The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-04-05

of the present Chicago mayoralty cam.
palgn. which Chicago people declare
Is being watched all over the world
Is the announcement that william
Randolph Hearst has fled suit against
the Chicago Tribune for two million,
Ave hundred Thousand dollars. Mr.
Hearst charges the Tribune with hav.
ing libelled him. The Tribune reprint.
ed an extract from the speech OF Score.
tary Root delivered In New York last
fall when Hearst was running for gov.
ernor. And. though he did nothing at
the time II was originally printed, Mr..
Hearst takes this occasion to ask for
$2,500,000 to soothe his injured feel.
lngs' JseD fsit1 APIS
II Is queer that Mr.. Hearst should
wait 80 long and then sue on the
reprint instead of jumping into the
game when Mr.. Root first spoke and
suing not only Root but all OF the
newspapers OF the country, which car.
ried the report at the time.
During the week Mr.. Hearst, bring.
ing Arthur Brisbane and his bunch of
.cartoonists. came to Chicago to help
elect Dunno as mayor. The Tribune
was forced to recognize his influence
and to counteract what the Hearst
sheet might do for Dunne,' the Trib-
une took few shots at William Ran.
dolph. Among other things it printed
this extract from Roots speech, which
was delivered by Root with the en-.
dorsement of President Roosevelt:
Listen to what President Roosevelt
himself has said of Mr., Hearst and
his kind In President Roosevelt g
first message to congress, speaking of
the assassin of Mckinley, he spoke of
him as inflamed by the reckless utter
ances OF those who, on stump, in pub
lie press, appeal to the dark, evil
spirits OF malice, greed, envy, and
sullen hatred. The wind is sown by
men who preach such doctrines, and
they cannot escape their share of the
responsibility for the whirlwind that
is reaped, This applies alike to the
deliberate demagogue, to the exploiter
of sensationalism. to the crude, foolish
visionary who, for whatever reason,
apologies for crime, or eXcites aim
less discomfort
Il say, by the presidents authority
in penning these words, with the hor.
ror of President McKinleys murder
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" 5000
1T is not calm, lawful redress OF
wrongs which he OHearst) seeks. II
is the turmoil of inflamed passions and
the terrorism of revengeful force. He
spreads the spirit, he follows the
methods, he is guided by the selfish
motives of revolutionist He would
plunge our peaceful land into turmoil
discord, and perpetual conflict out of
which the republics of South America
happily are now passing.
"The public knows the character of
Mr. Hearst only by the newspapers he
publishes. God forbid we should set
up in the high station of governor "
of New York, for the admiration and
imitation of our children, man whose
character is reflected in the columns
of the New York Journal and the New
York American. "o
THE election of this violent eX
tremist (HearsD would inevitably
lead to reaction against all true re
form and genuine redress of griev
ances. There is no enemy of true
reform so fatal as sham reform. there
Is no enemy of the sincere, faithful
public servant, who is seeking by pa
tient and well directed effort to frame
and enforce just laws, like the selfish
agitator who is seeking his own ad
vancement; there is no ally. of un
scrupulous wealth so potent as tn,
violent extremist who drives good
honest, conservative men away from
the cause of true reform by the vic
lence of his words and the intemper
ance OF his excessive proposals" .'
But the worst of Hearst is that
with his great wealth, with his grea
newspapers. with his army of pait
agents, and for his own selfish pur
poses. he has been, day by day an,
year by year. sowing the seed of dis
sension, strife, and hatred Throughout
our land. He would array labo
against wealth and wealth gains
poverty. With his bitter, vindictiv,
' feeling he would destroy among tn,
great mass of our people that kindly
friendly spirit. that consideration O
the interests and rights of others, tina
brotherhood of citizenship, which /
so essential to the peaceful conduc
of a free popular government. HI
would destroy that respect for law
that love of order. that confidence II
; our free institutions which are tn
basis at once of true freedom an
true Justice"