The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-29
N. OIL. May NAME HUGHES, TOO
PLANNED TO PUT 4 DUPLICATE
TICKET IN THE FIELD.
Swinging Away From Hearst, His Original
supporters Now Are Out to Beat Him
In Any way Possible COMMITTEE Meets
10 Organize Throughout the City.

Supporters Now Are GU 70 Beat Him
IN Any way Possible Committee Meets
10 Organize Throughout tho City.
A temporary committee OF organization
Of the Municipal Ownership League held
a meeting yesterday In the New Grand Hotel
to complete plans for a hasty ~marshalling
Of forces against their former leader William
r. Hearst.
The chief work the committee which met
yesterday has to consider is the advisability
OF getting the NJ o. l.. to put into the field
a ticket headed by Mr.. Hughes in order to
make all the surer the election of the Repub-
lican candidate. This was considered as a
better han simply indorsing Mr..
Hughes. There il still time to do this.
The matter of recognizing the M. o. l..
in Manhattan will be taken care OF for the
present by A. NJ. De Beck and Lucien
Knapp. Knapp has the emblem Of the NJ.
o. L. in his possession.
Mr.. De Beck said last night hat the
league would undoubtedly put a ticket in
the field with Hughes at the head, but
that IL had not yet been decided to have
the rest of the ticket identical with the
Republican ticket.
This matter will not he decided definitely
for day or so. In the meantime the M. o. L..
men are going to work up the sentiment
in their districts to get the same organiza-
ton going in opposition to Mr.. Hearst
"a was for him in the last campaign. Mr.
Browne said that the mana gers Of Mr..
Hearst's present campaign seemed to for
get that the real feeling in favor Of NUM-
cipal ownership which brought a lot Of men
into the party last fall still existed. MIR.
De Beck, who is practically heading the
movement, said:
Il left Hearst because Of the dictatorial
methods of the Gilsey House clique. In
Brooklyn four or five weeks q l came
out for Mr.. Jerome for Governor. l am
still for Mr.. Jerome in the fight that he is
making for Mr.. Hughes. | am voting,
supporting and working for Mr.. Hughes
for the humane and democratic work he did
in the recent insurance inquiry. l am a
Democrat and always have been. l
continue to be so, and as such / believe
It my duty to support Mr.. Hughes.
That after all Is solely individual opin-
ion. h the Municipal OwnershipLeague
will do will be made known in a few days.
Certainly the league will support Mr..
Hughes. As to the other members on the
ticket we cannot say"
Mr.. De Beck added that he had informed
Mr.. Hughes that the NJ. o. l.. was for him.
Mr.. Hughes told Mr.. De Beck he was glad to
hear IL.
Speaking Of the sub-convention at Buffalo
on Thursday, at which il was said that
Joseph W. Cody had been nominated for
Governor by NJ o. L. executive committee
of one hundred, Mr.. De Beck said that he
had not yet seen Mr.. Cody. He added:
~Mr. Cody was the candidate for Sheriff
on the Hearst ticket n is a personal friend
Of Mr.. Hearst, but l feel that to support
him would be foolish, because it would take
away some votes from the regular Hughes
ticket. We nave hopes that he will come
into our ranks, 50 that we will nave a solid
phalanx for Mr.. Hughes. His nomination
in Buffalo appears to have been a Joke.
The only other bigger jest was the nominal
ton Of Mr.. Hearst.
The Buffalo convention was a counter
part Of the Independence League conven-
a prearranged, boss ridden convention. II
was an affront to all the voters who fol-
lowed the principles of the Municipal Owner
ship League, which brought together 225 600
voters last fall.
Il dom believe that the persons who lis
tened to Mr.. Hearst last year d~enouncinR
Murphy In terms too strong to repeat and
who called Bourke Cochran Bore Cochran
will now be b~amboozled into working and
voting for him Not later han at the recent
Independence League~c convention Mr.. Hearst
said that he had made no deals and that
he did not like Murphy any better at that
time than he did a year ago. Despite all
that, he joined forces with him and received
the nomination by artful and crafty means,
sighting the voters who believed that he
was the leader Of independence, purity OF
government and inimical to the party Of
craft