Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-24
new YORK POLITICS
Crest of the Hearst Boom Has
Been Reached.
TAMMANY TO WAKE UP
MAYOR MCCLELLAN IS SLATED
FOR REELECTION.
Democratic Business Men Seeking
Votes Among Republicans for Their
Ticket-Ivins' Efforts.
Special From a Stan Correspondent.


NEW YORK, October 24.-The crest OF
the Hearst wave has been reached and
from this time on the tide will subside.
Practical politics will be asserted. Tam
many, wonderful and effective organization
will take hold of the wobbly situation and
brace it up. The historical Tammanyites
who have strayed off after Hearst will be
caught up with, their heads banged to-
gether by the organization, and they will
be told to get into line.
All of which means that in the estimation
of conservative and dispassionate politicians
Mcclellan is slated for victory. The scare
which the Tammany outfit received in the
past three or four days has had beneficial
results Now that it Is over 1t will not be
out of place to say that the Tammany
leaders encouraged it deliberately and with
intention prepense.
In this course of action they had two OBJ
Jects. They wanted to throw scare into
the overconfident host of Tammany who,
secure In the belief that this was a walk
over, were paying little attention to the
campaign and less to the hints for campaign
contributions; second, they wanted to draw
attention of independent republicans to the
menace of Hearstism and to the idea that
it would be practicable to vote for McClel-
Ian and waste a ballot on the queer and
mysterious republican ticket The Tam
many leaders have succeeded In both cases.
The Hearst Boom.
All the evening newspapers came out last
night with scare head lines about the ex-
tent of the Hearst boom. Even the con-
servative Evening Post put on a black head
line deeper than ordinary. Wall street
stopped long enough to read and odds on
Mcclellan dropped from 10 to 1 to 10 to 3.
Republicans who had not given much at
tention to the campaign asked incredulously
If 1t were possible that New York was seri-
ously thinking of electing the Hearst ticket
Today the Tammany leaders are chuck
ling at the success of the scare. 1t re-
minds me Of the biennial play Of Brother
Babcock, that canny chairman of the re-
publican congressional committee, VINO,
when the war bags of the committee were
getting empty would come down to Wall
street and utter loud cries of warning that
a democratic house was imminent and val
ues threatened, whereupons Brother Over
street and Brother Hull would pass around
the hat. There is no doubt that the scheme
has worked we'll. ;s~-e, ss,-.s =.
All forenoon the Tammany district cap
tains have been rushing to headquarters
with reports that boys were bracing up
and promising to be good and that things
were picking up The Hearst people are
crying for more campaign money to meet
the stream from the Tammany barrel, the
spigot of which has been turned on full by
Boss Murphy.
Various Campaign Efforts.
In the downtown districts, in Wall street
and the dry goods and other wholesale
sections another kind of campaign Is be-
ing carried on, feature of general alarm
ist plan.
Prominent democrats in business life are
going among their republican friends and
asking for their vote for Mcclellan in the
name OF conservatism and safety. The
menace of Hearstism is dwelt upon strong
ly and the fact pointed out that the re-
publican ticket is impossible"
Mr.. Ivins came out this morning in a
long screed on municipal ownership. He
Is almost radical as Hearst on that SUBJ
ject and is frightening away thousands of
republicans. Candidate Ivans and the re-
publican county managers are entirely
apart The candidate is running viz,
tual1y on his own hook The county
managers have cut their tow loose and
are trying to save the assembly districts
from the impending wreck.
1t is recalled by politicians that not with
in quarter of a century has a straight
republican mayor been elected. 1t was
only upon fusion ticket, with the aid of
disgruntled democratic votes, has repub-
lican headed successful municipal ticket.
Men with far greater prestige than WINS
have tried and failed.
Tammany Gets Busy.
Tammany commenced today to put in
real licks in the campaign. German. Ital-
ian and Yiddish bureaus We're established
and the great Tammany machine was un-
iimbered in earnest.
The sensation of the day was the report
ed remark of James Osbourne. the candi-
date for district attorney on the Tammany
ticket, and who has been engaged in a
wOrdy warfare with Jerome.
Osbourne is quoted as uttering in a speech
this remark: Il can come only to one con-
clusion, when he asks Chas. F. Murphy
Where did you get it?' and 1t is this: If
fool" The Tammany leaders were ap-
palled at this break. They could not con-
ceive of Osbourne saying such thing, and
set about to get denial. but the Hearst
people were ahead of them. Early in the
morning they took it up and decided to use
1t for all it was worth and by tonight the
city will be flooded with posters declaring
that the motto OF Tammany, as set by Its
candidate for district attorney, is IF you
don't graft you fool" New York has
been favorite field for Burchards.
Jerome's Campaign Growing.
Mr.. Jerome's campaign is growing every
day. At his headquarters today he said: II
am satisfied now that the people realize the
vital nature of the issues. l have always
had faith in the people. but wouldn't have
believed that so many would come out
actively as workers for my re-elecGeh,
especially the organization men, many of
whom openly have declared their allegiance.
THE issue Is so perfectly simple. I am
attacking no individual; It's the machine
principle against which l am fighting 1
might take separate abuses practiced by
each party; but II l attacked Tammany in
dividually they might say that / was de-
claring for WINS or Hearst. and IL attack
ed WINS they might say l was swinging in
some other direction. So there really ism t
anything to say off the platform, except
that l am encouraged, and proud of the way
the people are all rallying to this all i'm
portant issue"
paign is attracting Is the fact that con-
tributions TO the campaign fund are coming
from all over the east.
Gen. Wood Arrived at Manila,
MANILA, October 24-Major General
Leonard Wood has arrived here and will