New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-14
HEARST FOR NEW PARTY
URGES NATIONAL FIGHT
announces His Plans at JefersOD
DaY Dinner.

At the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS League dinnsr.
supposedly in honor Of Thomas Jefferson. last
night at the Hotel Savoy William Randolph
Hearst usurped the chief place and read a care
fully prepared speech. following his well known
lines for the most part. but declaring that sinca
tho present great parties had betrayed the tn
teTests OF the common people he had made the
Independence League a national party out Oe
sheer sympathy for them He attacked the
President bitterly. calling him man with a
big stick in one hand and contribution box in
the other
Along toward the end Of the evening" when
every one was enthusiastic. resolutions were
adopted favorlng sc national league. They
were proposed by Max Ihnsen and said that
the league had received the support OF hundreds
Of thousands OF voters IN New XOrk Nlassaehu-
setts. Illinois and California. showing the xsadi-
ness OF the people TO support its principles
Hearst interpreted the verdict OF the people
az the last general election by saying that so
long as the people continued to vote for yellow
dogs on party lines the public service would bo
no better than a dog pound. a phrase that
smacked hugely OF Arthur Brisbane's delicate
pen. His old attacks on Mr.. Cortelyou and
others who opposed him one time or another
were repeated. and the shade OF Thomas JET
ferson was invoked with quite the Oldtims
fervor.
After announcing that, as the meeting was
primarily an Independence League affair and
as he was primarily-apparently forgetting his
work of last fau-an Independence League adj
herent he thought he should condns himself
10 Independence League affairs. ne went on.
TO say:
From Massachusetts to California Independence
League clubs are being formed and 1ndeDendence
League principles are being advocated In San
Francisco the greatest exposure OF graft and corr
feariessly conducted BY District Attorney fanS
don. who last year was the candidate for Governor
been greater contribution TO the cause OF gen
Une Ie1oltn 'iA H,s MIsH Ihe l!Ie OF tniS gen
Independence League representatives everyWhere.
their words 7'''-A 'OD'''' 'Hl-s
He then declared that While the Democratls
party was founded truly Jeffersonian prfn-
ciples and on the Declaration OF Independence.
nifty years later the party declared these truths
90 be "self-evident lies The Republican party
formed then TO carry on these truths. later do
veloped clay feet also and now came the Inds-
pendence League TO save the country ana AZ
that in 1t is. In Brisbanesque rhetoric. he De-
clared:
II seems 70 Us to-day that neither one OF the OLD
Is & true 70 1as purposes for Which q
.Oul1su me LInIGepShoence Leasue Is determined
the American foundation stones or liberty equaitv
Neither one Of the old parties stands to-day for
rts snd tS It,ee are trust Demo
Republicans and antitrust Republicans: there are
leans and there are Democrats scattered All sion
the way from protection TO free trade IN fact,
distinction and special privilege and those who
stand for popular rights and equal opportunities
The motto Of the Democrats party is Anything
Anything to stay in The Democratic patti iS
cepts its defeat radical platform as an arsv
ment for conservatism and its defeat on a con-
servative platform as an argument Tor radtcaIisr1
@ A9q 50 II 0sSaees between each extreme. withoue
ton As we look into the distant future and down
the endless corridors of time picture the in
naily 1s%2gSihS from one Side 10 the other in a
and power.
He accused the Republican party Of being all
things to all men and of seeking Campaign
funds from public plundeTers. Continuing IN
this strain. he said:
1t denounces trust promoters and stock iobberz
as public enemies and then secretly Invites them
documents spiendidiy typical Of dis H5eMrsI M PSs .
stands the leading representative OF the Repub-
contribution box in the other.
MIR. Hearst claimed all the righteous men IN
public life, such District Attorney William
II. LangdOn. OF San Francisco. about the only
Hearst candidate who ever retained the respect
OF his opponents. The ex-caudidate said:
Correct principles are not enough in themselves.
out those principles. and independent voting OreTs
as public Servants AS long as ne SeoDiS VII vaf.
for yellow dogs on party lines the public service
for once SS sSeeStiSe abiiity Ro1eIP PISq s5
tiOus devotion to public interests must have .ors
70 place proper men in control Of our public Sgsrs
20 enforce the most correct principles.
On public control and public ownership or
public utilities, Mr. Hearst had this to say:
Ihs principle Of pphlie control of public utilities
and prtacols orQghc owre-sA-n CT pUbl-c Usllll!sA