The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-09-30
SCORES ROOSEVELT.
Arraigns Public Men and Corporate
Interests in Opening of Demo.
cratic Campaign. +.

Il do not want to be taken as crit
icising the president of the United
States" said Congressman Theodore
A. Bell of California in the course
of an address at the theatre Friday
evening, but say to you that he is
STOPPING to petty ward politics
when he stepped down from his high
office as chief magistrate of the peo-
pie and endeavored to elect his man
Taft president. We have the grati-
flying and edifying spectacle of Will
liam Randolph Hearst and Theodore
Roosevelt shoulder to shoulder, in
ar effort TO beat William Jennings
Bryan
1.-TWO years ago Eihu Root, a
member of Rooseyelts cabinet,
stumped the state of New York in
the interests of Gov rnor Hughes and
declared Hearst to be the assassin of
President Mckinley, through his pa
/
is the friend of today and together
are blackening the names of such
men as Gov. Haskell and w. J. Bry-
an
/ Theodore A. Bell, congressman
from California and temporary chair
man of the Denver convention, OPEN
ed the democratic campaign in this
city and county Friday evening, be-
fore large house at the theatre.
Throughout the audience were
sprinkling of women. The congress-
man was introduced by Attorney II.
j. Snively, candidate for state sena-
tor, and spoke for nearly two hours,
devoting the most of his time to an
arraignment of corporate interests,
the Foraker Hearst Haskell contro-
versy, and the discussion Of national
issues. Throughout the address he
was frequently interrupted by APP
plause and laughter.
Bell is starting on a FIVE weeks
campaign tour from California TO
Boston, Mass. He has a pleasing
stage presence, is of striking per-
sonality, and is brilliant orator,
who says in plain words what he
means. He has the art of getting
close to his hearers down to a sci
nd l-.a, to-
master workman. He was born to
torch light parades, brass bands and
political strife.
Throughout his address he paid his
respects to William Randolph Hearst,
stung Vice Presidential Candidate
Sherman, Joe Cannon and Taft, and
paid glowing tribute to William
Jennings Bryan. He referred to
i Hearst as 1.-The greatest demagogue,
the greatest hypocrite, whose name
is unmentionable, and who calls him
self Hearst" OF Sherman he said,
''he is one of the Big Five who, with
Joe Cannon, for twenty-five years de-
feated all legislation affecting the
trusts, man who by environment
and position is unable to sympathize
with the masses, and who is of the
trusts
Bell reviewed the recent Taft-For-
aker controversy in sarcastic man.
ner. He read extracts from a letter
written by Taft in which the presi-
Dental nominee said he could not
stultify himself to such an etxent as
to allow his name to appear in
resolution with that of Joseph Ben
son Foraker" He also read the
press accounts of the reunion of Taft
and Foraker at Toledo, Ohio, and
said: Taft was either a hypocrite
when he refused by letter to allow
his name to appear in a resolution
with Foraker's, or a bigger hypo-
critic when he sat upon the same plat
form with him at Toledo, Ohio"
Later he referred to Taft "as a pleas
ing man to meet. with ever ready
smile, of judicial ability and high ac-
complishments. but we can not make
every good fellow president"
In reviewing the Haskell incident
of the present campaign the speaker
said he would refer to Roosevelt not
as the president but as Roosevelt.
The presidents activities in the cam
paign he characterized as "the star
part in farce comedy. entitled. The
Effacement OF William Howard Taft.
or Running for a Third Term py
Proxy" He said the democratic par