The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-02
PRESIDENT BITTERLY
 DENOUNCES HEARST
THROUGH SECRETARY ROOT HE LASHES WITHOUT MERCY
 THE "DEMAGOGUEO

His Election Would be an Injury
 and a Discredit Alike to Honest La-
 bor and Honest CapItal-His Private
 Life Doubtful.
 Utica, N. Y, Nov. IA bitter denun- citation of William R. Hearst, which, the speaker said, had the full and conl- plete endorsement of President Roose- welt, was delivered in a public address here tonight by Secretary of State Elihu Root. At the same time MT. Root paid an eloquent tribute to Charles D. Hughes and announced that he was authorized to say that the pres ident greatly desires the election of MT. Hughes as governor of New York.
 T say o you, win Presiden Roose- velt's authority" said MT Root that he regards MT. Hearst as wholly unfit to be governor, as an insincere, self seeking demagogue, who is trying to deceive the Worl1ingmen of New York by false statements and false promises; and I say to you, with his authority, that he considers that MT. Hearst's election would be an injury and dis credit alike to honest labor and to hon. est capital, and serious injury to the work, in which he is engaged, of en- forcing just and equal laws against corporate wrong-doing, President Roosevelt and MT. Hearst stand as far as the poles asunder. Listen to what President Roosevelt himself has said of MT. Hearst and his kind. In Presi- dent Roosevelt's first message to con- gress, in speaking of the assassin of Mckinley, he spoke of him as influenced by the reckless utterances of those who, on the stump and in the public press, appeal to the dark and evil spir- its of malice and greed, envy and sullen hatred. The wind Is soWed by the men who preach such doctrines, and they cannot escape the responsibility for the whirlwind that Is reaped. This applies alike to the deliberate demagogue, to the exploiter of sensationalism and to the crude and foolish visionary who, for whatever reason, apologizes for crime or excites ain1less discontent.'
 II say, by the presidents authority, that in penning these words, with the horror of President McKinley's murder fresh before him, he had MT Hearst specifically in mind. And say, by his authority, that what he thought of MT. Hearst then he thinks of Mir. Hearst now"
 Characterizing MT. Hearst as a vio- lent and unworthy demagogue and a persistent office seeker, MT. Root de- clared that as a congressman he had proved worthless public servant; that while protesting to favor an independ- ent judiciary he had made deal with Tammany Leader Murphy for the nom- ination of a judiciary ticket in New s York; that while inveighing against his own corporate man. agement shows the insincerity of his profession; that it is not calm and law full redress of wrongs which he seeks but the turmoil of inflamed passions and the terrorism of revengeful force; that he is guided by selfish motives, and that he is mot guiltless of MeKin- ley's death.
 We are witnessing in the state of New York" said MT. Root, lone of those tests of popular government which often have come in the past and always will come in the future, when a skilful dAmagogue attempts to get elected to office by exceeding all other men in the denunciation of real evils and In promises to cure them. It can- not be doubted that many workingmen in this state are about to strengthen the enemies and weaken the friends of popular government all over the world by voting for MT. Hearst, who is just the kind of a demagogue that l have described He is indeed an especially dangerous specimen of the class, be- cause he is enormously rich and owns newspapers of large circulation, and he can hire many able and active men tc sneak well of him and praise him ir speech and in print and In private con- versatfon. Not only is the cause of popular government in danger of sui fering injury and discredit from the vote for MT. Hearst, but genuine re- form, the real practical redress of the evils complained of by the people IS 1T danger of being weakened and brought to naught by this attempt of Mr. Hears to get himself elected governor of New York
 "WIhat evidence has MT. Hearst pro duced of his fitness for this office Q his private life I shall not speak fur ther than to say that from no communl ty in this state does there come con cerning him that testimony of life loni neighbors and acquaintances, to hl private virtues, the excellence of. hl morals, and the correctness of his con duct which we should like to have con cerning the man who is to be mad governor of our state.
 "He is really known to us solely as young man, very rich by inheritance who has become the owner of a mum of sensational yellow journals; he ha taken in his newspapers the popula side upon all questions relating to la bor and corporations, and has sustain ed ii by much violent denuncttatiol and many falsehoods, and he has beel a. persistent seeker for office on tn strength of taking the popular side he has published whatever he though would please the working people for tn purpose of getting the labor vote.
 'There is, however, affirmative evi dence of MT. Hearst's unfitness for tn
 great office of governor. You will per ceive that to remedy the corporat
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