The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-26
COULD HAVE BOUGHT ALBANY,
SAYS HEARST (BUT HE WQULDN'T),
TO PASS RECOUNT BILL.

And "IT the Bench Is as Bad as Jerome Says
II Isl Could Have Got ANY Decision by
ExerunE Influence but He Didn't
Going TO Albany Again as n Procession
Carnegie Habits main floor and five
big galleries-was crowded last night at
a meeting called by the Hearst forces to
protest against the killing OF the election
recount bill. MIR. Hearst made a speech
in which he attacked Mayor Mcclellan
hotly, cast reflections upon the courts and
practically charged that he would have
been able to put his recount bill through
the Legislature if he had been willing to
offer sufficient inducement.
A resolution was passed to The effect
tina this meeting, representing u great
body of voters diBfranchised by fraud,
protests and demands that relief be found
against fraud at the ballot" The resolu-
ton provided further that a committee be
appointed to go to Albany to urge upon the
Legislature the necessity Of passing a law
in accordance with the will and the rights
Of the citizens"
The chairman, Henry Powell Of Brooklyn.
appointed as the committee which should
visit Albany the entire audience In the
big auditorium. He announced that a
special train viii leave the Grand Central
Station thism morning at 8 40 o'clock. Hearst
agents passed through the audience offer
ing round trip tickets at go. Many
were sold, and ii was estimated last night
that 200 men would make the trip to-day.
Mr.. Hearst said he had come to the meet
ing to make a report on his efforts to secure
and carry out the will of the people as
ex expressed at the last election. He had
exerted every honest effort and expended
more than SlOo 600. They had proceeded
openly and ~honorably in the fight, and in
that lay the reasons for the failure
You all know ;" said Mr.. Hearst, that
with that Grady gang at Albany any meas
ure, honest or dishonest, could have been
forced through if sufficient induceInent
had been offered, and you all know that
il the bench is as bad as the District At
tornsy says II is any decision could have
been secured if sufficient influence had
been eXerted, and, rs for the wretched
little city administration, sinking through
its stolen term, with its cur tail between
its legs, l believe they would relinquish
their very offices II sufficient inducements
were offered"
Mr.. Hearst said that into the scales of
| justice, to counterbalance their lawful
efforts, the corporations have "scornfully
cast the weight of their corruption 1und.
| Mr.. Hearst said that Jefferson Day was
recently celebrated by men who could not
be in politics under JefiersOn's definition,
because he said the whole art OF govern
ment consists In the art Of being honest.
These men " said Mr.. Hearst, assemble
at Mr.. Belmont's plutocratic club on Fifth
avenue-a club which Is a sort OF subway
station between Wall street and Iammany
Hall-and to make this memorable occa-
sion more Democratic, the man who re-
ceived the stolen goods at the last election
addressed the men who stole the goods
for him. Shouts and laughter The
little Mayor-the littlest Mayor New York
ever had-spoke Of Jefferson and gave his
opinion OF that great statesman.
Il did not go to the club to hear the little
Mayors opinion OF Jefferson, but l would
20 far to hear Jefferson's opinion of the
little Mayor. | would go far. say, to
hear Jefferson's opinion OF Il DEMOCRATIC
and felony, half of whose election associates
occupy Jobs in the City Hall and the other
half cells in Sing Sing"
Mr.. Hearst said the Mayor couldn' have
quoted Jefferson without offending ms
| audience of ballot box burglars and finan-,
cial Fagins, without wounding the susoep-
tibihtes Of those Capt. Kids OF industry
who had made their money by fraud and
had spentit literally for fra nd ,orwlthout jar
ring the sentiments of other persons present
when such signal service had been rendered
him by judges who had become corpora
ton lawyers m by lawyers who had be-
come corporation judges
Mr.. Hearst announced in conclusion:
There il no honorable thing we will
not do, no righteous effort we will not make,
no honest dollar we will not spend TO count
your votes, to seat your candidates and
TO carry out your will"
Other speakers were Clarence j.. Shearn,
the Rev. DR.. Charles X. East of Brooklyn,
Charles Sprague Smith and Senator John
Ford. A letter was read from William M:
WINS, the Rev. DIR. r. $. Macarthur and
Gen. f.. A. McAlpin Of Ossining.
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