New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-18
HEARST labs DEMOCRATS
SAYS "RidicuIous Dix Bolted the
Ticket'-So Did Others.
PROMISES ALBANY REFORMS
But He Won't Ride IN "a Band
Wagon Drawn by Roosevelt
and Root.

About two thousand followers or w. r..
Hearst gathered in Cooper Union last hls II
to inform him that he had been noiiili'a'eu
for Lieutenant Governor on the lhuepeh-
dence League ticket, and when MT teaISt
appeared on the scene, a, Ilttle late. ne
stood in the familiar attitude, with one
hand raised to quell the tumuit tor several
minutes. Finally he raised both hands and
waved them gently up and do"n' WINE
William A. Coakley, the chairman OF the
meeting. tapped his rapidly ana sdlu Soiie-
thing that nobody hsard
John J. Hopper the independence League
candidate for Governor, spoke few min
utes before Mr.. Hearst, the tenor OF ms
remarks being that he was honored by the
nomination. TT came to me unsought. 1t
came TO me as n duty, and l accept 1t cheer
fully
A woman in the back of the hall inter
rupted his peroration, declaring that 1t was
useless to talk about anything else until
the question of elections was settled, by
asking:
Mr.. Hopper, what about woman's suf-
frage?"
Answers a Suffragette.
While Mr.. Hopper gathered himselt 10
reply. Coakley. the interchangeable intro
Queer. said that reply would be forth
coming TO that and all other sensible iueS-
tons Mr.. Hopper then said:
Il fear Maud hasn't read the lndepeh-
dence League platform
Coakley had had some experience with
interruptions himself being obliged to halt
his opening speech while friends OF Henry
l.. Stimson offered a few rounds or ap-
plause for the Republican candidate Tor
Governor.
When it came Mr.. Hearst's turn to speak
he found good deal to say about the
Democratic ticket and legislative condltlohS
at Albany, which he promised ne woulu
remedy. if he were elected. as II was tpe
Lieutenant Governor who presided over tile
field on which the Republican "black morse
cavalry and the Democratic "black leg
infantry mannuvred.
Il was brought up a Democrat MI
Hearst said. land I might be voting the
ticket now, if l could only find Democrat
on If to vote for But Ridiculous Dix bolt
ed the ticket in 1896 and 1900, and Conroy
bolted in 1902, and both of them bolted the
Presidential ticket whenever 1t was radl-
cal.
'.Riordan, Fornes Fitzgerald and Burton
Harrison, the so-called Democratic Repre-
sentatives in Congress, all voted to sustain
the infamous Cannon rule. l cannot see
how such a reactionary has any claim on
Democratic support. If l were a Demo-
cratic voter, I would rather vote for
genuine Democrat on the Independence
League ticket than for a hybrid Republi-
can who calls himself a Democrat
His Compliments to Dix.
ca+tInq around to the legislative spoils,
Mr. Hearst said:
1.-THE Hon Ridiculous Dix has declared
that, if elected, he would slap the Repuo-
licsn "bIack horse cavalry" on the wrist
and drive it out.
in the first place, he cannot be elected
Second. if he should be, Murphy would
not allow him to NEEDLE with the crack
regiment of the machines marauding
army. The Grady Guerillas are the Life
Guards, of Tammany Hall. They belong TO
the commissary department and gather
the forage. Somebody should warn Cor
poraI Dix that if he is not more careful
of his language General Murphy will re-
duce him to the ranks and Sergeant Cram
viii strip the stripes from his sleeves.
In the third place, If Dix could be
elected, and If he wanted to interfere with
the black horse cavalry and if Murphy
should lose his mind and let him, Mr.. Dix
could do no more TO restrain them than
Mr.. Hughes.
THE Lieutenant Governor presides over
the Senate-three minutes allowed for
cheers The Lieutenant Governor over
looks the field on which the black horse
cavalry manGuvres, and I am not Oh the