The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-26
THREE TICKETS FORGOVERNOR
DEMOCRATS WON'T LET HEARST
CAPTURE THEIR MACHINE.

Putting Up the Bars Against Him. Not Only
for This Year, but for l00s-They Re
port That the demand for the NJ. ID.
Patent Medicine HaS Diminished Lately
Cord Never, chairman Of the Democratic
State committee, ~ in Europe, and WIN re-
turn next month. Democrats close to Mr..
Meyer ara keeping their ears down to the
ground all over the State. The Official
declaration OF Tammany against William
h. Hearst, the signing by Mayor Mcclellan
OF the so cent gas bill, and the news that
MIR. Hearst is to hold his own State con-
vention on July 4 and nominate himself
for Governor on a Municipal Ownership
platform led to the positive
ment yesterday that Mr.. Hearst will not be
able to capture the regular Democratic
State convention, to be held in September
Mr.. Hearst, it is stated, has intended to use
his W State convention as a lever with
which to pry into the regular convention
but Democrats entitled to speak say that
he will have to go it alone.
There will then lie three candidates for
Governor in the field, the Republican, Mr'
Hearst and the regular Democrat. The
Democrats do not propose to let Mr.. Hears
capture their organization. They point out
that MIR. Hearst's municipal ownership
ideas are his own patent, that as long as ne
has been a Tammany Congress sman he has
not attempted to impress the organization
which nominated and elected him to
Congress with his notions, preferring to
keep them for his own stock in trade.
These notions, Democrats have discovered,
have turned out disastrous to the party
in Chicago, and have resulted in a swinging
over in that city OF many voters to the
Republican side. They say that New York
city. the toutest Democratic stronghold
in the country, might eventually have been
turned over to the Republicans mad Tam
many's wung in for Hearst and municipal
ownership.
Effective work, it was earned, is being
put in by Democrats all over the State
against Mr.. Hearst not only for its effect
on the approaching State campaign, but
because there is very positive opposition
TO his capturing the New York Democratic
delegation to the national convention In
1903. The Democrats look Upon the ap-
preaching contest in the State as but the
opening gun in the Presidential fight two
years hence. and they said yesterday that
within the last ten days the Hearst hysteria.
as it was called, has been on the wane and
that by election day in November it will be
OF similar dimensions to the Henry George
movement twenty years ago. In 1885
George in tho old city Of New York re-
ceived for Mayor 5000 votes, while in 1887,
when he ran on an independent State ticket
for Secretary of State. he received in the
whole State but 10000.
And this precedent was quoted as to in
dependent candidate ties for Governor. In
the John Kelly-Lucius R~obinson-Alonzo B.
Cornell campaign Of 1879 Kelly, the indie
pendent Tammany candidate, received but
1000 votes. whereas Cornell's vote was
AIS, 900 and Robinson's 375, 600. So Demo-
Gratis who are looking over the field said
yesterday that experience teaches politi-
clans that the conservative voters Of New
York State have always ca rried the day
against freak candidates for Governor.