The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-27
IHKSEN'S CRY OF "FRAUD."
CORTELYOT"SCALL ONWOODRUFF
WORRIES HEARST MANAGER.

lie Sees a scheme 10 steal the Election
with Corporation Money -Thc Hughes
Campaign Managers Look on II As the
First "OnicIal Crawl for Hearst.
A visitor at Republican State headquar-
ters, IL East Thirtieth street, OF and on for
the last three weeks has been Postmaster
General George b. Cortelyou, chairman Of
the Republican national COMMITTEES. Mr.
Cortelyou. along with hundreds of other
Republicans and not a few Democrats,
has consulted with Chairman Woodruff as
tothe conduct OF the Hughes campaign in
the State. Mr.. Cortelyou had another
talk with Mr.. Woodruff yesterday. 1t was
urged that it was very natural that
the Republican national chairman should
confer with the Republican State chairman
on so momentous a campaign as the present
one.
Max hmsen, Mr.. Hearst's State chair
man OF the Independence League, -viewed
with alarm" these talks of Mr.. Cortelyou
and Mr.. Woodruff, and 20 he issued a state
ment from the Gilsey House yesterday
which was interpreted by Mr.. Cortelyou
and Mr.. Woodruff to be the first official
crawl" Of the Hearst people. Mr.. lhmsen
in this statement insisted that Mr.. Cortelyou
and Mr.. Woodruf's conferences could AVE
no other meaning but hat the Republicans
meant ito steal another election Mr..
lhmsen went on to say that he had been
reliably informed that Postmaster-Ge nera
Cortelyou's visit to New York was for the
purpose Of raising money &c beat Hearst
by fraudulent means"
MIR. Ihmsen further said, lam informed
that nrf0lUn,N md WA.1u,,T kalI m 1nnRAN
meeting and that Cortelyou gave to Wood
run the list Of corporations which contrib
uted 80 heavily TO Roosevelt's election in
1904, when Cortelyou was head of the
Republican national committee
MIR. hmsen would not say who was his
authority for his statement.
All at Republican headquarters other
thar Mr.. Cortelyou and Mr.. Woodruff said
that Mr.. lhmsen's statement could LAY
no other meaning than that he was now
reluctantly convinced hat Mr.. Hearst
was "a goner." The idea Of the Hughes
campaigners was that Mr.. Ihmsen was
commencing to play the baby act" before
the cam paign was over.
Chairman Woodruff, however, while
smiling at Mr.. Ihmsen's At statement, said:
The statement is absolutely false from
beginning to end. The fact is that not n
dollar has been received from any corpora
ton or corporation interest. What little
money We have received, a sum up to the
pItSEM TIME lnNuIllCleLL TT the dDSOluLe
necessities OF the state committee, without
our having been able to financially assist
a single county organization, has come
from our appeal for a popular subscription,
resulting in many contributions the aggre-
gate of which Is very small"
Chairman Woodruff also sent to Repub-
lican leaders throughout thisc city and State
letters urging them To redouble their eff
in the final days Of the campaign. Mr..
Woodruff in these letters says:
Permit me to Insist that We must not
depend for this result alone on Democrats,
to vote against Hearst either because they
do not believe in him or because they realize
that the only way to have "A real Demo-
cratic organization in New York State again
il TO defeat tho candidates who were nomi-
mated by a stolen Democratic convention.
we must depend alone on the remarkable
campaign which Mr.. Hughes and the other
candidates on our ticket are making on their
records and by their public ~utteTances; we
must not depend alone on the unprecedented
popularity Of President Roosevelt; we must
not. indeed. depend on anything whatever
except a repetition Of that magnificent work
which the leaders and the rank and file of
the Republican party have performed 80
successfully in all the campaigns Of the last
dozen years"
h Republican up-Staters continued to
report to Chairman Woodruff that il Mr..
Hearst il relying upon the country vote
he ia an utterly deluded man. All the up
Skaters said tina the Republican vote would
be out in its entirety Of election day, and
that Mr.. Hughes is to have "A smashing record
brea king majority above The Bronx line.