The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-13
Mr., HEARST HIRES A THEATRE
PAYS 4 COHIC OPERA TROUPE
500 TO J.AClTE 1T.
rh,n pays the Rent for q Night He Makes
Two speeches. ono In EImiVa and the
other In ithaca Big Crowds Meet ms
ChcCr the Candidate nj Both Places.

Hearst made two speeches tonight. He
talked 10 a big crowd in the Lyoeum Theatre
here and then his two private cars were
b,tched INTO a Lehigh locomotive and the
candidate made a forty-six mile jump 10
Ttbs "a. where he addressed another crowd.
including many Cornell students.
nv Hearst got here from Corning early
,his morning. His private cars lay on a
aiding all day At the L~ackawanna depot E.
While ho vas putting the finishing touches
m his letter accepting the Democratic
nomination and reading up on Lincoln n
jefferson in preparing his night speeches
delegations If local committeemen appeared
With ca rerully prepared speeches of welcome.
girls ripped in with appeals for charitable
contributions and perspiring telephone
messengers summoned him to the long
distance phone. where one Ihmsen was
irantically calling for him.
Originally it had been planned for Mr..
Hearst to speak in st. James Hall, a packing
box ,lle hall, only big enough for a few
hundred people. The Lyceum Theatre
had been engaged by The Trip to Egypt"
comic opera troupe, and had the first
call. The Hearst managers wanted the
theatre badly. inc they started out to make
idea With the manager of the opera troupe.
The manager was willing to vacate for a
consideration. He agreed to accept $500
10 call of his show here tonight, and Mr..
Hearst went down into his breast pocket
and skinned enough bills from a fat pack
age 10 square the Egyptians. In addition
he paid The usual rent of the theatre for a
night. The result was that when the
candidate started OFF with his denunciation
Of the trusts and his roasting Of old line
Democrats the Egyptians in the audience
spplauded enthusiastically and Cheered
whenever occasion offered.
To-day was Charity Day" in Elmira,
the day in ev ry year when all the town
folk unite to secure contributions for the
home for the aged. The streets were
full Of brighteyed, rosy checked, nattily
gowned girls, who sole pasteboard tags
the size Of a silver dollar, and inscrit ed
Charity Day" or any price they could
get. Unless you wore one of the paste
board disks at o u coat lapel, s~ignifying
that v u had paid toll TO the good cause,
YOU we're regarded with suspicion here
to-day. The u%ntagged visitor was a lonely
and forlorn creature. No one had a III
word or a smile for him and hone invited
him to set his foo on the brass rail in the
Rathbune House and lean against the ma
bogany bar. Properly tagged by the
Elmira maidens one was royalty welcomed.
Mr.. Hearst's cars had no more than
hacked into a siding here this morning
than the girls Of Elmira were on his trail.
4 bevy Of the young women appointed
Mrs. Carroll G.. Keeton to represent them
and Mrs. Keeton went into the candidates
car with a bunch Of tags. Mr.. Hearst
saw her SDming and from sheer instinct,
born Of campaign experience, he reached
Har ~, -AalKoSk@~lv H. o4oN ht-, 400 hnfAHa
the walking delegate for the charitable
young women of Elmira left the car chuck
ling over her success.
The meeting Mr.. Hearst addressed here
tonight vas one of the largest and I'M
deniably one Of the most sympathetic he
has foundd during his upstate campaigning.
More thar 1000 people squeezed into the
theatre. There are about 5000 factory
employees in this city and a fair proportion
OF them were in the audience. When Mr..
Hearst appeared at 3 O'Clock the band let
20 with Hail to the Chief. = and the crowd
broke out in cheering that ran for four or
FIVE minutes. William H. Lowell, chairman
Of the Democratic county committee, called
the meeting to order and turned IL over to
Col. y. {. Robinson, who introduced Mr..
Hearst. Col. Robinson is a son OF the late
Luciua Robinson, one time Governor Of
this State. He presented Mr.. Hearst as
the defender of the people, the next Gov
ernor and a real American.
Mr.. Hearst told his audience that he
wasn't a Socialist or even a radical; that his
ton the accepted theory Of American gov
eminent. He called on Lincoln Republicans
and Jefferson Democrats to get together
for a battle against the corporations,
repeating his now familiar speech on that
point. Then Mr.. Hearst proceeded to read
a few more Democrats out OF the old party,
including Robert A. Van Wyck, who de-
clared for him the other day. The crowd
broke in with voleys Of applause. He
said:
do not want the support OF any corrupt
boss or any ice trust Mayor or gas trust
Mayor or any political henchmen Of the eQr-
porstions. lApplausel. Let them go into a
party led by the corporation lawyer at the
head Of a corporation ticket, IA voice: Drive
them out, GOVERNOR. Let them lin up with
Corporation Campaign Manage Woodruff
director in insurance companies and lobbyist
at Albany for insurance companies. Let them
line up with Corporation Fund Coll ector
sheldon. director in twenty-one trustS and
accomplice in the shipbuilding scandal. Let
them line up with Attorney-General Mayer
servant Of the cor porations and traitor to
the people in the election, who advised the
Legislature not 10 pass a recount bill and shut
the gates Of his ONCE in the face OF citizens who
merely asked their American rights TO have
their votes Mounted as cast. Let them line
up with Gov. Higgins, who locked himself in
his inner ONCE and refused even to see a dele
CATION Of five hundred we'll known busin ess
men who merely wished to ask him to help
them preserve their rights and liberties as
citizens. Let them line up with Belmont ano
Ryan and Morgan and Rogers and Rookie
Teller and all .thosdCaptain Kids Of Industry,
Let the line be so clearly drawn that there will
he no mistakinR where the corrupt corpora
tons stand and where honest citizens Ought
10 stand. b.
ITHACA. Oct. 12.-Mr. Hearst's specia
train arrived here at lO:40 tonight. Ar
auto went painting to the depot and com
mitteemen rushed the candidate to the
LyCeum Theatre. where a crowd OF l,5Ol
had been waiting nearly three hours. A
bunch u Cornell men in front OF the theatre
"a luted Mr.. Hearst with a ringing vel
and helped rush him into the hall. The
crowd was tired but enthusiastic, and
cheered Mr.. Hearst several minutes. John
Ford, who had made a speech while the
crowd was waiting for Hearst, grasped the
ca ndidate's hand and led him to the foot
lights. The audience broke o agar
and gave Mr.. Hearst one Of h finest re-
options he has met up State.
Charles f.. fireman, a Democratic leader
here, introduced the candidate. Then the
Cornell students cut loose with a volley OF
specially contrived yells. Mr.. Hearst
laughed. got the crowd quiet m wenl
ahead with his speech, the same he made
o. Elmira. He will leave here at O'Clock
IN the morning for Oswego, where he
speaks in the afternoon, and will then &c