The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21

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Sullivan. They went to hotel and
when he heard the Saratoga prices he
wilted. He compromised on a room for
$3.50 a day somewhere up near the roof.
Sullivan paid much more and took sew
eral rooms.
Corners met Sullivan soon after.
How'd they fix you?" asked the pres
ent state chairman.
First rate" was the answer they
gave me nice rooms-a suite
THE hi they did, was the disap-
pointed answer. He called bell boy.
Here, you; you go to that = red
haired clerk over there and tell him to
send a suite up to my room right away
or I'll pull him over that counter
"Fingy' hired a well known newspaper
man to run his Buffalo Inquirer, his aft
ernoon newspaper. He took the man
and several others over in a body from
a rival paper Soon after this he went
to the Iroquois hotel for luncheon, and
was just sitting down when he saw at
neighboring table his newly acquired
editors. He snorted in disgust and left
at once. Some time afterWard he went
to the Ellicott club for another monday
meal The same men were at the table
adjoining his. He called an attendant.
here2" he demanded.
"They are members, Mr.. Corners" was
the answer.
Dye mean to tell me them hired men
of mine can eat where do?" A depre-
catory bow was the only return, and Mr..
Corners left again.
He turned up at the newspaper office
that afternoon and called his managing
editor to him.
"You can fire that bunch" he COM
manded, naming eight of the nine men
he had recently hired. There was no
alternative and the direful command was
executed.
Have you got them fired?" he asked
after a proper interval. The managing
tditor answered in the affirmative.
Now, fire yourself" he said briefly as
he walked away.
7 Corners once applied for and received
q pass from the Lake Shore which read;
Pass w. ]. Corners and friends from
Buffalo to Chicago" A few days later
a Lake Shore conductor found eight men
riding ON the pass He took an inventory
of the crowd and then telephoned from
the first station to headquarters as fol-
lows
Pass for w. ]. Corners and friends
presented by a man wearing a blue suit
of clothes, a red striped shirt, green
necktie, three big diamonds. tan shoes
white tie tan stockings and a face like
a prize fighter"
At the next station at which the train
stopped the conductor received his reply
1t read:
That's him"
does not desire the Hon. William James
Corners to distort himself within the
rays of the spot light.
But we are getting away from the sub
ject. There are other interesting fea-
lures in this campaign besides 'F1ngy."
The fact that there are but two issues
Is worthy of note. Hearst Is saving on
fiddle with but single string-corpora-
lions. Hughes keynote is order VS.. RIOT
or, In other words, the supremacy of
decency. Hearst's following is among the
fanatics, and those who sincerely admire
him as the great champion of the conf
mon people against the trusts. Discuss
ing this point, the Evening Post, which
is opposed to him, says
1.-THE other class of serious disciples
of Mr. Hearst comprises those who are
as hostile to democratic politicians as
republican, but who admire Mr.. Hearst
as the great champion of the common
, people Many thousands of Woodworking
men and women are, not without cause
deeply embittered toward these huge COM
binations of capital. Some of these COM
plainants have been underpaid for their
labor:l some have toiled under severe
taskmasters; farmers and small shop
keeps have suffered from petty extortions
by railways and express companies
every dweller in our cities suspects the
gas and electric companies of overcharg-
ing him; every one knows that our munic-
ipalites have been the victims of public
service corporations, and has read of
stock jobbing operations like those of e.
H. Hartman and Thomas +. Ryan: every
one knows, too, that lawless corpora
lions and the politicians have formed an
offensive alliance. With the popular
consciousness of these wrongs quickened
by recent revelations in regard to mis-
management of insurance companies,
railway rebating, and the underhand
methods of the Standard Oil company,
there has inevitably been engendered
widespread enmity to corporations
which Jumps all of them together In one
rogues' gallery.
$50 far as Mr.. Hearst has been check
upon the lamless corporations, he has our
praise"
But the Post and other conservatives
doubt Mr. Hearst's sincerity. They point
to the fact that while the Independence
league and democratic candidate for gov
ernor goes through the state denouncing
| corporations and clubbing Mr.. Hughes
1.-The corporation candidate of the cor
poration party" the Star company as
shown by the records In the secretary
of states office in Trenton. N. j., Is
the same kind of corporation as the
Northern Securities company which was
dissolved by the United States supreme
court as a menace to the public.
THE Northern Securities company was
formed to hold the merger of the
Northern Pacific and the Great Northern
railroad. 1t was unlawful. Mr.. Hearsts
Star company was formed in the same
way, and behind it the various news
papers which Mr.. Hearst publishes, and
which are being sent to voters In lieu
of the ordinary campaign literature, Sc
crete themselves. In law, for the pur-
pose of suing or being sued, for the pur-
pose of taxation or evading taxation. Tor
the purpose of assuming or lodging the
ordinary obligations of American citizen
ship or American institutions there is
Nno New York American, there is no Even
ipg Journal there is no Das Morgen
Journal.
&l there is is the Star company, which
makes Its home at No. 10 Exchange
place. Jersey City, the corporate1 nome