The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-11-01
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HEAR Wild. TALK.
HIS vlLLIFlcATIoN rs MAKING.
VOTES FOR HUGHES - THE
REPUBLICANS CONF
DENT.

REPUBLICANS CONF
DENT.
NEW YORK, Nov. Interest in
the glbernatorlal campaign in New
York has now reached a fever stage,
and the managers and candidates on
both sides are putting in their heav.
lest ticks to win victory, The stu
alton Is the most complicated Of its
kind that ever arose in this common
wealth over the election Of a governor.
Heretofore party lines were strong,
and It was comparatively easy task
for the managers on both sides to de
termine who was to be- elected gov
ernor. But this year, apparently,
party lines are to be swept aside y
that is, to q large extent-many Re
publican workIngmen proclaiming that
they are going to vote for Hearst and
a large number of old-line Democrats
announced that they are for Charles,
L. Hughes, the Republican candidate.
There were times when the Repub-
lican managers were blue over the
prospects, times when the reports
from upstate indicated that Hearst
was making fearful inroads into the
vote of the workingmen who stood by
Roosevelt and Mckinley.
Betting Stronger for Hughes.
Even as late as yesterday this feel
ing was reflected in the betting mar
ket, when the odds on the Republican
candidate dropped from 9 to to ~
to l. To-day, however, the Republi-
cans are as confident as they were in
the first part Of the campaign that
they will win and the betting odds
have gone back to to l, at which
large sums OF real money were plac-
ed today,
Mr.. Hughes is going to continue to
make campaign speeches right up to
the eve of election. For the last week
or so he has been going over the
ground visited by Mr.. Hearst, and
there are many evidences that the
seeds he has sown are bearing fruit
in abundancy His reception at Ro-
chester last night, where he declared
that the Hearst campaign is merely
organized villification, has caused the
leaders there to believe that the Re.
publican ticket will have a plurality
of 10000 in Monroe county. Mr..
Hughes has recently been repeating
the charges that while Mr.. Hearst is
denouncing corporations on the plat
form he is himself a trust, and that
all his business is carried on by means
of corporations organized with view
of escaping taxes and liabilities In
damage suits. He has produced rec
ords of the courts to back up his asser.
tions, and he has dared Mr.. Hearst to
reply to them.
Editors Choice Language:
Mr.. Hearst himself seem to be get
ting triAe peevish over the matter,
but all efforts to get him to give a
direct answer to these questions have
failed. Instead Of answering them out
right. he replies by the severest stric.
lures on the personal character and
the political motives of his opponents.
Never has such coarse and vulgar
abuse been used in gubernatorial con.
tests here as has been delivered from
the platform by Mr. Hearst and print
ed in his newspapers. He has applied
the most offensive epithets to all who
oppose him, and he has called Alton
2. Parker, who was long the chief
Judge OF the Court Of Appeals OF this
State and candidate for president on
the Democratic ticket in 1904, a pol
itical cockroach, and others, nearly Of
equal prominence, political Croton
bugs. He has called Senator McCar-
rem a corrIpt scoundrel, and he has
gone so far astto attack Richard Wat
son Glider. the editor Of the Century
Magazine, as a feeble, fluffy, scratch
ing, incubator chicken" for no other
reason, apparently, than that Mr.. Gil
der said he would not support him.
Hearst Sued for Millions.
The Republicans declare that a
campaign that consists entirely Of
lodging pertinent questions and call
ing names is bound to react on the
Democratic candidate, and not a few
of the Democratic managers Of the
same opinion. Mr.. Hearst has taken
the bit into his teeth and will listen
to no advice except that which comes
from his strategy board, composed
mainly of paid employees, His papers
every day and his speeches every night
teen with personal vituperation. An
investigation Of the records of the
State and federal courts show that
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