Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09
HEARST AND HUGHES
Speeches Made by Both Of
Them Last Night.
HEARST CHARGES DECEIT
Why the Newspapers Are Hostile to
Him.
LAWYERS TICKET ATTACKED
Alleges It Was Nominated by Cor
poration Attorneys-Mr. Hughes
Appeals to Conservatives.


York political game last night and knocked
a few hot ones to his opponents, especially
his editorial brethren, whom he accuses of
misrepresenting his campaign. Mr.. Hearst
alleged in a series of Identical speeches de-
livered in several places that all the New
York papers except the Press were lying
about him. He specified the Herald and
World particularly in that connection and
said that they had old Ananas himself dis
counted
Mr.. Hearst lauded himself as the expo
nent of truth and purity; stated without
cracking a smile that he does not believe
in the use of money in politics and that he
had made no deal with Tammany And APP
parently he got away with his statements
before his audience.
Why Newspapers Were Against Him.
He charged that the New York Heralds
hostility to him due to the fact that
he was responsible for the Herald having
to discontinue its columns of personals,
said to be source of enormous revenue
to the paper, and that James Gordon Ben
nett had threatened to get even with him.
He said the World had persistently mis-
represented him. He prophesied that these
newspape rs would not publish his speech
carrying these charges, but both of them
did publish the speeches this morning.
Mr.. Hearst it is said, will put 1ndepend-
ence League candidates for Congress in the
field against Bourke Cochran and William
Sulzer His league has nominated candi-
dates for Congress against the democratic
candidates in five districts in Kings and
Queens counties. which is thought to insure
the election of republican candidates in
all those districts.
The tug Of war between Leader Murphy
of Tammany Hall and Mr. Hearst for places
the regular democratic county ticket
continues, the contest for the present, it is
said, partaking largely of the nature of a
bluff on both sides. Each leader wants
places for personal henchmen, especially
on the judicial tickets, and each is threaten
ing what he will do to the other in case he
does not get the lions share.
The legal fraternity of the community,
resenting this partitioning Of the judicial
nominations among politicians and as per-
sonal rewards so'ely, are trying to get up
another judicial ticket.
Lawyers Ticket Attacked.
Mr.. Hearst attacks the lawyers ticket in
characteristic fashion, but in a. way to
alarm his opponents. who are not oblivious
to the possible effect of such an appeal
upon the masses whom the Hearst editorials
and cartoons have worked into frenzy.
The editorial says:
You have heard of course, that it is the
duty Of all men to support what we are
pleased to call the lawyers ticket in New
York? Do you know who nominated this
ticket? 1t was nominated by Mr.. Choate,
the biggest of the corporation lawyers. He
consulted with Mr.. Root, who will soon be
working as a corporation lawyer, when he
gets out of his present government office
He consulted with Mr.. Cravath, the private
attorney of Thomas F. Ryan. Mr.. Choate
is now in court, hired by the gas trust to
fight the SO-cent gas law.
And these corporation lawyers. nobody
else, mind you, picked out lot of men that
they want to have on the bench. After they
had picked them out, they said: Here are
the men for judges, the only fit men. We
have selected them and you must accept
Them What does that mean, exactly? 1t
means that the corporation lawyers, the
men whose only business is to defeat the
laws and to get the corporations what they
want, propose to name all the judges.
A Corporation Lawyer.
You know what corporation lawyer is
paid for, don't you? He gets a hundred
thousand dollars, and even two hundred
thousand dollars and more at time, when
he can go into court and get for the cor
porations what they want. Wouldn't it be
very nice for the corporations if they could
have their lawyers select the judges before
whom their lawyers are going to appear?
But since every corporation LAWYER.
when he goes into court for his corporation.
goes into court against you, do you think
1t a very good thing to let the lawyers who
are always against you name the Judges
whose salaries you pay? We think not We
believe that you will agree with Mr.. Hearst
when he says that good business men and
good lawyers might we'll nominate judicial
ticket, but that he does not believe in a
ticket for the bench nominated by a eroun
controlled absolutely by corporation law
yers who in their turn are controlled abso-
lutely by corporations"
The foregoing extract indicates the lines
along which Mr.. Hearst is fighting for con-
troll of the judicial ticket.
Mr.. Hughes Conservative.
The republicans are working away as hest
they can. being hampered for campaign
funds and handicapped by the short time
remaining in which to make a campaign
that has been under way by Mr. Hearst for
years. Candidate Hughes Is making
speeches, appealing to the conservatism of
the citizenship Of New York, and branding
Mr.. Hearst as a demagogue. He charged
last night that the Hearst newspapers had
evaded adequate taxation by the ruse of a
holding company, and he repudiated Mr.
Hearst as a friend of good government
Big guns of the national adminstra ton
will be utilized in the fight against Hearst.
Secretary Root, Secretary Shaw, Speaker
Cannon and other republicans of national
prominence will stump the state to arouse
the conservative sentiment.