Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-11
GAYNOR REPLIES
TO DOODLE-DEES
MAKES SINGING ANSWER TO
WILLIE HEARST
POLICY OF WoULD-BE MAYOR
WILDLY EXPOSED
Fusion Leader, Declining Norninatio5
Indorses Democrat, Sees Another
Chance and Repudiates Man
He First championed
LRy Associated Press.1

munlClpal campaign tonight III an az
tack on William r. Hearst.
Last week Mr.. Hearst issued a state
ment saying positively that he would
not run for mayor, but would support
Justice Gaynor
Two days later he accepted an inde-
pendent nomination for the office.
Justice Gaynor came out tonight with
statement and letter purporting to
show that Hearst had urged him to
run for mayor nearly six months ago
ION any ticket and pledging his sup
port.
To strengthen his statement, Justice
Gaynor first made public q letter ad-
dressed to him by Rudolph Block, who
occupies an editorial position on the
Hearst papers. Under the date of Oc-
tober 8 Block, while 'regretting exceed
ingly to be drawn into the affair."" re-
views at some length what purport to
have been the details of meetings be-
tween Hearst and Gaynor early last
summer The letter said in part:
Shortly before Mr.. Hearst left Ecr
Europe last summer he asked Te 20
bring you to his hoTls. 1 thin% this
WAS the second or third time you had
ever seeH him. He asked you if YOU
would not run for mayor IN the fall
and said: L don't care what ticket
you run on, I'll support you.'
Reviews Incidents
Justice Gaynor reviews inciients
which led up to Hearst's repudiatlon
nf him, which he describes as "Lhe
most painful shock | lad ever expe-
rjerCed and a breach of trust such
as he rever before mad encountered.
MEANWHILE continues the state
ment, 1.-THE primaries of the Independ-
ence League had been held and it was
found that a decisiye majority Of +Te
delegates chosen were in my favor.
Thererpon Mr.. Hearst would not per-
rnit tie convention to be called to
order No other party boss ever vert
as far as that. 1t Is said th1. this
may he an indictable otfense, and 1t
| is oeing looked into.
| After the primaries, Mr. Hearst he
can to cry fraud as usual, and that his
ballot boxes had been stuffed. No one
could vote at the l2a5Gc primaries
exert its enrolled me nhe.s, as every
ont knt WIS. In fact, The enrolline1t
was mere skeleton, most of the dis
tr'cts having only few on the roll;
AMI only a handful voted at the great
ma :ty of the polls.
"And yet the bald statement of Mr..
Hearst that Charles r. Murphy or
| Tammany or some one stole his pri-
maries or stuffed his ballot boxes seems
to have been gulped down by every
partisan newspaper in the city.
Repudiates League
"Mr. Hearst now repudiates his
league party; will not permit the con-
Vention to be called, and is having
himself nominated by petition against
me. am fully conscious that his great
estate of from $50,000,000 to $65,000,O0O
gives him a huge advantage over me
IL, hI1t rna6Ny fn meet
him before the people of New York.
81 suppose we are about to witness
again such a lavish use of money by
a candidate for office as was never be-
fore witnessed in American politics,
and which, If continued, must in the
end debase and corrupt our politics
and our system of government. But 1t
may be that with all his money and
newspapers and power the people OF
New York may not let him run over
me so easily as he thinks"
| Mr., Hearst gave out a statement an
swering Gaynor, in which he said:
"If Judge Gaynor has stated that
promised to support him under any
and all circumstances and upon any
j and sll tickets, he states what is posi-
lively untrue. l will try to assume
that he is honestly mistaken, but it is
difficult for me to do so. as the prop
| osition is so unreasonable and impos-
sible that it bears its refutation on
it's face.
Represents Ideas
"Gayno1 is not a lifelong friend, or
a deeply loved brother to whom a
blind devotion might be due. He has
been to me merely representative OF
certain ideas, an exponent of cercatn
principles. While he was suppoctins
those principles 1 supported him. When
he deserted those principles 1 parted
from him."
Hearst denied that he invited Gay
nor to C me to his house. Gaynor, he
said, came to him, "humbly, as 1 have
no doubt he previously visited Muir
ply" He denies with a sarcastic ref
erence to Block that he ever told
Block that he would support Gaynor
under any and all circumstances.
Mr.. Hearst will appear before mass
meeting in Carnegie hall tomorrow
night 10 accept the nomination of his
new PARTY and to outline his platform.
The latest tissue" of the campaign is
Tammanys kidnapping or attempted
abduction, at least, of the title civic
alliance" and emblems thereof con-
stituting the new party designation
under which the independents rallied
to the support of Hearst.
AS a result of this move the Demo-
| crallc TICKET may appear uiluCA IiI
emblems of three different parties on
the official ballot-straight Democratic.
old Independence League, recently cap
| tured at the primaries, and lastly the
new Civic Alliance.
For this latest plan to disconcert the
Hearst followers, State Senator Patrick
H. McCarren, the Democratic leader
of Brooklyn, is responsible.
Substitute Names
While the promoters of Hearst's can
didacy were getting signatures to put
their ticket in the field under the name
of "Civic Alliance the Brooklyn sem
ator, according to reports, had his
lieutenants at work on similar docu-
ment, except that Democratic candi-
dates were substituted for Hearst
ticket.
Senator McCarren's men presented q
petition by Independent voters" who
had adopted the name of Civic al
lance" but who named the Democratic
candidates to the board of elections IN
New York just nineteen minutes before
a Hearst lieutenant also appeared with
a petition, name and emblem OF the
Civic alliance.
Neither petition had more than fifty
signers, while the law requires 2OOC
names. In case both the McCarrenites
and the Hearst followers complete the
list of names 1t will be a case for the
board of elections to decide.
| Hearst's representatives Will appear