The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-02
HEARST May NOT
OPPOSE GAYN0R
Negotiations in Progress Looking
to Amicable Under
standing.
$500
WANT MAYOR FOR GovEGNoR
Claimed That Combination of
the Two Would BE
Invincible.
WANT MAYOR FOR GovEGNoR

New York, September 1.--of pro-
| found political Importance ia the fact
that negotiations are in progress look
| ing to a possible amicable understand-
! ing between william II. Hearst and
Mayor Gaynor by which Gaynor can
accept the nomination for Governor
without opposition from Mr.. Hearst.
| The terms of the proposed agree
ment cannot now be stated Mr..
Hearst is in Europe. Mr.. Gaynor is i'll,
and the negotiations are being con-
Quoted by others. 1t is sufficient for
| the moment that such a deal Is being
| tried out.
| If the agreement can be reached, II
| ton that would be invinciblc. Some
] think that even Roosevelt as candi-
| date for Governor could not beat 1t.
| 1t will mean, In case Roosevelt should
| run, a campaign fund for the Demo-
| Gratis of a size that would make
| Hanna's bank in 1896 look small.
1t will mean the certain loss of many
seats In the national House of Repre-
sentatives now held by Republicans II
is asserted even 1t might mean a Dem
ocratic Legislature in New York.
Up to this time two things have
| stood in the way of making Mayor
Gaynor the candidate for Governor.
| One was the practical certainty that ~
he were nominated Mr.. Hearst would
run as an Independent candidate for
Governor and repeat the experience IN
the may orally election, when by such
course he defeated the Tammany
| county ticket
The other obstacle was the fact that
upon Mr. Gaynor's retirement the act
ing Mayor would be John Purroy
Mitchell, Hearst man, who might.
by his influence with the board OF esti-
mate, interfere with Tammany's con-
tracts. Mitchell is nephew of that
William d. Purroy. who was the In
veterate foe of Tammany and fought
Kelly and Croker.
If AR. Hearst can be placated Muir
ply can be taken care Of, and there
will be united Democracy in city
and State, presenting front to the
disorganized Republicans that Will
bristle with menace both in this cani-
paign and for the presidential cam
paign In 1872
| The proposed agreement may slip
a cog, since Mr.. Hearst Is very In
dependent man. but certain 1t is that
the most important political develop
ment of the hour is the fact that n
compromise is being sought.
Despair of Republicans.
Many well-informed Republicans here
think that the governorship has prac-
tically gone by the board anyhow. The
bitter fractional warfare in their own
ranks spells nothing but Republican
defeat, in the opinion OF some of the
leading Republicans of the city. They
are bending their efforts now to try
ing to preserve the organization and
savew hat they can from the wreck
for their own little political machines
and to defeat the scheme of direct
nominations.
Some of the leaders think that the
J convention may stampede and insist
! upon having Roosevelt for temporary
. chairman, despite the recommendation
Of the State Committee.
These men say. however, that they
are confident of being able to retain
! control of the Committee on Resolu-
lions and make the platform. The
weak spot in their hope. though, Is the
logical suggestion that If the enthu-
} siasm for Roosevelt is such as to
cause the convention to ride down the
committee and make him temporary
chairman, the enthusiasm may go to
the length of putting Roosevelt men on
the Resolution Committee and letting
. the colonel suggest the candidate.
There is no sign of weakening on the
part of the Old Guard in their plans
to mako Vice-President Sherman the
temporary chairman. William Barnes
Speaker Wadsworth. Tim Woodruff and
!. all the Old Guard leaders have nailed
their flag to the mast. and not only
will go down fighting. but will do some
4 fighting before going down.
Delegates to the State convention are
being elected right along, and the
Old Guard claims that they are getting
the lions share of them. Whether they
Twill stick or not In the face OF an out
burst Of Roosevelt enthusiasm, when
the colonel steps upon the stage, no
one can tell
Dismay In Financial District.
Any man Of the Roosevelt type who
might be nominated by the Republi-
cans for Governor would find arrayed
j against him the great financial in
terests of New York.
1t would be difficult to adequately
express the profound alarm and dis
a may which have seized upon the fnan-
i cal district as result Of Colonel
Roosevelt's radical talks IN the West.
in the financial district Is the alarm
d being kept from spreading so as to af-
feet securities.
i In the face of what is considered a
4 profound menace to business and fin-
nance as presented by Rooseyelt's new
crusade, men are wagering in their po-
Illtical allegiance, forgetting whether
they are Democrats or Republicans and
looking to the personality Of candi-
dates and not their platform profess
sions.
Il In this state OF mind. Mayor Gaynor,
as a safe and sane candidate, Is being
4 considered by men who would ordi-
narily vote against a Democrat on
that Mayor Gaynor's course has been
founded upon consideration for the
law. He has taken no step outside
the strict letter of the law, and he has
4 promised his friends he would not de-
part from this policy.
VIII Locate in Charlotte.