The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-14
HEARST'S PLANS
HE IS OPPOSED TO THE NOMINAL
 TI0N OF W. J. BRYAN.
wishes te Lead the Presidential Ticket
 Hinseif--Independent Fight 4f in New York.

New York Tribune.
 William R. Hearst, head of the In- dependence League. will, not consent to Democratic-Re Republican fusion on Ed ward T. Bartlett and Willard Bartlett as nominees for the Court of Appeals bench. He has told William ]. Con ners, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, so. and Corners has inform ed Charles F. Murphy.
 The principal objection on the part or MT. Hearst to the two Bartletts is that If Willard Bartlett should be nom- mated on a fusion ticket by resolution of the State Committee in the absence of a State Convention Senator McCar- Ten and Timothy l.. Woodruff would get the greater part of the credit. and MT. Hearst and his friends argue that McCarren would at once claim control of the State Committee and MT. Hearst would be accused of going over to the machine bosses. This he will not do. It was learned yesterday that Mir. Hearst would like to suspend operations this year with the Independence League as a State organization if he could, but that circumstances force him to make an independent fight. So long as he Is compelled to do it, he is going to force the fighting on the lines of last years campaign.
 The decision of Mir. Hearst and his friends really means more to the Dem- ocratic party than an ordinary third fight. If MT. Hearst's lieutenants have been correctly advised by their chiefs. MT. Hearst is opposed to the nomina- ton of William J. Bryan for President.
 He Is opposed to the nomination of L. Stuyvesant Chanler for President.
 He is opposed to the nomination of anyone except himself for President, and this fact will be allowed to soak into, the minds of the other boomers without MT. Hearst actually saying so. Some of the things MT. Hearst Is plan ming to do, according to his lieutenants, are these:
 Control of the Democratic State Com mittee and the next delegation from this State to the Democratic National Convention.
 Compel Charles F. Murphy to ac- knowledge him as the leading Demo- crat of the State.
 Nominate George Hisgen for Cover nor of Massachusetts on an 1ndepend- ence League ticket this fall.
 Make District Attorney Langdon, or San Francisco, Governor Of California at the first opportunity.
 The Hearst men say that MT. Hearst no longer fears being called irregular What impelled him year ago to make his deal with Murphy. Corners, Coch- ran and Grady was regularity" He was the only Democrat on the State ticket who failed of election, the oth- CTS winning largely on account of the money that MT. Hearst put into the canvass. The Hearst men say that the Democratic leaders of the State and na- ton are conscious by this time that thev cannot elect anyone without Hearst's assistance. He has an organi- zation in the four States named, and certainly has the balance of power in the Empire State. He has decided that william J. Bryan must come to him and ask his support. Bryan knows that he would be turned down, and that Is why he has started the New York Progressive Democratic League. with Augustus Thomas as President.