Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-07
HEARST TAKES IT HARD
SAYS THE TRUSTS ARE TRYING
TO COUNT HIM OUT.
Claims That Returns From Up the
State Were Jugglsd and
Held Up.

| from Inc new 1Ofk American.
At this writing midnight. there Is every
| reason to believe that william Randolph
Hearst has been elected governor Of New
York by a substantial plurality.
| There is also every indication that de-
| termined and desperate attempt Is being
| made by the defeated party Of the trusts
to steal the election won by the people.
Early In the evening the belief that Mr..
Hearst and his cause had triumphed was
universal Timothy Woodruff acknowledged
| that the peoples candidate had carried
| most of the principal cities Of the state.
The newspaper organs of the Plunderbund
were depressed in their announcements OF
| results, and were plainly of the opinion
that Mr.. Hughes had been beaten.
But defeat is not to be endured by the
confederated interests in the state now
any more than it was in the metropolis one
year ago.
The word went out to hold back the re-
turns.
They We're coming in freely, and all
against Hughes, when suddenly there was
a cessation Of their receipt from up the
state.
Here is a sample of the sort OF work that
| it was telegraphed that Rochester had
given Hughes a plurality of 1.4OO
| Hours subsequently the Associated Press
put out a dispatch stating that Rochester
3
Hughes, but majority of 325 for Hearst.
who thus more than wiped out the Higgins
| majority of over 1000 In that city two
years ago.
! The discrepancy Of upward of 1.7GO votes
between the earlier and the later dispatches
was explained by the statement that Mr..
Hearst had been credited with only the
votes cast for him on the democratic ticket,
while those given him by the Independence
League had not been counted.
If this sort of counting was done in
Rochester what reason is there to doubt
that 1t was done last night elsewhere?
Timothy Woodruff two hours after the
counting began was discouraged and mod
est in his estimate of his cand dates pos
sible plurality. but when the order went
out to hold back the returns he resumed
his soaring claims.
Chairman Ihmsen of the Independence
League committee, rightly alarmed by the
tactics Of the Plunderbunds political man.
ayers. was well justified in wiring the
league leaders throughout the state as fol-
lows:
Urge your watchers to the utmost vigil
lance. Returns from republican stronghelds
are being withheld. Compel immediate
declaration Of results hearst is elected by
SO, COO. Don't permit victory to be snatched
away by fraud. Fight for your rights. Get
out the figures
Mr.. Hearst is perfectly willing to accept
the will Of the people, whether that will de-
clares for or against him honestly.
But he is not willing to submit to fraud
perpetrated by criminal politicians In the
employ Of the trusts.
II. as there is every sound reason to be-
leve, the people have elected him governor,
he will have the votes counted as they we're
cast, and will not tolerate the doctori1g OF
the result, which was the plain purpose OF
holding back the returns
Defeat at the polls Is one thing: cheating
the people Of the state out OF this election
Is another.
William Randolph Hearst has been
elected by the people.
The trusts are doing their utmost to re-
verse the verdict rendered at the ballot
box
The trusts shall not be allowed to succeed
in the great crime which they are engaged
in committing.
From the New York American.
William Randolph Hearst il elected gov
ernor Of New York by at least 10000 plu-
ralfty.
The forces Of the Plunderbund, captained
by Timothy L. Woodruff. are making a
desperate attempt to take the election by
fraud. adopting exactly the tactics by which
when they held back the returns from up
the state until after Coler's plurality In
Greater New York was known, and then
topped 1t by fictitious returns.
Early in the evening, when 1t became ap-
parent that Hearst had swept the upstate
cities almost without exception, and had
annihiiated the Higgins plurality of two
Hearst had carried Buffalo and many of
the large cities up the state"
Then returns from up the state began
mysteriousiy to be held UP. Max F. Ihm-
sen. state chairman Of the Independence
League. sent out q warning to his watch
ers throughout the, state that the vote
would be kept back until Greater New York
was heard from. and requesting that they
insist on an immediate announcement of
the result.
1t then developed that in Rochester. in
one instance the Independence League vote
had not been counted. making difference
of about 1.7O0.
At midnight over TOO upstate districts
are being held back.
Other figures were similarly juggled. with
the result that Hughes came down to the
Harlem bridge. on the face of Woodruffs
figures. with a plurality that made him
appear to win over Hearsts known plural
ity in the five boroughs of 10000
Hearst carried all the five boroughs.
sweeping Manhattan and the Bronx by the
great total Of more than $1,000.
He carried nearly every election district
in New York county.
HIS plurality in Kings was 5000. QueAns