Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — Cannot Stand Hearst. [ARTICLE]

Cannot Stand Hearst.

(Indianapolis News.) Warner A. Ross, candidate of the Independence party for congress in the Indianapolis district, has notified the Hearst managers that he will not make the race and has volunteered his services to the Democratic state committee. He is a lawyer, and four years >go was connected, with the Afltk9l»'

bureau of the Republican state c0m,.,, tee. Ross charges the Independence party leade-s here with breaking faith H fulfill pledgee made to was being urged to sessional nomination. He managers promised to lidacy, tp pay his exspend money and effort irlng about his election, {nation, Ross says, the party managers have done nothing, and have refused to listen to his complaints. "Then, too,” said Ross, “I became disgusted with the whole Independence movement. It is simply a one-man affair, dominated, controlled and financed by Hearst for personal reasons. Character assassination seems to be the chief object, and this I disapprove of as I do of the other yellow journalistic methods employed on the political platform. My brief connection with the party revealed to me that I should have nothing to do with the movement." The Hearst men are left in the lurch by the withdrawal of Ross from the ticket, as it was with difficulty they succeeded in filling the nomination. Several leaders of organized labor were urged to allow the honor to fall on them, but each refused.