Bisbee daily review., 1908-04-19
HEARsr.s LEAGUE.

is independence league. If ever a one
man-power organization sailed under
false colors it is that league. We all
know it is not an independence
league, but a very-dependent league.
II is dependent on the Hearst purse
and is nothing more nor less than a
Hearst party. 1t cannot accomplish
any useful end and is bent on mis-
chief Indeed. it might be called a
mischief makers league. Its owner
has already used it for manipulatiye
purposes. offering it first to one par
ty then 10 the other, always with de-
plorable results. In the congenial
role of chief mischief maker Hearst
has shown how thoroughly '1n earn
est he is. In spite of the fact that
he is a dispenser of unearned incre-
ment and enjoys the usufruct Of the
accumulation of another man, he has
INDUCED in diatribes against wealth
and the wealthy. has besmirched his
own class and declared that the men,
bers of it land therefore he among
the rest) are unfit to have and to hold
and administer their vast possessions.
But his peculiar and indeed extraordi-
nary attitude toward his fellow rich
men surely does not fit him to be the
founder and leader of a new party,
devoted TO the first principles of
Hearstism. and to life liberty and the
pursuit of the presidency. The demo
cratic party rejected Hearst. 1t could
not stomach the yellow editor. 1t
spewed him out. 1t repudiated him
and all his works. ar Hearst there
upon began to study and plot revenge.
He has still plenty of money and the
Hearst estate is vast and wealthy
He derives certain amount of pei
sonal power from the possession OF
few discredited newspapers, but his
newspaper influence grows less and
less every day and amounts to moth
ing at all in Los Angeles, where the
yellow paper of the independence
league is a mere joke.
But he still has some power which
his purchased command of publicity
gives him, and he proposes to use
and is trying to use this power for
the purpose of placing obstacles in
the path of Democratic success. He
cannot help himself by hurting the
democracy, but apparently he cannot
realize this, and, by some misguided
process of reasoning, associates demo
cratic defeat with his own personal
advantage, Democratic loss he would
count his gain. He is giving a DEM
onstration of mere malice plus cha
grin, and it would all be innocuous and
utterly ridiculous if it were not for
Hearst's command of private funds
and his newspaper trust. The indie
pendence league is designed to hurt
the democratic party. Hearst in New
York was a rank traitor to the de-
mocracy and played into the hands
of republicanism with the conse-
quences that counties which had been
democratic twenty years went repub-
lican. Hearst in California made mis-
chief for the democratic party. This
leader has not in all his life origi-
mated one single new idea, and in
spite of his numerous papers this
editor has not written one sentence
worth reproducing or printed one
original paragraph worth preserving.
NOT ONE.
He is a typical example or pIutoc-
racy, money power, and the independ-
ence league is nothing but plutocracy
money power. If Hearst money pow
err should by any mischance or mis-
guidance become Hearst money rule
we would at last believe that Amer
lean institutions were menaced and
the life of the country was at stake.
It is a blessing that all very rich men
are not like William Randolph Hearst
or the United States would not be
habitabIe by decent. self-respecting,
Woodworking peopie.-Los Angeles
( Herald.