New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
ROCK FlIAYS HEARST.
CALLS HIN LABOR'S FOE.
Charges Ihmsen and DriscoU z0ith
Treachery IN Nomination.

Assemblyman Thomas Rock. the Republican
Labor candidate for Senator in the 14th District
against Senator Grady. bolts William R. Hearst
| in statement issued by him last night.
Mr.. Rock one Of the many Independence
League candidates whose names have been
| stricken from the ticket by the decision of the
| Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. He
| says in his statement:
| am convinced that the Independence League
never intended seriously to place me on it's
ticket for Senator and that, despite it's profess
| sions it has no desire to see labor men elected
| to the Legislature. / make this statement be-
| cause L think that If labor will read the
| story of my experience they will be convinced
of the insincsrity of Mr., Hearst and his support
| ers and will appreciate that labor has nothing
| to gain from him.
| 1 wrote to Joseph R. Buchanan, labor editor
| of THE New York Journal" and through his
| influence with the Hoffman House committee
which was the same the present Gilsey House
committee, 1 obtained that committees consent
! to my nomination on the Municipal Ownership
| ticket.
| At the request of Mr.. Driscoll. took charge
! Of his Assembly district for the Municipal
| ownership League, and was elected by more
| than four hundred majority
am member of the State Committee Of the
| independence League. At the Carnegie Hall
| convention I advocated the nomination Of a
straight Independence League ticket without
| any fusion. 1 pointed out to the state commit
tee that year ago we had accused Tammany
| Hall of every crime on the calendar.
| When Mr.. Hearst sent his emissaries to Buff
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get the Democratic nomination. he repudiated
| the Carnegie Hall convention. Senator Grady
| was chairman of the credentials committee OF
| the Democratic convention He the man
who did most to deprive the honestly elected
delegates of their seats in that convention, and
so made possible the nomination of Mr.. Hearst
| by the convention. Senator Grady Is now my
| opponent Mr.. Hearst's papers have many
occasions denounced him disgrace to his
| district and the Democratic party.
| introduced the eight-hour and prevailing rate
of wages bill, which was passed to carry out the
constitutional amendment that adopted at
the last election. l worked hard and consistent
ly during the whole session of the Legislature.
as has been admitted by numerous prominent
citizens, in behalf of labor legislation and all
other legislation that would benefit my district
and the city
This year I received the Endorsement of the
nomination for Senator. Mr.. Hearst and Mr..
Ihmsen told a committee of labor men that
they were in favor of my nomination on the In
dependence League ticket. When II was found.
however that l was determined to run against
Grady, the Gilsey House committee wanted to
have me pledge myself in favor of Mr.. Hearst
and come out with a statement against Mr..
Hughes. That absolutely refused to do. I re-
called to Mr.. Ihmsen the action of the Carnegie
Hall convention, Mr. Hearst's action In regard
TO the Buffalo convention and Mr.. Hearst S
statement that he had given pledges to no polit-
tcal party, but only to the people, and 1 said to
Mr.. Ihmsen, Am not entitled to the same
privileges Mr.. Hearst, to make no pledges to
any party but the people?'
The Independent Labor party thought 1t had
made an arrangement with the county commit
tee of the Independence League for union on
Legislature candidates I went with the Labor
committee to the Gilsey House and waited for
more than four hours to see Mr.. Ihmsen. who
sent out word three times that he would be
out in two minutes. and who finally came out
from one OF the inner rooms with a raincoat
on. walked through the Labor committee with
his head down and his hat his eyes and
looking to neither side completely ignored the
The report that Mr. Hatch made to the Cen
tral Federated Union a week ago last Sunday
Nt-1c hon
that the deal between Hearst and Murphy as
stated by Tammany Hall last Monday was
that Mr Hearst should not run any local candi-
dates IN opposition to the Tammany candidates.
This has been the reason for the consistent at
tempt 40 sidetrack me and prevent me from be-
1nS candidate against Grady 1t all goes to
show that their pretence that they favored my
candidacy on the Independence League ticket
was sham and insincere, AS was their treat
ment of the 1ndependent Labor Party.
Mr. Ihmsen asked whether if I got the
nomination on the Tammany Hall ticket as SEN
ator in some other district I would decline the
Republican nomination in the 18th. This 1 alb
solutely refused to do. Petitions for my own
and other nominations the Independence
League ticket were then given out by Mr. DrIs-
told to put the petition both our candidates
for Assembly and Senate the proceeding which
the court has held the law did not allow
But even then Mr.. Ihmsen deferred giving his
final stamp of approval TO my going on the In
dependence League ticket.
MI. Rock went on to say that the appear
ance of Mr.. HatCh'S report seemed TO worry Mr.
Ihmsan and that then he consented to his NOM
nation He declares that he asked by sew
cral labor to withdraw. Mr.. Rock con-
tinued to tell the story leading up to the opin-
ion of the Board of Elections in favor Of SEN
ator Grady and dtsregarding his nomination He
went to say:
Mr.. Hearst has stultified himself by accusing
Murphy and Grady of practising everything bad
and Teprehensble and associatng with
them In fact he does not care with whom he
associates so long he satisfy his own
selfish ambitions. He is trying to the nde-
pendent voters and the working people as
stepping stone the Presidential nomination
and wants to control. the Democratic deega-
ton TO the national convention in 1903.
date for the Legislature. but the fact is that he
does not want a friendly Legislature If he Is
elected What he would like in case of his cleo
tion is an unfriendly Legislature on which he
could lay the blame for his own shortcomings
s Governor of this state.
I consider the treatment accorded me proof
of the nsincerity of Mr. Hearst's pretensions of
regard for the laboring men. In his papers he
is pretending to urge unions TO send representa-
tiVes of organized labor TO the State Legislature
and Congress Now. when he has the oppor-
tunity he even refuses to give them nomina
tions
know that Mr.. Hughes is sincere man. 1
believe What he says about his regard for the
laborine man and / confident that IL he is