The San Francisco call., 1906-10-18

istic doctrines of any kind that has
been offered for years. But
either the candidate or the platform is
lie. For Hearst to accept a nomi-
nation on that platform would be for
him to repudiate not only the public
ownership platform. but his own doc
trines. For the Democratic conven-
tion to nominate Hearst on such plat
form is TO make mockery of both
candidate and platform.-St. Paul Pio-
neer Press.
In New York the Republicans have
put their best foot forward and the
Democrats their worst one. = Dis
content cannot win in this country
1t will never again have such a chance
as 1t had ten years ago, and 1t failed
then. This is not a nation of sore
heads. 1t cannot be swept from it's
moorings by colored supplements
scare" heads and appeals to prurient
tastes and evil passions. So long as the
Democrats daily with Populism and
Socialism and political and journalistic
yellowness they will remain a dis
credited minority.-Philadelph Rec
ord.
There are millions of Democrats who
will not march under the red flag The
Republicans offer them q temporary
haven. and admit the belief that the
Democratic wigwam, not its accus-
TONED inhabitants is lost in the pres
ent yellow-red campaign of Hearstism.
In the free silver struggle some of the
Republicans wandered of. Some may
be caught by socialism. At all events
the Republican party in the campaign
of 1906 is the only organization that
stands firmly against the menace Of
insane radicalism, and the only one
that can roll back the reckless assault
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Hearst propa ganda has been
based on violent assaults upon every
thing that exists in America today.
Under the pretense of denouncing evils
and excesses he has instilled into the
minds of myriads of voters the notion
that the American republic is so rotten
and so base that there is nothing to do
but to rend and tear 1t to shreds. So
ciety, according to his malevolent and
lntemperate rawlings. is a. cesspool; all
men highly placed in the Government.
from Mckinley TO Hughes, his oppo-
nent, are subsidized; business is a
hidsous crime and the man who has
succeeded is guilty.--Philadelp Pub
lie Ledger.
II behooves the Republicans to exert
themselves to the utmost to secure the
election Of Mr.. Hughes. Charlatan as
he is, and self-confessed impostor, Mr.
Hearst has energy equal to his ambi-
ton, and he is not letting the grass
grow under his feet Stree the be-
ginning of the year his agents have
been canvassing the state enersetically
in his behalf. and the manner in which
he has opened his campaign shows that
he Is prepared to make a most vigor-
Gus fight for the prize that ne already
imagines to be within his grasp. He
will have the advantage this year of
the cooperation of Murphy's legion of
thugs. repeaters and adopts in every
kind Of political villainy, who were
against him last Novemb ber.-Brookiy
Times.
No party in this state ever nominated
for Governor a worse citizen than Will
liam r. Hearst He deliberately ex-
cites class hatred. He caters to the
cupidity Of the hasest elements in So
ciety. He plays upon ignorance.
Hearsts one hope of election lies in his
ability to keep the ranks of his army
OF Ignorance, diseontent and pessimism
closed up andintact until election day
dawns. He cannot add one vote to it
- totitdtiOh aHo uslud ; oS ~ LOT the
appeal to common sense and fair play
Is now TO be made by man who en-
joys universal respect. who has already
struck sturdy blows in the interests of
the people, and whose character is an
aSsailable. No man OF intelligence can
hsve any doubt of the result, although
Mr. Hughes has only thirty working
days in which to undo the mischief that
has been the work Of years of lying.
scheming and corrupting.-New York
Sun