Evening star., 1905-10-23
Tammany Now Alarmed Over
Hearst's Candidacy.
STRENGTH Is GROWING
INSURANCE INQUIRY TO STOP
UNTIL AFTER ELECTION.
Long Statement From Candidate WINS
on Graft - Politicians Surprised
Over Criticism of Mcclellan.
Special From staff Correspondent.

! Special From a staff Correspondent.
| NEW YORK, October 23.-The Tammany
| leaders compared notes over Sunday and
! today they are thoroughly alarmed over the
| spread of the Hearst movement. One OF
| the men in authority in Tammany Hall said
| to me this morning: 'If the election were
| to be held tomorrow, I believe Hearst
| would carry Greater New York In certain
| walks of life the people seem to be crazy
| over Hearst. l feel confident that we Will
| be able to stem the tide In two weeks be-
| fore election day and that Mcclellan will
have plurality of gratifying proportions,
We saw these same conditions in the
Bryan campaign and in the Henry George
campaign, in both of which the fever died
out, conservatism asserted itself and the
radical movement was defeat ted"
AS heretofore stated in these dispatches.
the plan of the opposition to Mr.. Hearst is
to rally the conservative element of the city
to the cry that Hearstism threatens an
archy. Today Tammany Hall Is dlstrlput-
ing circulars saying that under Mcclellan
the stars and stripes would hoat over the
city hall, while under Hearst the red flag
would wave from the flagstaff. Going fur-
ther a movement Is now on to revive the
charge which was made against Hearst
newspaper at the time of Mckinley's assas-
sination.
The politicians remember that for two
weeks after that calamity Mr.. Hearst ana
his newspaper were violently assa1led. MI.
Hearst's friends declare that nothins ever
wounded him so much as that attack, Wmcn
he felt was unjust, and that IL 1t Is renewed
at this time he will make somebody sufIer:
Certain 1t is that If this plan is carried
out it will drive the Hearst supporters 70
frenzy and stimulate them to redoubled ef-
forts The Tammany leaders have been
amazed to find how widespread is the
Hearst movement. They have discovered
this through polls made of industrial es-
tabishments and among labor organiza-
tions.
The Hearst craze seems to go in waves
through entire establishments and organi-
zations. A pool of the mechanical depart
ment of one of the big newspapers disclosed
that every voter but two would vote for
Hearst. One of the big department stores
showed IS per cent for Hearst. The Or
ganizato of stationary engineers mas
agreed to vote solidly for Hearst because
he advocated the passage of bill In tlietr
favor by the legislature. 1t was vetoed by
Mcclellan, and the republicans would not
pass it over the veto.
City Departments Against Tammany.
The police department is against Tam
many. The street cleaning department is
fighting Tammany The longshoremen and
truck drivers are opposed to Tammany.
have tried to ascertain what caused this
sudden and widespread outbreak of Hearst
sentiment. The Tammany leaders have
been looking into the same question. and
here is the explanation of one of them:
This situation is the result Of seven years
work by Mr.. Hearst. During that time his
newspapers have day after day inhameu and
excited the masses against the classes BY
cartoons and editorials he has daily worked
UP sentiment against the wealthy. Every
line in the columns upon columns which
the daily papers have been printing about
the insurance scandals has backed up Mr.
Hearst"
lEg himself to the labor organizatf tfons If
there was a bill pending at Albany to hen
eht a labor union he would run a special
tram to Albany to carry the boomers His
men nave done a great deal of charita BILE
work among the poorer people in his name
Ihere you can see where he has been MAX
Ing himself known all the time His at
tacks against the upper classes paved tba
way for the municipal ownership plan He
formed his league and blushingly took the
nomination for mayor. 1t came at a
psychological moment. when conditions
were ripest for its favorable reception
Insurance Inquiry to Stop.
1t was stated today that the insurance
investigation is to be closed down until
after election. The sensational disclosures
having been played upon by the newspa-
pers, have served to inf1ame the people to
degree that alarms the leaders, who think
they are powerful aid to the Hearst cam
paign.
Judge WINS, the republican candidate for
mayor, came out this afternoon in a long
statement from his headquarters about
So uiuei ene city government The
statement said in part:
There are two kinds of graft, but there
Is no honest graft. The two kinds are the
greater graft and the lesser graft The
greater graft Is illustrated by the case of
insurance ho fa,y
contractors, and the people who as Punk
lit says, get tipped off in politics.
The lesser graft is so petty and mean
that 1t bears about the same relation to
the greater graft that picking pockets or
blackmaiiing does to wars for annexation
The tenement house commissioner found
that he was going to have an unexpended
balance of between $4,000 and $4,000 so
he appointed a hundred or so ward heeIers
of Tammany special inspectors and made
them Christmas present of the fund.
our New York penitentiary is a night
mare of inefhciency and corruption, and
there you may find illustrations of every
form OF the lesser graft that Is possible In
a penal institution. I am told and l be-
lieve that easy prison jobs are openly
trafflcked in and that the pilfering of city
property and material has been reduced to
a system. For many years the city itself
has been engaged in a mean form of petty
larceny perpetrated upon the states prison
ers and the state treasury In the matter OF
clothing furnished One of the meanest
forms or petty graftS mas grown out of n
method that has been discovered by Tam
many to beat the civil service laws in a
small way. A beautiful scheme for copper
fastening civil service Jobs was discovered
by the present administration
Degradation Of Graft.
After reciting the details of these alleged
instances of graft, the statement went on
to say: 1.-The people ought to know and
fully appreciate the degradation of the sys-
tenn in its pettiness, well as it's mon
strous greatness in the case of the corpora
tions and the bosses. The contagion
reaches everywhere, from the insurance
companies and Tammany Hall TO the mean
est officer in the penitentiary, and so far as
know. Mayor Mcclellan. with all his good
intentions, has never detected 1t or de-
nounced it or taken any official steps to
put end to It,
"A fellow senator, talking with Pat Nc
Carren after the latter had defeated the
s0-cent gas bill. said: How are you going
to get away with 1t. MacT and the answer
was. oh. this talk will all be over In a
week. The people will forget 1t all I
have heard the same sort of talk for fifteen
years and they always forget