The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-30
JEROME PUTS IT Up TO HEARST
TO EXPLAIN TIE PURPOSE OF
TEE INDEPENDENCE LEAGUE.

Ne Thinks Mgeshene and mn.sen Really
should Let the Candidate Talk, They.
OF Course, Supplying the Necessary
brains Jerome May Net Speak To-day.
District Attorney Jerome doesn't think
that William r. Hearst should evade stat
ing whether the Independence League
is a new State party or whether It intends
TO swallow the Democratic. party In the
State by swallowing II after, first having
purified II.
Mr.. Jerome says that Mr.. Hearst should
let Arthur Brisbane and Max Ihmsen allow
him to explain. He understands that IL 10
O difficult situation for tho candidate when
the person and the brains are separated,
but he thinks that MIR. Hearst ought to
say eomething on the subject. Mr.. jerome
said:
-In the revised version Of Mr.. Hearst's
statement OF yesterday he says In his
newspaper this morning: The real issue
IL whether the people shall control politics.
independent Of the dictation OF corrupt
corporations through criminal bosses.'
But Mr.. Hearst, even In his revised
statement, does not indicate the means
to be employed in efecting this result.
IL IL to be effected by the creation OF a new
political party, the Independence League.
made up Of membership drawn from each
Of the other parties, or is the Independence
League, after all, only n means to coerce
the Democratic party into becoming pure!
II would seem a very simple thing for Nh.
Hearst to define what the Independence
League is and what its relation to the
Democratic party il.
Il understand that Mr.. Hearst Is quoted
as saying that hereafter he will only talk
through a typewritten statement. O%foourse.
II Ia difficult. where the brains and the
person OF q candidate are not united in the
same individual. for the person alone to
make clear where he does stand; but surely
In O situation as obscure as the present
one 1t would be possible for Mr.. Hearst
and Mr.. Brisbane to get together long
enough for Mr.. Brisbane to tell Mr.. Hearst
whether the Independence League is for the
Democratic party or against the Demo-
cratic party. You see. those Of US who are
Democrats would like to know whether the
Tammany Hall Congressman Is really q
Democrat or not, and he could tell US about
this.
Moreover, after q careful study Of the
revised statement OF his interview OF yes
terday as published IN his own organ one
cannot quite make UP his mind whether
Mr.. Hearst is a candidate for Governor at
all. In reply to the question. Would you
accept the nomination Of the Democratic
convention. Mr.. Hearst2' he is reported TO
have said. I will be the candidate Of the
Independence League II l run
What doee the IL mean? Is Mr.. Hearst
losing what little courage he ever had' Is
he afraid that he will destroy his Demo-
cratic regularity Why won't Max Ihmsen
and Arthur Brisbane let him say whether
he is or is not a Democrat. and whether he
desires the rehabilitation OF the Demo-
cratic party in the State. or desires its de-
| struction through the fundamentally OF
| the Independence League. or desires to con-
| solidate it with the Independence League3'
Mr.. Jerome was not feeling well yester-
day, and unless he Ia better to-day he will
not speak at the fair at Middletown. N. T.,
| this afternoon, as scheduled.