New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-11
WOODRUFF HITS BACK.
Denies He Took Orders from
CortelYou on Judiciary Ticket.


The visit Of Chairman Cortelyou. Of the Repuoh
can National Committee. to State Chairman "ooU
ruff on Tuesday, and their talk about the iuaiciar'
| situation. IN BROOKLYN. served as a text for Mr.
Hearst to vent some OF the il-feellng which ne ha'
been collecting for time because OF judiciary
difficulties in New York and Kings counties Froii
It Mr.. Hearst drew several differences one Oe'hs
! that Chairman Woodruff had been ordered not u
support non partisan and incorporation ju
dietary" These differences he embodied IN signed
statement attacking Mr.. Woodruff.
In this statement. after quoting the Hearst stats
nnent OF October s. with it's modest suggestion that
/ the three parties unite on non-partisan Ju-
dietary ticket. Mr.. Hearst quotes Chairman Wood
ruff as making a statement which Mr.. Woodruff
! never issued and nobody ever said he issued FIe
/ said Mr.. Woodruff said that Chairman Corteiyou
| wanted the judiciary nomirators' ticket IN TINS
! district indorsed The interview between Chair
man Cortelyou and State Chairman Woodruff re-
| lated entirely TO the Brooklyn situation Ths
Hearst statement then continues:
Mr. Woodruff should understand that the Inde-
pendence League is interested IN the judicial noiIl
for the single purpose. as II declared OF Sc
curing a ticket free from partisan politics. Hee
from corporation influence, and above criticism as
10 character and ability The league Is not moved
! by a desire to benefit the Republican party or 10
benefit the league. or any other party out 70 FRO
mote the cause Of good government ana the inter
of all honest citizens.
The action OF the Independence League In en-
deavorng to secure non-partisan judiciary ucKet
was prompted wholly By an unselhsh desire 20
satisfy the wishes of those public spirited citizens
who realized that nominations for the judiciary
should be lifted above the political considerations
which affect other nominations In It's effort 70
secure this result The league suggested the inter-
vention Of the State Bar Association, and any
/ approach 10 the Republican party by the indirect
enissary' TO which Mr.. Woodruff refers must
have been made through this source.
Apparently Mr.. Woodruff director IN Insurance.
companies has been instructed by Mr.. Cortelyou.
collector from the insurance companies to refuse
the Republican support to a non-partsan and
non-corporation judiciary. The league sincerely
regrets that the wishes OF the people in the matter
of an Independent judiciary should be disregarded
by any party
Mr. Hughes is continually harping sincerity.
We test Mr.. Woodruffs sincerity by the coinoina-
ton he has named with Pat McCarren in Brook
Ign, the interests OF the judicial candidates or
the McCarren machine. when Pat McCarren Is
universally known to be political mercenary
in the service Of the Standard OIL Company and
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, and inter
eSted in the. advancement Of only men and meas
ures that promote the interests or those corrupt
corporations
Mr.. Woodruff asked to reply to the statement
of Mr. Hearst. MI. Woodruff said that Mr.. Hearst's
statement was unworthy OF consideration by him,
because the deductions drawn from absolutely
false premises as he (Mr. Woodruff had not made
the statement that Postmaster General Cortelyou
had urged the nomination by the Republicans OF
made the statement that he had talked over the
subject of nominating the judiciary ticket named by
the committee of lawyers with Attorney General
Mayer,
Mr.. Woodruff said that. matter OF fact, Mr..
Cortelyou had not referred TO the question OF the
judiciary ticket In the LIST Judicial district and that
his reference TO a conversation with Attorney Gen
eral Mayer and others was in relation TO proposed
deal between the Republicans and the Independence
League, relative to the nomination of candidates
for Congress- Senate and Assembly, and not the
judiciary.
Hearst's charge that you made a deal with Senator
McCarren?" To this he replied:
1T IS not true, The fact that the Republicans IN
the "a Judicial District had nominated six Of the
eight candidates proposed by the Committee OF One
Hundred, and that the other two candidates named
by the Republican convention were not McCarren
men-one OF them being Republican CJudge Aspin-
alD-is a sufficient REPUTATION Of the Hearst accu-
sation."
Mr. Woodruff said that In being charged with
lack of sincerity by Mr. Hearst, he thought that
Mr. Hearst M ght square his professions Of sincerity
with his performance by less deviation from the
truth. II he meant to be honest.
Mr.. woodruff followed his formal statement. de-
nyins some OF Hearst's differences and allegations
by a later statement. In which he formally went
the matter of Hearst's inconsistency. Reading
from typewriter page Mr. woodruff said:
This is the man who charges me with tnzin-
certify. Here Ia his work for anarchisrn, and his
retractiOn following the assassination of President
Mckinley Before the assassination The New
York Journal said:
He referring TO President Mckinley is an
abteot weak. futile. incompetent poltroon.' And
again. The Journal in its editorial column saidi
4" 'Dtd not the murder OF Lincoln, uniting in SYM
patty the regard OF all good people In the North
and South hasten the OF American good feel
ing and perhaps preventing the renewal of fighting
between brothers.
And again, this:
" Institutions. like men, Will last until they die;
and II bad institutions and bad men can be got
rid of only by killing then the killing must be
done.
Here's another Hearst editorial:
a" We are in q current moving swiftly, and the
suave sertleInen who ridtcule the possibility OF
cataraots ahead may soon suffer a dangerous shock
Mckinley. bar one gritty Princeton person (Cleve-
land, who came to be more or less than a
living breathing crime In brooches Is therefore
sphere hts name is hooted his figure burned in
ef1gy'
Here's a sample:
Mckinley and the Wall Street cabinet ara ready
to surrender every particle of national honor and
integrity
Now for Hsarst's sincerity" said MI Woodruff.
Here is editorial printed in The Journal fol-
lowing the death OF the martyrsd President:
" Nowhere in the history OF great mems lives. or
Of great mems deaths. be found such rssigna-
ton and deep religious faith marked the last
hours OF William Mckinley. lie facsd the other
world and the other life with the o,Tiet oondiapt
hope Of a man who had done his best slowly the
hearts strength died out. ii had carried him
through two wars. through many political battles,
through many long days OF toll through many
years OF haTd work and serious purpose He began
life a simple Christian citizen He worried hard
He interested himself IN his cocntry's welfare He
succeeded; he reGchsd tho hirhest ,Iao. - tha
heuoh. he exercised and Represented the greatest
OF eruhy powers. He wa called second time
20 uho IIsAest position that man give to any