The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-05
HEARST HOPES UP The STATE.
SOME or THE REPUBLICAN, FARM
Frs EXPECTED NOT TO VOTE.
Chairman Corners May IAN Nixon Chair
man OF the Executive Committee. with
. Contingent ReVersIOn or the Job
OF Superintendent OF Public works.

man Of the Executive Committee. with
. Contingent ReVersIOn OF the Job
OF Superintendent OF Public Works.
Chairman William j. Corners OF the
Democratic State committee said yester-
day that he was not yet ready to announce
the nine members OF the executive com
mittee. Several OF Mr.. Conners's friends
said that 1t was very likely that Mr.. Corners
would appoint Lewis Nixon chairman Of
the executive committee, and they went on
TO add when Hearst is elected Governor
Nixon is to succeed Franchot az superin-
intendent Of Public Works at Albany. Mr..
Nixon was temporary and permanent
chairman OF the Buffalo convention, and
speaking OF the report that Mr.. Hearst.
should the wrangle with Charles F.. Murphy
of Tammany become more acute, might
decline to accept the Buffalo Endorsement
Of his nomination by the Independence
League, Mr.. Nixon's friends said that such
an act on the part OF Mr.. Hearst was highly
improbable, for the reason that the Buffalo
Endorsement was given to Mr.. Hearst to
help make him regular" in the eyes OF the
Democratic national convention OF 1908.
There were friends OF Mr.. Hearst who said
that they had advised all along against his
accepting an Endorsement by the Demo-
cratic State convention, for the reason
that as the candidate Of the Independence
League he would nave surely beaten the
candidate named by the Democratic State
convention and thus captured the emblem
of the Democratic party in the State and
this would have made him to all intents
and purposes sufficiently regular" for the
Democratic National convention two years
hence.
Chairman Corners frankly admitted to
his friends hat the Hearst campaign is to
be conducted with a special view to cutting
down the Republican majority in such
important Republican bailiwicks IA st.
Lawrence and Jefferson counties and that
this line Of campaign would be carried out
n the heavy Republican counties in the
western and southwestern parts OF the
State and all along the Southern tier, not
forgetting the Hudson River counties from
Rensselaer, to Westchester. Mr.. Corners,
speaking to his friends, said that he was
utterly confident that Mr.. Hearst would
carry Erie county, and then the mathe-
maticians at Democratic State head
quarters in the Victoria Hotel pointed
out that in 1900, Presidential year, Mckinley
carried Erie by 5000 and Odell by 1000
in 1902, Gubernatorial year, Odell and Coler
broke even in the county, while in 1908 Erie
gave 10000 majority for the amendment
calling for the expenditure Of SOL 200, 600
on the Erie Canal. and that Mr.. Hearst's
newspapers strongly supported this amend
ment, which was the work of Benjamin
B. Odell, Jr., then Governor Of the State.
In 1900, Presidential year. Roosevelt carried
Erie county by 1900, and Higgins by ,sOOO.
So confident was Chairman Corners that
Hearst is to carry Erie county that he ad-
vised his friends to bet on that proposition.
There was a report at the Democratic
State headquarters to the effect hat Martin
Glynn OF Albany, nominated by he Demo-
cratic State convention for Comptroller,
is so i'll in Europe that he may resign from
the ticket. While this report was en-
phatically denied by friends OF Patrick
E.. McCabe, Democratic boss Of Albany
county. it was recalled that the Buffalo
convention adopted a resolution which
empowers the Democratic State committee
to fll all vacancies on the ticket.
While Chairman Corners has decided
for the moment, it was said, to adopt a
policy Of silence because Of the personal
attacks made upon him by several New
York city newspapers, Mr.. Conners's friends
did not hesitate to tell a few tales out
school and one was a remark to the effect
that Mr.. McCabe's candidate for Comp
%troller, Mr.. Glynn, Mr.. Conners's candidate
for Attorney-General, William s. jackson,
and Joseph Cassidy's candidate for State
Engineer and Surveyor, Frederick w.
Skene, are to have the handling Of the con-
tracts under the sl0l 900, 900 canal improve
ment measure and, said one Of the Demo
Gratis at headquarters. Then we'll all be
in clover
Chairman Conners's friends, speaking
Of his plan of campaign in the upstate
counties, said that they expected many OF
the Republic can farmers in the counties
mentioned to remain away from the polls
on election day. They also we're Of the
opinion that the vote for Mr.. Hearst in the
five borouRhs Of New York city, Manhattan,
The Bronx. Brooklyn, Queens and Rich
mond, would be normal. II was stated that
Mr.. Hearst's managers have been at work
for several months in nearly all Of the
strong Republican counties UP the State,
and that this work was already proving to
have been OF material advantage to Mr.,