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THBWilliam Randolph Hearst and Democrats Attack Theodore Roosevelt and Republicans
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Hearst, William Randolph. TLS, 3pp, New York, October 8, 1904. To Mr. A.D. Hendry, Mt. Pherson, Kansas. First page on National Association of Democratic Clubs letterhead; other two pages on "onion skin" paper.
Hearst is telling the other Democratic Clubs that their role in the upcoming election is critical in order to defeat Theodore Roosevelt. He goes through party principles and platform points to counter claims made by Roosevelt and the Republicans. He notes that the first Republican platform claimed to uphold the principles of Washington and Jefferson, but then changed from service to the people to service to the trusts. As a newspaper man, he also criticizes a number of perceived attacks on freedom of the press by Republican judges:
The Democratic Party stands for freedom of the press, of conscience and of speech, as it has always stood.... The Democratic party has a great respect for vested rights - it has also a great hatred of vested wrongs, no matter how long or respectable their antecedents. Democrats believe in the statement of their platform that "the rights of labor are certainly no less 'vested,' no less 'sacred' and no less 'inalienable' than the rights of capital."
The Democracy believes in putting the thieves out of the Post Office and all other branches of public service,...public property is public property, and that not even the occupant of the White House should turn men-of-war into private yachts or make of the officers and sailors of the navy the domestic servants of the President's household.
The Democratic party believes in expansion,...[b]ut it is opposed to imperialism. It believes that those that come under the American flag should be treated as Americans... and not treated as conquered subjects.... The Democracy favors the admission of the Territories of Oklahoma and Indian Territory, of Arizona and New Mexico to the full powers of Statehood.... The Democratic party demands the extermination of polygamy, the enforcement of the laws that protect the American home to-day and the American race in the future.
The Democrats believe in a great navy, to be used solely for protection against aggressors. They oppose a great standing army which can be used against the people themselves...demand that the service of the old soldiers be fairly and generously recognized, and a vigorous protest against the attempt of President Roosevelt to stir up race hatred as an engine of political advancement....
Democrats believe in a just distribution of the cost of government. For that reason they demand an income tax that shall put the burden upon those best able to bear it...
Hearst goes on to advocate nationalizing "necessities" - railroads, telegraph, municipal ownership of city streets, street railroads, etc., gas, electric and water. "There cannot be national independence while a few men control national necessities. That power which controls life's necessities controls the people - and the Democrats are determined that there shall not grow up within the Government a power greater than that of the people."
Starting with the San Francisco Examiner, given to him by his father, William Randolph Hearst built up the largest newspaper company in the nation after the turn of the century. He moved to New York, where he got into a circulation with Joseph Pulitzer, giving rise to "yellow journalism," using lurid headlines and stories featuring corruption, crime, sex, etc., all in the attempt to sell more papers. Pulitzer established his prize for journalism to attract the best writers. Ironically, William Randolph Hearst Jr. won a Pulitzer Prize in 1955 (for his interview with Nikita Khrushchev), long after the death of the man who established it.
Hearst (Sr.) served twice in the US House of Representatives, but was less successful in his bids to run for President, Mayor of New York, and Governor of the State of New York. He was long the voice of the working class, as this letter indicates, but vehemently anti-Communist. He was also something of an isolationist, not wanting to enter into any more entanglements in foreign affairs, and that included the League of Nations.
He ran into financial difficulties in the 1930s and was forced to sell his estate at San Simeon and most of his acquired items - furniture, tapestries, paintings, silver, autographs, buildings, etc. But he refused to sell his newspapers. It was technically not bankruptcy, but it was perceived that way by the public. He also lost his "social status," and became a target for ridicule. He died in 1951, having left his remote estate some years earlier to be closer to medical facilities.
Condition
A couple of corners separating from being folded. Minor edge scuffing.
A few instances of water marks at bottom or middle two panels, verso with a punctures.
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