New-York tribune., 1906-07-22
POLITICS in CHEMUNG.
HEARST A POOR THIRD.
R;se of the Radical Independence
League Bodies III TO BRIAN.

:, looss now as II Hearst viii be a poor third
!, .Se race next November in this county. Dan
szeshan. boss OF the local Democracy. is against
,-.s-~t Sheehan IS state committeeman. John
= s,anchheId and Billy Lowell. a wholesale to-
<,,7ouist and county committee chairman, who
..,rs leadership honors with Mr. Sheehan, also
Sc anri-Hearst-
Ex-senator William r. Nackey, OF Buffalo
1.,a organizer for Hearst. came down here and
-9anized an Independence League. He de-
.,e,ssa the election OF his own TRUSTEES" There
- fight. helped on by both the Fassett and
rzsshsn men. the outcome being that the Hearst
e,-Dss are all torn up
ehsshan wants 20 shine as state leader, and
50 nay get there one OF these days He is a
,,sbelor with a fiourishing drygoods business.
20 spends lot Of money on politics, and his
1,ssl machine is pretty strong. When Mackey
r,u,e he got Joe Eustace. q Democratic enemy
% sheehan and Friend Miller, a disappointed
sanublican Office seeker, 10 go in with him.
-ssv do not drive well together. The RepublI-
ans who Jumped are swinging back into line
nth Fassett and Sheehan is making holes in
shs Hearst lines every week by his interference
ss soon as there comes a good Democratic
-.av sheehan's friends will insist that he go on
fbe state ticket as candidate for Controller or
LIEUTENANT Governor
Franklin Aldrich. twice a Republican District
Attorney. has Topped to Hearst because the
Republicans refuse 10 give him third term.
HEARsTs FATE IN MURPHY's HANDS
John B. stanchheld. Democratic candidate for
Governor in 1900. says IL Tammany is for Hearst
h will be nominated for Governor by the Demo-
,ratie State Convention. and that IL Tammany is
against Hearst he will not be nominated. Arr.
stsnchheld. furthermore. looks for clash be-
tween Bryan and Hearst Mr.. Stanchfield is
100 busy with his law practice TO give much Of
his tine 10 local or state politics, but he is in
formed about everything that is going on. and
& consulted in everything done by local Demo-
cTats
Mr stanchheld has been retained by the in-
alcted New Rochelle aldermen and will be in
New York next week. His successful defence
Of Ex-senator Green. of Binghamton, has
largely increased his prestige as a successful
pleader In answer 70 various direct questions
from The Tribune correspondent, Afr. Stanchfleld
said:
Tammany Hall holds Chemung County as in
the hollow OF fits hand Tammany. acting unit
edy controls the state situation II you will tell
that Tammany viii be for Hearst, 1 can
assure you that Hearst will be the candidate
foF Governor. What would it matter if twenty
OF thirty upstate counties were for Hearst II
Tammany IS against him? We have seen it
.Rorked out again and again in state conven-
tons Tammany practically names the Govern
or, Whether he Is from New York or not. After
IammaDy decides on the Governor the conven-
iion says 10 Rochester, Buffalo, Albany, Syra-
cuse our other localities: We will give you the
Attorney Generalship, or Secretary Of State, or
State Treasurer. or State Engineer All that is
70 preserve the balance, while Tammany con-
irols"
Has Hearst made any overtures to you?" Mr..
Stanchfeld was asked
Not in the way you mean" said Mr.. stanch-
asld. after bries hesitation.
What about the Bryan men? Will they op-
pose Heerst?"
! think il will be generally admitted by
uoughtful Democrats that the rise Of Mr.. Hearst
il inimical 10 the candidacy of Mr.. Bryan for
President" said Nr StanchfeId- 'I regard Mr
SFyan's nomination for President as extremely
grobatle in 1905. I supported him IN 1896 and
@mpaigned with him in 1900. and have always
had high regard for him His visits abroad
ana his recent utterances have brought out into
stronger light the mans fine qualities. II the
election were held this year there IS no doubt
whatever that ne would be the Democratic
candidate
Nr. stsnchhelds opinion that the rise of
Hearst is inirnical TO Bryan is shared by con-
tsFFstive Democrats all along the Southern Tier.
Billy Lowell, D.mocratic county chairman,
saEs the regulars will control the county conven-
s'n and name the delegates TO the state con-
walton
hAARsTs CAUSE HURTFUL TO BRYAN.
The Hearst people are not strong here" said
Mr. Lowell to-day. William ]. Bryan has lots
q friends here. and they think that IL they
make Hearst Governor It viii hurt Bryan S
residential prospects. If Hearst stood better in
NE state the Democrats hereabouts would not
Be distrustful Of him. They do not have con-
haence in MIN. They feel that ia the same pro-
Portion as he increases in strength politically
VII business conditions become depressed. He
Is TOO radical The Hearst machine here is be-
coming weaker all the time"
representative J. Sloat Fassett says that
Hearst is not a menace to Republican success.
AE Fassett returned to-day from Canada. where
he and some friends have bought hundred
sauare miles OF hardwood timber on the Ottawa
haVeT. about seventy-five miles from Montreal.
In answer to direct questions he said:
The Hearst movement here at present Is in
no sense a serious menace 10 the Republican
paFty. A few Republicans. mostly disappointed
otace seekers have allied themselves with
Hearst, largely. I think as matter Of political
SPECULATION. but for every Republican who has
Alied himself with Hearst there are three or
'our Democrats who also have gone over as an
oHset. There are about FIVE thousand organized
A5oring men IN Chemung. They We're brutally
luEned down At the opening OF the arrangements
Ior organization by out-of-town lieutenants OF
Hearst who came here 10 start the Hearst ma
chine II the present Hearst organization were
dissolved and a new organization put In the field
representing the idea Of municipal ownership Of
public utilities, such as waterworks and cleo
TIC lights the political situation would take on
an entirely different aspect. There Is an un-
ooubted sentiment here for municipal owner