Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-26
FUSION OF
HEARSTITES
PROTESTED
Ghost of DOOdle-deeS is
Like BanquO'S.
POLITICAL SHADOW MAY BE
FATAL OBSTACLE
TICKET HELD UP AND EMBLEM
DENOUNCED
New Yorks Democratic Candidates
May Not Be Allowed to Seek
Office on combina-
tion Ballot
[By Associated Press. ]

NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-Wllltam X.
Hearst's former political organ
~ ization, known as the Indepen-
dence league bobbed up tonight as
legal technicality which may seriously
interfere with preparing the official
ballots for the municipal election on
November 2.
Hearst appeared before Supreme
Court Justice Gerard at a night ses-
sion, protesting against the appear
ance of the names Of Democratic can
didates under the Independence league
emblem, with the result that the court
ordered that the printing of the bal
lots, which was already under way,
be suspended until arguments for both
sides can be heard tomorrow.
The order was made over the protest
of Assistant Corporation Counsel
Hahle, who insisted that if such dras-
tic action were taken there might not
be time enough to deliver the ballots
for election day.
The manager of the printing firm in
charge of the work said that the plates
were made and the company had eX-
pected to begin printing the ballots
tonight, but the court was obdurate
May Have to Testify
In clearing up the case in court to-
morrow it may be necessary for Will
liam ]. Gaynor, Democratic nominee
for mayor; John F. Glavin, Demo-
cratic nominee for president of the
board of aldermen, and Robert Moore,
Democratic nominee for comptroller,
whose names appear under the Inde-
pendence league emblem, to be wit
nesses.
While the Independence league has
lost it's old-time prestige in this city
and is not now, strictly speaking, an
organization of independent voters,
the adoption of the name by Tammany
Hall was considered an asset to Dem
ocratic candidates in that it might
lead Hearst supporters to vote under
that emblem.
While lawyers were arguing in court
over this latest phase of the campaign
fervid oratory by the three candidates
for mayor was going on. Judge Gaynor
addressed a gathering of Columbia stu
dents and others at the university late
today and spoke before a labor mass
meeting at Cooper Union tonight.
Mr. Hearst spoke first at the Murray
Hill lyceum and then crossed to Long
Island where he spoke at College Point
and Long Island City. Mr.. Barnard,
the Republican nominee, delivered a Sc
ries of addresses in Brooklyn.
Speeches Paraleled
She Hearst and Gaynor speeches to-
night paralleled each other in many re-
spects. Both dwelt at length on police
reform, and both criticised Gen. Theo-
dore A. Bingham, recently ousted as
police commissioner.
'It has been stated tSlat I will make
various appointments if elected may
or" said Mr. Hearst, among them, the
reappointment of General Bingham as
police commissioner. Those statements
are absolutely untrue and unauthor-
ized. l have nothing to say as to the
personal honesty of General Bingham,
but apart from his honesty he is not at
all the kind of man that 1 would ap-
point police commissioner
IF [ am elected mayor the police
shall not be ordered to maltreat or in
suit any American citizen who is not a
criminal. The police shall never behave
like the Cossacks of Russia and ride
down their horses upon innocent, law
abiding citizens"
OF the Republican nominee he said:
"Mr Barnard is a genial gentleman,
and 1 do not want to speak disrespect-
fully of him, but 1 must tell the facts.
AS far as can see, Mr.. Bannard's bus
mess experience has consisted in acting
as a sort of dummy agent or director in
various companies for one of the really
big creative men in Wall street.
IL MT. Banndrd is elected ne merely
will be a peg put in this particular
political hole by the big man playing
the political game.'
Attacks Hearst
Judge Gaynor, after reviewing po-
lice issues and attacking Hearst, re-
ferred indirectly to the white slave"
charge as made in a recent anti-Tam-
many magazine article.
I'VE want an end to this slandering
and defiling of the city" he concluded,
"and we want a government in the in
terest of the whole people and con-
forming to the will of the people,"
The white slave issue would not
down today, but it was answered from
almost every source in the Democratic
ranks.
Charles w. Murphy, leader of Tam
many hall, issued a statement tonight,
declaring the accusations were libel
on the name of the city and wound up
with the declaration that at is up to
Herbert Parsons and Representative
Bennett to disclaim the attack or stand
accused of indorsing it,"
"Mr. Parsons and Mr.. Bennett" the
statement says, remain silent while
they are using this lying article as a