Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-10-13
HEARST ACCEPTS
Will Support the Fusion
Ticket to Beat
TaRmaly.
The Independents DenOminate Their
Ticket As the "Civic Alliance"
The Fusion Forces Opened
Campaign Last Night.

Campaign Last Night.
New York, Oct. 9.-After two days
of silence, William Randolph Hearst
announced to crowds of waiting con-
stituents at an early hour this morn
ing that he would accept an independ-
ent nomination for mayor of New
York, provided that his associates on
the city and county tickets be sub
stantially Republican-fusion nomi-
nees, as already selected. His state
ment, outlining the conditions upon
which he will accept, is in part as fol-
lows:
Whether I am a candidate or not
I will support the rest of the fusion
ticket nominated in opposition to
Tammany Hall. When the Indepen-
dence League committee withdrew
from the fusion conference, it declar-
ed that it still stood ready to support
a frank and honest expression of pro-
gressive principles and candidates, ir-
respective of party; this is your op-
portunity to substantiate that declara-
tion. Nominate me if you so desire
with the greater part of that fusion
ticket behind me and I will run.
1.-THE candidates nominated on the
fusion ticket are worthy of support.
The ticket is already in the field. If
we nominate another ticket, both tick
cts may be defeated If we nominate
the fusion ticket, Tammany will be
defeated. And if Tammany is defeat
ed the citizens will win
Mr.. Hearst goes on to say that he
thinks his chances for election would
be better on a straight Independent
ticket, but that he was not consider
ing his personal chances alone, but
rather of the city at large.
Supreme Court Justice William j.
Gaynur, the Democratic mayoraltys
nominee, issued an interview in which
he disc1aimed responsibility for the
nomination of alleged unfit candidates
son the Democratic county and bor-
Sough tickets. Charles F. Murphy, lead
er of Tammany Hall, accused the Re
publicans of urging Hearst to enter
the field, in order to detract from the
Democratic vote. Herbert Parsons,
the Republican county chairman, re-
peated his former charges that Tam
many was planning wholesale frauds,
and offered rewards aggregating $17,-
500 for the detection Of repeaters.
It became a certainty today that the
mayoralty contest would become a
three-sided one, even if Hearst per-
sisted in his refusal to run. AS proof
of this, a group of independents filed
notice with the board of elections that
their organization will be known as
"the civic alliance" With the adop-
tion of this new name it is believed
that the old independence League, un-
der whose banner Hearst conducted
the former fights, will cease to play
an tmportant part in New York poll
tics.
The fusion forces opened their ac-
tive campaign for the fusion-Republi-
can ticket last night with ratifica-
tion meeting in Cooper Union, at
which Otto T. Brannard, the Republi-
can mayoralty nominee, pleaded for a
business administration of the city
government.
A slender woman in white upset the
smooth flow of campaign argument at
the big Republican-fusionist ratif1ca-
tion meeting in Cooper Union last
night. Removing her hat and rising
from a seat in the centre of the hall,
she demanded of Otto T. Brannard,
who was making his opening speech
as candidate for mayor, whether he
favored votes for women.
The woman was Miss Maude Ma
lone, president Of the Harlem Wom-
an Suffrage Union She was forced to
call second time: "What about votes
for women?" before Mr.. Brannard
replied.
He said that he had answered the
question and that it would appear in
AN interview in a morning paper on
Sunday. Other than this, he declined
to ooaarnit himself. But Miss Malone
was insfstent and there were repeated
calls of "put her out" Amid growing
confusion Mr.. Brannard finished his
address, leaving the suffragette'
question unanswered.
Charles e. Gehring, organizer of the
new Civic Alliance, and members OF
it's executive committee voted unani
1nousiy early today to accept cond1
tiops as laid down by Hearst. Geh
ring announced that he would begi1
the circulation of nominating petitions
TODAY