The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-16
HEARST has STRENUOUS DAY.
FREIGHT SMASHUP DELAYS ms
DEPARTURE FROM BATH,
But He Brners q Locomotive and Grew
From B~lnkhamtOn and Covers the "a
Miles 90 That G1ty in ~ Minutes
-speeches In hath and Else where.

Hearst capp ed the most interesting and
strenuous day Of his up State campaign
with a speech tonight in the Cortland
Opera House. Mr.. Hearst put in a day
of snappy, brisk campaigning. In Bath,
the county seat Of Steuben county, Mr..
| Hearst spoke from the steps of the court
house to a demOnstrative crowd Of towns-
men and farmers. He followed with a re-
ception and hustled Jack to his private
| car. A freight smashup delayed his de-
parture for this city, but Mr.. Hearst ordered
a locomotive and train crew from Bingham
ton. The hastily arranged special train
whIrled out Of Bath and tore eastward
at a record smashing clip. Part OF the time
during the ninety-five mile journey to
Binghamton the Hears special went at
the rate of 'seventy-five miles an hour.
The actual running time between Bath
and ~Binghamton was eighty-seven minute
for the ninety-lve miles.
On the way from Binghamton to this
city the regular Lackawanna train stopped
twice to give Mr.. Hearst a chance to make
-cartail speeches." He talked TO a crowd
at Whitney's Point N to another crowd
at Marathon. When he got here he held
a reception at the Cortland House. finished
preparing hiS nights speech, answered
several long distance phone calls from
New York city and conferred with local
leaders. He was a thoroughly tired man
when he turned in.
There was no question about the en-
thusiasm manifested for the candidate
to-day through this section, OF about the
heartinees OF response Of the crowds he
addressed. II was altogether the most
encouraging days work he has put in.
Mr.. Hearst thought.
MIR. Hearst spoke at Bath. where he
spent last night as the guest OF Reuben
r. Lyon. At noon to-day a committee
marched him from Mr.. Lyons home, around
beautiful! Pultony Square TO the court
house, a low. gray. old. stone building look
ing out upon a park of elms and naples.
In front of the court house steps a crowd
OF 200. perhaps 800. Steuben county
farmers and Bath citizens gathered. They
welcomed the candidate cordially at first,
enthusiastically later on.
Mr.. Hearst in his speech went after the
State Railroad Commission, which is I'M
deniably unpopular in this section. He
used President Roosevelt's name, which
was cheered. and gave the crowd to under
stand that he would initiate the Presidents
vigorous method IL he should be elected
| NONCTuOIs Oi lIlN UNIV WI '~''
NV fri ends. your chairman has referred
TO the Railroad Commission. and ! have said
hat | intend to run out of office all those
! departments that do not do their duty to the
people, and ! repeat IL and mean IL.
Mr.. Hughes has said that ] should not speak
in that reckless manner. lLaughter.l lie mas
said there Is a great deal Of loose talk about
wrongs and an attempt TO focus public at
tention on alleged WRONGS. ] do not think
there il loose talk and ] do not think the
wrongs are merely alleged wrongs. | in
tend to talk definitely and positively about
what | intend to do. Mr.. Hughes says that
in order to run out of office the Railroad Com
mission you must have the consent OF the
! Senate. That ia a lawyers bubble. III
President Roosevelt found a foreign con-
sular service to be disgraceful he would
have to get the consent of the Senate to make
new appointments, but he would make them
Just the same. and l intend to run out the
Railroad Commission and the other or worse
incompetents. and in running out the Rail
road Commission I intend to smoke out the
Senate. ILaughterl
To his Bath hearers, the large majority
of them Republicans, Mr.. Hearst appealed
against the party loyalty habit. He quoted
Lincoln on the common right OF humanity
as against the divine right Of kings and
asked Lincoln Republicans to vote for him,
The rest Of his speech was his somew hat
timeworn combination of phrases attack
ing corporations.
Mr.. Hearst intended to get away from
Bath a little past noon, but he was informed
that a freight smashup at Atlanta, twenty
miles from Bath, had buried the eastbound
track under w~reckage and that the fast
mail, which was to have picked up. his pri-
yate cars, would be Indefinitely late. A
brisk Lackaw anna official at Bath, anxious
TO oblge, made the wires sing with en-
phatic orders. II was learned that Mr..
Hearst's cars could catch a through train
for Cortland due to leave Binghamton at
925 p. NJ.
Il guess the Lackawanna can do this
stunt all right" said the superintendent.
~Ninety-fve miles in n~inety-fve minutes
amt much"
senger locomotive came down to Bath,
buckled on TO the Riva and the ldlewild,
took the main track and went bounding
eastw ard at exactly at $50 p, NJ.
Can you stand a fast run, Mr.. Hearst?'
asked Conductor Jim Walsh.
eco IA fast "a you like, Mr.. Walsh" re
Piled Mr.. Hearst. ~Ill hang on som way
A mile or two out Of Bath Amos Decker
the engine driver, began to obey orders 70
the letter. Ten miles east of Bath the
special was running at a seventy-fve mile
an hour clip, ripping. on mile after mile In
50 seconds. 50 seconds, so seconds and N
seconds. The twenty-one miles TO Corning
were covered in eighteen minutes. A STOP
a lhAl ~ WI y SANVh' w $3.50
kilograms. Four minutes were lost.
At PIP P. NJ. the special whirled out OF
Corning and took up the race against time
1t ia sixteen miles from Corning To Elmirs
and the hurry up special shot into David
b. Hills old home at 229 p. NJ. six minute,
were lost at Elmira, because Mr.. Hears
had dispatches to file, but at 3:35 p. NJ.
Engine Driver Decker really began tC
play with his big toy. He did the thirty
seven miles between Elmira n OwegC
in Just 81 minutes, the fastest running being
at the rate Of seventy-seven miles an hour.
Mr.. Hearst, his wife and the Rev. Mauric,
Kemp, an Episcopal clergyman Of Troy
sat In the observation end OF the kiva
holding hard as the train went around sharI
curves and jumped over some rough grades
At 325 p. NJ. the special reached Bing
hamton with a record Of ninety-five mile
in exactly 81 minutes real running time
The fast Lackawanna trains make thu
distance in t2l minutes.
When the special halted Mr.. Hears
picked up his son George, boosted the boz
onto his shoulder and made his way through
a laughing crowd along the railroad track
until he got to the locomotive. Engine