Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-19
NEW YORK POLITICS
Remarkable City Campaign
Engages Attention of All.
FIGHT FOR MAYORALTY
LIVELY HREE-CoRNERED CON-
TEST sTIRs THE CITY.
Tammany Profiting by the Hearst
candidacy-McCleIlan the Strong
Man of the Hour.
FIGHT FOR MAYORALTY
Special From a staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, October 19-The extraor-
dinary and unprecedented condition existing
In New York city politics is engaging the
attention of New Workers of high and low
degree. and will soon attract the notice of
the entire country. Two weeks ago the pol-
ltlcians thought the mayoralty campaign
bid fair to be dull and prosy Mcclellan,
the Tammany candidate, apparently had
Walk-over, and there seemed to be nothing
M sight TO eniiven stale, fiat and, what
was worse. Improbable season
Then comes Mr.. William r. Hearst with
his boom for mayor on an independent
ticket. With a lot of red fire. loud oratory
by numerous staff of speakers. brass
bands and the thousand and one necessaries
OF a well-provisioned campaign, he startled
the community and for a few days set the
politicians guessing
Also there is Mr.. WINS, the regular repub-
lcan candidate for mayor, who sIaps Boss
Odeii In the face, spurns with scorn the or
Bdnl1atlon 'Darrel' and virtually sets out to
paddle his own canoe He is breezy. orig
lnal and altogether recalcitrant to such a
degree, in fact, as to put the organization
managers into cold perspiration. He will
certainly add to the gayety of politics and
be the despair of the bosses if he keeps nm
his present gait.
Then there Is Mr.. Jerome, who rejected
the bosses of both parties for the office next
1
attorneyship-a veritable Cinderella In poli-
tics, is going to the big ball on his own hook
and has started a whirlwind campaign for
Jerome.
Tammany Stirred Up.
The successive shocks have served to stir
up Tammany. and today the Tammany lead
ers are doing some careful figuring The
politicians have seen fit in the past two DAYS
70 work themselves into small panic over
the growth of the Hearst boom. The
strength which Mr.. Hearst developed was
entirely unexpected, and the revelation came
SO suddenly as to undoubtedly exaggerate
Its Importance Up to this time his candi-
dacy had been regarded largely as in the
nature of a joke SO far as practical effect
was concerned. For the past two days the
politicians have been trying to gauge first
how much of the Heart movement was froth
and how much represented probable votes
IN the ballot boxes. They have not reached
a decision yet.
One certain effect of the Hearst boom IN
already becoming apparent, namely, that
1t Is driving thousands. of independent re-
publicans, into the Tammany camp. They
are coming in droves and flocks, the men
of substance and property, affr.ghted at
the bare possibility of the Hearst outfit
succeeding. and fearful to split the issue
by voting the republican ticket which in
any event Is doomed to defeat
1t would be difficult to convey to an out
slider the horror which substantial New
York feels at the mere supposition that
this great city could be delivered into the
hands of tha men who are following in
Mr.. Hearst'S train. The thought is pre-
posterous, and yet the politicians have en-
couraged it, perhaps for obvious reasons
of their own, and the result Is being mani
rested, as stated, in an immediate acces-
sion of interest in McClellan's candidacy.
Mcclellan to the Fore.
Right here a notable fact might be
namely, that in this campaign it is Nc
Clellan, the man who is to the fore.
while Tammany. the organization, is sub
ordinated and in the background. McClel-
Ian has won the confidence and respect of
the mass of the thinking people, and they
overlook in his virtues the unsavory or
ganization which backs him.
With this fact in mind thousands of re-
publicans, rather than risk wasting their
votes on the losing republican. will vote
for Mcclellan in the face of the threat
ened peril of Hearstism.
One of the oldest features of this very
interesting political situation is the atti-
tude of Mr.. WINS, the regular republican
candidate for mayor. He was picked out
by Mr.. Odell as "Odelrs man to lead a
forlorn hope. He Immediately bristled up,
declares he is not OdelPs man. and then
braces up and says 1t is not forlorn hope,
but that he is leading to victory. Mr..
quarters. The party managers have their
headquarters at No. l. Madicon Square.
under William Halpin. who is the party
manager for the city.
Twins Going It Alone.
Mr.. WINS has large suite at the Hotel
Breslin with his own personal staff, all of
which he is paying for out of his own am
pie means. He has enunciated platform
of hic own, going to more radical extremes
on municipal ownership than Boss Odell
and the other leaders dreamed as a possi-
bility of republican policy. He intends to
take the absolute management of the cam
pasgn in his own hands, and altogether he
gives the impression that he regards this
campaign the campaign of Twins and not
of the republican party. Mr.. Hearst Is aG-
dressing himself solely to the radical So
cialistic sentiment of the community Sim
gularly enough, he is alphabetically disowned
by the real socialist party which declares
him a counterfeit socialist, but he Is en-
deavoring to build UP a party of Hearst
socialists. He is making dead set for the
workingmans vote mainly on the theory
that the two great parties are controlled
by men who are friends of capital and in
imical to the poor man.
1t Is admitted that he VIII draw his adher-
ents largely from Tammany, but the pros
pect is that where Tammany loses one vote
on his account it will gain the votes of two