The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-01

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Assemblyman Thomas Rock, the father
OF the eight hour bill" and sometime
upholder of William r. Hearst, organized
a motor flying squadron Of his own last
night and made four speeches at widely
separated places in Manhattan in which
he denounced Hearst and his Gilsey House
clique for tricking him out of the Indepen-
dence League nomination that had been
given him under protest.
Rock called Hearst "the worst hypocrite
from here to California" before n meeting
Of working men in Sheehan Hall, 314 East
Seventeen street, and was roundly APP
plauded. -When / speak of the trickery
Of Hearst and his Gilsey House gang"
said the speaker, II don't talk from hear
say. ! was there on the ground door watch
ing what they were trying to do to me and
l know what l am talking about. They
talk much of their emblem OF the hand
and the scales. From what Nv seen of
their tactics l say their emblem is a hand
and a lemon. They handed me one very
recently. TLaughter.l
Hearst talks much OF opening balo
boxes. The Lord only knows he has had
practice enough in opening boxes, but they
were filed with lemons, not ballots. He
claims in his papers to-day that l should
be ashamed Of myself for coming out against
him when he discovered me and his papers
made me what | am in labor circles. My
only comment is that years before Mr..
Hearst ever came to New York to start a
paper / was known for my efforts in the
cause Of labor. as you men know, and you
Knights OF Labor also know that in the
things that l have at least tried to do for
YOU l have worked without one cent Of
salary.
Some weeks ago, when the Ihmsen
crowd saw that l was going to get the Re-
publican nomination for the Senate in the
Fourteenth Senatorial district the Hearst
people came to me and offered me a Demo-
cratic nomination for something or other
down in the Sullivan district. l told them
there wasn't money enough in their whole
treasury to buy me off the REPUBLICAN,
ticket. Then the question of our indie
Iendence League nominations came before
the higher courts-I returned from Albany
only this morning, where l WAS fighting for
my rights against that crowd OF hypocrites
and they employed a lawyer h was
supposed to represent me in my fight against
Senator Dollar Ca Tom Grady.
But it didn't take me long to see that the
lawyer employed by Hearst was there. not
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that room could be made for the Murphy
Hearst candidate, Senator Grady. Then |
had to Employ my own lawyer Mr.. Joyce,
but through the efforts Of the people that had
given me the Independence League nomina-
ton IL was declared tina their nomination of
me hadn't been regular
Also from first knowledge | can tell you,
w~orkingmen, that william Hearst didn't
want to see that eight hour law go through
the Legislature. When ! was fighting for it
=. Ill.,, a. H. rS ,,,, -, - v~N MI
said:
Rock. il that eight hour bill doesn't go
through this Republican Legislature, think
OF the fine campaign material that will make
next fall
"That'st vpical of Hearst anything sacri-
feed SO that he is advanced. He would
sacrifice the entire nation if it We're iE his
power if by doing so he could get one step
nearer the Presidency. But still his papers
claim the credit for passing that eight
hour law and go on to say that Hearst
employed John Ford to draft it for me.
You can see how much Ford had to do
with originating the bill when 1 tell you
il il exactly the same statute that had been
signed before by a Republican Governor,
Roosevelt. Subsequently it had been de-
Clared unconstitutional, but the constitu-
tional amendment made possible its passage
when | worked for il.
When | returned from Albany this
morning ] was met at the Grand Central
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the Hearst buttons or their coats. They
asked me what had happened and when I
told them they pulled OF the Hearst but
tons and threw them in the street. The
trickery of Hearst and his crowd has turned
at least that many votes over to Hughes
and il should turn yours" Applause.
Mr.. Rock reached in his coat pocket
at this point and carefully unwrapped "A
writing pen.
There's the pen that signed the eight
hour bill, " he said az he held it up To ire
mendous cheering. 1t ISM on exhibition
down in the office of the American, is il?
No, a Republican Governor, Higgins. gave
it to me, after the bill had been signed. in
recognition of the work | had done.
Hearst ia a hypOcrite because he talks
about stolen ballots and accepts the 100
delegates turned over to him at Buffalo by
Murphy and Grady when the rightfully
elected delegates had been unseated. In
return ne is against me so that he can reward
Grady for that Buffalo deal. He il a hypo-
critic when he prates about sending laboring
men TO the Assembly and Senate, and then
kicks the laboring men of the ticket to
further his own ambitions.
He breaches that the league doctrine
il independence for all and special privi-
legee for none-and then axes ali the special
privileges for himself. Last Monday night
/ spoke at my own district meeting and in
my pocket was my labor card paid up until
January next. Seven other paid up union
men also spoke there. Across the street
was a Hearst meeting at which the speaker
of the evening was John T. Cronin. who
tried to break the Brooklyn street car
strike some time ago. Farley may be for
Hughes. but Strikebreaker Cronin is for
Hearst.
Some time ago there was an editorial
in a Hear rat paper about the Inconsistency
OF a scientist who had spent his life preach
ing against overeating. and hen had died
from too much broiled lobster, On Novem-
Der 7 next William Randolph Hearst, who
a year ago was preaching against too much
Murphy, will be dead from too much
Murphy"
Mr.. Rock spoke in the same strain at
meetings at the Jacob b. She headquar-
ters, at 1897 Fifth avenue; at Congressman
Oloott's headquar ters. at 2l28 Broadway,
and at a meeting OF the Seventh Assembly
district at 2S3 Eighth avenue. II was his
intention 10 speak also at two meetings on
the lower East Side, but his automobile
struck a hole in the asphalt OF Broadway
and broke an axle late at night. He will
continue TO tour the city and score Hearst
until election day.
A. s. Gilbert, attorney for Representa-
tive Bennett in the election cases, aid
last night that Herbert r. Limburg, the
attorney for the Independence League,
in preparing the order taking Rocks case
before the Court Of Appeals omitted the
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