New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
Many OUT FOR HUGHES.
influential Democrats IN Cortland
County Openly against Hearst.

oPe'bY ~ SdtTtSt II tOISC.
Cortland \. Y. Oct q (speciaD.-Following the
appearance OF Charles E. Hughes in Cortland
1t'U4I ?, Farkers home place and IN demonstration
% 're ueep dlstaste many old line Democrats have
" "ii4iaIn X Hearst, these influential Democratic
cltizens have announced themselves as opposed TO
hearst and all his works F. B. Hakes. real estate,
VINO voted for Bryan; Edwin Duffey, three times
district Attorney. who reluctantly voted for Bryan,
pul fears Hearst yellow peril; B. F. Taylor.
formerly president Of the waterworks and once
candidate for Mayor; ]. P. Gray, assistant
per1ntendent Of the waterworks once a candidate
for State Treasurer: Hugh Duffey. manufacturer;
w J. Greennan, secretary Of the County Fair As
ISOLATION a candidate for the Assembly; L. J.
fitzgerald, Silas Sherwood. lumber merchant;
James Sherwood. commercial traveller; D. K. Kin
ney' bookkeeper; Irving p. Palmer, lawyer; I. W.
Bourne. OF Willet. ex-County Treasurer. who
elected by the largest plurality given in the
county TO a Democrat
E H Miller. a commercial traveller for a corset
company, took part in the Hughes rally and DR..
NJ Hawley marched in the Hughes parade. Out in
the county Nahum Ferry. of Taylor. and c. Dwight,
Of Cincinnatus among the hundreds OF bolters.
Altogether. from really painstaking efforts to get
estimates of the Democratic detection, it seems
likely that between two hundred and three hundred
and fifty will not vote for Hearst in the county.
This is out Of the Democratic vote OF two thou
SAND. One must fairly add. however. that the same
bipartisan sources of information acknowledge that
the Republican converts to Hearstism will little
more than onset the gain 10 5OSheS from
Democrats To average the various predictions.
Hughes will get 800 plurality in the county,
from hundred to three hundred less than the
normal Republican plurality.
This reduction of the Republican plurality is
signed to several causes. The head % Sle Demo
cratic IND Independence League city ticket, James
a. Jane. is the man who championed municipal
ownership Of the water system in past elections
and has become Identified with this item Of the
municipal ownership programme.
AS candidate for alderman he ran only twenty
votes behind the Republican candidate in
Cortland city, where private company furnishes
the water. Another for the estimate is that
within a year q cigar factory has been established
IN Cortland, with union cigarmakers. These men
have distributed themselves among many boarding
houses and hava talked Hearst much that they
have done more il is said, than antiHearst liter
ature or newspapers could offset, conversing with
workrnen ofhand. the workrnen listening TO
OF their kind
Canvasses credited by the boiling Demo
Gratis say that in election district which has
IA Republican votes and 80 Democratic IL has been
found that g OF the IA Republicans said they
going 10 vote for Hearst. Canvass books Of all
parties. however, show that this is not at all typi
cal In the country districts there not many
changes from party affilation. Farmers here it
is explained. ARE set and stubborn, and only
revolution would change their partisan habits.
When farmers do not change it signifies Republican
strength"
However. those chiefly concerned declare that no.
hcdy knows what the real feeling is in the county.
The main OF the evident apathy in the Hearst
campaign is due here, elsewhere, to the utter
lack Of money. The older workers are complain
little encouragement In this. as IN other counties
friction between the regular organization and the
Independence League. each wondering whether
they share and share alike and, If not. who
is 70 get the Election Day fund.
sone over to Hearst, 0ne--L. H, Hewitt, Of Cort-
lands not a man who Will carry any others with
him. Frank Saunders is said 70 be for Hearst be-
cause ne qld not get a renornlnetlon for q thlrd
Homer. the David Harun of the village, and
reason generally understood and now is candi-
date for Assembly the Democratic ticket That
he will carry Republican votes along with him is
Reasons given by Democrats for not following
L. J. Fitzgerald can't follow him because Of
his outrageous doctrines.
Hearst's character being Governor of this state
with the social and political standing which that
With0u Wins moral sense entirely Without potia
sincerity, I consider his candidacy a monstrous
but upon ali the people Of this state, Nothing il
seems me, in the course Of our civilization in
lie danger-no. not even the Aaron Burr conspiracy
as this effort Of Hearst obtain political DOM
Of US. lie has no copyright on them. Why should
intrust their carrying out TO a man OF his
F. 3 Eakes-Tve been against Hearst ever
since the death OF Mckinley. Since then I have
not allowed his newspapers IN my hone There is
no party reason why should vote for him for he
is not Democrat. His bargain with Murphy
disreputable that that also would set me against
sIiag sherwood-One thing alone would turn me
against hirn-his alliance with MURPHY he mad pre-
tended be down all bosses and bossism. and he
went into partnership with bosses and practised
TIHse men quoted above believe that others hold
ing the same impression Of the candidate will bury
him deep, although they acknoWledge that in this
county the Hughes majority will be a little under
what Higgins got.