The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-22
HEARST BOOM IS COLLAPSING.
HE'S SAID TO HAVE GIVEN UP
HOPE or AN ENDORSEMENT.

The sawdust was bursting through every
seam Of the Hearst boom yesterday. 1t
was even said that Mr.. Hearst himself had
given up all hope hat the regular Demo-
cratic State convention at Buffalo would
indo We him. While the State convention
is in session in the Queen City Mr.. Hearst
In to take to the sawdust ring with his ASSOC
ciate performers on the Independence
League ticket in almost every county In the
State. They are 20 skip from county
fair to county fair, accompanied by brass
bands and jugglers, political and other
wise, and meanwhile the regulars at Buff
falo will be doing business.
Very little heed was given yesterday
TO the, utterances az Charles F. Murphy
for the reason that il comes from rather
excellent authority that most Of MIR. Muir
phys remarks within the last week or
two nave been made for the purpose OF veil
ing his real sentiments.
Mr.. Murphy did the nice thing by his old
friend Representative William Sulzer yes
terday when a subcommittee Of Mr.. Suffers
boomers called on Mr.. Murphy and asked
for Tammany's Enforcement Of the Sulzer
boom. Mr.. Suffers friends we're headed
by W. Bruce Dowd, and Mr.. Dowd handed
out a formal memorial stating all Of Mr.:
Suffers qualifications as a Democrat and
as a faithful public servant
Mr.. Dowd said a few words about Mr..
Hearst and took Mr.. Hearst to task for criti-
cising the Court Of Appeals Of the State OF
New York and ali other high judiciary
tribunals in the State because the law and
the facts did not sustain Mr.. Hearst in his
controversy that he had been elected Mayor
of New York city last fall. Mr.. Dowd
also called attention to Mr.. Hearst g attacks
on Attorney-Ge Genera Mayer when the
Acknowledgement Of the State, as the chief
law officer Of the State, had decided that
according to the law and the evidence Mr..
Hearst had no standing in his contention
that he had been elected Mayor last fall.
Mr.. Dowd went on to say that Mr.. Sulzer
makes friends everywhere. and that II
nominated he would draw largely from
the Republicans besides getting most OF
the labor vote, and it was again pointed
out that the Federation Of Labor at Bing-
hamton had refused the plea Of Mr.. Hearst
10 indorse him.
MIR. Murphy, replying to Mr.. Dowd, said:
There is nobody in the State Of New
York who would take more delight in see
ing Mr.. Sulzer nominated and elected Gov
ernor than myself. But l must go to Buff
falo absolutely unprejudiced, and who
ever is selected there will have my hearty
support"
Early in the day Mr.. Murphy had made
the old limitations that there was a good
deal of sentiment in Tammany for Hearst,
but he did not hesitate to say that he would
20 to Buffalo unpledged and that nothing
definite would be known until the los dele
gates from Tammany held their caucus
and decided whom to support in the con-
vention.
james K. Mcclure, formerly Mayor
of Syracuse, called on Mr.. Murphy and
told Mr.. Murphy that there was a heap
of Hearst sentiment in Onondaga county.
Mr.. MCGUIRE has been absent from his
old home in Syracuse most OF the time
for three years. He has lived in Phila-
delphia and ia a representative OF the as
phalt trust. Only two weeks ago did he
reappear in Syracuse and IL is the result
of mis- recent short visit to his home city,
after being absent for 40 long a time, that
Mr.. MCGUIRE has discovered this great
Hearst sentiment in Onondaga.
&. Mr. Murphy did not seem to be satisfied
with Norman f. Mack's reasons for with
drawing his support from Mr. Hearst
OF Buffalo. Yet all Democrats, friends
or otherwise, Of Mr.. Mack said that they
could not see how he could take any other
stand. Mr.. Mack is Democratic national
committeeman for the State and Mr.. Hearst
il the candidate OF a guerrilla convention
which had no other purpose save TO bludgeon
the regular Democratic organization OF
the State into indorsing his candidacy.
Between now and Monday night, when
the Tammany delegation will go into caucus
at Buffalo, Mr.. Murphy. Senator Patrick
Henry McCarren, Representative Timothy
ID, Sullivan and other prominent representa-
tives Of the Democratic organizations
in all the boroughs OF New York city, will
u A. HA-1owV na.AN
il was said, the situation will remain prac-
tically what II is now, namely, that the
names of Mayor Adam OF Buffalo, Supreme
Court Justice Gaynor Of Brooklyn and
Representative William Sulzer of New
York will come in for exhaustive considera-
ton.
Senator McCarren is for Gaynor and is
Just as heartily opposed to Mr.. Hearst
as Representative Sullivan IL. Both Mr..
McCarren and Mr.. Sullivan recall that
TammAny in April denounced Mr.. He arst
as a Socialist, and that it would be the top
notch of Inconsistency for a regular Demo
cratic organization like TammRny to take
up with a guerrilla candidate whom il had
officially denounced as a Socialist.
All hands predicted yesterday that the
Democratic convention at Buffalo would
be worth the price Of admission. Every
body expects to witness the shindiest kind
Of a shindy. The Hearst men will be there.
sawdust and all. Democrats who ave
been more or less inactive in-the Republican
rule OF the State for ten years are TO turn
out. They are to go to Buffalo because they
believe the Democratic party can win this
year, but that IL cannot win with Mr..
Hearst as its candidate for Governor.
The testimony Ii that Mr.. Hearst is not
regarded as a Democrat and has not been
so regarded from the day be became the
guerrilla candidate for Mayor Of New FORK
city against Mayor Mcclellan, the candidate
of the regular organization OF city Demo-
Gratis, Mr.. Hearst at the very time being a
Representative In Congress from the regular
organization.
Those IN the conf dence Of Mr.. Hearst
say that he must get an Endorsement for
Governor at Buffalo or he cannot proceed
further with his Presidential aspirations,
Those familiar with such matters say that
Mr.. Hearst made the mistake OF his life
when he became a guerrilla candidate for
Mayor and later became a guerrilla candidate
for Governor, for the reason that in 80 doing
he burned all Of his bridges behind him, and
a failu re TO be Endorsed at Buffalo will mean
his utter political humiliation. Further
more, the vast bales OF the long green which
were necessary to bring about Mr.. Hearst's
prominence in 1904 and 1905 and in the
present year will nave been useless, 20 far
az Mr.. Hearst's political ambitions are con-
earned. hut when viewed from a naWgnaner