The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-27
ROCKLAND COUNTY FOR HJGHES.
Stampede From the Democratic and Hearst
League Organizations.


NYAcK, Oct. 26.-The Hearst campaign
in Rockland county has practically COL
lapsed and from almost every town in the
county a stampede from the head of the
State ticket is reported. The co unity or
ganization of the Independence League
has given up the fight and gone out Of bust
ness altogether, while its officers have come
out for Hughes. The Democratic machine,
which is still for Hearst, has practically
quit working for the State ticket, and the
leaders. discouraged by daily desertion
from the ranks, are scrambling to save
their local tickets and part OF the county
ticket. Old time Democratic workers,
who are inactive this year, are predicting
that his Democratic county will 60 for
Hughes by a plurality OF from 700 up. The
Hearst workers In many towns concede
the county TO the Republican State tick ct.
DR.. G. A. Leitner OF Piermont, a tower
of strength in the Democratic party or
ganization, has declared publicly that the
nomination Of Hearst was one Of the most
outrageous and ~disgraceful things ever
perpetrated in politics and Democrats
will resent it DR.. Leitner and several
other leaders who had been the backbone
of the county organization absolutely
refused to have anything to do with the
Hearst campaign. This was a staggering
blow.
Meanwhile the old line Democrats all
over the country were quietly deserving the
Hearst standard and telling m another
that the only thing for a real Democrat to
do this year was to vote for Hughes. These
men represented in large measure the voting
ge~a,uth ~ fbn narfvy nna AN ,Nt,lr auu
number of them in any town. Among
those in Nyack who will vote for Hughes
are John d. Blauvelt, druggist, former
postmaster, recently a candidate for Con-
gress, who has voted the Democratic ticket
for forty-ive years; A. NJ. Voorhis, an old
time regular; Frederick Perry, formerly
president of the Young Mems Democratic
Club, and j. W. Daley, the dry goods man.
At Haverstraw the sentiments of many
OF the Democratic business men, they say,
are voiced by Robert A. Widenmann, who
says in regard TO the Hearst issue:
HThe better element say that when the
party is in such a condition that it is ruled
by the Fingys, the MickeyAp and the
Murphys, and when the party by these
people is sold out to socialism, populism and
i~ncipient anarchy, then it is time TO get
out and smash it. l am emphatically for
Hughes"
The brickyards at Haverstraw turn out
from 600 900 900 to 800 900 900 bricks a year
and employ Rbou $500 men. Patrick
Burns, an assistant foreman, Is the big
labor leader there. and il you ask one Of
the union workmen who the solon Of the
yard is he will say Paddy Burns. The
bosses also rave a good word to say Of
Burns. So il was rather a clever move
for the Hearst men TO make Burns the
county treasurer Of the league. Burns
wssfound in the yards Propping up a brick
kiln He said:
-The Independence League here is out
I Of business. l have not been able to find
any continued sentiment for Hearst among
the laboring men here and I couldn't get
up any enthusiasm for him. I find that
the laboring men are beginning TO think
he is a AXE and hat they have been fooled
by him. At New City and at Haverstraw
we tried to hold meetings, but couldn't
get enough of a crowd together. So I
have simply given up
II is a significant fact that the Demo-
cratic county convention did not indorse
the State ticket this year. This is the first
time in the memory of the oldest Rockland
politician that the ticket did not receive
the county Endorsement. Hearst's name
was not even mentioned at the convention.