Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-19
INEPT DEsTRUcTIoNIsT

TITHER one of only two kinds of
n policies may be adopted and pur-
a. sued by nations, political parties
or individuals. One is constructive, the
other destructive. The first assures
national progress. The second leads
to anarchy, and it is the second which
has been chosen by the founder of the
independence party, who no longer en-
joys the responsibility of even a NOM
inal connection with the conservative
ly progressive and orderly party which
refused to allow him to dictate its
nominee for president. Despairlng of
gratifying his ambition by using the
Jeffersonian Democracy Of the United
States Mr.. Hearst abandoned all at
tempts TO master the art of construc-
tive craftsmanship, in which, owing
to congenital and temperemental de-
fects, he was a signal failure, and he
is now at last out in the honest open,
under his own flag, committed to
Reputation of constructive Democracy
and to a campaign for destructive
Hearstism. Fools rush in where an
gels fear to tread. Not one man in
many millions would have dared as
sumo the responsibility shouldered
heedlessly by the inventor of yellow
journalism, when he laid his plans for
the demolition of the Democratic party
and at the eleventh hour, recognizing
the fact that public opinion refuses to
tfsrs,
and anarchy. and demands that es-
tablished institutions shall be replaced
only by BETTER-for this is the great
law of civilization-offered the expee-
tant world, by way of something bet
ter, HEARST. with his rapidly dwin-
ding money pile and his railroad en-
tanglements and alliances! Hearst
embodies himself in a new politico-
personal organization. and presents,
with cool demand for the SURFACES
an anomalous example of incomplete
and ineffective destructiveness shack
led by dominating railroad interests.
and named, perhaps derisively, per-
haps jocularly. perhaps sarcastically.
perhaps in good faith and settled
yellow journalistic habit of belief in
the gullibility of the American people,
the Independence party. In order to
prevent any possibility of mistake
Hearst issued recently a carefully
worded. explicit communication and
of the Democratic party, |
which he consigned. periphrastically, |
to Hades; while he set about the work |
of greasing a yellow toboggan slide |
upon which he proposed it should
make the planned descent. Hearst
overlooked the important fact that his
temporary and baneful connection with
the Democratic party was merely a
disagreeable incident in it's history,
and with remarkable but Characters
tically colossal gall is undertaking to
make the country believe the Demo-
in lis history, and thai, as it did not |
serve his preposterous purpose, it must |
go cut of business. 1t is impossible to
reason with a man whose mind is
blighted by such a perverted sense of
that he mistakes the mis-
making of an animated hered-
itary money sack for the inspirational |
genius of patriotic craftsmanship. Let
him continue to egotize and in his
frenzied political financiering let him |
continue to illustrate his bitter knowl-
edge and his conscious and uncon-
cealed disrelish of the fact that the
Democratic party has no more use
for him."