Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — ROOSEVELT AND HEARST. [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT AND HEARST.

Two years ago President Roosevelt —who is now working hand-in-hand with Hearst for Taft —sent Secretary Root to New York to deliver his opinions of Hearst, in a speech at Utica. Listen to what Mr. Root, declaring that he spoke for the president, upon that occasion, had to say about Mr. Hearst:

"I say to you with his [Roosevelt’s] authority, he regards Mr. Hearst as wholly unfit to be governor, as an insincere, self-seeking demagogue, who is trying to deceive the workingmen of New York by false statements and false promises. “Listen to what President Roosevelt himself has said of Mr. Hearst and his > kind. In President Roosevelt's first i message to congress, speaking of the assassin of McKinley, spoke of him as ’inflamed by the reckless utterances of those who on the stump, in public press, appeal to the dark, evil spirits of malice, greed, envy, and sullen hatred. The wind is sown by men who preach such doctrine, and they cannot j escape their share of the responsibility j for the whirlwind that is reaped. This applies alike to the deliberate demagogue, to the exploiter of sensational-' ism, to the crude, foolish visionary who, tor whatever reason, apologizes for crime or excites aimless discontent. “I say by the president’s authority, in penning these words with the horror of President McKinley’s murder fresh before him, he had Hearst specifically In his minn. And I say, by his authority, that what he thought of Mr. Hearst then, he thinks of Mr. Hearst now.” And the question now is, what, aside from Hearst’s support of Taft, has Hearst done to win the president’s approbation? Who are the Republican candidates, anyhow? Is Hanly or Watson the candidate for governor? Is Roosevelt or Taft running for president? As a matter of fact It seems as if the Republican party is so badly demoralized that there is no certainty about its program. It doesn’t "know where it is going, but it is on Che way*