The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-11
HEARST REPLIES TO Woodruff.
Says League wanted Fusion In the Interest
OF q Clean Bench.

William r. Hearst issued a statement
from his house yesterday in answer to the
statement Of Chairman Woodruff Of the
Republican State committee decrying any
fusion with the Hearst organization. Mr..
Hearst said in part:
MIR. Woodruff should understand that
the Independence League is interested in
the judicial nominees for the single pur-
pose, as it declared, Of securing a ticket
free from partisan politics, free from COR
poration influence, and above criticism as to
character and ability. The league is not
moved by a desire to benefit the Republican
party. or to benefit the league or any other
party, but to promote the cause Of good
government and the interests of all honest
citizens.
THE action Of the Independence League
in e~ndeavoring to secure a non-partisan
judiciary ticket was prompted wholly by
an unselfish desire to satisfy the wishes
of those public-spirited citizens who re-
allied the nominations for the judiciary
should be lifted above the political consid-
erations which affect other nominations.
In its effort to secure this result the league
suggested the Intervention Of the State Bar
ASS ociation, and any approach to the Re-
pub lican party by the indirect emissary'
to which Mr.. W oodrlf refers, must lave
been made throug h this source.
Apparently, Mr.. Woodruff, director in
insurance companies. has been instructed
by Mr.. Cortelyou, collector from the in
suranCe companies. to refuse the Repub-
lican SUPPORT TO a ~non-partisan and nom
corporation judiciary.
THE League sincerely regrets that the
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independent judiciary should be disre-
Rarded bv any party.
1T il unfortunate for the public good
that Mr.. Woodruff should advise with At
torney-GeneraI Maver in a matter con-
corning the interests of homes citizens.
for Attorney General Mayer has shown
conspicuously his utter disregard Of Ameri-
can citizens bv denying them the right to
appear before the courts in an action to
have their votes counted as cast.
at il regrettable for the general vel
fare that the Republican party should in
sist upon not only a corporation State
ticket and a corporation campaign man
aRer and a corporation fund collector, but
also a corporation judiciary. II il natural,
however, that the party should lave been
urged to take this position by the gentle
man who protected the election thieves
and received a denomination as a reward
and by the gentleman who, collected the
corporation campaign fund in the last
general election and escaped investigation
through the courtesy Of the present Repub-
lican candidate for Governor.
MIR. Hughes ia continually harping on
sincerity. We test Mr.. Woodr1f's sin
cerity BY the combination he has made
with Pat McCarren in Brooklyn in the
interests Of the judicial candidates Of the
McCarren machine, when Pat McCarren il
universally known to be a political mer-
cenary in the service Of the Standard Oil
Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company, and only interested in the ad-
vancement of men and measures that pro-
mote the interests OF THOSE corrupt corpora
tiDns."