Evening star., 1905-11-04
NEW YORK POLITICS
Contestants in Mayoralty
Fight at Close Range.
LAWSON FOR HEARST
EFFORT TO WIN INSURANCE
POLICY HOLDERS
Looks Like Victory for Hearst, but
Many Think Tammany Will
Handle the Election.
LAWSON FOR HEARST

Special From STAFF Correspondent.
NEW YORK, November 4-The combat
ants in the great mayoralty contest are
fighting at close range today. They are at
each others throats for fair and trying
every trick Of Jiu-Jitsu known to politicians.
Big Chief Murphy sits in his tepee and
plans to win the battle by strategy and
political generalship. Hearst circles around
the field by mere force of numbers to rally
every discontented soul and crush down the
enemy by sheer force of numbers. Murphy
tells his lieutenants that they must deliver
the vote of their district lose their jobs
and Tammany's support At the same time
he hands each leader q statement of the
vote expected from the estimate based upon
the state OF the vote In the various dis
tricts.
Hearst appeals to Thomas w. Lawson to
rally the floating discontented vote to the
Hearst banner. and Lawson is out in
half-page ad. in all the papers calling upon
all insurance policy holders to rebuke the
insurance grafters by electing Hearst Not
a bad move at that OF course, the ad-
herence of Lawson to the Hearst game will
further disgust and anger Wall street, but
that class is already aligned against him.
The Hearst managers know that in this
community there Is deep-seated resentment
against the nasty and vulgar Insurance
grafters, and they are all appealing on that
score to an Intelligent faction Of the cleo
torate which could not be fooled with some
of Mr.. Hearst's other fallacious policies
That feeling Of resentment has been refer
red to from time to time in these dis
patches. and everybody knows 1t exists.
Mr.. Hearst has no claim to profit by Il nor
logical excuse to set himself up as the
champion to fight It, but he is doing it. all
the same. and very effectively, through his
newspapers and cartoons.
His candidate for district attorney prom
ises wholesale deportations of insurance
grafters to Sing Sing. and the people say,
Fine. fine!" Mr.. Jerome promises to take
such action as the results of the pending
Investigations may warrant.
Votes for Hearst to Rebuke Bosses.
/ went last night to Brooklyn to call on a
man whom l go to see in every campaign
He Is rich man, lawyer with a big prac-
tice, real estate owner and enough of a
mixer in politics to keep the run of the
game. He said he intended to vote for
Hearst and that many people in his circle
would do so, just rebuke to the bosses
and the insurance grafters. He and his
friends did not care SO much for Hearst
but they were not afraid that he could do
anything harmful, and they would risk him
once. just to down the existing order.
He further said that one Of his clerks had
people who came in to arrange about taxes
and to talk about property, as well as those
who came in strictly legal business and
that three out of five of the callers were for
Hearst. This only confirms every other
straw vote and poll that is being or has
been taken in Greater New York, yet you
will observe that the odds continue on Nc
Clellan. Politicians who are conservatively
trying to keep in touch with the situation
say, well, of course. it looks like Hearst
but we expect, Tammany to handle it all
right election day"
The inside estimate of Tammany is plu-
rality of % 600 for Mcclellan. His plurality
in 1903 was g.. .696 Mayor Mcclellan today
gave his first authorized interview to the
press. He appeared in person at his up
town headquarters and greeted the news
paper men. He looks clipper and confident.
If l might be allowed to coin a phrase
would say sternly confident, kind OF
'I-must-have-it air.
Candidate WINS Estimate.
In an interview this afternoon Mr. WINS,
republican candidate for mayor, said he
estimated that Hearst's total vote in
Greater New York would be 175,000.
Hearst would have to get 225,0O0 to put
him in the winning class. At WINS head
quarters today indignant denial was made
OF the alleged Odell- deal for trading
republican votes for mayor for Hearst votes
for assambiymen and aldermen. The denial