Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-22
HOSTILITY TO HEARST
New York Democrats Planning
to Knife Him on Election Day.
ARE SORE AT HIS SUCCESS
Expressions of Disguised Brooklyn
Politician.
SAYS HUGHES WILL BE CHOSEN
Followers of Tammany, McCarren and
Mcclellan, It is Declared, Will Bolt
the Buffalo Nominee.
JAYS HUGHES WILL BE CHOSEN

An official In one of the downtown de-
partments, who maintains a voting resi-
dence in New York city, and who has re-
turned from a stay in the metropolis fol-
lowing his registration, made these COM
ments to a Star reporter this morning
garding the political situation in the empire
| state:
| II was reared in the eighth and the
| twelfth congressional districts, and 1 have
| maintained a voting residence within rifle
shot of Tammany Hall since my majority,
| but never saw the situation in New York
and Kings counties SO upset as at present.
| I'm fact, the situation is one which can
| not be encompassed in a sentence, for we
| have never had anything like it before, and
from the talks had with my active polit-
ical friends on both sides, they don't want
| anything like it again.
| They all agreed, however, upon one
point-republican, independent or gold
| democrat, Tammanyite, McCarrenite and
Mcclellan follower, and all Of the rest of
| the political push 1 went up against-and
that point is that if they don't bury Hearst.
this audacious agtator and political dis
turber will swallow them from hat to boots.
A Brooklyn Politicians Views.
| '"They have finally walked UP to the fact
| that this mans millions and his encourage
took them bodily into camp in Buffalo, and
| then when he got what he wanted-the,
democratic understandable gave them such
a swift kick through his independent
League nominations that they are just now
| beginning to recover from it's shock.
| But what they will do to Hearst this fall
| will be a plenty. Mark what | tell you, for
l have voted the ticket in my city for over
| twenty years. Why, they are like lot of
men suffering from strokes of paralysis, and
| when they get the full pressure of the New
| York and Kings county machines going on
election day, by which time the big pill of
Hearstism they were compelled to swallow
| will have accomplished its work, they will
| get in their own work with a vengeance.
They have got to do it, for it is now under
| stood on both sides Of the East river that 1t
has come simply to a question of self-pres-
ervation
"a friend of mine engaged in active law
practice in New York. but living in the
| Carleton and Flatbush avenue section of
| Brooklyn, where he has been in active poll
| tics all of his life summed the situation up
| to me concisely and thoroughly. This is the
| way he put 1t the day before left:
| I'm a gold democrat as you know, he
| said and Hughes gets my vote. / consid-
cred Bryan political bull In china shop,
| but he Is babe in arms compared with
| Hearst.
The Knives Already Sharpened.
| "'And this is what Charlie Murphy thinks,
| but hasn't said as yet, and it is what Sena-
| tor McCarren thinks, and what he has said
In public, besides lot more. You can de-
| pend upon 1t to certainty that the McCar-
rem machine in Kings will knife Hearst
| practically to a man, and that Tammany
| will do the same in the other boroughS or
| the city where it is in control. l cannot see
| how Hughes can fail to be elected by very
| heavy majority, and remember that l m not
| a republican.
| "'Since Hearst first came from California
| to startle New York with its Introduction
to yellow, sensational Journalism. until he
| appeared to the surprise of everybody but
1t 11c nt,1j1 70 no 6nr11n nrQf n
| nominal ton for the presidency, New York
didn't understand the man, and this under
standing wasn't fully developed until he hit
the trail for the Buffalo convention and took
that assembly and Tammany Hall into his
| lap with one sweep of his hand.
a. But when he struck the McCarren-Kings
county machine he struck a snag that
| ripped a hole in his political boat below the
waterline, and If they don't scuttle his
ship it will be because they will not have
| tried. Think of what victory means to
| Hearst-the practical turning over of the
| entire political machines in New York and
| Kings counties to Hearst and his Independ-
| ent League, for they are synonymous ex-
cept in terms.
Will Not Surrender to Hearst.
"a man hasn't got to do a very hard
| thinking act to come TO conclusion that
no such surrender will be for an instant
| considered. You see, we don't consider
| Hearst a New Yorker at all, and we have
| never entertained the opinion that he is
| one of us. We have looked upon him as a
| California outlander, whose interests.
moneyed and otherwise. lay upon the coast,
but who through his wealth and ownership
| of a couple Of newspapers got chance to
go to Congress from one of our city dis
| trcts. And here this man comes out, and
from what he says, one might be led to the
| belief that he had been with us always, and
| that he had really done something for us.
"'This Is what makes thinking New York
ers and Brooklynites mad. From the Hearst
Nfv,f fhnra &c mot n
| country who is doing a single thing for his
fellows but Hearst In fact. we are get
ting heartily sick Of this Hearst and
| Hearstism, and of the man Hearst who Is
| running from the borough of Manhattan. as
if he were an old New Yorker, instead Of
a recent arrival from the state of Califor-
mia running for every Office which shows its
head above water, from the presidency to
| the mayoralty Of the city.
| What are we going to do with the little
old man from the Pacific seas?' responded
my friend to query of mine. Why, there is
only one thing to do-and that is to beat
him so badly this fall that even he will feel
the defeat. assuming that such thing
would be possible. which personally doubt,
from my knowledge of the man.
"'The conservative business elements in
this city have just walked up to what
first. of course-and they now understand
that it means conditions a hundred times
more pernicious than Organism.
Business Men Are Scared.
"'They have finally awakened to the fact
that there is too much Hearst on Manhat-
tan Island, as there was too much Johnson
in a certain play, and they are now taking
his correct measure They see that he is a
dangerous, disturbing element, an iconoclast
and a rough-shod boss beside whom John
Kelly and Richard Croker were pigmies. So
they are getting scared, for New York is a
conservative community, if it is lively one,
and they want this blanket man from Cali
fornia to refold his blanket and hike toward
his native SOIL
IT asked my political friend If he thought
Hearst would again run for Office If badly
beaten this fall at the polls for governor.
l. "'He will run for alderman was told,
If 1t is necessary for Hearst to keep Hearst
before the public eye. Think of little chap
like Hearst aspiring at the very outset of
his career for the nomination for the presi-
dency Of this country as his first political
office, yet that's what he did. 1t would be
funny If 1t weren't so serious. Just because
he had lots Of money and four or five news
papers to back up his claims, man with
out any achievements or distinction what
soever, save fabulous wealth. but few
years out of college, who had never held an
Office in his life, and who was unknown out