The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-29

zen Of that commonwealth He over
came a Republican majority Of $4,000
and marshaled Democratic majority
of nearly $4,000. Mr.. Hearst, some
years ago, was the Democratic nomi-
nee for Governor of New York. Mr..
Gaynor was triumphantly elected
Mayor of New York, an office for
which Mr.. Hearst was disastrously and
shamefully beaten. And yet he has
the impudence to talk of the quick
and the dead.
Everybody knows Hearst. After his
humiliating defeat for Mayor In 1905
he spent a quarter of a million dollars
| to organize what he was pleased to
call "The Independent League" and
Mr.. Hearst's political wet nurse, Bris-
bane, literary chap, wrote a plat
| form for it, as follows, viz:
"The streets be paved with mutton
pies;
Potatoes eat like pine"
That is to say, everybody was to
have everything, for Hearst had the
money to buy and Brisbane had the
| impudence to purvey. The sans
culottes were modified and PEgalte
was in the saddle. 1t looked as though
Sing Sing was empty and its every
sulprit there.
But the show was lacking in respect
ability, and where do you suppose it
sought it? Why in Tammany. And
those two made alliance, though Muir
| ply had denounced Hearst as every
thing that was indecent in journalism,
and Hearst had vilified Murphy as
everything that was infamous in poll
tics. But here they were Brindle and
Cherry, in the same cupp'n, PAROLES
and Caliban after the same drum.
The convention was held up state
somewhere and we had the spectacle
of Hearst crawling on his belly like
a snake and eating dirt like a worm
and beseeching Murphy to toss him
any old thing in the guise of nomi-
nation.
| And then rapturous phenamenon
was presented-just in proportion as
Hearst was importunate, Murphy was
insolent; but finally he relented and
ordered Tom Grady to cast to the
mendicant the wretched bone in antici-
patton of which there was a redund
ancy of wagging of tail.
Grady passed the bone and what do
you think he said of it? Something
like this: at was the dirtiest days
work of my career" And that is what
the people thought of it, for Hearst
was repudiated at the polls while the
rest of the ticket was triumphant.
In 1907 this man Hearst, who is
impudent enough to deny anybody the
right to be a Democrat without his
assent, put out what he called a
Fusion Ticket the sole intent of
which was to aid the Republican cam
paign. In 1908 the Democratical Ma
tionak Convention, responsive to the
demand of the masses of the Demo
cratic party, nominated William Jen-
nings Bryan for President. What did
this judge in Sodom, William r. Hearst
do? He mustered his independence
League and nominated as its candidate
for President Hisgen, whose name, &C
cording to the late Senator Carmack
Mr.. Graves was the tail of the ticket
Hearst sired the thing. 1t had but
one mission and that to strengthen
Taft and weaken Bryan. That is what
he intended and all he Intended, and
yet, less than four years later, he sets
himself up as an arbiter to tell us
what is doctrine and what is dogma
He is the Warwick to crown and un-
crown leaders. He reads out of the
party Wilson and Gaynor, though he
would be honored if appointed to unite
the shoes of either of them.
Mr. Hearst says that Woodrow vii.
son is a Federalist because he finds in
that gentlemans' writing a passage
recognizing the transcendant intellec
tual powers of Alexander Hamilton
Thomas jefferson likewise admitted
Hamilton's splendid genius. But let
lis introduce Andrew Jackson, and Mr.
Hearst can not say anything for pub
jlication without introducing Andy
Gen. Jackson, in his early public life
was an advocate of the United States
bank that was a child of Alexander
Hamilton's statecraft, and he yet be
lieved in that bank when he was first
candidate for President. Now, had