Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-07-28
HEARST LEAGUE
ORGANIZES PARTY
Leader Addresses National COnven-
ton; GriIIs Old Parties

Kisses followed, which were stilled
by the gavel.
Father O'Callahan of Chicago de-
livered the invocation.
Mr.. Howard, at the conclusion of
the invocation announced the names
of the temporary officers of the con-
vention. His mention of the name of
w. r. Hearst was received with an
outburst of applause, and Mr.. Hearst,
when he mounted the rostrum, es-
| corted by committee of three, was
given an uproarious welcome. The
band struck up The Star Spangled
Banner, and the convention rose en-
masse, cheering in wild applause.
The New York delegates gave repeat
ed cheers in honor of their leader,
who stood quiet and impassive, 4"
waiting for the demonstration to sub
aide. When quiet had been restored
lie began his address as temporary
chairman of the convention, speaking
as follows:
Hearst Abuses Old Parties.
My friends, this is the first ma
tional convention of the independence
party. Whether it shall prove his
torical event or merely passing po-
litical incident depends upon the wis
dom and patriotism with which we
shall deliberate and act.
''If the men who met in Independ-
ence hall in Philadelphia on the
fourth of July, 1875, had had within
them any feeling of hesitancy, and
disposition toward compromise or
concession, that day would now pass
as any other day upon the calendar.
But the patriots who assembled there
had courage in their hearts, deter
mination in their minds, high pur-
poses in their souls, and the Fourth
of July is saluted throughout the
world as the birthday of liberty for
all men.
1T is too much to say that our con-
vention can ever reach the Importance
of the second continental congress,
but the principles they met to declare
we meet to preserve, and the liber-
ties they assembled to protect.
Il believe, therefore, that we will
do a service to our fellow citizens
second only to the inestimable SER
vice rendered by the founders of this
government, if we shall found party
which will remain unfailingly faith
full to the cause of the people, to the
principles of the Declaration of In
dependence and to the fundamental
American ideas of liberty, equality
and opportunity for all. l believe
that if any party is necessary to this
country to preserve the government
as the fathers framed it, a new party
is necessary; if any party is neces-
sary to promote progress and pros
perity, to encourage the honest bust
ness man and to protect the honest
workingman, a new party is neces-
sary if any party is necessary to
represent the. typical American cit
izen, to represent the people in their
struggles with the tyrannical monop-
olies which constitute the trusts, a
new party is necessary.
DenOunces Old Parties.
THE old parties in this day of
their decadence, are no longer equal
to this work, for they have become
unfaithful to the principles which in
spired them and unworthy of the pa
triots who founded them.
The republican party is the open
handed avowed handmaiden OF the
trusts. 1t scorns those who would
rescue it, repudiates those who would
reform it and glories brazenly in It's
profitable infamy.
The democratic party is merely
envious of its sordid sisters ill-gotteu
fnery. 1t upbraids her at one cleo
ton and initiates her at the next.
THE republican leaders are the
political attorneys of the trusts and
monopolies, the representatives in
public life Of those giant corpora
lions which have superseded the peo-
ple in this republic as the source Of
power and the seat OF authority. The
democratic vanguard is Falstaff'i
army: it is led by knight arrayeC
in a motley of modified professions
and compromised principles. of al
tered opinions and retracted state
, ments."
Mr.. Hearst at this point in his ad
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