Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-12
cue at the right time, in the opinion Of Mr..
Hearst's political managers.
Must Serve Hearst.

1t is really pathetic to witness the panied
surprise of those honest souls from up
state, these plain people from the hills, as
they find that the vaunted sentiment of
independence upon which they were PIN
ming their faith to break away from the
old parties means only independence of
their former allegiance and subservience to
Mr.. Hearst.
But they are sturdy folk and are setting
out to assert the independence upon which
they were nurtured by the Hearst agents.
According to a poll taken by New York
paper of one-eighth of the delegates to the
convention, the new organization has drawn
recruits from the democratic party in the
ratio of two to one to the republican party,
with a goodly proportion of prohibitionists
and floating vote The World polled PIG of
the 1,611 delegates. and found that 60 had
been republicans, 125 democrats and 81 had
supported various other tickets.
1t will still be possible for Mr.. Hearst to
attempt to deliver the leaguers to the de-
mocracy, giving an opportunity for deal
hereafter, although in the present temper
of the delegates the plan would not be
wholly successful. 1t must be remembered
that this convention" is really nothing but
mass meeting. 1t has no standing under
the election laws as the convention OF
recognized political party. 1t could not get
the names of it's candidates on the official
ballot except by petition.
The League May Go "Bust-"
If the nominees of this convention" for
the minor Offices should be agreeable to
their bosses commands and decline to al
low their names to go on petition, standing
aside for the democrats in consequence of
deal. the league would go bust
The long and short of it all is that as the
situation stands today Mr.. Hearst is mo-
mentarily baked in his plan to use the
league to sandbag the coming democratic'
no md 70 cnIf rrysfI
litical capital for trading.
Democrats are going right ahead with
plans to nominate some one other than Mr..
Hearst. Mayor Mcclellan is taking the lead
and is being supported in this city by the
powerful Sullivan faction in Tammany, as
against Mr.. Murphy. the titular leader of
Tammany, who is still suspected of being
ready to traffic with Mr.. Hearst for control
of the Manhattan delegation at the pri-
mary elections.
Straight Versus Dummy Ticket.
The headquarters of the independence
League at the Gilsey House were thronged
all day with delegates whose only theme
Of conversation was Straight ticket"
versus the dummy ticket.
The straight ticket followers were in the
majority and are clamorous and insistent;
they would not listen to suggestions of
carrying out the original Hearst plans.
The men making up the bulk of the con-
VentlOn are OF very Q1nerent stripe from
the usual youthful crowd Of Hearst boom
ers. They are for the most part middle
aged serious-looking men from the outly-
ing districts and wear an evident~air of
earnestness. They are democratic in ap-
pearance and dress and apparently are ac-
customed to politics, know what they
want and propose to get it. -,
All of which accounts for the inability of
Mr.. Hearst to hold the convention to his
pattern. He is undoubtedly dealing with an
entirely different class Of men from those 1
ward in the city ward meetings. This after
noon the Hearst managers finally aban-
doned all efforts to put through the dummy
plan. and announcement was made at head
quarters that the committee on platform
and resolutions would meet at o'clock this
afternoon and send formal reply to the
suggestion of Conors Of Buffalo for a split
ticket. and fusion with the democrats.
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