The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-09-30
New York Politics IRE
Beginning to Warm up

atives are for him for the first time,
and as result he has an excellent
chance to win the electoral vote of
New York.
The notification of Thomas Hisgen,
independence par-y nominee FOR pr es-
iJent, at Crane rcy Park club house
thre weeks ESQ was rather tame af-
fair. The club rooms are hardly as
| large as these occupied by the Walla
WalIa club. and they were filled with
Hearst henchlnen in dress suits, silk
hats and silk stockings, while outside
in the street stood five or six hundred
of the common herd clamoring for
speeches from Hisgen and Hearst.
Hisgen was gracious enough to come
to the front porch and make a short
talk, but Hearst refused to come out,
but sent word that all who wanted to
see him could pass him in line after
the meeting closed. Your humble SER
want joined the rabble and got his first
look at the famous yellow journalist.
He is a much stronger and ADLER
looking man than he is commonly rep
resented to be by the old party pa
pers, and energy and bulldog determi-
nation are plainly marked in his coun-
tenance. Hearst is certainly causing
the old party managers many bad
half hour by his well-supported
charges against prominent leaders on
both sides, but that does not necessa-
rily imply that his new party will cut
any great figure in the, voting this fall.
The third party convention at Coop
er Union on the night Of September
"a, was quite notable gathering, and
Hearst was the hero of the hour. He
fired broadsides at the Standard Oil
hirelings in both parties and stirred
up a great deal of enthusiasm
Present indications, however, are
that the Independence party will draw
| about equally from both the old par
ties and will therefore not materially
affect the result one way or the other.
But We may be fooled. Hearst's party
may prove to be the deciding factor in
the contest. Much depends upon the
course taken by the old party leaders
in the next few weeks. Any attempt
of either party to defend the paid poll
tical agents of the Standard Oil will
prove disastrous.
To man up a tree it looks like
many of the leaders of both old par
| ties are tarred with the same Standard
Oil stick. Even Roosevelt cannot de-
ny that his man Cortelyou solicited a
contribution from the Standard Oil
In the presidential contest of four
years ago, and after he had received
100000 and also a bluff letter from
Roosevelt violently depouncing the
donor, asked for $250000 more,
The immunity granted by the Roose-
welt administration to the steel trust
In its absorption Of its only formida-
BILE rival, the Tennessee Coal and Iron
company. last fall. is another bad
feature of the Roosevelt attitude to-
ward the trusts. In his letter of ac-
ceptance four years ago and in his first
annual message after his election,
President Roosevelt contended that
there was no such thing in existence
as steel trust and he attempted to
prove that over 40 per cent of the
output Of the steel mills was controlled
by Independent concerns.
Roosevedt's Dear Hartman" let
ters leading up to his asking the rail-
road magnate to raise a quarter of a
million dollars to help carry New York
In 1904 is another embarrassing feat