The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-25
TIGER is SCARED.
Tammany Leaders Are Alarmed
at Strength of Hearst.
viii Try the Mark Hanna
Method Of Campaign.
BIG CAMPAIGN FUND.
And an Appeal to the Business
Interest.
WINS Is No Longer Considered
in the Race.
ZIG CAMPAIGN FUND.

In the Race.
New York. Oct. 25.-Alarmed by the
evidences OF political strength shown
by William R. Hearst, Tammany Lead
ers have decided on q change of tactics.
to combat him. Two methods will be
tried to insure the election of Mcclellan.
First-The most liberal use of money
in the organizations history.
Second-An attempt to rouse the bust
ness interests of the city against Hearst
as dangerous, unsafe man to be
mayor.
Conferences of Tammany leaders and
representatives of corporation interests
have been held during the last two or
three days at which genuine alarm was
expressed. AS a result an enormous
campaign fund is being raised to be
used in thoroughly practical manner
Not a penny more will be wasted on
banners or meaningless shows. The
cash is to go into the densely populated
sections of town, where the Hearst SEN
timent is strongest and be placed where
/ it will produce the most votes.
Circulars and posters are being print
ed making direct attacks on Hearst and
his principles, calculated to scare the
business interests. One of them reads:
Mcclellan stands for the American
flag over the City hall Hearst stands
for the red flag
Campaign orators will devote their
speeches to denunciation of Hearst call
ing him a socialist and a menace to
prosperity. The old speeches of 1896
against Bryan, viii be resurrected and
with few necessary changes of names
and the substitution of confiscation of
property for free silver, they viii be
! delivered by some of the very men who
worked for Bryan in that campaign.
The scare of the business interests
in 1896 resulted in Mckinley getting
1885, 1853 votes to Bryan's 1884, 77 in the old
ent boroughs of Manhattan and the
Bronx
VIII Spend a Million.
Assertion is made by Municipal Own
ership leaders that the Tammany cam
paign fund will be more than 100000
/ collected chiefly from a 10 per cent as
sessment on officehoIders and extraor-
binary contributions from the various
public service corporations.
They added that Thomas F. Ryan is
the largest contributor, on behalf of
the Metropolitan street railway sys-
tenn and his anticipated tunnel fran
chises closely followed by august
Belmont on behalf of the inter-
+ borough system and the Consolidated
Gas company.
Estimates were made that the ap-
portionment of Tammany funds viii
RIM al high as $500 to each of the
t1116 election districts in Manhattan
and the Bronx to be distributed dur
ing the last few days of the campaign,
as against the customary $500 per
district.
one of Tammanys most promi-
nent leaders is authority for the fol-
lowing statements, representing the
inside condition of affairs
1.-The contest is solely between Nc
( Clellan and Hearst.
I've are up against the hardest
fight we ever have had, because of the
/ extraordinary evidence of sentiment
for Hearst among the masses
eff the polls taken in my factories,
showing Overwhelming Hearst senti-
ment, are only half true, they indi-
i cate that he will have more votes
than all the other candidates COM
bined.
Il hope am wrong in the cOnclu-
sions from my Investigations, but we
have got to fight hard
'It looks as though the easiest
money in town lies in taking the short
ends of the odds that are being laid
/ on Mcclellan. The fellows in Wall
street and Broadway don't know
what is going on in Tenth avenue and
the extreme East side.
In the face of this suddenly re-
vealed condition of political affairs
! betting at large odds on Mcclellan
was carried on in brokers' Offices,
which are the headquarters for such
wagers. In c. D. De Witt & Co.'S
Hoffman house office, half a dozen
large wagers were made at odds as
high as to ! and even 10 to 1 on
! Mcclellan to win. One bet was re-
/ corded of $4,000 to $500; another of
$4,000 to $500. A wager of $1,000
even was made that Mcclellan would
have more votes than Hearst and
WINS together
/ Sheriff O'Brien entered and sounded
a note of warning that such odds We're
most extravagant. and the offerers
were unaware of the real conditions
/ prevailing