The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-30
Roosevelt Is Called Vain,
 Selfish and Reckless
FUSION IS TURNED DOWN
Editor Explains Why He Cannot Sup port Either Candidate and Then Makes Attack Upon Business
 Methods of MT. Dix

New York, October 29.-The New York World will print tomorrow letter from William Randolph Hearst. under date of October 2S in part as follows:
 An editorial in your paper Wednesday refers to me as supporter or rather a co-operator with Mir. Roosevelt.
 This is not in strict accordance with the facts. During my sojourn abroad this summer your correspondent frequently interviewed me and often asked my opin- ion of MT. Roosevelt's actions, utterances and intentions.
 You must know perfectly well from the opinions I expressed in these interviews,
 which were published in your columns,
 of MT. Roosevelt.
 T know him to be astonishingly incon- sstent and I cannot reconcile so great
 inconsistency with sincerity or with high purpose.
 T know him to be ambitious, vain and
 selfish, reckless and cratic, and I do not
 consider these qualities compatible with
 a sound policy or a safe conduct of pub
 lice affairs.
 The air is now full of denunciations of
 MT. Roosevelt yet I am not so preju- | SeTNeu anu SOIllt Ol IL cill1Ttl9 uilJuol anu
 undeserved. I am not a co-operator with
 MT. Roosevelt yet I am not so reju-
 diced or so partisan that l would not CO.,
 operate with MT. Roosevelt or any other
 man should he be, or at any time become
 sincerely engaged in some worthy and commendable undertaking.
 When. for instance, MT. Roosevelt de-
 clared that 1t was his intention to drive the corrupt bosses out of the republican party in New York state l expressed a
 willingness to aid him in that praise worthy purpose.
 Having myself long been engaged in the attempt to drive corrupt bosses out
 of the democratic party and out of the
 republican party, could not conscien- tiously or consistently refuse aid to anyone who I believed to be earnestly engaged in similar act
 But MT Roosevelt's opposition to bosses Is too personal, too limited, toe restricted. In his own strte Mi. Roose- welt does no more than t. depose Boss Barnes, who was his personal enemy and install as boss of the state re- publican party MT. RCat, who is his personal friend.
 T am and have been heartily in fa- vor of the independence league ticket as constituted in this campaign, found little to support in the republican pro- gramme and much to oppose In the trai- torious betrayal of the peoples inter- ests by the democratic party. q advised against fusion with the republican party and in reply to a suggestion for fusion with the demo- cratic party on the squalid basis of personal recognition sent the follow ing cable on September 30 "'Sorry, but cannot, in honor, support any ticket or platform still less pro- gressive than the republican. "'W. R. HEARST "Your editorial finally refers to the amply substantial statements that have made In regard to Mir. Dix's boss ridden record, trust record. high tariff record and sweatshop labor record as exploded campaign slanders.' This ed itorial reference is not in accordance with the facts The charge that Mir Dix Is Murphy's political puppet, that he associated with one trust and is supported by all the other trusts on the criminal calender that he Is on record as an advocate of high tariff and high prices and that he is actual ly engaged at present 'shamefully and shamelessly in working his employees IS hours day for the pitiful wage ol
 $1.75 a day are absolutely established.