The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-03
HEARST'S REPLY TO ROOT.
TALKS hack Al CROKER, TOO,
BUT NOT Ar THE PRESIDENT.
Files IN charges Or corporation Services
Against Ia" aud H~uShes-Prou oi
ROOt and Croker as Ills pcnenIies
Almost Got into q Hughes Meeting

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Croker. Mr.. Hearst carefully avoided at
tacking President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Hearst made a dozen speeches in
BROOKLYN and Queens. The meetings were,
perhaps. the largest and most enthusiastic
he has had in Greater New York since the
campaign began. His b. arers went back
at him constantly with shouts Of approval.
Mr.. Hearst started in at Watson's Cozy
Corner Just over the BroSklyn Bridge h
apeech he made here he repeated In practt-
cally the same form at every meeting.
Il was attacked last night by Mr. Croker,
who claimed to represent Democracy. and
by Mr.. Root. who claimed to represent
Republica nism, =" said Mr.. Hearst. know
nothing that has tended more clearly to
show the truth Of my statements that in
this campaign corporation Democrats and
corporation Republicans we're united in
support Of the corporation lawyer at the
head OF the corporation ticket.
~Mr. Croker, whose ice trust Mayor Ia
voice: ~Van Wyck; we know himl l drove
eut Of Office, indorses McCarren Ichorls Of
.groans and hissesl as a noble example OF
corporation Democrat, and Mr.. Root, oorpo-
ration attorney for the Metropolitan Trac-
ton Company in the Jake Sharp bribery
cases and for the whiskey trust, the tobacco
trust, the steel trust, the sugar trust, the
gas trust, che watch trust and the insurance
trusts, indorses Mr.. Hughes. corporation
attorney for the lighting trust, the ship
building trust, the New York, WestChester
and Boston franchise grab and the sugar
trust. Mr.. Root il the personal attorney for
Thomas +. Ryan, and Mr.. Hughes Is the
attorney for Cornelius N. Bliss, whom he
refused to put on the stand in the insurance
investigation. Cheers AMI a voice: That's
right
Nothing has occurred to make more
clear the fact which Ihave stoted on numer-
Gus occasions, that a corporation attorney
" a man who serves the corporations be-
fore he goes into Office, who expects TO serve
them after he goes out OF oH,ce and may
be depended on to serFc them while he Is
in Office. 80.
MIR. Root, a public official, who~'occupies
N high place in the United States Govern
ment and who should represent thew whole
people Of these United States regardless
OF party, has dragged his high position into
y partisan campaign and into a personal
attack in a local situation in order to serve
his corporation masters.
Last year Mr.. Ryan issued to Mayor
Mcclellan postal cards bearing libellous
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United States Government stopped in the
mail. This year Mr.. Ryan puts forth the
same indecent and slanderous attacks
through his corporation attorney, a mar
who il still his faithful servitor. though in
public Office and partly paid by the people.
Nothing else has been said or done that
makes so clear the issues of this campaign
and the fact that the plundering corpora
tions and their corrupt tools stand solidly
behind Mr.. Hughes and against the people
whom they thunder. 1t il natural that MIR.
Root, who defended Boss Tweed, the most
corrupt politician Of his day, should join
hands with Boss Croker, the most corrupt
politician of the present day, in support
of Mr.. Hughes, the man their corporation
masters insist shall be elected to Office in
spite Of the will Of the people. Applause
1T is natural that Mr. Root, who appeared
for the Metropolitan Traction Company
In the Jake Sharp cases, and who was him
self accused OF bribery by four men who
testified under oath that he had given
them money for their votes, should unite
with Pat McCarren, the professional briber
OF the Standard Oil Company, the Gas Trust
and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, to support
MIR. Hughes and TO oppose me. lHoots and
groans for McCarren.
Il have said / am proud OF the enemies
have made, and / am prouder OF none than
j an OF Hiihu Root, Boss Croker and Pat
McCarren. iYelis Of applause.l
you know that this man Croker is fight
ing me because l fought his Ice Trust Mayor
for betraying the people, and drove him
out OF Office. Cheers You know that this
Ice Trust Mayor'came out for me recently,
and / repudiated him and refused to accept
his SUPPORT. l do not want the support Of
crooks and criminals, and | do not want to
be elected unless l can be elected by the
people alone, free to serve the people alone.
You know that this man Root Is opposing
me because l have fought the corporations
that own him. And you know that this man
McCaFren il opposing me because L have
fought.the Standard Oil, the Gas Trust and
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
A man leaned out OF the gallery and
shouted, How abou tho Murphy deal?'
Mr.. Hearst did not attempt an answer then.
but went on for a minute or two discussing
Mr.. Root. Another voice shouted, How
abou Murphy, Mr.. Hearst?"
Il have answered that question MANY
times" eaid MIR. Hearst, and | am willing
10 answer il a thousand times more. i had
2i3 votes at that convention outside OF the
city in which j live, and the Democracy OF
this city felt The force OF my following out
side. With hat behind me Murphy would
not have dared to oppose my nomination
Cheers and appliance
A man stood up in the auditorium, set
his Jaws tightly and leaned forward TOWARD
MIR. Hearst. Evidently be was OF the sort
that wanted to know" He got no chanc
to ask questions because there we're cries
all over the house to -Sit down" him
out" and 70 on.
-Mr. Root defends Joseph II. Choate,"
continued Mr.. Hearst, -and complains OF
my attack on him have no personal
luminosity against Mr.. Choate. When l
oppose him IL is because he In opposing
you and your interests. Think MIR. Choate
Is a bigoted and biased man, IA his attack
on the foreign born citizens has shown.
HE Root objects - my opposition To
District-AttDrney jerome lHowlS, groans,
c~atcalls, a voice: Let the human cigarette
sleep"l and he praises jerome as a Demo-
crat OF Independence above all Others. !
have no personal feeling against Jerome.
] have opposed him because he has been
faithless 10 the people and has betrayed
the peoples, confidence. He has kept no
public pledge and he has broken no private
, promise that he made to secure a corpora
ton campaign fund.
y have Slid, and ! rrpcRt, that he IL an
example of the confidence man IN politics.
who secures prefcrm mt he does not de-