The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-03
HEARST STILL UNDECIDED.
DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL
HIS CONVENTION TO DO.

HIS CONVENTION To DO
Perhaps He'll Only Nominate Himself; Per-
haps He'll Pick Out the whole Ticket
and Try 70 Force 10 On the Democrats
Platform, Too. 70 q serious Problem.
william r. Hearst, according TO his
closest friends, 10 now confronted with
the knottiest problems in his game to be-
come either Governor Of New York State
or to capture. by running second TO . suc-
cessful Republican candidate for Governor,
the party emblem and machinery OF the
Democratic State organization, and thus
be in a position to send seventy-six dele
gates for himself 70 the Democratic ma
tional convention Of 1908.
Mr.. Hearst's own State convention 10
to assemble In Carnegie Hall on September
II, and Mr.. Hearst's friends in the Hearst
organization frankly admitted yesterday
that Mr.. Hearst and all his advisors were
up a stump as to what should be the pro-
gramme Of his convention. Everything Is
In a turmoil, most visitors at the Hearst
headquarters in the Gilscy House are
viewed with suspicion and there 10 q mess
all around.
Should Mr.. Hearst at his convention
on September II nominate himself for
Governor and let the remainder Of the
ticket slide, or should he go on after nom-
mating himself and name his candidates
for Lleutenant-Governor Secretary OF
State, Comptroller, State Treasurer, At
torney-GeneraI and State Engineer and
Surveyor That Is one Of the problems
which Mr.. Hearst and his advisers are dis
cussing,
Some in the Hearst camp asserted that
Mr.. Hearst should only nominate himself
for Governor at his convention for its hoped
for effect on the New York county primaries,
to be held on September 10. Others in the
Hearst ranks said that Mr.. Hearst should
only nominate himself for Governor at his
convention, then make a fight for a Demo-
cratic Endorsement by the Buffalo conven
ton, to be held September rs, n II sue
cessful permit the Buffalo convention to
name the rest Of the ticket.
Still others in the Hearst camp insisted
that II Mr.. Hearst dominates himself for
Governor he should also nominate all other
candidates on his State ticket; that such a
move would brighten the regulars at Buffalo
out of their senses and bring about the
Endorsement Of the entire Hearst ticket
by the Buffalo convention. The Hearst men
who talked this way said that Mr.. Hearst
should not seek an Endorsement at the
hands Of the Buffalo convention without
giving the Hearst aspirants for the other
State Offices a similar opportunity.
The Hearst people, IL vas furthermore
learned, are in a q~uandary as to the plat
form TO be adopted by Mr.. Hearst's con-
vention on September IL. The Tammany
orRanizati on on March 10 denounced so
cialism, as represented by Mr.. Hearst.
Yet Mr.. Hearat's friends have been cuddling
| up to Charles F. Murphy and Mr.. Murphy's
| friends in Tammany with the hope that Mr..
Murphy, II successful at the primaries in
New York county on September ls, will
under the unit rule turn over the los Tam
| many delegates to Mr.. Hearst at Buffalo.
Some Of Mr.. Hearst's friends were fearful
yesterday that the platform Of Mr.. Hearst 8
convention on September IL may not Jibe
with the TAmmany resolutions opposing
socialism adopted by Tammany on March 10.
other Hearst men declared that II Mr..
Hearst came out candidly and in the plat
form Of his convention advocated the
' socialistic views expressed in his news
papers he would lose the indorsenent OF
the Buffalo convention.
II was announced last night by the man.
ayers Of Mr.. Hearst's campaign at the Gilsey
House that Mr.. Hearst would in his speech
at syria cuse to-day practically lay down
the platform which would be adopted at
Mr.. Hearst's convention.
Mr.. Hearst Is to deliver this speech before
an audience Of laboring men at Syracuse.
The Gilsey House crowd referred to IL as
his opening gun.
Mr.. Hearst started for Syracuse in his
private car, which was attached TO q New
\ YORK Central train. From Syracuse his
private car will be run to W~atertown, where
he is to make another speech, also to labor
Before leaving on his speech making trip
Mr.. Hearst had dinner at the Hoffman
House with Mr.. and Mrs Norman L. Mack
and Mr.. ond Mrs. John w. Cox.
According to those who are running
the game at the Gilsey House. to-day win
mark the real opening OF the State cam
paiRn of Hearst, despite the fact that Mr..
Hearst's convention to put him in nomina-
ton for Governor is more than a week on
In addition to the speeches Mr.. Hearst
Is 20 make at Syracuse and Watertown
which are to be campaign speeches pure and
simple, similar speeches by Independence
League men are to be made at other points.
Judge Seabury Is to speak at Batavia, A. j.
Boulton at Rome, Charles Frederick Adams
at Little Falls and J. p. KoehIer at Port
Some OF Mr.. Hearts, friends were con-
ident last night that II the plan Of filing
all the State officers were CARED out there
would be a platform. just how radical
the platform would be none Of them was
prepared to say. They seemed to be wait
ing FOR Mr.. Hearst Labor Day speeches for
further information themselves. One in
terestinR item was Cleaned and that wa
thai il present plans are carried out the
other Hearst nominations for Assembly
men and Senators will be allowed to wait
until after the Buffalo convention. None
OF the Hearst men will admit tina there Ia
any purpose OF using this plan as a club
over Mr.. Murphy in the endeavor to get
him to throw his strength in the owen
ton to Hearst, but that there In some such
plan would seem to be indicated in what IL
dropped now and then from some OF the
Gilsey House clique.
No political boss's camp In New York
city is 40 muddled up by Questions OF poltti-
cal expediency a. that Of Mr.. Hearst. One
set insists tina everything should be sub
ordinated TO winning the continued favor
Of Charles f.. Murphy by lending aid to
Mr.. Murphy In his fight FOR supremacy at
the primaries on September 1S and thus
be in a better position to march on TO Buff
Kalo. Another set insists that Mr.. Murphy,
Mr.. McCarren and others are hlmfamming
Mr.. Hearst and that the Sullivans-Big
Tim and Little Tim-are in the game, and
30 Il goes on day after day, with September
II the date Of Mr.. Hearts, convention,
rapidly approaching.
Charles A. Walsh Of Iowa, who has re-