The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-11
HEARST ACCEPTS THE
 LEAGUES NOMINATION
WILL BE MUNICIPAL OWNER SHIP CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR
 OF NEW YORE.

Decides "NOt to Shirk Task That
 Presents Itself as Public Duty
 Situation in City Grave and the Con
 dition of the People in Face of Or
 ganized BOssism Apparently Helpless
 .-JOhn Ford for Comptroller and
 James G. Phelps Stokes for Alder
 manic President.
 New York, Oct. l0.-William Ran dolph Hearst tonight made public a letter addressed to Judge Samuel Sea bury, of the Municipal Ownership league, accepting the leagues recent tender of a nomination for mayor of New York. The musicipal convention of the organization will be held Thurs day, but MT. Hearst was offered the nomination at a meeting some days ago. His acceptance assures three mayoralty tickets in the field this fall- the democratic, republican and munich pal Ownership league. In his letter of acceptance MT. Hearst said, in part:
 T have felt absolutely unable and unwilling to accept the nomination you have offered me, but l have at length decided to defer to your wishes and not | to shirk a task that presents itself to me as public duty.
 "The situation in this city is so grave and the condition of the public in the face of organized bossism is apparently so helpless that no man has right to consider anything else least of all his private affairs or personal inclinations.
 'The one thing to be considered is the necessity of giving to the people an 1 opportunity to vote for some man of whom it may at least be said that he would, if elected, represent those that voted for him, and not any boss or cor poration, or selfish private interest.
 If your convention believes I am such man I shall accept the nomina- ton. It is intolerable, in view of the recent exposures of the gas trust and the insurance frauds, that the inter ests of the citizens should be allowed to go by default"
 | MT. Hearst also said the subway, which was owned and built by the ely, has been given away" and that an tor | ganization of plunder has planned to secure and exploit all the new subways and franchises"
 The letter of MT. Hearst was read at a meeting of the committee of seven, teen tonight, Former Senator John Ford was agreed upon for comptroller and James G. Phelps Stokes for presi- dent of the board of aldermen. The committee announced that MT. Ford had agreed to accept and that Mr. Stokes had tentatively signifed his ac- eeptance. MT. Ford was present at the meeting of the committee and in a speech denounced the republican party.
 The committee considered the matter of platform, one plank of which will | declare for municipal ownership, pend- 1 ing which i've favor short-term leases with power of resumption by the city upon adequate compensation for capital invested"
 Among the organizations represented at the meeting were the Greater New York Municipal Ownership league, which will hold it's convention Thurs day night; the Municipal Ownership league of Brooklyn. which will formal ly endorse MT. Hearst and the other candidates probably on Friday; the German-American Municipal league, the Workingmen's Municipal league and the Citizens union, August H. Stebbins, secretary of the committee, being Citizens union man.