The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-08
HEARST ATT HE COUNTY FAIRS.
rANDTDATTNG EXPERIENCE RE
WON'T TRY AGAIN.
Com petition with Horse TrOts Not ENbiIa'
rating In cities He Had Better Luck
-MObbcd by Admirers At Rochester
Assured BY COnners Hell he Elected.

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Assured BY Corners Hell BE Elected.
william R. Hearst got back here shortly
before moor yesterday, having wound
nm hs preliminary upstate tour. Mr..
Hearst went directly homs and stayed
there. resting up. Mr.. Hearst told the
reporters who accompanied him OF the
trip that he was decidedly pleased by the
reception he got both in the country and
m the cities. He observed hat the farmers
throughout the Republican belt he crisis
crossed were not demonstrative, but he
said he didn't think that an unfavorable
sign. After the county fair meetings,
Mr.. Hearst said, many farmers who shook
hands with him assured him they would
vote for him. The meetings in the large
cities like Rochester and Buffalo we're all
that he expected and more.
The result of the whole trip" said Mr..
Hearst, leads me to believe thai I shall
be elected by a very large majority. am
perfectly confident"
At Rochester, Albany and Buffalo Mr..
Hearst talked with his upstate campaign
managers, all Of whom assured him that he
was gaining in strength not only in the
cities but in the country. They told him
that Hearst sentiment has developed rapidly
in rural communities and that on election
day the farmers would roll up a big vote
for him. In the cities of the second and
third class he would score heavily, they
said.
". J. Corners, Democratic State chair
man, who had several talks with Mr.. Hearst,
told the candidate that he might reasonably
depend on q majority of 100000, figuring
on 10000 in Greater New York. Other
Democrats and independence League mans-
gers were equally sangline. Mr.. Hearst
ind that he has confidence in these
est mates.
To observers that ~accompanie d Mr..
Hearst on the trip these conditions were not
apparent on the surface. At the county
fairs, Chatham. Fonda and Lavonia, he
talked to great crowds, at every fair the
crowd being the biggest in the history of
the agricultural association; but at non
of these places was he a formidable rival
to the free for all trot. Seemingly the
farmers regarded Mr.. Hearst as an added
exhibit, secured through the enterprise Of
the fair managers. They massed around
him and gave him a most respectful hear
ing, but with eyes closed any one in the
crowd might have imagined that Mr.. Hearst
was hurting words at a blank wall. The
lHltltIltIlNt Itd6ufiE III NIc CIOWAAN
cheered nightly, creating eddies OF en-
thusiasm which whirled briefly and were
shortly absorbed in the silent pool. The
minute he stopped speaking the farmers
gave their undivided attention TO the
~trotters. No crowds followed him of the
fair grounds or gave him a sendof at the
stations. They simply passed or TO the
next show.
At the Hemlock fair in Livingston county
Mr.. Hearst walked about the grounds,
looking at chickens, pigs and mince pies,
but he walked alone. The crowd knew
he was there, hut apparently they weren't
enough interested to trail along. Mr..
Hearst wasn't in the same class with Uncle
Tom Haskin's 2:2O trotting horse or the
man who made the parachute jump. At
the Chatham fair. after he quit talking he
took a seat in.the grand stand and watched
O race or two. Nobody paid the slightest
attention to him. When he got mp to 60
one mar called for three cheers. Thu silence
which followed could have been split into
chunks and handled with ice tongs. The
Chatham crowd wasn't enough int rested,
seemingly, TO watch his departure behind
the gorgeous Gen. Hank Blunt, grand
marshal Of the show.
Mr.. Hearst's friends now believe that
the county fair campaigning was foolish
ness. Tor inc SlflDtt reason IIltJ country
people don I 20 To fairs to hear speeches.
A good race Will attract more interest any
day than a candidate, and Trey said that
the Indifference to Mr.. Hearst at the fairs
could be accounted for by that fact and
that the Indifference was merely super
fetal.
Whether they will vote for him or not the
villagers and folk in small towns talk a lot
about Hearst. The barber gives his opin-
ions a. he lathCrs your face. the butcher
No hn nrT9 u. mn VnI- panlt tho harfRnhaT
b he draws yOur beer. The first question
they put to the visitor who is expected to
know something about Mr.. Hearst is this,
DO you think this fellow is on the ~level?'
In Fonda the other day a s~torekeeper
got 10 taIki ing about Mr.. Hearst with several
customers VINO had come into town to hear
the candidate speak. The argument got
hot.
I'm blamed il I can make him out.
said the storckecpCr. a few months ago
be was CuSsing the bosses and printing
pictures Of Murphy in stripes, saying
Murphy ought to be in Sing Sing. I'm
damned i taey amt sleeping in the same
bed now
You could hear that kind Of talk at the
post Offices, at the depots. in the streets,
wherever knots Of people are lOating.
Why doesn't Hearst cut loose from fell
lows like Murphy and Fingy Corners,
said a station agent at one Of the small
towns along the line Of Mr.. Hearst's prog
TesS. If he's on the square he would
He keeps aging he has no use for bosses,
but It looks like a string game to me-
A railroad brakeman at Rochester old
two or three reporters that he had been
for Hearst because he believed what he
read in Mr.. Hcarst's papers, hut said he,
He's going square against what he writes
and I can't stand for it."
In the cities the attitude NJ the crowds
differed materially from their behavior in
the country They went to halls for the
express purpose Of seeing and hearing the
candidate and expressing their feelings.
There were no sideshowS to divert atten :
ton. At all the large meetings Mr.. Hearst
got a warm welcome and perhaps more than
the amount Of noise that is TO be expected.
The best meeting he held was in Rochester,
whore his admirers literally tore the clothes
from his back in their frantic eagerness
TO shake hands with him or slap him on the
back. Going in and ont Of Colonial and
Germania halls they simply engulfed him
and swept him along, bowling like mad
men. Somebody found his hat and coat,
which were lost in the shuttle at Colonial
Hall, and gave them 70 him after he had gone
10 Gema mia bsreheaded and lacking his