The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-09-19
THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.

Mr.. William X. Hearst, having per
fectcd q temporary ana permanent or
ganization of Mr.. William II. Hearst.
having prepared a platform which was
written by the personal attorney Of
Mr. William Il Hearst III "A convention
of the independents League. OF which
Mr William Il. Hearst is the head. and
of which Mr.. Max +. Ihmsen, an en-
ploNe of Mr.. William X Hearst was
the manager. Il is only natural that
Mr. William Il. Hearst has been nomi-
mated for governor by Mr. William r..
Hearst and the Hearst employees and
would-be employees. All of this perfor-
nance is a part of the Hearst pro-
gram to buy his way into the White
House, or, if he can't buy his way to
dynamite way in.
Two factions of what once was
the Democratic party IN New
York are now lined up against
itself. These are Mr.. Hearst, who
is running as the Hearst candi-
date, and hopes for the indcrsa-
ment OF the so-called regular Demo-
cratic party, and District Attorney
Jerome, who will run as an lndepend-
ent Democratic candidate, who is on n
platform which is merely opposed to
Hearst, who is, in Mr.. Jerome's opin-
ion. intellectually sterile, socially
vulgar and morally obtuse."
There remains the nomination by the
Republicans for governor OF New York,
and then the campaign will be on. 50
far as the two Democratic candidates
are concerned the campaign will be
spectacular and pyrotechnical. Mr.
Jerome is maker not only of epi-
grams, but OF epthets, and Mr. Hearst
has a brilliant and skyrcckety phrase
maker. jerome has already made an
addition to the American language
when he refers by inuendo to Mr..
Hearst as an "octopodieide." If he
can add many more words like that to
the campaign, the gayety of nations
will be increased and the humor of
politics receive stimulus. Jerome, it
may be mentioned in passing, declares
that the tariff is a hard-t times issue,
and says that, like the poor, it has
always been with us in periods of fl
nancial and Industrial depression.
Hearst, on the other hand, is becom-
ing sphinx-like. cryptic and oracular.
In his keynote" speech the other day
he declared that he believed in public
ownership of public utilities" but he
added: II don't believe in private
ownership of public property, nor in
public ownership of private property
When he had announced this and
paused for applause a voice in the gal
lery shouted: That is too deep for
| me- Is there any one for whom that
remark is not too deep? On the tariff
lieve that the protective principle is
valuable in itself, but it has been I'M
reasonably extended and outrageously
abused" and again he expresses a be-
lief ain protection for infant indus
tries" How old an Industry has to be
before It ceases to be an infant Mr.
Hearst did not declare. Probably. when
when he becomes president he will
have the matter defined by statute
Until then his expression is meaning
less. The words cautious" and "con-
sentative appear frequently IN Mr..
Hearst's keynote speech. but, as man
is judged by his deeds. Mr.. Hearsts
journal and American probably ex-
presses the limit of his caution and
conservatism.
It is evident, from the Hearst
speech and the Hearst syndicate pro-
gram. that the Hearst kife Is out for
Mr.. Bryan, as safe and conservative,