Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-22
HEARST'S SERVICE TO
DEMOCRACY

IN HE ASSOCIATED PRESS dispatch
from Washington published in
n yesterday mornings papers. which
told that Mr. William Randolph Hearst,
the nominal proprietor of string of
yellow journals that are supposed to
be largely under the control of the
financial interests represented by the
late E. H. Hartman, had definitely al
lied himself with the Republican par
ty, and had come out in a signed en-
dorsement of the Taft administration,
brought comfort and satisfaction to
many Democrats throughout the coun-
try, and especially to the Democracy
of California.
When the dispatches some days ago
told of the offer made by Mr. Hearst
through his man Graves, to ally him
self with the Democratic party. many
Democrats the country over, and cs-
pecially those of California who had had
most reason to know the destructive
character of any party alliance with
Mr.. Hearst, could not help being some
what fearful that the Democratic lead
ers in washington would consider Mr.
Hearsts offer. And yet it was hardly
conceivable that these representative
Democrats, knowing as they did the
treachery with which Mr. Hearst has
at all times treated his political allies.
could for a moment consider his offer
seriously.
The reasons for Mr.. Hearst making
the offer were perfectly plain. In the
first place the Doodle Dee organiza-
ton which he had attempted to get to-
gether after his last and final betrayal
of the National Democracy had been
played out to a frazzle and only com
manded the ridicule of politicians and
the public everywhere.
| With the blunders which the Repub-
! lican national machine, from the pres
! dent down, has been making FOR the
past year. it is very evident that the
chances OF Democracy for future sue
cess are exceedingly bright. Natural
| ly, Mr. Hearst, thirsting for the polit-
! ical distinction which he has in the
past wooed at such enormous financial
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persstently denied him by the people.
| desired to form an alliance with the
party which he had reason to believe
would be most successful at the COM
| ing election. That such alliance was
not consummated is credtable to the
good sense and the high principle of
the National Democratic leaders in
Washington. That Mr.. Hearst's offer
of such an alliance was definitely and
completely rejected is shown by the
fact that he has now allied himself
with the Republican party, and has
come out into the open as a champion
of its leader, President Taft. In doing
this, and in the way that ii was done,
Mr. Hearst has shown that his capac-
ity for political blundering has not in
any sense grown less That he should
have signalized his entrance into the
Republican fold by endorsing the ad-
ministration of the Republican presi-
dent, which has done more to ALLEVIATE
the voters Of the country than has the
administration of any other president
the party ever put in office, and that
in the same breath he should have crit
icised ex-President Roosevelt, whom to-
day all sensible Republicans regard as
the only influence that may by any
possibility be made to stand between
the Republican party and complete po-
litical annhilation, is certainly the
most striking exhibition of political
unwisdom that any man has favored
the country with for a long time.
We heartily rejoice that the danger
Of an alliance between Democracy and
Mr. Hearst has passed forever, and we
as heartily congratulate our Republi-
can friends upon his accession to their
ranks.
If anything were needed to complete
the discontinue of the Republican
machine at the coming election, it is
safe to say that Mr.. Hearst by his last
political hop has furnished that thing
In this last act Of his Mr.. Hearst
has done the Democratic party great
er favor than he ever rendered it while
pretending to be its friend.
In view of Mr. Hearst's avoWed
championship of the Republican party.
local Democracy can begin to under
stand more fully the animus of his
paper published in this city, in at
tempting to bring discord into the
ranks of the state Democracy by dig
ging up some one to oppose the candi-
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