The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-13
JEFFERSOHIAN IDEAL S
What Hearst Declares He vii
Live Up TO as a State
Executive.
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE IS OUT
Hughes Questions His Sincerity
Challenge Accepted Interest
ing Situation in the Bay
State-Moran Ac-
cepts.

Einira, \. Y. Oct. 13.-William R.
Hearst has fora ally accepted the
Democratic nomination for governor of
New York state in q letter addressed
to W. j. Corners, chairman of TIE
Democratic state committee, and made
public here. The letter says in part:
"True Democrats must stand with JEFF
ferson aud Jackson for the best inter
ests of the whole citizenship, rather
than for the selfish interests of any
party, class, or individual seeking for
special privileges. The duty
Of true Democrats is to deprive of all
authority within the party those who
represent only special interests, and
who seek TO promote Snch interests at
the expense of the general welfare.
Tie Democratic convention at Buffalo
did tGs thing in a most conspicuous
aud effective manner. Democrats, so
called. but seeking after special privi-
lege in reality, were driven over into
the Republican party, where those OF
their class flourish.
Says the Line Is Clearly Drawn.
THE line is now clearly drawn be-
tween special privilege on one hand
and equal opportunity on the other.
The Democratic party, purged in this
state of corporation control and pledged
to end the boss control through which
corporations act, now has an oppor,
tunity to serve the people as efficient
! ly as it did in the times of Jefferson
and Jackson. The Democrats of today
must declare-and they must mean
that no matter how great the wealth
Of individuals or corporations that
wealth must not be an irresponsible
dominating power in government.
His View of the Peoples Demands.
The people, beyond any question,
! demand open primaries and the pas
! sage of direct nomination laws to bring
the government directly under the con-
! troll Of the people. The enforcement
| Of the eight-hour law in government
work. the enforcement of the law con-
cerning the prevailing rate of wages
is demanded by the people, and it is
demanded by Democratic principle as
old as the Declaration of Independence.
Democracy speaks also in denunciation
OF the great Chinese labor menace
which is now revived because of the
Introduction on n large scale of Chi
nese labor in Panama. The suggestion
&c introduce into this country, and to
employ by the tax payers of this coun-
try, a people of low intelligence and
still lower morals is an attack upon the
welfare, moral and material, OF the
American citizen
Accepts Gladly; Makes a Pledge.
Il accept the nomination Of the
Democracy proudly as l recall the
great names from Jefferson to Tilden
that the party has honored and that
have honored the party. 1 accept the
nomination gladly, realizing the oppor-
tllnity for useful Wc1lz which is offered
today to all of those that may be elect
eG to office as servants of the people,
ard anxious to deserve the confidence
1T the people. And I pledge
myself to work with others to rid the
Democratic party, and so far as pos
Sible all branches of government, of
that plutocracy trust element that
seeks to rule both parties and to de-
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