Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-08-01
DENIES HEARST
OWNS NEW
PARTY
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
REPLIES TO TOM WATSON
Brilliant Georgian Advises Pop
uIiSt Remnant to Wake Up
and Get on the Independence
League BandWagon,

League BandWagon
tBy Morning journal speciar Isased Wire,
Scw York, July 3l.--In Il signe,
statement handed to the Associate,
Fress tonight. John Temple Graves
candidate of the independence part,
for the vice presidency makes reply
t. a recent utterance of Thomas Wat
son in which the presidential candi.
date Of the peoples party described
The independence party as owned ant
controlled by w Il. Hearst
In the course of his expression
which was published here yesterday
Nh. Watson said:
I'm my Judgment a political party
owned and controlld by one man NO
matter how rich and good and great
can ever amount to much in Ameri-
can politics The so-called 'Indepen-
dencc party Is q copyrighted affair,
financed and steercd by Mr. Hearst,
Its so-called leaders are his editors
and employees. Almost without cXccp-
ton those who are prominent in the
movement are upon the Hearst pay
roll
In country like ours, whore the
sense of individual freedom is SO
strong. the people will never consent
to compromise their own liberty of ae-
ton by becoming members Of a per-
aonallY conducted and privately owned
political organization.
tafat ..f,. s
creed every four years. but the indie
pendencc party has already changed
its creed twice during this year When
II met in Indianapolis some months
ago u was in favor of snip subsidy
and the wall street system of finance;
ia Chicago il adopted practically every
one of tho planks which have so Ions
been the platform of the populist par
tX If popuiist pr dCtpic' a eotreet
there would seem to be no good rea-
son why the populist national ticket
should not receive the votes of those
who believe In populism.'
To the foregoing MI Graves takes
exception i'm the following language
\ ask the courtesy of the Associated
Press 90 express my regret that
Thomas E. Watson should have rushed
So swiftly into hostile criticism of the
independence party with which so
large a number of the populists are in
.,,,.i.,l,,,.,. b, sbo,,ld no dad to
endorse.
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,'.n,,.,.,. nsrt, a. = one man marty
t,,.. ,,,,,l,. ,,f tho nop,,lists fan moro
-, ,.,,,.,,. tba.n tb. indonepdopt.
b,y. o,er beeu or ever win he He
,,.,, ,,,o,, no ,,,,,,- tin,,s mo dareatod
,.,ndiI..to of tb, ,,,n,,I,.,ts ss Mr. HtD,-
~. M. h,.,, of no dcrrocrate he
- t., ia. ~. 'orfict,l ,..ara the
,,,.,n ~ 4 ,bs,ipto as Roosc-
,..it =. tist.t,,iaI as Rry,u-and as
,,ns,,,,.,ssf,,i az tho last lie prcscrfbcs
H.. ,.,.,s .Ii,t,tes ity nolici,s iu
,I,ir,. ,,rs,naI spd otherwise and is
i,,,,,.,i.,i,t, ,,,,cd a. its candjd .c
"',bcro has NOT been i'm fift, years
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.'',,,,,.,I ~ tfes,., ,,,s tbree tbou-
.....i ,,,i,,.. .,,,,s. ,b. son durinq ami
49, ,.,.ti,,,i,,,i.. t,,t led nm ~ il He
,.,....i,..4 "a, .o,,-enti,n tyyontv-four
- go. i,s o,..ri,,o I1e ala not
tts,tt h,,,a r.. 3i,tat, "a nIanlx In its
,.I..,f,r,,, M, ~ name tho least of its
'...'1ii,is,,s m. v,rnt down into its
....,.,.,..,,i,.,, ION, o,, o,,,sl terms and
~. ,,,,,,,. ,b.,,, .o,,,l terms He wran-
,.t,.t s,.,. tt,ir,,.-siv bour- ovcr the Mat
form, shining some of the things he
..t,',,.,,..,5 ana tosinp others. and ac-
...,,.,i,,,. .,,,co...-.,nd defeat with equal
t,,,n.r tIt. tbe genuine independcnt
49,. 49,. 10
~ e,i,. and trutbf,,l man can DENY
~ "a. i,d.ropdepce convention the
,,o,i, or n freedom worthy of its name !
And IL vys. as roprcscptative as 90 |
.,,...s 49,. seven hundred delegates
-, ,r,r, ,II sectiong from every I
80, am, f'...- an races Caucasian. F,
80. nd indian -suonr them an 1
ar, s.are ,ot 4 dozen men directly
~, tn,ilr..ti, connected with the Hearst !
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