The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-14
RUSH COMES OUT FOR JEROME
ONE TAMMANY LEADER rs OUT
IN THE OPEN.

bOeN 10 NnOW, says JEROME Gnat NIurs
ply Isn't DIS Enough 10 Lead Tammany
Thomas f. Rush, Tammany leader Of the
Twenty-ninth Assembly district, announced
yesterday that he was for District Attorney
Jerome for Governor and that he believed
that the delegates from his district would
be for Mr.. jerome. In addition Mr.. Rush,
who was Mayor McClellan's law partner,
declared that he was against William X.
Hearst and that he did not believe that
Hearst would get the nomination or in
dorsement from the Democratic State con-
vention.
Mr.. Rush is the first Tammany Hall dis
trict leader to publicly state where he
stands on the G~overnorship proposition.
1t is only a short time ago that District
Attorney Jerome called for the Tammany
leaders to come out and lead, and Mr.. Rush
Is the first to answer the call.
Mr.. Rush says that the primary fights
rave nothing to do with his attitude toward
Mr.. Jerome. There Ia no fight in his dis
trict and he has nothing to be afraid Of.
He feels that it Is the time to make a fight
against the domination OF Charles F. Murphy
in Tammany Hall and hat there should
be an open convention in Buffalo. Mr..
Rush points out that in his district last year
jerome got almost 5000 votes n that
Hearst got less than 1000. For that reason
Mr.. Rush says he believes that his district
il for Jerome.
There is no question about where Mr..
Rush stands on Hearst. He refers to
Hearst as a political freebooter and bril-
gand"-a man who is holding a pistol
TO the read Of Democracy Mr.. Rush in
sists that district fights for the primaries
have anything to do with his declaration
for Mr.. jerome, and hat in hat connec-
ton he refers to the alliance between Hearst
and 0dell last year.
After Mr.. Rush had put himself on record
as TO where he stood on Jerome n Hearst,
his interview was shown TO MIR. Jerome.
Mr.. jerome said that IL was another indica-
ton Of the militant spirit displayed by the
Mayor when he removed Commissioner
Walgrove and that It was becoming evident
that Murphy was too small TO be leader Of
Tammany Hall.
This is what Mr.. Rush said:
Il do not believe that Mr.. Hearst will
receive the Democratic nomination at
Buffalo and / feel very certain that he should
not and will not receive anything like the
number Of delegates votes from thisc county
mat ms IOiONeTb nave CldltLlcu lOI mlhs
"The Twenty-ninth Assembly district
is Overwhelmingly for Mr.. Jerome for Gov
ernor and will undoubtedly elect dele
gates pledged to vote for him, and l per-
sonally believe that there is as we'll a strong
sentiment in favor Of his selection as the
Democratic candidate throughout the party
generally in this city.
an making, however. this statement
Of what I believe TO he the sentiment Of
the rank and file Of the party in the city
and Of what | know TO be h well nigh
unanimous feeling Of the Democracy Of
the Twenty-ninth Assembly district. which
l have the honor to represent in the execu-
tive committee Of Tammany Hall, l wish
10 have IL clearly understood that l do 80
without any bearing whatsoever, direct
or indirect, on existing primary contests
in this county.
Whatever my purely personal interest
in any particular contest may be l do not
believe that the Use of the name OF this
or that candidate for Governor TO bolster
UP the ambition Of one or another would-be
district leader in any shape. manner or kind,
or by whatever faction resorted to, is cal
culated to serve any useful party OF public
purpose at the present time, but tends on
the contrary only to obscure the real issue
with the great body Of enrolled Democrats
who constitute the party proper and who
should, Of course, be the court of last resort
in the selection Of the party's candidate.
The existing primary contests have no
logical relation whatsoever TO the question
Of the party's nominee Tor Governor The
district delegates and not the leaders are
TO represent the voters at the Buffalo con-
vention, and | do not believe that any sane
district leader, whatever his factional SYM
pathies, will find IL to his eventual advantage
10 30 misrepresent his district as to attempt
TO force thereon the selection of delegates
instructed TO vote against the districts
convictions in the matter Of a choice OF
principle 80 radical and fundamental as that
presented by the candidates. Of Mr.. jerome
and William Randolph Hearst.
Il believe that the Democrats OF this
county should be permitted TO decide for
themselves, free from confusing influences
of sly kind whatsoever, a question 50
momentous for the party's future in its
present condition.
whether or not any individual voter in
the party can find himself able to agree OF
subscribe 10 everything which Mr.. Jerome
has said or done in the past, it does
seem clear TO me that he has show him
self to be a sincere and consistent Demo-
Graf and has been an honest and fearless
public servant in the performance OF his
Official duty "a he has cen it. The party
cannot at all events do itself an injury or
bring upon itself any dishonor by the Sc
lection Of such a man as its standard bearer.
THE candidacy Of Mr.. Hearst, on the
other hand, is fraught with danger for the
future of the Democracy in this State-and,
indeed, in the nation generally.
In my judgment he has been nothing
more or less, since the very inception Of
his politica' career, than a political FREQ
booter and brigand.
Il fail to recall one political campaign in
this State since he has ~transplanted his
political activities TO it that he has not
assumed the attitude Of holding a pistol
10 the Democrscy's head. No other Dem
ocrat Of recognized and regular standing
has been invited to his councils, and appar-
emily all his efforts nave been directed,
by means Of an inherited fortune and the
most notorious and evident corrupting
demagogy, to forming a purely selfish and
personal machine outside the ranks OF the