Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-22
HOT FOR HUGHES
AND HEARST IS
LOSING GROUND
Last Days of the Big Fight in
New York. y
IN THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY
Independence Lacquer Comes Back to
Find Things Different.
DRY GRINS ON TAMMANY FACES
Some Odd Things About the organiza-
TONS Loyal Support of the 4
Newspaper Man.
IN THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY
Independence Lacquer Comes Back to
Find Things Different.
DRY GRINS ON TAMMANY FACES


Hearst contest in New York has
attained an Importance that is not
usual in state campaigns. Hughes
continues to gain favor with the
voters, but there seems to be a Sc
rious question as to whether his
campaign has been properly man
aged. Upon his return to New
York after an extended tour Hearst
finds the city what Bryan described
as "the enemy's country" Many
important changes have taken
place since he went out of town.
Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, October 22.-Charles E.
Hughes, republican candidate for governor.
will leave at 8 o'clock this afternoon from
the Weehawken station of the West Shore
railroad for his third and final tour of the
state. He will be gone ten days Return
ing to New York on November ., he will
speak at meetings in this city until election
day.
The outcome of the trip will be very sig
nifcant. For the past two weeks Mr..
Hughes has spoken almost entirely in towns
| of 5000 to 1900 inhabitants and smaller
farming villages that for years have gone
republican. Why the management of the
republican campaign chose TO keep him
there during the last week is problem to
political observers
Hard Work Up State.
But this trip he goes straight into the
heart of the territory where his opponent
is said to be strongest. 1t has been said
that Mr.. Hearst will draw a great majority
from the laboring districts of the larger
cities. 1t is into these districts that Mr..
Hughes is going. His night meetings dur
ing the next two weeks will all be in the
larger cities, and the day will be taken up
with canvassing the small towns between.
Some hard work in this city follows tho
campaign up state. When Mr.. Hughes ar
rives home on Friday afternoon November
g he will go at once to Long Island City
and Jamaica, where he speaks during the
afternoon, and ends the days work with
six meetings in Brooklyn. On Saturday
and Monday following, Manhattan and the
Bronx will be covered again.
During the past week the candidate has
spoken repeatedly of his East Side meet
ings last Tuesday~and Wednesday evenings.
and he is eager to appear in the East Side
again.
Mr. Hughes is standing the excessive
strain of the campaign exceptionally well.
He talks little on the train and makes only
short open-air speeches, in order to save
his voice for the night meetings But at the
night meetings he goes after his audience in
real campaigner style and speaks with an
energy and confidence that are vote win
nerS.
Hughes at Home.
Mr. Hughes arrived home Saturday from
Ogdensburg, and was immensely pleased
with the conditions found on the tour just
completed. The solidity of the republicans
in the rural districts and the turning OF
many democrats to Mr.. Hughes support
was even more apparent on this trip than
on the one which closed October IA. But
the thing that pleased the candidate most
of all was the reception accorded him at
WATERFOWL, Sandy HILL, Ogdensburg, Low
Vile and other manufacturing towns. In
such towns the factory men strongly
unionized, but in many places the plants
shut down for the afternoon and all turned
out to hear the republican candidate.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
In the Enemy's Country.
NEW YORK. October CIV. r. Hearst,
the democratic nominee for governor. back
from an extended speaking tour in the in
terror of the state finds the city what
Bryan described in 1896 az the enemys
country. Important changes In the local
situation have taken place since Mr.. Hearst
went away. Senator McCarren, the demo-
cratic leader of Kings county, has openly
bolted the head OF the ticket. and Tam
many leaders are preparing to knife the
ticket on election day all along the line.
Tammany politicians get the dry grins
when they hear Leader Murphy talking
about the organizations loyal support OF
Mr.. Hearst. The fact is that Tammany
is not doing any campaign work fer the
head of the state ticket. Many speakers
at local meetings do not mention his name,
and when they do the applause is always
feeble Many Tammany politicians say
openly that Hearst will not carry New York
county.
Tammany Protests.
At a business meeting of one OF the Tam
many district clubs. held Friday night last,