The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-10
NO FLIRTING WITH HEARST.
DON'T TAKE HIS INVOLVEMENT.
SAYS CHAIRMAN WOODRUFF.

Conditions Are Not the same Thls Year n
Last, and some Recent Private Nego-
tsations J for the Hearst Vote Are
Locked On NTH D~isapprOvai.
The Republican campaigners. at their
headquarters, II East Thirtieth street. had
a couple Of hundred visitors yesterday.
mostly from the upstate districts, nclud
ing Speaker James W. Wadsworth, Jr.
Out in the Genesee Valley, whore Speaker
WadswOrth halls from, there Ii little or no
Hearst sentiment, the Speaker said, and
everything looks particularly bright for
the Republican cause in that neck OF woods.
Senator Owen Cassidy was another visi-
tor Of prominence. and he said that in his
diRRinRs Mr.. Hearst was looked upon as
the smallest thing about which a frame
could be put" Senator Cassidy emf on
10 say though that III you advertise a
patent medicine long enough and expen-
sively enough, il doesn't much matter II
the patent medicine 10 the rankest 'panacea'
on earth, there are fools enough to buy 1t.
Just 50 with Mr.. Hearst. He has advertised
himself, and advertised himself as politi-
cal timber ft for the Governors chair:
and now we are to learn II no can fool the
people hiOcr TIC utaliRGE u SnO P~SSaS H~N
cine advertisement. I have travelled about
the State. and l find the substantial men OF
both parties anchored to Charles E. Hughes,
but l have also observed that there rs a
class somewhat like Paddy's flea. They
are for Hearst one day and out OF the Hearst
pen the next, n you can't nll where they
are to jump on election day. But. az
say, the steady, thoughtful, substantial
men OF the two parties are not for Mr..
Hearst, but are for Mr.. Hughes.'
Chairman Woodruff had a talk with
President Parsons OF the New York Repub-
hcan county committee and made a state
ment as to Republicans who lave been
flirting with Mr.. Hearst's Independence
League, especially on local Senate, Assembly
and judiciary nominations. Some OF these
Republican candidates for Office have been
recently seen at Mr.. Hearst's headquarters
in the Gilsey House trying to secure In
dorsements Chairman Woodruff was quite
wrought up when he spoke OF this matter.
He said that all the prominent Republicans
with whom he had talked were inoensed
when they learned that these Republican
oficeseekers had been seen at the Gilsey
House trying 70 put through deals on their
own account with Mr.. Hearst's campaign
Chairman Woodruff said:
Il feel strongly against any Republican
seeking the Independence Leagues IN
dorsement, or ever accepting It II II Is
offered to him. Conditions are not the
same this year as last. l would look upon
Any Republican who entered into a trade
with Hearst as a betrayer OF his party.
Better let him meet defeat without Hearst's
| support than win victory with II. By max
ing a manful fight unassisted by Hearst he
would strengthen his party at large. II he
accepts Hearst's Endorsement he would
weaken the Republican party at large 6y
an apparent surrender to the enemy. Inc
issue between Mr.. Hearst and Mr.. Hughes
is as clearly defined as any issue could
be. I do not approve OF having anything
TO do with Hearst or will what Hearst stands
for. It is incredible to me that any Repub-
lican should in a campaign like this be so
utterly lost in selfish ambition as to bring a
stigma upon his party at large
Chairman Woodruff and others at head
quarters said that they could not under
stand Mr.. Hearst's bitter attack the night
before on some Of the New York city news
paDers. in which MIR. Hearst said that he
| had been unfairly treated by some of them.
AT Republican headquarters the literary
bureau is presided over by Luther h. Little,
who has been chief for many wears. he
remarked that from the moment Mr.. Hughes
began to speak in this campaign MIR. Hearst q
newspapers have treated Mr.. Hughess
speeches most unfairly. Sometimes they
AVE entirely misQuoted Mr.. Hughes in the
little space they have given TO his speeches.
While Mr.. Hughee's speeches have been
cut to flinders in Mr.. Hearsts newspapers
Mr.. Hearst's speeches have covered pages.
Nobody objected to Mr.. Hearst printing his
| own speeches in full, IL was said. but most
! Of the New York city newspapers had been
entirely fair to him, both In telling OF his
meetings and in printing his speeches.
Chairman Woodruff pointed out that Mr..
Hearst in his oratory has declared that
those opposed 10 him are -cockroaches, !"
rats" and vermin generally. Perhaps,
said Mr.. Woodruff, MIR. Hearst meant to
be exactly fair when he used those terms in
speaking Of his opponents. Perhaps IL
was as fair as Mr.. Hearst usually is to those
who disagree with him.