The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-14
THE WEEKS TALK IN NEW YORK CITY Hearst is Giving the Republicans
 a Fight A L ABA M FANS ORGANIZE The Society Ready for Its First Din. ner-The Howard Goulds Sep
 arate-senator Depew
 Out Again
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BY sEWELL HAeGARp.

New York, October 13.--6SpeclaD These are dull days for the strangers within New Yorks gates that Is, those who do not enjoy politics. New York always takes it's politics seriously, and in home opathic doses, but this year she is out doing herself. The campaign is so bitter that everybody Is talking of it-there is nothing else discussed.
 Both eanddates-Charles E. Hughes and W R. Hearst--to say nothing of the les ser orators, are making speeches day and night Red fire is being burned by the wholesale and the mails are swamped with literature.
 But there is d serious side to the fight, serious at least to the thinking popua- tlon The serious feature lies in the fear that Hearst will be elected governor. The majority of the newspapers tell us day after day that he hasn't the ghost of a show but the people have not forgotten that these same prophets told us the same thing every day in the mayorality campaign. What happened is well known. Hearst came very near being elected mayor, the official figures giving McClel- Ian only a little more than 5000 plurality. And there are many persons who are against him who believe that if the eec- ton had been conducted honestly he would be mayor today.
 It is an uphill fight for any democrat to be elected governor of New York The city is normally democratic, but the upstate counties are normally so over whelmingly republican that they offset the vote of the city A democrat 10 win must carry the city by a tremendous majority, upstate proportionately.
 But, as has been pointed out in this cor- respondence before, this is not a fight between the republican and democratic parties. Party lines have been swept aside. Hence those who view the situa- ton from conservative standpoint do not know what to take into considera- ton in venturing prediction.
 Hearsts fiamboyant methods have at tracted an enormous following to him. Take poll of the printers, the telegraph operators, the street car employees, clerks in the stores and working people gen eraly, and you will find that they are for him. In the offices of the newspapers whose editors oppose him most bitterly
 
 Hearst.
 How has he won them? By abusing cor porations and wealth generally though he is a millionaire himself. The amazing part of it is that thousands believe him sincere Hughes, the republican candi date, has told on the stump how Hearst, himself has resorted to corporation meth ods to avoid liability for taxes and ray ment of damages in suits brought against his papers Hearst himself has proved his insncerty in his campaign against the bosses. for how could he be sincere and at the same time accept a democratic nomination stolen for him by Charles F. Murphy of Tammany Hall, than whom there is no more despcable boss in this country.
 These are not mere assertions. They are facts and every one knows or has the opportunity to know them. Yet with all this, that Mr Hearst has a great strength cannot be disputed.