The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-10-24
HEARST TELLS Of
HIS MIGHTY
DEEDS
SAYS HE Is SURE or ELECTION
OVER HUGHES WITH A
FAT MAJORITY.
LABOR SITUATION BAD
Usher While His Opponent Gains
From Many ouarreis
Among Tammany.

New York. Oc-. 22.--"T have just
/ returned from a tour up the state In
so-called Republican count es. | want
/ 10 make the positive prediction that
we will carry the upstate couniias
and come to The Harlem river with
majority, That Is not an lille state-
ment and everything majority
you give MS IN Greater New York
will be velvet"
with this statement William Ran.
| d0lph Hearst greeted 1000 nf his tot
lowers in Madison Square Garden to.
! night. There was larger crowd
around the big auditorium clamoring
| to get In The crowd inside yelled II
self into exhaustion before It would
let Mr. Hearst say word His con.
fdent claim of victory sent them into
paroxysms of enthusiasm and when
he added this further claim thay went
off into another prolonged howl OF en-.
thuslasm:
"And | firmly bellve that we vii
carry this state. all told. and hope
this time, all counted, b. over $50. .o03
majority.
Common People" Enthusiastic.
Hearst was given just as enthu-
siastlc receptions before by New
York crowds in Madison Square In
the last mayorality fight. brt in
state campaign there never was
greater demonstration than that
which the independence league cam
paigner received tonight The strik.
Ing feature Of the crowd was IT'S dc.
votion to Hearst So well has he car
red on his work of selfadvertis ng
and self-promottion through his news
paper pampbleteering that he had but
to use the words trust" corpora
ton" 'oppres sion, Z" Common people
TO set them off into yells of frenzy
The tones OF victory in his voice
seemed % open visions to his hearers
Of a general resrrangement of our
political and business systems that
would give them all more money and
more happsenss but for the asking.
The crowd In and around Madison
Square Garden are not the only per-
sons in Greater New York that credit
his claim that he will be elected One
editor Of New York paper admitted
tonight that he feared "it looked like
Hearst" The same disquiet Is felt in
many quarters where the interests OF
the Republican party are being looked
after
Upstate Vote Troubles Hughes.
The reports from the towns up the
state are causing the greatest worry
10 the Hughes managers. Up to within
two days of election they will be kept
)n the go with the hope ofovercoming
he reported Hearst gains.
II is generally admitted that
wherever Hughes and Heart have
at the same places the In
dependence league candidate has
been met by the largest crowds, has
stirred up the greatest enthusiasm
and supposedly gained he most
votes, There will be no way Of tell ng
whether the crowds and the cheering
md yellin gmeans so many yotes or
lot until they are counted on election
lay. But the fact remains that the
tir Hearst has made in the Repuhli
an counties up the state has been
to alarm the Republican
The scene at Madison Square Gar
en- tonight. while il had been wit.
essed before. was for this reason
iven more significance than would
have been the case had not
he thing happened in the old Repub-
can stronghold above the Bronx
Hearst will invade the east side to
borrow night From this part Of the
.ty have come the most disquieting
aports from his lieutenants. II Is ex-
ected that the rally tonigh will be a
rcided starter for his whirlwindi
wing into the stronghold OF the
ulllvans and counteract the influence
I the Tammany leaders who are
ther openly against Hearst or quiet
passing The word 70 knife the head
the ticket
Hesrst's Claims Not Modest.
The speech made by Hearst tonight
8s short and concise He claimed the
nth. He has done everything that
IS been done since he started his
50 New York newspaper. and what
said was straight from the shoglier
"a has enough Of the appearance Of
nth 70 make O. effective.
The recent conviction of the New
,rk Central In the sugar rebate
ses and the ind ictmeut today Il
mes Gordon Bennett and other Off
us OF the New York Herald for pub