The Irish standard., 1908-08-01
HEARST IN HIS TRUE coLoRs.

HeAHSI in HIS TRUE COlORS.
William Randolph Hearst has
launched his independence League
party as national party. 1t is COM
paratively easy to hold conventions
and nominate candidates. but 1t is
quite another thing to qualify under
the laws Of the different states so as
to attain a place for those candidates
on the ticket. There is no law regu-
lating national conventions, but all
most every state has law now which
requires party to receive certain
proportion of the vote cast at the last
election in order to entitle it to place
on the ticket. The only other means
Of obtaining a place is by petition
This is matter that Mr. Hearst will
have to meet and presumably he will
have to furnish the cash for getting
the work done. After accomplishing
this feat he will then be presented
with the still harder task of obtaining
votes, and 1t looks at this writing as
If votes for the independence League
party will come high this year.
After all, the most important thing
about the convention of the Hearst
party, is the fact that Hearst has at
last displayed his true character in
an unmistakable way His keynote
speech reads very much like Arthur
Brisbanes editorials in the Hearst pa
pers. 1t is chiefly Characteristic for
the variety and novelty Of the cpl
thets used. 1t is also notable that tie
greater number of these epithets are
applied to the Democrats and the DEM
ocrstic candidate.
Four years ago Mr.. Hearst was =
candidate for the Democratic nomfna-
ton and received something less than
200 votes in the national convention.
The strength that he obtained was due
to the fact that a great many people
believed that he represented the same
principles and stood for the same high
patriotic motives for which M. Bryan
had been fighting. 1t is not too long
ago to remember that the Hearst fol-
lowers were calling upon all loyal
friends OF Mr.. Bryan to rally to the
support Of the editor Of the yellow
journals. They claimed to be the only
true Democrats. 1t speaks we'll for
the sound sense and good Judgment Of
Democrats in the South and in other
parts of the country that they were
not then deceived in sufficient num-
bers to place this adventurer and no.
litical buccaneer at the head Of the
Democratic ticket Judge Parker's
nomination proved to be a weak one,
but Hearst's would have been fatal.
1t must be apparent to everyone
now that those who fought the ambi-
tons and base methods Of Mr.. Hearst
four years ago rendered a great serv-
ice to the Democratic party and to the
country. Hearst's lack Of sincerity,
his political dishonesty and his insa
table ambition are all clearly proven
by his present attitude. Mr.. Bryan
stands for the same general principles
and for the same people which he
stood for in 1896 and 1900. when Mr..
Hearst and his papers supported the
Nebraskan. Bryan is now the special
| target Of attack Of NJ .rHearst and
his papers.
In 1896 Hearst was endeavorinr to
get a patronage for his newly launch
ed papers. He believed. while doing
this stroke OF business. he could also
make himself an important factor in
the Democratic party. He succeeded
with his papers and almost succeeded
in his personal ambitions. Since then
what has happened to Mr.. Hearst
Just this. he has found out beyond
all question that he has no hope Of OBJ
tanning Office through the Democratic
party. In 1904 he was candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
president. and with the aid Of his
newspapers and his fortune and the
fact that Judge Parker was the can
didate OF the reactionaries, he sue.