Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-24

hearings of the contests between indie
pendence League and Tammany candidates
for place on the local tickets, and threw
out number of league candidates to make
place for Tammanyites The action salts
fled Murphy, who is afraid of contest
with the league at best.
Laid Down the Law.
Last night he called the executive COM
mittee of Tammany Hall into session and
laid down the law to them. He said it was
necessary to support the head of tie ticket
and that it must be understood far and
wide that the organization of Tammany
Hall was sincerely for the head of the dem
ocratic ticket. lie would hold the several
district leaders responsible for getting out
their vote.
Tammany will heed the admonition of the
leader?
If Murphy is ION the level" to use a
phrase familiar to the class under discus
sion, the majority of Tammany will obey.
There is no question that there is disaffec-
ton among prominent democrats. 1t must
be remembered, however, that obedience to
the boss is the first law of Tammany and
that a vast electorate tlindly follows the
head of that wonderful organization.
If Murphy honestly sends word down the
line along with the dough-" tie Saturday
before election, to support the head of the
ticket, 1t is safe to say that the majority
of the rank and file will obey. No man
can say. however. whether Murphy means
1t or not. until the count of the ballots gives
the evidence.
Hearst on East Side.
Hearst was on the East Side last night
and received ovations at three crowded
meetings He told the eastsiders that If
elected he would give them better street car
facilities and so cent gas He denounced
Mayor Mcclellan in most vituperative lam
guage. This is sample of the questions
Hearst asks of the voters:
DO you want so cent gas. or continued
plunderbund ruler" Then he says, IF you
want dear coal this winter, vote Morgan
tells you to-.
juring himself by overplaying this sort of
appeal, as there are undoubted Indications
that great many voters resent such an
appeal as an insult to their intelligence.
Leader Murphy. however. falls into step
with Hearst, and in his formal statement
issued after the meeting of the executive
committee last night said: THE issue is
clean cut whether the corporate monopOlistS
shall control the government or the govern
ment control the corporations
Now, while there appears to be getting
together of the democrats in New York city,
averting the threatened knitting of the head
of the ticket. the situation is worse for
Hearst upstate. Considerable importance is
attached to the coup of Thomas NJ. Os-
bourne in getting possession of the old up
state headquarters of the regular democ
racy at Albany. He also came into posses
sion thereby of all the files, records and ad
dresses of the admirable old democratic
machine of David B. Hill.
Osbourne Prominent.
Osbourne, who is the most prominent up
state regular democrat outside of Cady
Herrick has installed big clerical force to
send out anti-Hearst literature to regular
democrats. 1t is stated that he has the
names of 100000 regular democrats pre-
pared in the campaign of 1904, to whom he
will send literature hostile to the head Of
the democratic ticket. Mr.. Osbourne gave
intimation of the character of this literature
yesterday in a statement, in which he said
in part: He sometimes procIaims himself
a democrat and sometimes an Independence
Lacquer. ,------->---------~------- 5000
Sometimes as a democrat he Is fighting
the republican party; sometimes as an in
dependent he is allied with the republican
party. Sometimes as what might be called
an independent he is fighting both repub
lican and democratic parties.
His conduct makes it impossible to re-
gard him as either a genuine Independent
or a genuine democrat, while indie
pendent he is 'neithed fish, flesh, fowl nor
good red herring
Second. He obtained his nomination by
corruption and violence. The manner in
which his hired agents secured many Of his
brought scandal and disgrace upon the
democratic party.
Third. He is trying to disrupt the demo-
cratic party. He has not kept faith with
the democratic organization, even after re-
ceiving the nomination.
He has in every case made the inter-
ests of the democratic party subservient to
the interests of the Independence League,
giving preference to the latter in all mat
tiers relating to the campaign, while prac-
tically ignoring where he is now opposing
the democratic organizations 49,
Looking at this campaign therefore, as
a democrat, 1 find regular democratic
nominee for governor in the field
The campaign is exhibiting party divisions
entirely new. 1t will not be the upstate
against Greater New York as in so many
governorship contests. With Hughes getting
accessions from upstate regular democrats,
with Hearst obtaining recruits from up
state labor republicans, with New York
cit dividing, with Brooklyn democrats
splitting over Hearst, politicians find it
difficult to see the way out.
Straw Vote for Hearst.
NEW YORK, October pa straw can
by the World shows that if the ratio were
get a plurality of $4,000 in Greater New
York on the estimate of Democratic Chair
man Corners.
Down at Tammany Hall this afternoon
Leader Murphy, in commenting upon it,
said that if Greater New York gave Hearst
1900 he would carry the state. Mr.. Muir
phys attention was called to the fact that
in 1902 Bird S. Coler (democraD received
plurality of 10000 in Greater New York
and still lost the state by 5000. ''Oh, but
no democrats up the state voted for Coler,"
said Mr.. Murphy. And, bes. des," he
added, hastily, Hearst will get more than
74.OO in Greater New York" The Worlds
vote was taken in Office buildings, fac
tories, wholesale and retail stores. In 80
per cent of the houses polled Hearst showed
substantial gains over his vote of last fall
for mayor. drawing from the republicans
who supported WINS and regular democrats
who suppOrted MCCLELLAN N O. NJ