The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-06
JEROME AND HEARST.
The Former Rejected the Lntfer's Aa-
 vances for Alliance.

vanccs for Alliance.
 New York Herald. .ha. You may say to Mr. Hearst that there is not an ofee big tbsre en0ssh money m @ enough in the world to induce me eo make an illiance with him.
 This reply was made last spring py District Attorney Jerome to proml- nent lawyer who proposed that MT. Jerome make 9 compact with ". II. Hearst under which Hearst would sup port him as the Democratic candioatss TOT Governor, If in return ne snouio pledge himself not to oppose Hearst's s candidacy for the Democratic presi- dental nomination. s
 That Hearst is a candidate Tor the Democratic nomination for President was ascertained by William J. Bryan as soon IS he arrived In this country: While masquerading as the friend oE Bryan, the Independent, Leagues can didate has been seeking 10 undermine the Nebraska man everywhere and ad- vance his own candidacy The reJec. tion of Hearsts proposals Dy Distrlct Attorney Jerome is not the only eVa~r dence the Bryan men have SI hostiils manipulators are working everywhere with an eye focused on 1898.
 Norman E. Mack of Buffalo Is is sus- pected by the Independent League oi n aisloyalty to Hearst, because he IS only for Hearst for Governor and Tor Bryan for President. In Massachu- setts Mir. Hearst's managers insist on controlling the organization before Moran for Governor. MT. Moran ai- most committed the "unpardonable sin" the other day by offering 70 leave the choice for Governor to MT. Bryan.
 In Maine. Hearst workers are giy- Ing lukewarm support to the Demo . cratic ticket 1t is said, because the Maine Democrats will not promise Hearst the delegates to next National Cnnyartior Tn Trdiona baLta saekfn q to drive. Thomas Taggarl. out or the leadership and the reason ds said to pc he cannot control Taggart. In llli- nois he Is organizing an independent democracy because he cannot control the State machine; the same tactics he Is pursuing in New York
 These are a few of the things that have alarmed the Bryan Democrats. They realize that Mir. Bryan is beinR knifed and that is understood to be the reason why MT. Bryan has can- celed his trip to Australia. The story that Mir. Hearst was wiling to sup would promise to give Mir. Hearst sun. port for the Presidency comes with circumstantiality,
 If MT. Jerome had consented to such en alliance, his election probably would have been looked upon as 2 practical certainty at this time by all the political leaders in the State. since t would have united the Democratic
 
 emy in a Democratic year" -s
 This offer was made and rejected last spring through a prominent law yer whom Jerome knew to be his Friend and who had not been openly Identified with the Hearst movement k This positive reply closed the sub tect. Mir. Hearst's newspapers had been srefraining from attacks upon Mir. Jerome at the time asl complete- ly as they have since rofrained from attacking Charles F. Murphy. Two days after the conversation in which Mir. Jerome rejected the. offer of alli- ance the Hearst newspapers opened 6 determind and active assault upon him. which has been continued eves since.
 Of course, as Is usual in political deals, the advances to. MT. Jerome were made in such a manner that they could be repudiated in the event of q refusal. Hearst was left in q position to deny that he had ever authorized the proposal that was made 10 Jerome, and the lawyer who made it could say, in case of necessity, that he did so on his own responsibility and without d. rect authority from Mir. Hearst
 The fact remains, however, that the Hearst newspapers, <, hleh had heen quiescent regarding 2 'Mr. Jerome. turn ed all their batteries upon him as soon as he had given his answer, and it would probably be difficult to explain this on the ground that it was a mere coincidence