The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-05
EMOCRATSWHOWANTHUGHES
CHAIRNiN WOODRUFF HEARS
OF 4 MULTITUDE TP STATE.

Also That In the Factory Towns There Is q
Sentiment for Hearst witch It VIII
BE the state O.upAigners' Business
TO Counterfeit -WCBk - Dol In Brooklyn.
Chairman Timothy l.. Woodruff Of the
Republican State COMMITTEE had many
visitors at headquarters, IL East Thirtieth
street yesterday. Late in the afternoon he
announced hat he would not be at head
quarters again until Monday morning,
adding that for the next two days he was to
give his personal attention to the Republi-
can situation in the City OF Churches. The
Judiciary ticket for the Second district
and other matters required Strengthening
out. it was said.
Some Of Chairman Woodruff's visitors
yesterday were from upstate counties
which have hitherto cast heavy Republican
majorities, and these visitors informed Mr..
Woodruff that in the cities Of the second and
the third class. and in the larger towns,
many business men, lawyers, physicians,
manufacturers and others who had in
variably cast Democratic votes, were to vote
this year for Charles E.. Hughes. The
Republicans who gave Mr.. Woodruff this
information said that this condition pre-
vailed in all parts Of the State where they
had travelled. They then told Chairman
Woodruff that in certain factory districts
upstate they had been led TO believe, after
investigation, that many Of the hands who
in 1895. 1900 and 1904 had voted for President
Mckinley and President Roosevelt, were
now much inclined to vote for Mr.. Hearst b..
/ These Republican Investigators went on to
| tell Chairman Woodruff that the present
\ partially Of these factory hands for Mr..
! Aaar rat vaa haGa1 IIpOU nm anita unniapn go.
the trusts"
Chairman Woodruff's informants said
that they had observed on all sides evidence
of the handiwork Of Mr.. Hearst and Mr..
Hearst's lieutenants in the upper counties.
and that they were fully acquainted with
the expectation Of Mr.. Hearst's mama gers
that many Republican farmers would re-
main away from the polls on election day,
but they did not hesitate TO say that such
a plan OF campaign would be Intellectual
for the reason that the farmers OF the State
had never been 30 prosperous az they have
in the last ten years under President Nc
Kinley's and President Roosevelt's admins
trations, and under the Republican State
administrations with their policy of indirect
taxation.
The visitors said that in their Judgment
the situation with these factory hands was
almost identical with that in the Presiden-
tial campaign Of 1892. These Republican
wise men recalled that workingmen were
very pTOtpeTOus uuTnR TTeSlueHt IidTTl-
sons administration, az they are now;
but as election day approached in 1892
they became restless and wanted a change, '
and so vast numbers Of them, in order to
get "a change" voted against President
Harrison and brought about his defeat.
During President Cleveland's second ad-
ministration. Chairman Woodruff q up-State
visitors asserted yesterday, these working
men learned that the change" they had
desired and voted for was not the change"
they had got.
These Republican visitors said that there
was a spirit Of unrest in many Of the manu-
featuring centres and that the Republican
orators in this campaign should be in
strIcted to endeavor to allay this feeling
Most Of Chairman Woodruf's visitors went
bach to their counties last night, and from
this time on will point out to their con-
stituents the Hearst plan Of campaign. and
the newspapers in all the upper countie
favorable to the Republican cause and &c
Charles F.. Hughes, the candidate for Gov.
ernor, will, it was said. be asked to helT
offset the attempt to curtail the Republican
vote in the strong Republican upstate
/ counties.