Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-02
By ROBERTUs LOVE.

no. unto the nation a new party IS
born!
In national convention assem-
bled at Chicago the independence
party places in the race Thomas L.
Hisgen of Massachusetts, for president
and John Temple Graves of Georgia
for vice president of the United States.
The Independence party, which a
great many persons are apt to call the
Hearst party, is radical in platform.
The planks in that document are re-
formatory almost to the point of revo-
luton But the first thing the new
party does in the way of turning mat
tiers upside down for a new deal is to
nominate Tor the tail or the ticket a
man of national reputation and for the
head OF the ticket a man of local repu-
tation only. This is a reversal of form,
so to speak. The two old parties usual
Iy do it the other way about
1t cannot be disputed that William
Randolph Hearst is the father of this
new party. Without Mr.. Hearst, his
set of political policies and his chain
of daily-almost hourly-newspaper
the Independence party would not have
been born.
Mr.. Hearst declined to run for the
presidential nomination. There are
those who aver that the New York,
Boston. Chicago San Francisco and
Los Angeles newspaper proprietor in
this declinatiOn is looking toward the
future 1t is suggested that Mr. Hearst
hopes the Independence party will be
stronger in 1912 than in 1908. If this
turns out to be true, then the public
confidently may look for the name of
William r. Hearst at the top OF the
Independence party ticket four years
from now.
The chief hope OF the new party in
the present campaign is to kill off, ut
terly and absolutely, the Democratic
party. While the Independence plat
form denounces both the Republican
party and the Democratic party, the
one consummation devoutly wished by
those who stand for the new political
baby is the defeat of Mr.. Bryan for
the presidency. This is true despite
the fact that Mr.. Hearst's newspapers
warmly and famboyantly supported
Bryan in two presidential campaigns
and despite the fact that Mr.. Graves.
the man of national reputation who
ornaments the tail of the new ticket,
also has been an earnest and enthusi-
:.astic advocate of the Nebraskan.
As late as April 10, 1907, Mr.. Graves
said IN a speech at Chattanooga,
among those who have led us in the
past and among those who are to lead
us In the future there deserves to live
and there Will be left to live no name
more honored, no character more re-
vered, no leadership more trusted and
no personality more beloved than VIII
liam ]. Bryan of Nebraska"
In the same speech Mr.. Graves called
upon Mr.. Bryan to nominate for presi-
dent of the United States as the can
didate of the Democracy I'm 1908 Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
About seven months ago Mr.. Graves
accepted a position as chief editorial
writer for the New York American.
Mr.. Hearst's leading organ.
Genesis of the New Party.
Mr.. Hearst built up the Independ-
eence party out of the material left by
Cthe Independence league. political
organization which he created in
spots throughout the country a few
years ago. The Independence league
grew out of the municipal ownership
movement in the main. In 1904 Mr..
Hearst was a candidate for the Demo
no
He received more than Il hundred votes
at the St Louis convention. Then he
returned to New York and ran for
mayor on municipal ownership plat
form. He was defeated. He organ
lied the Independence league, which
nominated him for governor in 1906.
The Democracy also placed him on its
ticket He was defeated. Mr.. Hearst
rthereupon determined to create for
himself a new national party. The
Hearst newspapers took up the mat
Ter with JUNCTION and vim. Such is the
genesis of the independence party.
This is the first time in our history
that one man has manufactured a ma
7tional political organization.
The Independence nominee for presi-
dent, Mr. Hisgen, lives at Springfield.
Mass. He is loved by the people in
mis- part Of Massachusetts for one Of
the enemies he has made-the Stand
zard Oil company. Mr.. Hisgen con-
ducts the Springfield establishment of
the Four Brothers Oil company, an in
dependent concern which proposes to
stay independent. 1t grew out of the
axle grease business. The four His
gen brothers about twenty years ago
began the manufacture of axle grease
mt Albany, n. Y. Their father, who
had emigrated from Germany, had q
formula for making axle grease, at
(which he experimental unsuccessfully