Evening star., 1906-09-03
BREAK WITH HEARST
Announcement by Political
Labor Leaders.
HOSTILE ATTITUDE TAKEN
Will Not Be Merged in the Independ-
ence League.
STYLED A SELFISH MOVEMENT
Manifesto Issued in Chicago, Which
Has Complicated the Situa-
ton in Illinois. -
STYLED A SELFISH MOVEMENT
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

special correspondence OF The Star.
CHICAGO. August 30, 1906.
The Illinois political muddle has been
further complicated by a new row. The in
dependents have now launched into politi-
cal strife. With the republicans and dem
.ocrats badly split by internecine warfare. 1t
only remains for the prohibitionists and So
cialists to round out the Kilkenny cat fight
conditions by starting ructions within their
respective ranks.
The latest political disturbance is of
startling character and promises to become
Of great interest not only to Chicago and
Illinois. but to the whole nation. In brief.
the political organization Of union labor in
this city has broken with William Randolph
Hearst, long the special champion Ind de-
fender Of organized labor. and hurled a
scathing defiance at him and his Independ-
ence League.
Manifesto Issued.
This union political organization. called
the Progressive Alliance. which has nomi-
mated city ticket, has issued public
statement in which Mr.. Hearst is accused
Of treachery to union labor, in that his In
dependence League movement is meant to
defeat the labor tickets and disrupt the
union political organization.
Hearst's Independent party scheme Is
called a movement intended solely for the
New York representatives personal ag-
trying to build up a great machine to ad-
vance his own political interests, with
union labor furnishing the motive power.
Flattery, bulldozing and olackmail
methods, 1t Is declared, have been employed
by his local managers in their efforts to
get the labor men to give up their political
organization or merge 1t In the Independ-
ence League. Lawyers and LABOR ieaders
M Nif w
been asked by the Hearst managers to
take places on the Independence League
tickets are warned in this philippic that II
thy accept they will simply be used 10
'.hamstring' the movement that union la
Dor has started for political independence
This attack on Hearst by men who have
long been counted among his stanchest ad-
mirers and whose battles ne mas tought IN
his papers through thick and thin for years
has amazed the city. His foes are 1ubllant
and his friends are keenly alarmed. Ihey
fear that unless the breach Is speedily heal
ed it will be followed by similar action In
other cities and finally sound the death
knell to his political ambitions.
The support of union labor has long
been the chief political and business asset
of Mr. Hearst He has consistently sup
ported the movement and spread Its propa-
ganda. For years he has been urging
through his papers and in his speeches that
the unions should enter politics; NOW
when this action has been formally taken.
he finds that In the second city OF the
country and the chief stronghold of union
ism the labor leaders have turned on him
with a sayageneSs that must have taken
HIS breath away.
+ Mr. Hearst's local managers, 1t is re-
ported. are making efforts to molfify the
union leaders and make peace with them.
They are willing to yield anything. almost.
rather than ALLEVIATE the union men. They
hope to effect some compromise with the
Progressive Alliance. Endorsement of the
labor tickets, according to some of the
union leaders, is the only thing that Will
,appease them This would probably mean
the disruption of the Independence League
in this city at least.
Mr.. Hearst supposed that the union men
would rush to the support of his independ-
emf movement as soon as it was organized
He finds he was mistaken, and he is now
is a serious dilemma
President McCracken's Statement.
The statement which has caused all this
trouble for Mr.. Hearst was issued by Ar
thur McCracken. president of the alliance.
In part it is follows:
"On the Goth day of April the labor unions
and progressive civic bodies of this city
met in delegate convention and placed in
nomination a full ticket Except as noted
below, to be voted upon at the election in
November. The selection of judicial candi-
dates has been left incomplete thus far,
in order that men Of unquestonable probity
and professional fitness, and who- are in
full sympathy with the progressive program
might permit the use of their names as can
didates.
I'VE need not remind you that the Pro-
gressive Alliance movement is composed of