Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-11-03
is GIVEN OUT THAT SECRETARY
ROOT is BEARING THE MES
AGE TO UTICA
HUGHES TO BE THERE
Republicans Are Confident and Odds
Ruling Firm S to on Hughes
Word From Croker Endorsing Pat
Mccarren viii Lose for Hearst.

Syracuse, N. Y, Nov. Next to
the closing day Of the upstate cam
paign Charles E. Hughes, the republi-
can candidate for governor, began to-
day with the departure from the city
of the candidate on an early train for
Earlsville, where he delivered the first
speech Of the day. From Earlsville
Hughes went to Norwich, thence co
Hamilton and Herkemer returning to
Utica in time for the evening meet
ing, which is expected to be one of the
most interesting of the campaign. Sc.
cretary OF State Root will be one Of
the speakers at Utica. and it has been
given out that he brings "a message
from washington"
Republicans Confident.
| New York, Nov. $50 confident are
the republican high lights that their
candidate for governor, Charles E..
Hughes, will win that they are now
claiming for him plurality Of at least
100000 In the counties above the
Bronx This. of course, would mean
the election Of Hughes by a large ma
jority, as even the democratic mana.
gers themselves do not believe that
Hearst will have anything like plur-
ality of 100000 in gre;..er New York.
The Hughes prediction was, in a
sense, official, as it was made by Will
liam Barnes, Jr.. state committeeman
from Albany, and it was backed up by
Timothy L. Woodruff, chairman Of the
committee.
Charles E. Murphy, leader Of Tam.
many, refused to make any detailed
prediction.
IF what Barnes says is true" he
said, eve might as we'll close up shop.
But his figures do not agree with our
reports from upstate"
Mccarren Backed by Croker.
Senator McCarren, the democratic
leader of Brooklyn, who has denounced
Hearst, is proudly displaying today a
cable message he received from Rich.
ard Croker, formerly leader of Tam.
many hall. The message congratulates
McCarren ION the manly stand you
have taken, win or lose" Senator
i McCarren cabled for permission to
make the message public, and it imme'
diately was granted by the sender.
/ When seer, last night about the
cable message, Charles F. Murphy ap
peared to doubt the genuineness.
"Why, he said ''it is only three
weeks since John j. scannell, an old
i friend of Mr.. Crocker's, had talk
with him at Dublin. Croker said he
Endorsed the action of Tammany al
Buffalo and thought with me thai
Hearst was the strongest man that
we could put up for governor under
the circumstances. This leads me tt
believe the so-calleu messages ex
changed between Croker and McCar
rem are fakes. at least / won't be
;, lieve such messages passed until see
them"
! When this statement was carried
: to Senator McCarren he produced the
original of the messages Mr.. Croker
had sent. The belief is general among
politicians that the Croker message
; will cost Hearst many votes. Croker
, still is the idol of the old line Tam
many hall men.
;, jerome Sits Hearst's Charge.
District Attorney Jerome is going Il
investigate the charges made by Mr.
Hearst that some petitions of the In
dependent league candidates that were
thrown out were multilated and part
of others stolen after they had beef
filed with the board of elections ant
before they had been passed upon
, Formal complaint upon the matter wa
made in a letter written by Mr.. Hears
! himself, and is accompanied by clever
| affldavits to the effect that the indie
3 pendence league petitions had beel
mutilated and stolen while in the Gus
$ tody of the board of elections.
> Election odds ruled firm yesterda,
at to 2 on Hughes, with rather NOR
+ hearst than Hughes money offered
: G. Wood placed $4,000 on Hears
E against $4,000, w. Marco and Wren
Bros. supplying a large part of tn
g Hughes money. About $4,000 NOR
!. was placed on Hearst In small bets q
!, tue same odds. w. Bagley place
= $4,000 even that Hughes would carr
: the state by $4,000.