtuous to vote for
MIR. Hearst. All their influence
and sc much money as was needed
was supplied by them and Morgan,
and Rockefeller, and Andy Car
negie, and their support given to
Hughes. We have also the pain
ful example Of the disloyalty Of
profesSed Democrats in other parts
of the United States. Many of
our Congressman and at least one
of our l.. S. Senators from Vir-
ginia we're knifing the nominee of
the Democratic party of New York,
but in them VIC see the same crowd
which knitted VIM. j. Bryan in
1895. We have had the same peo-
pie who preach regularity to us
praying for Mr.. Hearst's defeat.
This is beautiful Democracy, this
Is the kind that we are taught. and
this is the kind that makes Demo
cracy sham and a byword, and
will soon make decent, regular