The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-02

wrongs for which he offers himself two things are necessary first, intelligent, land Well-devised legislation, and sec ond, the judicial enforcement of the laws, underlying both of these and nec- essary to both is political purity, for without that neither legislatures nor courts can be pure.
 How stands MT. Hearsts record as to political purity? Why, he comes to us covered all over with the mark of Tammany and Tammanys leader Mur- phy, whom he himself has denounced as scoundrel and thief; he comes to us not answering to the call of the people of the state, but nominated by his own procurement, through as shameful deal with the boss of Tam many as ever disgraced the political history of the state. Gan hypocrisy go further than the willing beneficiary of Tammany Hall preaching political pur- I ity?
 How stands his record as a legislat- Eor? He has had opportunity to prove his capacity and sincerity in that fled. Representative are sent to congress to IdLbplid lO JIl6 DubNlltSS OL lllC COuiILl y Mir. Hearst was sent to congress to do that; he had an opportunity then to lshow how much sincerity there was in tall the talls of his newspapers about reforms and better government.
 What did he do? Why, he did notih- ing. During the three years that he nas been in congress that body has been in session 467 days. There have been 1S5 recorded votes by yea and nay; he was present and voting at but twen- lty-thlee and present and not vting at two; his voice was heard in the con- gross inthose years but once, and that for ten minutes in a personal explana- ton regarding an article published in the New York American; he did not even contribute a motion to adjourn 10 the business of congress. He is so rich that the $15,000 paid him for that neglected service may seem of no con- sequence, but no honest poor man would have thought it right to take it.
 Tt is seldom, indeed, that man so young, whose public caceer has been so brief, so small a portion of whose life Is known at all to the public has fur nished such convincing proofs of his
 UT fitness for office.
 'Hrhe public knows the character of MT. Hearst only by the newspapers he publishes, and God forbid that we should set up in the high station of gov erncr of New York, for the admiration and imitation of our children, the man whose character is reflected in the col- umns of the New York Journal and the New York American.
 "But the worst of Mr Hearst" said Mr. Root, lis that with his great wealth, with his great newspapers, with his army of paid agents, for his own selfish purposes he has been day by day, and year by year sowing the seeds
 of dlssension and strife and hatred throughout our lan1; he would array .anor against capital and capital against labor; poverty against wealth, and wealth against poverty, with bitter and vindictive feeling; he would de- stroy among the great mass of our peo-
 ple that kindly ana friendly spirit, that sprit, that consideration for the inter-
 ests and rights of others. that brother llhld OL IlllAVliclllp NtltSil HlV CGnOitlltNl to the peaceful conduct If free popular
 government; he would destroy that re- spect for law and love of order, that confidence in our free institutions
 which are the basis at once of true
 freedom and true justice. The malig- nant falsehoods of these journals read by the immigrant in his new home where none can answer them are mal1-
 ing him hurt the people who have wei.
 comed him to liberty and prosperity, ttt
 abundant employment, to ample wages , Il to education for his children, to inde- Ipendence for his manhood such as Inc has never known before, What public
 servant honored by the peoples trust that he has not assailed with vile and
 vulgar ephithets; what branch of oul
 free government has he not taught his readers to believe a corrupt agency oi
 oppression?"
 Continuing on this subject, Mir Root 7 said: "Only once has this method o1 incendiary abuse wrought out it's na. 3 tural consequence-in the murder ot . President Mckinley. For years by vile ] iepithet and viler cartoons the readers
 of the Journal were taught to believe
 that Mckinley was a monster in hu- ! man form, whose taking off would be a service to mankind. Let me quote some of these teachings:
 { Mckinley condones the treacherous { murder of our sailors at Havan and
 talks of his confidence in the honor ot Spain. He plays the coward and shiv. CTS whitefaced at the footfall of ap. , preaching war He makes an interna.
 tional cur of his country-he is an ab. Q Iject, weak, futile, incompetent pol.
 troon.'
 { Mckinley, bar one girthy Prince U U ton person, who came to be no more O, less than a living, breathing crime il : brooches, is therefore the most despiseC and hated person in the hemisphere
 his name is hooted; his figure is burn Q ling in eff1gy.'
 t The bullet that pierced Goebel's ches t Cannot be found in all the west.
 Good reason, it is speeding here s To stretch Mckinley on his bier - And this in April, 1901:
 : Institutions, like men, will last unti 2 they die; and if bad institutions anC e bad men can be got rid of only by kill. ', ing, then the killing must be done
 What wonder that the weak and ex. y citable brain of Czolgosz answered tC n such impulses as these!" said tht
 speaker, He never knew Mckinley