The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-20

sumo to be- Democratic leaders, but who
do not and cannot lead the Democrats OF this
State. This State Ia as naturally and nor
mally Democratic as Pennsylvania IL Re-
publican, But the Democrats up the State
are men 81 probity and intelligence and are
moved by appeals to patriotic principle.
and they would no more think Of following
the rifraf which sets itself up as the Demo-
cratic organization than, they would OF
following Pohtius Pilate or Judas Iscariot.
OF course l am aware that there are some
spots in the, State where decent men are
striving for decent things in the Democratic
party, and they are entitled to respect n
consideration. D,
when Mr.. Hill was active in politics he
filed the public eye and was the target for
every attack and all the abuse, and it was
calling themselves Democratic leaders had
sprung up in the shadow Of his sinister
though powerful personality. Mr.. Hills
withdrawal from politics has left a big hole;
practically there Is nothing left but holes,
and the weaklings that tried to stop the gap
Democrats OF this State. and they never can
acquire it.
principle: It's no reproach to a man that
between a man with principle who is scared
and one who rs without principle shows
itself Immediately in action. The man who
has principle and becomes frightened clings
all the closer to his principle, but the scared
man who Is without principle bolts like a
rat for any hole tina seems to be open.
"A. considerable part Of the Hearst vote
in this city last ear was not a agta and
bobtail vote at all, but 10 was the vote OF
an honest s~elf-respecting group OF people
who were inoensed by conditions which
they nae good reason to believe existed
and we're DESTROYS Of striking a blow at and
30 voted for Hearst, not that they had any
belief in Hearst's alleged principles, but that
voting for him was the only way by which
they coul attack these evils.
Those of US who voted for Palmer and
Buckner in 1898 didn't vote for them with
any idea that they could win, but because
we were unwilling to accept we es-
teemed the economic heresies Of Mr.. Bryan
on the money question. To argue that
Hearst has a popular strength proportion
ate to the vote he received last fall il as
faulty reasoning as to argue that the vote
for Palmer and Buckner was to show that
they. personally had a following as great
as their vote. Under the circumstance
they got that vote, but under other con-
ditions they would have got no vote at all.
-Teke the primaries in this city yester-
day. In those districts where IL was an
nounced practically that. Hearst was the
issue see what happened. Falstaf never
led a more discreditable and absurd crowd
than the procession OF Hea rst and his re-
tainers. About three months ago a Demo-
cratic Stat ommitteeman talking to me
about the progress OF Hearst in the State
in picking up fugitive delegates said to
me: jerome, you don't know how far a
little money will go with what ia left OF the
Democratic machine ! said to him: Yes,
/ do. / know they haven't had anything
for a long time except what they got from
the Republican, His retort was; Well,
you don't. When | say little money ! mean
little money. fmean 81. So
Take Finky Corners and Norman
McEackrin Mack in Buffalo. Can they
truthfully deny that their support Of Hearst
is due entirely to the fact that they we're
driven to il by fear, and IN reality by threats
that IL they didn't support him Hearst
would establish a daily newspaperin Buffalo
with morning and evening editionsf IL
thew do deny this they will deny what they
conversation. Yet these two distinguished
gentlemen, one a Democratic national
committeeman, assume to lead the decent
Democratic voters of this State. What
tician who takes your money n gives
you his support or gives you his support
through fear of losing his money!
1T would be funny, II Il were not so serious
a matter, that men OF such a low grade of
intelligence and morals should. with a
straight face, profess to be the leaders of
thousands of decent self-respecting Demo-
Gratis Of this State. Moreover, as a matter
of fact, their talk is mere talk, because
the man that really controls Buffalo is
John Kennedy. The plain truth il that with
the exception OF n few spots there isn't
any Democratic organization left up the
State that IL worth paying any attention to.
If at the Buffalo convention it should
appear that Hearst had great strength
you would find that the great majority of
delegates would be falling over one another
in their desire to be proclaimed the original
Hearst men. II, on the other hand, the
preliminary conferences go TO show that
Hearst's strength is overestimated the
rats that would sell out the Democratic
party for their own selfish interests would
run to cover so fast hat it would take a
microscope to discover a Hearst man in
Buffalo.
Here's a man who has had twice handed
to him on a silver salver by the boss Of
Tammany Hall a Congressional nomina-
ton in districts which were practically
sure and, therefore, was twice mad on
gressman: who goes to the st. Louis con-
vention in 1904 and seeks at the hands Of
the Democratic party a Presidential nomi-
nation, and then comes back here to the
State Of New York at a time when the
~wrongdoinR of the Republican party has
so weakened it that the State may again
be made Democratic with decentDemocracy
and starts an independent State party by
which he seeks to coerce the Democratic
party into obedience to his will under the
threat that IL IL does not yield he will run
and ruin IL. And then men pretending ~
be Democrats and leaders fall into line
and hail him as a Democratic Messiah.
And Murphy, the very man who made
him politically, after Hearst turns on him
and depicts him in his papers as worthy OF
stripes and chains in States prison, hum
bly, fawns on Hearst, kisses the hand with
which he was smitten and begs to be al
lowed to take the crumbs from his table
like a miserable modern edition Of Lazarus.
Il do not recall that Hearst, In accepting
a Congressional nomination from Murphy
on two occasions. declared his detestation
of bosses and OF that boss in particular,
and surely at the time that he got these
nominations the despotic power Of Muir
phy in TammAny Hall was more firmly
established then il ia at the present moment.
Il see a great deal in the Hearst papers
about the impurities Of corporations. But
1 can't forget that the Hearst papers in this
city are not published by a c~opartnership,
by the individual, William Randolph Hearst,
or by one corporation. Morally, | see
little difference between the man who dis
torts corporation laws Of the State for his
own gain and the man who, by publishing
his papers by different corporations, 30
iuRgles with the corporation laws as TO
hinder a full responsibility for his acts
and prevent money from being taken from
his pocket by those whose regulations his
rapSra ha va in iuned. There NAV he n rood