The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-08-20
HEARST TO Be CANDIDATE
Fight Between Newspaper Man and Me-
braskan Dates from 1904.

Washington, Aug. 17.-(Special cor.
respondence delayed in transmission. }
AS grand row as the democratic
party ever had is in the making. Will.
liam Randolph Hearst is making
preparations for evening up scores
with William Jennings Bryan.
Hearst has a grievance. He be.
lieves if Bryan had thrown his in.
tiuence to him in 1904 Hearst would
have been the nominee instead OF
Parker. Bryan, just as anxious to
prevent the nomination of Parker, re-
fused to yield his judgment to Hearst
and in this fact is the provocation for
the impending clash between the rad.
ical Of the east and the radical from
the west.
Since Bryan passed the word to his
followers to get busy in his own be
half, Mr.. Hearst has been planning in
every way for extending the Inde'
pendence league, a personally owned
ard conducted Hearst society. N
New York few days ago it was an
nounced there would be a gathering
of the Independent, league leaders
for consultation rs 70 the campaign
OF 1908, with a view to placing a
ticket in the field, Translate ;hat
into plain English. and it means the
employees of Hearst will meet and
decide upon new territory where they
can extend their organization.
The control of the society, by rea-
son of the fact that it is corpora.
ton, rest in Hearst When it meets
it is the same as when any Of the cor,
porations having to do with the pub.
lication of Hearst papers meets to
transact business. 1t acts in accord.
ance with the views of the majority
stockholder.
The Hearst people, recognizing the
excitement in Idaho and Colorado
'
produced by the acquittal Of Hay.
wood, are preparing to go into these
states, preaching as the enemies as
sert, the gospel of discomfort with
view to their own political benefit
Missouri is also looked upon with
favor, and the old "shoW-me' state
is on the list of those that are to be
blessed with branches Of the Inde
pendence league.
All this activity is to lead up to a
national convention to be held some
time before the democrats assemble
in convention. And what will a con
vention do? The Bryan people have
no other expectation than that Will
liam Randolph Hearst will be nomi
mated for the presidency, so that
when the democratic convention as
sembles the Hearst people will be
there making overtures to have the
Independence league candidate in
dorsed. The alternative will Xbe az
independent ticket in every Nstate
where the radical vote, which might
. naturally be expected to go to Bryan
is at all strong.
1t is not hard to recognize herein
the identical scheme that was fol
lowed in New York state last year
when Hearst forced the nomination OF
himself and number of his col
leagues on the independence league
tickettpy the democrats. Hearst is
said to have an understanding witt
Chairman Corners of the Empire
state committee, and Charles Muir
phy, the Tammany leader, that the.
will throw their strength to him a
the time he asks for it, and thus com
bine the regular organization ant
the Hearst guerrilas to prevent Bel
mont and Parker getting control o
the state convention that will sent
delegates at large to the nationa
convention, and will be able to force
the unit rule against all the delegates
from New York.
The independence league at pres
ent finds its chief strength in New
York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Il
linois and California. Those are th'
states where Hearst's publication
have built up following for tn
head OF that publication syndicate
But a national convention of dele