The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-03
! RICH MEMS GRAFT
TO BEAT HEARST
Money Kings Combine with Con.
spring Bosses to Defeat the
Leading Candidate.
HcClellan to Be Elected by Aid
of Republican Votes Deliv-
cred by Odell.

Snlcago, Nov. 3-Walter Wellman, IN
8 New York special to the Record
9erald, says, in. part:
Here in the metropolis of America
re have today a striking example Of
What graft of the higher sort-rich
Sen s graft-combined with dirty poll
stcs and deliberate treachery, can do
70 keep a great city in the clutches
az those who Systematically pluck it..
AS the case stands today with the
sGople of Greater New York, William
u: Hearst is their choice for mayor.
With all his faults and weaknesses, he
70 the ffavorite with larger number of
lowing of any other candidate. l have
stnvinced myself that this is the fact;
asd | know a score of neutral, careful
Investigators, better qualified than L
aM to judge conditions in New York,
VINO have reached the same conclusion.
In other words, if the electors could
70 to the polls next Tuesday and cast
shalr ballots without interference and
undue infiuence-if men were let alone
AL the indications are that Hearst
would have a heavier vote than any
peher candidate for mayor.
Yet Hearst Is to Fail.
And yet, the chances are that Hearst
e to fail and that Mayor Mcclellan is
70 be reelected. In spite of the fact
lhat, the revolt against the bosses has
3eached such serious proportions that it
makes Jerome almost a certain winner,
and by the same token should sweep
Mcclellan out Of office and put Hearst
n his place, exactly the reverse is the
most probable outcome as to the may
crafty Of this apparent anomaly and
For the persistency with which the bet
Eng odds in Mcclellan s favor stand at
VA to l, there must be an explanation.
\ Treachery Is Afoot.
The explanation Isl. Treachery is
afoot-treachery and rich mems graft
together.
The republican machinery, of which
Ex-Governor Odell is the boss, deliber
htely plans to sacrifice its own candi
hate, WINS, and to save Mcclellan.
On the actual state Of public feeling
Hearst is the winner. The Tammany
Readers know that as we'll as anyone
klse. But their confidence, such as they
feel, is based wholly upon their knowl-
edge that deal has been made WITH
corrupt republican leaders-most of
them mere hucksters in politics, not
half as respectable as Tammany itself
sby which enough votes are to be thrown
ito Mcclellan if possible to save his ba.
ICON and kill eHarst.
Rich Men in the Plot.
1 Moreover, it is within my knowledge
THAT this conspiracy is of wide extent
land thoroly organized; the names of
1.-THE men in the deal are known; they
Bare working for cash and-niore is the
Adlsgrace to the first city in the United
latSates-the cash comes from the Golfers
1iof rich men down in the financial dis
Etrict
u There are more kinds of graft in New
fAork than in any other city I know
anything about. Graft here is an art
almost a science. It assumes an in
Unite variety'of forms, but the form Of
graft which is playing star part il
this picturesque battle is big graft. II
us the result of collision between mil
lllonalres and political bosses.
Scared by Tammany.
Tammany has artfully used the
tHearst scare to work it's little scheme
1T has gone to the men who contro
1.-THE rapid transit lines, the street cars
the gas supply, the telephone lines, the
gelectrlc light and many more and ha:
lin effect said to Them: ..~
'|You see just how it is. The people
have, gone wild over the man Hearst
kslmply as q means of getting even will
ayou and with us. We are all in thu
same boat. We sink or swim together
Unless we get together,s we'll. all q
down. It that soeialist-anarch his
Hell try to take ycur franchise aWa1
I from you. He'll make trouble all alont
the line for you. You can't live will
him. There s nothing for you to d1
but to turn in and help us beat him. ,