The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-24
OIL fHE EAST SIDE.
CHEEEED fTOORoCSLY BY THREE
CA2JEEo MEETINGS.

TO shake IITuCs Bowls over Women.
william II. Hearst viEitcd the Fast Side
lat night end talked before three big and
enthusiastic Audiences. In Grand street,
East Fourth street and Fast Fifty-sixth
itreet there were crowds that iammed
tho halls snd CVcrhowcd into the street.
Mr.. Hearst's appearance on the East
Side aroused moro interest seemingly than
his former virits this campaign. Where
h g got an opening and closing cheer before
no got last night a steady roar Of applause.
In and outside of every hall the crowd was
So big and determined upon shaking hands
with the candidate that the police had to
beat a lane for Dir. Hearst to pass through
Men wereEnocGcd down and women were
hustled roughly in the rush for an oppor-
.tunity to got at Mr.. Hearst at close quarters.
Mr.. Hearst discarded his automobile last
night and took TO a carriage, figuring that
there would be less chanc Of accident in
the crowded streets on the East Side. He
went first to New Windsor Hall at Az
Grand street, a small, narrow meeting place
where 500 men and women were jammed
together like sardines in a box. The hall
was hot and stuffy and Mr.. Hearst finished
his speech sweating like a blac ksmith.
Bernard Eliaschnick presided.
Mr.. Hearst got a round Of applause when
he started of with, Il am just back from
upstate. l wish to have a sort OF home
talk about home and family Matters
He told M crowd hat he intended to get
them better street car accommodations
II he should be elected. and declared that
it was easy to see why Ryan and Belmont
were against him. A voice shouted, They
belong to the Down and Out Nub!'
They are not fighting me-" said Mr..
Hearst, because they don't like the color
Of my hair" IA voice. NO, they don't
like what's under itl"l -They are fighting
me because they know I'm your friend
Then Mr.. Hearst called Mayor Mcclellan
"a little sneakthief" and the crowd nowIed
with delight. The cheering lasted for a
minute or more, when he said: Il give you
pledge hat l will never cease fighting
until your ballots are counted and the little
sneakthief who now holds the Office Of
Mayor is driven out
Mr.. Hearst read a circular letter sent out
from the Republican headquarters asking for
campaign contributions. As he called OF the
names Of the signers, William Sloane, Will
lam L. Ball, James b. Ford, Cornelius Van
derbilt and others, he declared that they
were all directors in gas companies or inter
ested in railroad companies. When he said
IUdJ WhS slIIlCltIi ItdoOu lIey were sup
porting Mr.. Hughes the crowd Kissed
Hughes's name.
Mr.. Hearst drove from Tom Foley's
district into Little Tim Sullivan's and
Inferred Everett Hall, at 81 East Fourth
street. The ops tugged him up to the
a rousing round of cheers. The applause
broke loose when he said:
Il spoke of the success we had in re-
straining the rapacity Of many corrupt
corporations and trusts, and of the enemies
we have made in so doing. II those enemies
we're merely my enemies it would not
matter much, but | think they are your
enemies as well. And they are my enemies
because they are your enemies, and be-
cause | nave e~ndeavored with such oppor-
tunities as | a had to help you fight
them. II this be So, the question il how
can We best make common cause against
them"
A voice: Elect you Governor"
Mr.. Hearst told h crowd that when he
fought the coal trust, the gas trust and the
ice trust he did not make the fight TO save
a few dollars on his coal, gas or ice bills
but to cut down the living expenses Of people
all over Greater New York. He got a long
round Of cheers after that.
To the crowd in Everett Hall he again
pledged himself TO keep fighting for a
recount until -the little sneakthief who
holds the office of Mayor is driven out"
The police literally dragged him through
the hall, down the steps and into his car
rage. The oops had to raise their clubs
70 drive back the frantic Hearst SYM
pathizers who insisted on smacking the
candidate on the back or gripping his hand.
He got to Maennerchor Hall, at 2O5 East
Fifty-sixt IN street, at a little past 10 O'Clock.
a the others, IL was damned full and
there was a crowd outside that beat una
vailingly against a wall Of police at the
entrance. The audience cheered for sew
eral minutes before II gave MIR. Hearst a
chance to start in with his familiar preface,
MY Friends"
At M~aennerchor Hall, as at the others. he
gave his audience a taste OF the new Hearst
style OF oratory. n they seemed to like it.
He dropped his unemotional, recitative
habit OF speech and went at his crowd ham,
mer and tongs, hot and heavy. He smacked
his right hand upon his left as he ripped out
short sentences, and capped every %denuncia-
ton Of wicked corporations with a stamp
Of his foot or a bang of his hand upon the
table where the pitcher Of ice water danced
precariously.
Il fought the corporations in your inter-
est, my friends" he said. Il fought the
Gas Trust in your interest. | fought the
Sugar Trust in your interest. l fought the
New York Central Railroad and the coal
roads in your interest. l am proud Of the
enemies I have made in your interest and l
am proud of the friends l have made among
the people.
Il am not in this fight for any selfish rea-
sons, for l have been able to conduct my
own business satisfactorily and hold my
own against the best Of them. lCheers.I 1t
10 as ar A American citizen, interested in the
welfare Of his fellow citizens, and in pre-
serving American conditions OF equality
and opportunity for all that I am making
the fight. IApplause.I
Il would not give a snap Of my fingers,
n I have said, merely to be pointed out
as the Governor of New York State or any
other State, but / would give nearly all I
possess TO be known as the Governor Of
New York State who kept his promises
and stopped the trusts from robbing the
people, Cheers and ~applause.l
When he again referred to Mayor Nc
Clellan as a little sneak thief, a voice broke
out in the crowd with Jim JONES' Another
voice shouted, Il wish he was here to hear
this, Governor Mr.. Hearst left the hall
with the aid Of the cops and went home
tired.
Mr.. Hearst will be kept jumping to fill
dates tonight. He will address an Italian
mass meeting in Cooper Union, another
meeting at he Great Central. Palace, 90
Clinton street, and will then automobile
over to Brooklyn where there will be four
audiences waiting for him: at Masonic
Temple, Havemeyer and Grand streets,
L~iederkranz Hall, 1872 Manhattan avenue,
Palm Garden, Hamburg and Greene ave-
rues, and Watson's Theatre, Pearl and
WillouRhby streets. II he has enough voice
left he il expected to recross the Bridge