Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-25
FACING GREAT CRISIS
New York Business Interests
Are Now Aroused
OVER CITY'S ELECTION
HEARST MOVEMENT HAS ALARM
ED FINANCIAL MEN.
Jerome's Candidacy is Growing and
Some Advise Union With Hearst's
Forces-Political Gossip.
OVER CITY'S ELECTION
spee,ai From :. statr uorrespondent.

| Special Prom a Stan Correspondent
NEW YORK, October 25.-The town is
| going crazy over Jerome now. great
| wave of sentiment has set IN for him, and
| Is growing in volume daily. Some of
Hearst's managers are advising him to
| take advantage Of Jerome's popularity, to
| sEelve his own candidate for district at
| torney and indorse Jerome. They say that
| Hearst should come out on the eve of the
| election with a dramatic Endorsement of
Jerome and appeal to Jerome's friends for
support Of his mayoralty candidacy. One
| of the most curious features of this remark
able campaign is the fact that both Jerome
| and WINS are following lines of argument
| identical with Hearst's. The great newspa-
pers that are backing Jerome publish in
| support of Jsrones candidacy some of the
! Identical arguments that Hearst is making
| in his own behalf. Hearst's friends say
| that money could not buy the equivalent of
| the benefit which Hearst's campaign re-
ceives from the publication of the insur-
ance investigation testimony.
All the papers use 1t in full and Hearst
| calmly tacks on and says: There now,
| that's one of the evils l am fighting" OPP
position to McCurdy, Mccall ct al. goes
| into the same pot with opposition to Nor
gan. Rockefeller Boss Murphy, the gas
trust and the rich man, to form the broth
that Hearst is trying to brew for New
York
Last night Jerome made a speech at
tackng the boss system in politics. Hearst
made a similar speech, although, of course,
he went further and attacked many other
| Things. But on that one question, which is
really Jerome's only platform, Hearst and
Jerome are in apparent harmony. Hearst
Guild with logical propriety attempt TO
share that fold of Jerome's cloak and he
| unthinking would not pause to consider
hot, octo o,a1i oil ,prf, nnr 1tsc
your good Judge WINS. candidate for may
| or on the republican ticket, who must
| take a shy at the question of bossism in
rolitics, and Immediately all the Hearst
shouters cry: "see, everybody agrees with
Hearst on this crying evil. Vote for
Hearst"
Hearst's Campaign Promises.
The public is outraged and disgusted over
many conditions, and Mr.. Hearst compla-
Gently sets himself up as the remedial
agency for all ills, great and small, of
which the public complains. He promises
3-cent fares on the street railways The
ignorant really believe that the day after
ne is elected the city viii take over lhe
street car lines passengers will pay haif
fare and the wages of motormen and con-
ductors will be doubled. They think they
will get J0-cent gas and have their house
rent reduced and that all of the inquitous-
trusts will go out of business.
Well, Judge WINS advocates municlpal
ownership, while Tammany says it is the
real exponent of that theory, having put
it partially into practice. SO, all hands turn
to and push along a semblance of the
Hearst theory, and he merely goes them
all one better and unblushingly adds few
other choice items to the voters menu
which they do not have the effrontery to
offer This may account in large degree
for the wonderful growth of the Hearst
boom. There is a taint of socialism in the
whole situation and Hearst asks the vot-
tpa -hnfn hno nd
genuine variety of socialism.
Last night l made a journey through the
lower East Side in company with dis
trict leader of the opposition to Hearst,
man who knows that region as a book. We
plodded for hours through the crowded,
fostering, teeming foreign quarter for
Yiddish, Italian and others, talking with
odds and ends of men.
Sentiment on the East Side.
The district leader wanted to find out two
things, how deep-seated was the Hearst
movement and whether the voters who now
shout for him will stick. Into the little
Kosher meat shops, into the sanded-foored
wine shops of the Latins, among the groups
that gathered on the corners, We jostled
and bumped our way, feeling the sentiment
at first hand The district leader learned
that it was all for Hearst and that it would
stick
/ was most interested in ascertaining
what created that sentiment AS a fair
sample l will quote the reply of one young
fellow who was declaiming to couple or
comrades on the corner. We "butted' IN
to the group and me friend, the district
leader, asked the guy on the corner, "W't
tell there was in the Hearst business any
way; what did Hearst do?"
The fellow was blank for moment and
then his face frightened as he triumphant
ly replied: Remember the coal strike.
That was considered by the others
knock-down logical answer to u.s. and we
pushed on.
That is indicative of the cause of the
Hearst movement. When the rest of us
have forgotten the coal strike that young
fellows mind carries the impression of the
Hearst cartoons against the coal trust, and
he Identifies Hearst with opposition to the
trusts and as defender of those who suffer-
ed from the strike.
Hearst Men Happy.
The Hearst men were In high feather
last night over the reported accession to
their ranks of the police. Hearst claimed
to be the father of the three platoon po-
lice regulation, which is not being faith
fully carried out by the city administra-
ton.
Gratitude to him and resentment against
the city government are said to actuate
the policemen. If there is one other thing
needed to arouse the conservative senti-
ment of New York it is the statement
tiiftl the poiCc lOICc Is tSpOuStuS Tie Cause
of candidate and trying to down another
candidate.
Hearst claims that the letter carriers are
to organize for him along with the street
cleaners. The mail carriers are said to be
resentful to the city government because
needed police protection was not furnished
in the late strike of mail wagon drivers
The fremen are being sought by Hearst,
but the fremen are in another atmosphere
from the policemen in New York, and he
may not get them.
AS Indicated in these dispatches a few
days ago the old outcry against Hearst
and his newspapers which followed NC
Kinley's assassination is being renewed
While Hearst was talking last night man
in the audience broke in with reference to
that incident and almost caused row.
Hearst did not reply, and the police fur
nished protection to the fnterrupter.
In the Financial District.
Down in the financial district and around
the sections where are located the great
business houses the fact is just beginning