Evening star., 1905-11-05
Municipal Contest Closed
With Blaze Last Night.
SUMMARY OF THE FIGHT
MOST SURPRISING AND ABNoR-
NAL CONTEST FOR YEARS.
Many of the Farcical Features of the
Three-Cornered Canvass-Repub-
Hcan Disorganization.

NEW YORK, November 4-With the eX-
ception of a meeting to be held by Mr..
Hearst at Madison Square Garden Sunday
night, the great New York mayoralty cam
paign comes to an end tonight SO far as
the speaking and the shouting are con-
cerned. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday will
witness some effective work, but it viii be
another phase of the campaign-the finan-
cial feature.
This has been the most picturesque, alb
normal and altogether surprising campaign
that New York has witnessed in a great
many years, and New York has seen some
odd campaigns in its time. So many anom-
alous conditions have entered into it, so
many surprising and apparently incongru-
Gus events have occurred, that it can truth
fully be said that New York's political
head is in a whirl.
To a large extent 1t has been a cam
paign of taking and Misrepresentation.
Neither the taking nor the misrepresenta-
tion has been confined to any particular
faction. The object has been to fool the
proletariat Tor the ambitious and political
ends of some, and for the financial and
stock jobbng purposes of others
The proletariat was in receptive mood
for the machination of the schemers. An
gered and disgusted by the tyranny of two
political bosses, Odell and Murphy; outraged
beyond all expression by revelations of
grating in public office and in economic In
stitutions with which the people are as
ISOLATED, the ordinary folk of the toYn were
in a ferment. They were at a white heat
OF resentment, just ready TO be hammered
into some terrible weapon of revenge by
skillful and daring men.
The Campaign a Farce.
So far as genuine party politics is con-
cerned. the campaign has been a great deal
Of farce. No important political issues
were at stake. 1t might be described as a
three-cornered fight among those who want
ed to tear down the existing order those
who wanted to maintain and extend it and
those who wanted to create new order of
things. out of which they and their friends
could benefit.
Tammany wanted to maintain the exist
ing order. Boss Odell and Mr. Hearst had
different objects. 1t is not TO be forgotten
that a few weeks ago Mr.. Hearst and Mr..
Odell were practically in harmony. They
now are ostensibly opposing each other, but
great many people think that the Oppo-
siton is only simulated.
brief glance over the events Of the past
few weeks, which have been coming so rap
idly and 50 strangely. might be interesting
If not instructive Beginning at the time
will be found that he and Mr.. Odell were
apparently in sympathy.
1t was a state of feeling that had been
worked up in the legislature at the last
session. when Mr. Odell consented to prom
inent republicans introducing the measures
OF Mr.. Hearst-gas bills, investigating reso-
lutions and the like. At the time Mr.. Hearst
was building up a machine. He had OBJ
talned possession of the greater New York
democracy and of the Municipal League
THESE he expanded into the Municipal Own
erShlp League, establishing headquarters
and organizing.
First Proposals With odell.
The first political proposition was that
Mr.. Odell should form fusion with the Citi-
zens' Union and the Municipal Ownership
League. Several conferences were held tC
agree upon a ticket The Citizens Union
was willing TO take almost any one for
mayor, but demanded the nomination OF
Jerome for district attorney. Odell balked
at that. The Municipal Ownership League
proposed Judge Gaynor, a democrat fo1
mayor. The Citizens Union baked al that
Then the Municipal Ownership League
brought forward Judge Samuel Seibert The
Cluzens' Union wanted Mr. Homer Folk and
the republicans clamored for John Ford.
II might be added that Mr.. Ford is now
on Mr.. Hearst's ticket, so It can be seer
Just what kind OF political bedfellows Mr.
OdeH was willing to entertain.
Wen, after lot OF pulling and hauling
the three elements of fusion separated. The
Citizens Union held aloof Mr. Odell finally
roped, threw and branded Mr. William M
WINS formerly a democrat and a distin-
Euished figure among the mugwumps He
was nominated for mayor by the repub-
licans.
In the meantime the radicals in the Mn
nlcipal Ownership League got together at
the Astor House and nominated Mr.. Hearst
Tor mayor 1t was not a long ways to 60
IN view of the understanding which had
existed between them before Tor Odell tc
get TO Mr.. Hearst and fix up Hearst in
dorsement of republican candidates for as
semblymen, municipal judges and members
of the board of aldermen.
odell's Object Obvious to All.
Odell's object was obvious to all behold
ers. No republican seemed at that time
hkely TO be elected mayor and he didn't
care very much for the mayoralty. any.
how. His meat was at Albany, in the legls
lature. and when Speaker Nixon d ed a few
weeks ago It became imperative for him 10
look TO his assembymen. Controlling The
speakership of: the assembly and with a
Few stanch friends In the board of alder.
men. Mr.. Odell would be in good shape
So tonight he is feeling pretty comfortab e
and Is not worrying very much how the
mayoralty fight comes out
Every one remembers how three weeks
ago Mcclellan appeared to have walk
over. People were Offering to bet 10 to
that he would be elected. and 1t was hard
10 nnd the man who would put up the one
That was before Hearst sprang into the
arena
In these dispatches In the past two weeks
nave tried TO explain from day 10 DAY
the extraordinary conditions which have
brought about the expansion of the Hearst
boom. l have tried to point out where
rested the various elements OF this great
army of disaffected and discontented peo-
pie, only waiting for a leader to present
himself and assemble them. / have at
tempted to show how Mr.. Hearst through
years of pounding away at capital and cor
porate power, in his newspapers and
through his cartoons. and through years of
posing particular friend of organized
labor, and by other means of like nature
had made himself acceptable to the rank
and file of the discontented as their leader
To these have come the people who do
not care very much for Hearst himself OF
for his teachings, but who see in support
ing him an opportunity to strike a blow al
the bosses and at certain conditions In
public and business life which offend them
Hearst's Big Claim.
Hearst savs out . statement tonight