The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-08-07
HEARST AND HIS INDEPENDENCE
PARTY

an entre-act filler of the political
drama during the dog days, but be-
yond that it has neither value nor sig
nificance Certainly nobody takes it
seriously, not even the "angeI" who
is financing it,
The whole performance is in keep
ing with the Hearst methods, which
he first applied TO journalism and sub
sequently to politics. There were
sensational, tawdry and unreliable
newspapers before Hearst entered the
field. but it remained for him. pro
ceeding on the theory that most
things are attainable by the man
who has the means and the will %
buy them deliberately to set about.
by lavish expenditure Of millions, tn
establishment of newspapers so much
more sens ationaL tawdry and Unrelia-
bic than all others that by force OF
| their daring vices they should become
1.-THE eXemDlars Of the new school OF
Journalism" Playing out this the
/ DRY with .he nerve OF the gambler
who plays to the limit and who has
/ the means to play even beyond the
I limit if that be lifted Hearst proved
in a spectacular manner the power
/ of bold advertising, even in d bad
cause. He won. He succeeded in
founding the modern schoo. OF vel
low journalism than which there IS
no more vicious development 81 our
times.
But he was not satisfied with this
achievement. Stimulated by his sue
J cess in applying his peculiar meth
obs to journalism. and contemptuous.
no doubt . a ra2 ct any iHteil!-
Gence must be. Of the public upon
which he has been able thus TO play,
he conceived the idea that. with his
; millions stu TO draw on and TINS pHD-
+ lie slill 10 play on. he might proita-
! bly, pitch his circus tents in the field
! OF politics as he had in that OF jour
/
.u.Eectual il securing for him poIiti-
al ofce or h'nors. would. h. b"iieF-
+ eel. be worth the money It would cost
/ in advertising himself ana his n""l-
cations.
/ Thus Il vas that ire country. ac-
cns'omed as il had become to the the
at"jcal performances Of Hearst as a
newspaper man. and no longer sur
prised by anything he might do in the
prostitution Of the press. was plunged
INTO a universal gufaW by his sud
den appearance as a fully DanOplied
candidate for the presidency. No
/ Cne-nOt even MIR. Hearst himself six
months beforehand ever thought OF
him, or his like, in such 4 role. and
that he. a young fellow with no known
qualifications for the Office and moth
ing TO distinguish him from millions
of other young fellows save the spec
tacular way in which he had poured
out money on vicious newspapers and
other forms OF vice, should formally
announce his entry into The contest
for the presidency with no other re-
lance than that Of mis- money to buy
and build him an organization, was
something as new as it was prepos-
ferrous in American politics.
How ne invested has money IN this
new field OF his endeaVor, now ne
bought and bullt MS organlzau IN
and how, always and everywhere 1t
has been used solely for the eXplol'a
ton OF Hearst alone, Is familiar re-
cent history. That 1t is today seek
ing. under the pre-ense OF new BAR
-. to proloag some sort OF Tangible
existence, is the latest, and altogether
consistent, chapter OF that history
To support either OF the political par
ties now in the field would not sHii