The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-24
CALL TO WAR AGAINST HEARST
ALBANY CONFERENCE HOLDS
| DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS.

psisn Lists q Trustworthy Democrats.
Having obtained possession Of tho Idle
Democratic State headquarters at Albany
by acquiring tho lease. the Albany Demo
cratic conference has issued the following
appeal:
To tie Democrats Of Nsv York Stasas
The call for the Albany conferences Of ur-
State Democrats held September s. ieoe. con-
cludsd with these wordsi
-And lot there be no doubt whatsvsr on
this point; IL must be . Aghs b chs nnish for
the preservation Of Democratic principles
and Democratic honor"
The action OF tho Buffalo convenbion under
the leadership OF Murphy and Conners and
the subsequent Standardization N The Deno-
cratic party throughout. the State csussd
by the conduct Of their bomines. william n.
Hearst. Independence League candidate for
Governor. threatens the Democracy not only
with defeat but with disruption.
The undersigned. 40 an executivs ccmnaie.
tee to carry on tho work Of the Albany con-
ference. hereby solicits funds for the purposs
Of preserving and continuing the Democrats
party.
The committee proposes TO use such funds
for the following purposes:
1. The promotion Of Democratic principles
and the emancipation Of tho Denncc ratio
party from a control which u hostile to these
principles. g.
2. The election Of regular Democratic
candidates on local tickets.
s. The use Of all legitimate and legal means
to accomplish these ends.
Checks should be made out TO the order Of
the chairman.
t. NJ. OsBoRNR.AAuburn. Chairman.
J. N. CARLISLE. WATERFOWL. Secretary.
FRANK L. BAPsT. Buffalo.
WILLIAM r. BALKAN, Rochester.
NJ. z. HAVEN. Syracuse.
JAMES L. DELEHANTY. Albany.
c. ARTHUR PARKER. Gouverneur.
Z. II. TIcHEHoR, Binghamton..
JOIN G. AGAR. New Rochelle.
ROBERT A. WIDEMAN. Haverstraw.
ALBANY, Oct. ga new angel has been
secured by Francis A. Willard. the all the
year round manager Of the upstate
headquarters Of the Democratic State CON-
mittee established here by David B. Hill in
the Coler campaign Of 1902. The lease Of
the Albany branch headquarters is now
in the name Of ex-Mayor Thomas M, o.
borne Of Auburn. This situation is due
solely to the stupidity Of the Hearst
Corners bunch Of new Democratic bosses.
Now willard has installed threescore
women typewriters and envelope addressers
in the Albany State committee headquarters
and the mailing Of anti-Hearst literature
will begin in a day or twp. 1t will be kept
up until the Saturday before election.
There were carried into the headquarters
to-day 100, 900 stamped envelopes; several
hundred thousand more will foliow. Willard
has the list Of 800, 900 New York State Demo-
Gratis prepared by William 8. Rode in the
campaign Of 1904. This list contains the
names OF Democrats, v in the remotest
election districts Of the State, who are
Democrats from principle n who for eight
years previously had been Mckinley Demo-
Gratis.
Corners and Hearst, right after the But.
falo convention, tried to get this campaign
ammunition from Rode and from Cord
Meyer, Jr., and a court order was threat
ened when the latter refused to turn II over.
Then the list vas removed to New Jersey.
Now Willard has it.
He also has the State canvass made by
the Democrats in the Coler campaign.
which was the first mad in years by the
Democrats and which cost $4,000.
Another canvass was made in the Parker
campaign. These lists will be used by
willard as the agent Of Osborne and others
OF those who took part in the meeting Of
Democrats held here on September s with
a view OF securing the nomination OF Jerome
for Governor, or at least OF preventing
Hearst's nomination. II is their purpose
by sending out anti-Hearst literature to
cement Democratic opposition to Hearst
throughout the State.
All Of these happenings are the result
Of the refusal OF C~onners, as chairman
Of the new Democratic State committee, to
foot unpaid bills OF the Albany headquarters
for a few hundred dollars or to continue
the work OF the press bureau established
here by Hill in 1909 with Willard in charge.
Willard is an able newspaper campaigner.
The Democratic upstate weeklies and
dailies will miss his work. Willard has sent
out no Democratic boiler plate material
since the Buffalo convention. Until last
week he was sitting arOund in headquarters
waiting for something TO turn up But
Corners was silent. Then Corners sent for
Wularu ana wanted MIN 70 10 Somo up
State work and let his press bureau go.
Willard could not see it that way. He
likes HE work here. which he has kept up
week after week and year after year since
the Coler campaign, though time and again
the ghost has not walked since Hill retired
from politics on January 1, 1905.
Hill had paid the rent up to May 1, 1905.
Then Willard had to shift for himself. He
left the Treadwell mansion on North Pearl
street, where Hill had established the head
quarters originally, and moved them TO
the Gray building, IN State street, within
a stones throw Of Hills law Office, on Broad
way. Willard says the first months rent
was paid with money contributed by 0s-
borne, and since then the rent has been
paid with money contributed by Osborne,
Francis Burton Harrison, McCarren and
others. The last two months rent was paid
by Osborne and now he has paid the rent
up until May 1 next. Willard believes that
Hearst is taking the party to defeat and
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