The San Francisco call., 1906-09-25
Beg,s Boss Murphy
to Stand by
Him.
Erie Followers Are
Filled With Disgust
Old-Line Bourbons
Fear the Use
Of Money.
Campaign Stands Him
Half Million Dollars
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BUFFALO. N. Y. Sept 24--All that
the Democratic leaders who are op-
posing the Hearst assault upon their
party now fear is Hearst's money They
believe the independence League 'candi-
date has already spent not far from
half a million dollars in his efforts TO
capture or disrupt the Democratic or
ganization While they are taking
every precaution to prevent the fruition
Of the ends aimed at by the expendi-
ture of this fund. old-time Democrats
feel that the agents who have been in
trusted with the Hearst sack will stop
at nothing in their attempt to capture
the Democratic organization They are
convinced that at least two members OF
the state committee have already been
Impressed"
These are criticas hours for MI
Hearst If he is repudiated by the
Democrats he will be crushed outside
the party,s breastworks and he will no
longer be in a position to seek the
Democratic nomination for the Presi-
kdency in 1908 He has already been
repudiazed by the Democracy Of Cali
fornia and to be branded here as a
traitor to the party to which he pro-
fesses to belong will end his Presiden-
tial prospects If he fails here he might
as we'll have thrown his money out Of
the window.
This is why l1r. Hearst has author
fxed his agents TO come to Buffalo with
am offer to abandon his Independence
League and to turn hfs back upon his
local organization IL the Democrats VIII
make him their candidate for Governor.
He fs begging Murphy, whom year
aso he was stigmatixing as a criminal
of the lowest type and nm ally OF the
interests he II still denouncing, to save
him.
Mr.. Hearst's Independence League
follower. In Erie County are nlled with
disgust at his treachery to them.
Hearst employees and as many Of the
officials of the local Independence
League as will lend themselves to the
service are swarming everywhere
through the Iroquois Hotel They are
listening in the corridors. eavesdrop-
ping IN the headquarters OF various
delegations and OF the candidates and
carving all the information they can
gather to the Hearst agents. who are
In constant communication with him,
both by telephone and telegraph They
are trying to impress Murphy and
other leaders with false idea OF
Hearst's strength
HEARST MEN TURN ON HIM.
Three of Hearsts former executive
upporters-Assemblym Campbell Of
the Bronx. leader OF the Hearst forces
| in the Assembly last winter; John L
Oates, Hearst's borough leader in Rich
mond last year, and Joseph Cody,
Hearst candidate for Sheriff OF New
York County-are now doing all they
can to prevent his nomination IN the
Democratic convention.
ostensibly for Sulzer. they are in
reality for anybody to defeat Hearst.
They call Hearst "faker." an auto
crat" and "the most unreasonable and
domineering political boss New York
has ever seen"
Representative Suffers boomers were
the most active in Buffalo today. They
had the hotels placarded and men and
boys were busy handing out Sulser lit
erature and cards. There were more
Sulzer buttons worn than those OF all
other candidates and the Sulzer work
ers were busy every minute
BRYANITEs FOR sULzER.
Many of the old Bryan followers are
working for Sulzer and they are try
ing to win from Hearst the delegates
who desire to see Mr.. Bryan nominated
for President
Anti-Hearst men who desire Hearsts
defeat first and the selection Of a can
didate afterward now have given Sui
zer a tentative promise Of support.
To get the twenty-seven Erie County
delegates to cast their votes in the
convention for Mayor ]. N Adam a
strong movement was started here this
afternoon by about 100 of Buffalo's
most prominent Democrats. Coincident
with this development it was remarked
that the Adam boom has been steadily
growing during the last two days.
Mayor Mcclellan declared tonight he
was confident the convention would
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