The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-10-01
DEMOCRATIC LEADER
REPUDIATES RACING
Chairman Corners, of New
York, Defines Position
Regarding Tracks.
By c WELIIVFR-

NEW YORK, Oct I've are not
the race track party declared Chair
man Corners, OF the Democratic stat
committee this forenoon, thereby
making announcement that the Dem
ocTats viii make no fight for repeal
OF gambling legislation. which
Governor Hughes forced into the
statutes
NO, we won't make an issue OF il.
and We won't repeal the law If we get
in power. Nobody cares anything
about the Law, except a few people in
the racing towns. like Buffalo, New
York. and brooklyn There are other
serious issues that peoDle a-e inter
ested in. and were going 10 make
our tight on them We haven't
thought Of it as an issue. and we
Will not"
The chairniau's statement was the
first which has committed the Dem
ocrats to a position on this question
Heretofore all efforts TO set an eX-
preston from them as 20 their atti-
tCde toward this issue have failed.
: hey think they VIII get the
sporting vote anyhow, and, more
over, they don't think that vote is
important Finally win Cnanler
their nominee for governor, they
couldn't vel turn against the leglS-
latiOn TO which as lieutenant govern
or, he was effectively friendly Asked
about the Legislature. Chairman Con
ners said he was confident the Dem
ocrats had a good chance TO carry II
Confident of West
National Chairman Mack. with some
! warmth. declared il was an unfounded
| assumption that the Democrats had
given I'D hope OF the West, simply be-
cause they bad announced plans for a
big fight for New York.
.'g0th parties viii make a big fight
4 for New YORK; he said. and both will
{ 20 right ahead with their contest IoT
/ The West. Don't imagine conclusions
/ which aren't justifed by what 1 say.
/ Ny reports from the West don L by
| any means warrant any claim that the
1 Bryan movement Is weaker than u was
/ Instead we md Il gaming strength ana
| spreading all the time The President
I has been called of, hasn't hep Didn''
/ he stop writing letters because they tod
/ him he was doing more harm tIldn
/ gOOd2'
While Chairman Mack was Iecturing
J the newspaper men, Nathan StraUS
: the wealthy merchant and palanthrO-
/ pist. came in
some Of you young men ought TO g
I down on the East Side and see The
! women and children in distress dow
! there, on account Of those bank failures
4 Yesterday Yes, the banks we're small
I ones, but they had the money of the
/ poor people, and it's always the poor
I who are hit
/ The rich man can have his lawyeu
/ and protect himself; but the poor ma
( hasn't any chance, at all Now, thOS,
] failures wouldn't have happened /
. Bryan were President, and his baol
] guarantees pJlicy in effect Such a ser
/ les Of failures as these couldn't hap
! pen in Europe; it's a disgrace that the.
/ can happen in this country
! Yes, see that the American Bank
/ ers' Association Is against the guaran
tee plan o. course. but the people a.
/ for Il 7 wish you'd go down and hea
! those unfOrtunateS talk. You'd writ
/ better stories about IL than I can Tel
YOU"
Hitchcock to Move.
Over at Republican headquarters
Chairman Hitchcock and his Lieutenant =
were getting business cleaned up pre-
/ I.aT-t,orJ 10 the departure 1t the chair
man. who wants to be in Chicago Mon
day.
I want to go by way Of Washing
ton" said The chairman, but may no
! get the time to do So II I 80 to Wash
/ ingtou. Of course. / shall call on TIT
President. and, doubtless. talk owe
some matters with him" added II,
/ chairman il answer TO a question a
/ TO the purpose Of his visit there H
denied thai he intended 10 appeal {,
the F'rt sident. eith-r TO go on the Sjuul
or keep on Il