The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-10
HEARST LAYS PLAN
IS ARRANGING FOR FIGHT IN
 1908
Nntionnl Conference of Leaguers Next Month to Discuss the Presi- deney-Renching for
 the West.


 ference of Independent League leaders from various States. which is to be held in this city next month At this conference, it is understood, plans for the national campaign in 1908 will be very fully discussed
 Democratic politicians who heard of this yesterday did not by any means receive the news with equanlmity. They regarded 1t as indicating that MT. Hearst though he has publicly read himself out of the party, intends to become a disturbing factor in Dem- ocratic national politics during the Presidential year, very much after the same manner that he was in 1904 in national politics and last year in New York State politics. only on a larger scale
 Mir. Hearst now has Independence League organizations in Ia number of States. The League Is an element in politics in this State. in Connecticut. Massachusetts. Illinois and California. It is learned now that MT. Hearst IS harboring plans to invade Colorado and Idaho to reap there whatever benefits can be obtained through the acquittal of Haywood and the turn things have taken there generally as a result of that acquittal in regard to the rela- tions between organized labor and the large employers. It is also known
 
 time have been at work feeling their way into Missouri. with view of ob- taining foothold there for the ideas represented by the Hearst Independence League and building up some sort of an organization.
 At the conference to be held here next month ways and means for fur ther spread of the propaganda of un- rest and discotnent on which MT. Hearst hopes to ride to political emf hence will be discussed, according to persons in the confidence of the h. dependence League loader.
 A New Machine in This state.
 Persons close to Mir. Hearst and fa- miliar with his plans declare that, de- spite the crushing rebuke MT. Hearst suffered personally in the last guber- material election. his agents before long will be sent out through the length and breadth Of this state with . view of building up an organization on the ruins of the old one which virtually went to smash the moment the last returns were in at the November elee- tfon That this Is being done with no other end in view than to force a sur- render of the Democratic Party ma chinery to Mfr. Hearst. very much af- ter the same fashion that this was done at the Buffalo Convention last year. is an impression that is gaining
 
 crats in this State.
 That the chaos and confusion which at the present moment predominate in the Democratic Party in this State, where there is complete absence of responsible and intelligent leadership, will greatly aid Mir. Hearst in any such design, old-line Democrats admit with regret. in certain responsible quarters 1t was even asserted yesterday that Mir. Hearst had received assurances from William J. Corners, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, and Tammany leader Charles F. Murphy, that. as they did last year, they would throw all the support of the Demo- cratic machine, of which they are in control, for any candidate Mir. Aearss might designate as his preference for 0 Presidential nominee next year.
 Tn connection with this it was pointed out as something that might be more than a mere coincidence, thai Mir Hearst has carefully refrained from committing himself through his newspapers to any candidate. That his choice will not be MT. Bryan, who has been more talked of than any oth- CT man for the Democratic nomination, can be stated on the best of authority
 There has been @ great coolness be- tween the Nebraska Commoner and the Independence I.eaguer for the last two or three years During Mir. Bryan's recent trip through Europe he was vir- tually shadowed by MT. Hearsts agents, and when he returned and a grand welcome was prepared for him in this city, the lukewarmness with which Mir. Hearst's newspaper entered into the spirit of the occasion was a matter of much comment. Nor did MT. Hearst receive any support from MT. Bryan when he made his race for the Governoship. The months that have passed since MT. Bryan's return have only tended to widen the breach.
 Bryan "Too RadicaI.r
 Not long ago Mir. Hearst,in discuss- ing Democratic Presidential possibil ities with some of his friends, said to ths amusement of all that heard him that he did not regard Mir. Bryan as .ssafe, conservative and stable' enough to become the guide and guardian of the destinies of the American nation, Some of those who heard MT. Hearst thought they could infer by his utter ance that he had in mind some person who would come nearer the Hearst idea of a suitable candidate, and that this person was none other than MT. Hearst himself. Mir Hearst. who once himself ran on a municipal ownership ticket, is said to have expressed his disapproval of Mir. Bryans advocacy in his Madison Square Garden speech of national ownership Of trunk line railroads.
 Neither State Chairman Corners nor Tammany Leader Murphy has said a word to indicate what their attitude toward Mir Hearst would be. But 1t was remarked yesterday that when there seemed to be some nope of peace between Mayor Mcclellan and the Tammany leader, reports or Q rupture between him and State Chairman Con- nars were very prevalent and never denied Now that the breach between Mayor Mcclellan is as wide as ever. a statement has been made authorita- lively for MT. Murphy that their diff ferences have been healed. And when Murphy and Corners met at the War dorf last week to talk over plans for the next State canipalsn the men who ioined in the conference were Thomas w. Finucane, who is a member of the Democratic state Committee and lead- er of the Corners faction m that body, Jand Secretary of State wnaIen. who was fine candidate of organized labor on inc Hearst ticket last rail and more haavily backed by the independence f,easller than any other candidate with Ina nossible exception of Attorney Gen ' eral Jackson.
 NI,ruhy,s Chance FSr Revenge.
 If was pointed out yes;eroay that in his efforts to even up scores with May or Mcclellan. Murphy could do nothing that would irritate ths former moro than to play politics with the Mayors arch enemy, MT. Hearst And 1t is satd that MT Corners, who became the ,.o,s,ar he is in State poiitics through