The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-03
BRYAN ANXIOUS TO
HAVE HEARST WIN
Writes Letters Urging His
Friends in New York to
Support Journalist.
COLER MAKES Statement
ATTEMPTS TO MAKE REPLY TO
SECRETARY ROOT WHO so BIT
TERLY ARRANGED DEMOCRAT
NOMINEE.
COLER MAKES Statement
Publishers PressJ

New York, Nov. 2.-William ]. Bry
an has written a letter to Bird S
Color, borough president of Brooklyn
endorsing the candidacy of William r.
Hearst for governor. Mr. Bryan's let
ter follows: IT am very anxious to
see Hearst elected, and would have
come to New York to help him if l
thought an outside speaker would
have been of any assistance From
indications, however. he is going to
win, as he ought to. If l have any
friends there 1 want them to vote for
Hearst"
Mr.. Bryan wrote as quoted in per-
sonal letter to Mr.. Color. dated at
Madison, ILL.,, and received on Oct. 81.
The portion of the letter not given
out was of a personal nature. Mr..
Coler telegraphed Mr.. Bryan and Sc
cured his authority to make a portion
OF the letter public.
Mr.. Coler in giving out the letter
said: MIR. Bryan's letter should be
enough for all Democrats In this state.
As for Independents, 1 can not i'm
agine that they are going to take the
advice OF the old predatory political
system. They will. I think, before
voting ask themselves why it is that
every leading beneficiary of what is
known as cemmercialism in politics
is now bitterly and Historically hos
tile to Mr.. Hearst. Some OF Mr..
Hearst's newspaper opponents might
think tho American public has lost its
sense of humor when they solemnly
quote statements of Croker and Nc
Carren, those ideal reformers. Mr..
Roots speech at Utica will, I think,
help Mr.. Hearst. 1t reminds me OF
the poster which contributed so much
toward our success last year. A cow
ardly SANDER Is \ cowardly SANDER,
no matter who utters it,"
What Root Said.
Secretary of State Elihu Root, in
his address at Utica, said he had the
full and complete endorsement Of
President Roosevelt, when he made a
bitter attack on William r. Hearst
and urged the election of Charles E.
Hughes as governor of New York.
Mr.. Root said: Il say to you, with
President Roosevelt's authority, that
he regards Mr.. Hearst as wholly unfit
to be governor, as an insincere, self
seeking demagogue. who is trying to
deceive the workingmen of New York
by false statements and false prom
ises, and say to you. with his author
ity. that he considers that Mr..
Hearst's election would be an injury
and discredit alike to honest labor
and to honest capital and a serious
injury to the work in which he is en-
gagged of enforcing just and equal laws
against corporate wrong doing"
Characterizing Mr.. Hearst as a per-
sistent ONCE seeker, Mr.. Root declar-
ed that as a congressman he had prov
ed a worthless public servant; that
while protesting to favor an independ-
ent judiciary he had made a deal with
Tammany Leader Murphy for the
nomination of judiciary ticket in
New York; that while inveighing
against corporations. his own corpor-
ate management shows the insincerity
of his profession that 1t is not calm
and lawful redress of wrongs which
he seeks, but the turmoil Of inflamed
passions and the terrorism Of revenge
full force. that he in guided by selfish