Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-10-23
W. R. Hearst Claims He Will
Carry State by 10000 Tells
.So Of His Record.
BIG MEETING LAST NIGHT
Madison Square Garden Last Night
Was Scene of Great Ovation to the
Democratic Candidate for Cover
nor.-Eleven thousand People
Heard Him Speak.-TelIs of His
Fight with Trusts.-VictOries

NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-Before an au-
dience that completely filled Madison
Square Garden and estimated to num-
Der 11,000 persons William X. Hearst,
the Independence league Democratic
candidate for governor. last night made
one of the great speeches of his cam
paign.
Mr.. Hearst said in part;
MY friends, | have just returned
from a tour up the state in so called
Republican counties. ! want to make
the positive prediction that we will car
ry the up state counties and come
down to the Harlem river with ma
jority. And that is not an idle state
ment But everything, every majority
you give us in Greater New York will
be velvet
"And | firmly believe that we will
carry this state, all told-and, l hope,
this time all counted-by over 100000
majority.
when / first came to New York |
fought and killed the fuel gas trust
Then fought the ice trust and the ice
trust mayor. And we reduced the price
of ice one-half and put the ice trust in
to the hands of receiver, apd.w put
the ice mayor out of office. MI
'Then l fought the beef trust, and
gave the United States government in
formation of the fact that railroads
We're encouraging that trust by giving
it rebates and determinations and the
United States government acted on
that evidence. ThenlI fought the coal
trust. and we dragged Baer and the
other coal trust presidents into the
courts and made them confess their
criminal contracts. &
And then, having that experience,
they formed an Interstate commerce
commission, and | introduced a bill in
congress to give that commission pow
er to fix railroad rates. And the Re
publican party two years later stole
that bill and passed that bill and
claims credit for that bill.
'Then, my friends. fought the gas
trust, and we appealed to Attorney
General Mayer to dissolve that trust as
n criminal combination.
Then | fought for an eighty cent
gas law, and when it was secured and
the gas trust refused to abide by it. we
have gone into court and secured ain
injunction preventing them from in
tefering with a consumer or shutting
off his gas or taking out his meter as
long as he paid 80 cents under the law.
81 fought the shipyard trust, with
which corporation Campaign Fund Col
lector Sheldon was clandestinely con
nected, and l instituted criminal pro
ceedings, but Jerome quashed them.
"And fought the Ramapo grab, and
| fought the Brooklyn franchise grab,
and l fought the scheme to rent the
people seats in the parks, and we kill
ed that un-American and un- Democrat
ic proposition,
"And fought the Seventh National
bank wreckers and had the depositors
paid in full and the president indicted
and fined $4,000. And | fought the
wreckers of the Merchants Trust COM
pany and petitioned Governor Higgins
to remove Bank Superintendent Kill
burn for Incompetence or corruption,
and that Higgins refused to do
"And fought the New York Central
and other railroads for giving rebates
to that great oppressive trust of Have
meyers. the sugar trust
"And finally, my friends, fought the
New York Herald for printing on it's
first page directory of vice and car
rying it into the homes of New York,
perhaps TO destroy many innocent
young girls. and this afternoon. ns per-
haps you know. the United States
grand jury brought an Indictment for
James Gordon Bennett and for the
New York Herald and for the business
manager of the New York Herald.
And, my friends, l did those things
for the public good and for the public
good alone.'