Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-01
OVER HEARST CANVASS
CONFERENCE TO DEVISE MEANS
TO STEM TIDE FOR HIM.
Poor Leadership in Campaign Of the
opposition-Tammany's Bad Breaks
-Ivins Going It Alone.
Special From a stafY Correspondent

| SERIOUSNESS they but recently secuted men
OF business and high finance OF all parties
were In earnest conference today to devise
| ways and means IL possible to stem tho
ode OF Hearstism. Realizing that large
mass OF the people are putting faith in the
socialistic promises OF Hearst and are fol-
lowing blindly his leadership men intrust-
ed with the responsibility for vested prop-
erty rights are taking the aggressive
against Hearst
| AT first these men and the polit clans said
that Hearst could not fool any one in New
YORK with his program OF sneciousness
| But he Is fooling them, 1t is being fouod
| Large audiences swallow eagerly his prom
ises or free street cars for the children g.
| cent fares for the public 50-cent gas. in
| creased wages and shorter hours for worl-
ilsi,en ri IN the public util ties. railroad rate
| regulation TO give New York merchants
| advantage over Philadelphia and a .iozeu
otneF panaceas for alleged public ills
| but above and beyond all this. and con-
| sututlng the material element of Helrst's
| strength, is the fact that he has cryst, ,llized
at the psychological moment all the slum-
perins resentment of the people against
graft. party bossism eommerrialisn, ,n
| politics and hostility to corporate and pri-
Vate wealth. He is diverting to his own
| uses all the popular rage against certain
phases of political and industrial life. He
| invites men OF every creed TO rally round
| him and express by votes for Hearst their
| condemnation of existing conditions
| Commands Psychological Moment.
say that he has seized the psychological
! moment because everything has tended to
push ms campaign and strengthen his no.
sition. Every screed that Thomas w. Law
son has written for a year, every cartoon
published in all New York papers against
the insurance scandals, every jeremiad
| from the pulpit on corruption in nolitics
no nf t.
recent investigations, and TO drive il
home and clinch it,. every anathema pro-
| nounced by Jerome and cappaign srgu-
ment py WINS has forwarded Hearet's gale
The temper of the masses in New York
at this moment is entirely iconoclastic
rhey ,h wa want to-. to destroy something. which
enraged them. Hearst says: Il will be
your weapon In me will be personifed
| your opposition to all that Is"
This temper of the people would be
further shown by their turning upon
| Hearst and rending him within six
months if he should be elected. 1t is not
Hearsts personality. as in Jeromes case.
| that is winning him support. Hearst lis
not magnetic. He talks laborioasly and
without enthusiasm but he has succeed
| ed In identifying himself in the public
mind as the sublimation of antagonism to
| conditions they reprehend These facts
are coming home to conservative New
Workers with crushing force They ara
reaIlzlng that this is not alone the BIZ
Zarre Hearst of yellow kid memory bur
the Hearst who has adroitly managed TO
| assemble the lightnings that have been
| flashing in the disturbed social. political
+, aod business atmospheres and who NAV
hurl the bolt with deadly destructtyeness
at the existing fabric.
Now the question is whether there yet
remains time between the awakening OF
conservatism and election day to disinte-
CRATE this assembling of all iconoclastlc
elements, sublimate the real Hearstism
and bring the mass of the electorate back
to old moorings.
Bad Leadership in Opposition.
Bad leadership in the opposition has
| marked every phase of the campaign SO
far and is still prevailing. The repubu-
cans have blundered. and after election
| ti.are viii be Inquiries as whether some
! OF :he blunders were not Intentional The
| leadership of Tammany can only be de-
| scr1oe1 fatuous. Mistake after mis-
take mas been made by the Tammany
managers, and Mayor Mcclellan has been
forced TO stand by and see his career
menaced by those In charge of the for
tunes of his rarty.
Tammany made two bad breaks yester-
day, and Heart proffted by both of them.
The swinging of the banner in Park Row
cGrrying side 5y side the emblem of an
arcny and the stars and stripes with the
question, Under which flag do you vote"
was a blunder monumental grossness
which finally soaked through Tammany's
understanding The stretching of dozens
of banners up and down Broadway, claim
Ing 10 announce allegiance of various trade
| organizations to Mcclellan was evea worse.
Today the organizations are coming out
in reputation OF these banners and de-
claring that they were not authorized to
deliver the sentiment of the trade alliances
20 any candidate. If they have to be taken
down, and many of them will be forced
down, Il will be n humiliating confession
that Tammany has tried TO fim-flm The
workers.
WINS Pounding Tammany
WINS As devoting all his attention 10
pounding Tammany Every word he ut
ters against that organization is but an
echo of Hearsts thunders. Wins and Nc
CIellan are struggling with each other for
the stray republican vote. Hearst is step
ping in between the two combatants and
grabbing off hundreds of republicans.
There is no republican In New York city
of sufficient prominence TO step IN and
rally his colleagues. WINS is not recognized
as an organization republican. Odell would
not dare TO open his mouth because he is
discredited as leader. Plat smiles with
sardonic delight at the plight of the ma
chine Root and Choate for Jerome
and Mcclellan
In all the republican organization there
is not one man of national prominence 10
step in and brace his party up from its
present wobbly condition. So the con-
servatIves see the thing drifting DANGER
| ously near the rocks; Tammany saw a
next Tuesday and the conservatives win
have to move lively IL they would
the day.
WINS on the Flag Incident
Mr.. wins, the republican candidate for
mayor. went after Tammany again this
afternoon In an interview delivered In my
hearing. He said: 81 think that the aas
incident is going to have very bad effect
on Mr.. Mcclelan's campaign. because IL
shows such desperation and 1t shows
willingness on their part to resort to modea
of warfare that are not honest. Mcclellan
repudiated 1t once. He had nothing else
to do That is he called In one banner. :
notice that he has not repudiated Murphy.
He has repudIated Murphy's banner. but h
has not repudiated Murphy. don't know