The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-07
HEARST CHUNG LONG 10 HOPE.
IHMSEN SENT HIM CHEERING
WORD AT MIDNIGHT.

He spent a Quiet Day Voted, Dined ~ War
TINS ana Retired 60 n Private Room
TO Listen nj the Telephone Early
News Gave False encouragement.
At midnight last night William r.. Hearst
was unwilling to make a statement regard
ing the election result. Reports received
at his home at Lexington avenue and
Twenty-eighth- street, where he received
the returns with Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler,
candidate for Northumberland, and a
few friends. indicated up till midnight hat
he was defeated, probably by $4,000 or 10000.
About midnight, however. Chairma n
Ihmsen OF the Independence League sent
word to MIR. Hearst that the vote for the
Independence League candidates, including
Hearst, had been received from only a few
counties up State. Mr.. Ihmsen said also
thai not a single result had been received
from Big Tim SulIivan's district, the Third
Assembly district. This Information led
Mr.. Hearst to believe that he still had a
chance.
Mr.. Hearst remained al home practically
all day. He voted n little after l O'Clock
in an undertaker's establishment in Twenty
ninth street, around the. corner from his
home. lie cast ballot AS. 4 small crowd
was at the polis; il cheerei Mr.. Hearst and
several kodakeTs snapped him. Abo't
g O'Clock Mr. and Mrs. Hearst went
to the Cafe Martin for dinner. District
Attorney jerome. with a party Of friends.
was seated near the Hearst table. Election
returns were received at both tables and
commented on but there was no interchange
Of results bet wcen the Hearst table and the
Jer0lue table.
The first reports that came to Mr.. Hearst
last night were extremely encouraging. A
lit:lc past 8 o'clock ne was cailedby hi bead
puarterr in the yilsry House AMI odd that
he had carried many &c the larger citie- up
state, He was assured that he had won IN
Bun NO, Rochester, Rome, El.nira, Troy and
Utica and a number of good sized cities
aad towns. when Mr.. Hearst went 10 din
ner he believed undoubtedly that he would
be elected hy q very lorge majority.
When ne returned from the Cafe Martin
about $50 p. VI. things had taken a different
turn. by that time IL a. believed that - r.
Uu.hCs would ret a majority Of OOOO in the
State. Mr.. Hearst vent 10 his private
room NJ stairs ana Tut his ear to the tele-
IEoUe, etting the returns from then until
ai'Cr " idni-ht II beCane apr arr Mt 10
lin that MIR. HuVhes's vote uI State was
growing steaoiiV and that Orc alter New
! or.I was not doinc for him what he ex-
pecteh He made no Comment TO tho
news a)tr men As to the conCItion thai
the voting showed.
: The result in Brooklyn was of the greatest
interest 1T the Hearst house. AT first it
was said that Mr.. Hughes had beaten Mr..
Hearst in Brooklyn by about 5000. Little
by little more favorable reports came in,
until il seemed that Mr.. Hearst's majority
in Kings county would be somewhere
around 1000. MIR. Hearst was also pleased
apparently with the result in Queens county.
At midnight Lewis ~Stuyvesant Chanler.
who had been visiting Tammany Hall
and the Democratic State headquarters,
returned with news that cheered Mr.. Hearst
up exceedingly. MIR. CHAMBER told Mr..
Hearst that he believed the whole ticket
would GO through.