The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-08
HEADQUARTERS CLOSING UP.
Ar TIE GILSEY HOUSE IHMSEN
IS STILL CRYING MONEY"

Not Certain About the Future Of the In
dependence Leasue-NO Talk Of a
Contest Murphy Content and Hendricks
Tells why -rammany Hall Deserted.
The various political headquarters had
the usual day after" look yesterday. The
change ~ particularly noticeable in
Hearst's headquarters at the Gilsey House.
Instead Of the nervous, even hysterical.
crowd of employees, who in their anxiety
to show that they were o. the job have
shouted orders al the top of their voice,
rushed messenger boys from point to point
and endeavored to talk into three telephones
at once the rooms were quiet M deserted
save for one or two Hearst mas who
were trying to explain how it all came
about.
1t was the old cry. Money, they asserted,
was what defeated their leader. Max
F. Ihmsen, Mr.. Hearst's chief anage
would not commit himself to any definite
statement OF fraud but ~insinuated that
there was something sinister in the holding
back of the returns in some of the upstate
counties. and that il was the intention of
Mr.. Hearst and his lawyers To start on a
hunt for the reasons which led to the late
returns. Mr.. 1hmsen would not say a word
which might be construed into a threat
that Mr.. Hearst would contest the election.
Mr.. Ihmsen was asked as to the future o
the Independence League. He said he did
not know whether IL would be continued
in its present form or whether perma-
nent headquarters would pc opened. He
explained that he supposed that the league
would undoubtedly he kept active in some
form or other for the reason that. as some Of
the candidates Of the league had obtained
more than n, OO votes in this county, it now
became a county organization. Mr.. lhm-
sen insisted that he was correct on this
point despite the fact that the independence
League 10 merely a Site corporation.
~I3InnAny Hall was n barn csterday.
Charles +. Murphy did not show up and
there were probably not more than "A dozen
casual callers at the Wigwam. Mr.. Murphy
saw William J. Corners during the day.
Nhct they talked about neither would say
but il is certain that Mr.. Murphy is pleased
with himself. His friends said yesterday
that he was satisfied with the election. be
cause he had been able to deliver the goods
in this city.
Jus. how Mr.. Murphy regards the out
conc of the election can be gagged from a
statement made yeSterday by his closest
trlen', Peter A. Hendrick who IL one Of the
,IucCessiul candidates on the Murphy
Hears' ticket for the supreme Court. Mr..
NtlElllN nI8 SNOW u TltnselI, Hdlu VT. hetl-
dri"H, TO be tho most Rstutc leader Tam
rranv Hall eN or had. In making that state
meni ! 70 not except John Kelly and Richard
(roNec. He has won more FOR tho organiZa-
ton than those men ever won in a state
'iSht. ill the district leaders with whom
have 'slke1 to-day consider that Mr..
Nnrphy's action at Buffalo has been iusti-
fiei lev the result. III he had insisted on
tn" nomination Of some other Democrat
than Mr.. Hearst the Democratic party
would ha Va hAan third in tba n and NrnbIH
have. lost the right to control half Of the
election machinery OF the State"
This cry was issued last night at the
Gilsey House:
Reports from up State indicate not only
that Mr.. Hearst cut down the Republican
vote materially, but that the independence
League vote for Mr.. Hearst was not counted
in many counties. These votes will have
to be added 10 the announced result of Mr..
Hearsts vote In order to give the correct
Hearst figures in the State.
Last night Capt. William Aston Chanler
stated that his brother Robert. who was
running for sheriff IN Duchess county. had
to threaten to bring mandamus proceedings
against several election boards before they
consented 10 count the Independence League
vote for MIR. Hearst. To-day other reports
were received indicating that independence
League votes for Mr.. Hearst were not counted
in Eric and Allegany counties Reports
come in also showing thai in districts in
Clinton. Cattarausus. Herkimer. Wayne. Al
bany, onondaga and Washington counties
there was a failure on the part of the election
boards 10 count the vote for Mr.. Hearst which
was cast under the scales.
The facts developed to-day explain the
great falling of Of the total vote cast yester-
day as compared with the total vote cast
two years ago. There is no doubt that the
votes represented by this falling of were the
votes cast for Mr.. Hearst and his associates
under the emblem Of the scales. In 1904
the total vote cast for Governor was /. 1926, eO7.
This year with s~ixty-three election districts
missing only 1873, $50 votes were accounted
for. although the registration this year was
unusually heavy. and the weather conditions
and the interest taken in the campaign all
tended to bring out a full vote.
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