The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-10-04
BIG GUNS ARE FIRED
HEARST AND HUGHES EXCHANGE
THEIR COMPLIMENTS.
Independent Democrat Accepts NOmi-
nation While Republican Nominee
Makes Yellow Editor the sole
Issue in the Campajgn.

New York, Oct. 3.-The Independence
League, which nominated William r.
Hearst for Governor. today received
his, letter accepting the nomination. In
It he says:
Two things are Of special impor-
lance as issues in this campaign-lib-
erty and prosperity.
"The object of the Independence
League is to resist the attacks on
human liberty. upon government Of
the people. menaced by corporation
rule and to resist the attacks upon
porations and by dishonest financial
agencies.
II accept with gratitude and with a
deep feeling of responsibility the NOM
nation of the Independence League.
II accept your nomination with the
full knowledge that the Independence
League and It's candidate for Cover
nor are pledged in honor to extermi-
nate bossism by putting into opera
| ton throughout our State direct nom
| nations and open primaries.
You see a corporation lawyer put
forward as the standard bearer of the
Republican party in this campaign
You see corporation lawyers and vio-
lent partisans of monopolies held up
to you as the only men fit to select
your judges.
The corporations have juggled with
the funds of insurance companies in
open disregard for common honesty.
contempt for the penal code and for
the insurance law. There Is incompe-
tence in the State Department. crea-
ted for the especial purpose OF de-
tecting and preventing these crimes
and breaches of trust.
propose. II elected. to exercise
fearIessly with due regard for the
principle Of home rule the power of
removal given by the people to the
Governor. propose to end control by
the corporations not only in these
State Departments. but in the county
officers charged with the responsibility
of enforcing the original laws of the
State.
I advocate making the public om-
Gals term of office SO short that he
will not have time or inclination to
forget who it is that elected him and
that ought to control him. In partic-
ular, favor undoing the mistake that
heightened the term Of Offices Of the
Mayor of New York from tYO to four
years, and I advocate the material
shortening of the terms of office for
all Judges.
An honest election law, an efficient
corrupt practices act and especially a
measure that will make It possible to
have judicial review Of an election
upon DrOO1 OF 1THuQ OF mistake must
be enacted as of that campaign against
corporation domination upon which the
people have entered.
I stand for irreconcilable hostility
to the appropriation by corporations of
property belonging to the community.
I shall continue to work for the enact
ment OF statute empowering cities to
acquire and operate all public utilities
at their option.
Railroad rates must be reduced and
New York must be placed in line with
other progressive States that are en-
forcing a maximum rate of cents a
mile"
I accept the nomination and pledge
| myself 20 strive in the future as I
have in the past to retain for the peo-
pie the rights they should have and
to restore those which they have lost
(Signed.)
VIM. r. Hearst