New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-30
RAPS HEARST IN C. f. T..
Candidates Friendship for Labor
Men attacked by Delegate.

The Central Federated Union got into a wiri"i'u
Of political debate yesterday, Notwithstanding d ~
that 1t Is not supposed to take any part III poii'
The political whirgig was started by report Vi d
committee appointed four weeks ago TO see ehe can
didates for Mayor and ask each of them If IN case
he was elected he would appoint labor man IN
stead of Commissioner Keating as Comtnissionei VI
Licenses In the debate William Ranooiph hearst
was denounced at one time and eulogized at an
other
The report which was made by De Veahh' oeie-
gate Of the Actors Protective Union said That the
committee saw Mr. O'Bren. the private secretary Oh
Mayor Mcclellan, twice before IT couiu get d
definite
He told us" said De Veaux. that the Mayor
realized that labor would be the most elf
cient man for the position. He had no doubt, ne
SAID ii Mayor Mcclellan was reelected he would.
after January ]. appoint labor man as commas
sioner of Licenses,
The next one seen was Mr. Elsberg, the repre-
sentative of Mr. WINS. He also had not the slight
est doubt that if Mr.. WINS was elected the first
thing he would do would be to appoint labor man
Commissioner Of Licenses. Mr.. Hearst, whom
the committee had difficulty in reaching. said.
according to the report
1 know the position / have have taken and VINO
my friends are. 1 think organized labor knows ITS
friends and that am one of them. l don't want
to be tied down to any promises, but If ! an, am
elected Mayor shall stand by the people and live
UP to the principles L have always advocated
''Hooray!" shouted delegate at the back OF the
hail. but the delegates far showed little emotion
Charles Delaney, of the Granite Cutters Union,
wanted to know why the committee had not visited
the Socialist candidate
Are there only three candidates in the munich
pal campaign he said
There was a commoton in another part of the
hail. and Abrahams, a delegate of the Frankhh
Association of Pressmen, Socialist took the floor
and attacked Mr. Hearst.
Il have been following this campaign, ne sdiu.:
''and you would think there was only one honesss
in all Greater New-York That man neeo
not say is William Randolph Hearst, because
doesn't he tell in his own papers! he says
he is the greatest friend of the workngmen; there
fore it must be true. He has whole cnaln OF pa
Ders, and every one of them in rampant edltorlaiS
says that Hearst is the Moses who is going 10 ead
the workingmen to emancipation. . ,
81 want to tell you working men who believe IN
all this and that you are living IN iooi so,
business When he IS elected, II he IS escseo; you
will soon down to earth again and IND out
how much William Randolph Hearst VIII 40 ior
you
The sneaker, continuing his attack. said That MI.
Hearst was a of many millions, and could pay
for able men to boost him in his own papers A
big uproar then started and the remainder OF the
speakers remarks were inaudible-
FITZGERALD, delegate of the Letter Carriers Union,
then took up the cudgels for Mr.. Hearst.
letter carriers, William Randolph Hearst he said,
II would untrue to my union and mysei1. L
never was a member of either the Republican party
or of Tammany Hall. but will defend the friend OF
The speaker was interrupted by an argument pc.
tween the chairman and James T. Archibald, or
the Paper Hangers Union Archibald charged e the
chairman with stopping another man, who was de-
nouncing Mr. Hearst, and allowing Fitzgerald 10
talk about him. :,
On the motion of a Tammany delegate; 1t was
gernon Lee the Socialist candidate for Mayor, as
matter of courtesy