The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-02
HEARST.
President Roosevelt, Through
His Secretary Of State,
Takes a Hand in the New York
Campaign.
REVIVES OLD CHARGE
That the Democrat Candidate
for Governor Was Responsible
For the Assassination Of Presi-
dent William Mckinley.
REVIVES OLD CHARGE

Utica, n. Y, Nov. "A bitter de-
nunciation of William R. Hearst which,
the speaker said. had the full and COM
plete Endorsement of President Roose-
velt, was delivered in a public address
here last night by Secretary of State
Elihu Root. At the same time Mr..
Root paid an eloquent tribute to Chas.
+, hughes, and announced that he was
authorized to say that the president
greatly. desires the election of Mr..
Hughes as governor OF New York
Il say with President Roosevelt's au-
thorlty, said Nj. Root, that he re-
CARDS MI Hearst as wholly unfit to be
oemagogue, who is trying to drive the
workingmen of New York by false
statements and false promises and I say
10 you, with his authority, that he con
s1ders that Mr.. Hearst's election would
De an injury and a discredit alike to
honest labor and to honest capital, and
a serious injury to the work in which
he is engaged of enforcing just and
doing.
President Roosevelt and Mr.. Hearst
stand as far as the poles asunder. Lis
ten to what President Roosevelt him
self has sad OF Mr.. Hearst and his
KIND In President RooseVelts first
message to congress, in speaking of
the assassin of President Mckinley he
spoke Of him as infiamed by the reck-
ASsso 0Ll0A dLCES IL IUOSe VINO. the
stump and in public press appeal to
the dark and evil spirits of greed, envy
ana sullen hatred. The wind is soWed
by the men who preach such doctrines
ana tney can not escape the RESPONSE
bllity for the Whirlwind that is reaped
/ This applies alike to the deliberate
demagogue, to the exploiter of sensa-
tionalism and to the crude and fool
lsh visionary who, for whatever reason,
apologlzes for crime or exeites ainless
Qiscontent!'
Il say by the presidents authority.
that in penning these words with the
horror of, President McKinleys mur-
der fresh before him. he had Mr. Hearst
specifically in his mind. And [ say
by his authority, that what he thought
of Mr.. Hearst then he thinks Of Mr.
Hearst now
Characteriziug Mr. Hearst as a vjo-
lent and unworthy demagogue and a
persistent office seeker, Mr.. Root de-
clared that as a congressman he had
proved a worthless public servant; thai
While inYeighing against corporations
his own corporate management shows
the lnslncerity of his profession: that
1t is not calm and lawful redress of
wrongs which he seeks, but the tur-
moil of infiamed passions and the ter
rorism OF revengeful forces; that he is
guided by selfish motives and that he
/ is not guiltless of McKinley's death. -
What evidence has Mr.. Hearst pro-
duced of his fitness for this office ?''
asked Secretary Root. He is really
known to US solely as a young man,
very rich by Inheritance. who has be-
come the owner of q number of sensa-
tional yellow journals; he has taken in
! his newspapers the popular side upon
all questions relating to labor and cor
pora tions and has sustained it by much
violent denunciation and many false
hoods, and he has been persistent
seeker for office on the strength of tax
ing the popular side; he has published
/ whatever he thought would please the
working people for the purpose of get
ting the labor vote.
1 But the worst of Mr.. Hearst said
/ Mr. Root lis that with his great wealth.
4 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 dis
/ sension and strife and hatred through
out our land; he would array labor
/ against capital and capital against
/ labor; poverty against wealth and
wealth against poverty, with bitter and
vindictive feeling; he would destroy
among the great mass of our people
4 that kindly and friendly spirit that con-
/ si7eration for the interests and rights Of
| which are essential TO the peaceful con-
duct of free popular government; he
would destroy that respect for law, that
1 love of order, that confidence in our free
institutions which are the basis at once
of true freedom and true justice"
Continuing on this subject, Mr.. Root
said:
only once has this method of in
( cendiary abuse wrought out its natural
consequence-in the murder of Presi-
f, dent Mckinley. For years. by vile cpl
thets and viler cartoons. the readers OF
the Journal were taught to believe that
4 Mckinley was a monster in human
I form. whose taking off would be ser
vice to mankind,
roR NENNoNrrE HOSPITAL.