Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-28
BOTH PARTIES SCORED
Hearst Points Out Their Faults
 to Independence Leaguers.
TOO MUCH HOT AIR." HE SAYS
Criticises Roosevelt, but Commenda Presidents Efforts to Add Battleships to Navy-Also Pays Respects to MT Bryan.

New York, April 2S.-Inviting the voters to pass by both the old parties and not waste their ballots next fall by voting for the candidates of either of them, William R. Hearst spoke to 514 of his followers at the postponed annual dinner of the Inde. pendence party in the Hotel Knicker- booker. There was the usual enthusi- asm that is present. where Mir. Hearst appears among his supporters.
 Many richly gowned women sat in the balconies and joined the men 1T singing the Star Spangled Banner" ''The Red, White and Blue" and other patriotic songs. Although Mir. Hearst was the chief attraction and came in for most of the enthusiastic demon. strations, there were cheers and ap- plause for Thomas l.. Hisgen, the par ty leader in Massachusetts; J. I. Shep- pard, leader in Kansas; Charles A. Walsh. leader in Iowa, and former Secretary of the Democratic National Committee John Temple Graves as well as for Clarence J. Shearn and other spreaders of the independence propaganda.
 Too Much "Hot Air." Says Hearst.
 Mir Hearst had to wait for two min- utes before he could make himself heard, the crowd cheering and way ing flags at him. He began by saying that he did not believe in takers. Eighteen months ago he had declared that what the people wanted was a rest from the "wind of words" and an honest downpour of action.
 If the people were weary then surely they are exhausted and pros- trated now" he said. Il do not think there has ever been such azdevastat- ing cyclone of verbiage, such siroc. co of superheated atmosphere as has whipped this afflicted community fo1 the last few months. Hardly day has passed that we have not had message catapulted into our devoted midst by the gentleman in the White House-the most active and artful candidate of them all.
 MT. Roosevelt has favored us with a vast variety of views. He has been for the negro and against the negro He has been against the trusts and the best friend Wall street ever had He has invited dear Hartman to the White House to help him write his messages and has hunted the hapless Hartman with the big stick from the District of Columbia. Mir. Taft has been all his life against union labor but lately has developed fondness for it that amounts almost to infatua tion.'
 Praise For the President.
 After quoting from utterances of President Graht. Abraham Lincoln and George Washington as to the wis dom and necessity of being prepared for war in the time of peace, Mir Hearst said:
 "The other day the president of the United States, fully informed as to the etIluuSutSS Oi tllt Slludtlou III lht idl east. asked congress for four battle ships to add to our fleet, and the good old parties. which are violently at variance ordinarily. here united to de. ny this proper and reasonable request
 "On the Democratic side some can. didates who have been for free silver are now against it, and some whG have been for government ownership are now against that, and some who have been against the initiative and referendum as the extreme of social. ism are now for them. and some who have been against political porch climbing and such wickedness have been held up by a band of train rob bers In the state of Illinois and forced to make voluntary contribution fol the religious purposes of their former political opinions"
 After this obvious hit at Mir. Bryan Mir. Hearst cOntinued:
 These men of words are not given to action. These parties of promises are not given to performances. So we say to the progressives in the two par ties, stop working at cross purposes come into the Independence party stand side by side and pull together"