New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-30
Has Not Shown His ColorS, AND
will Not Until States Are
Made Up, Friends Say.
WANTS TO BACK TAMMANY
MAY Indorse Whitman or May
Run Himself if Wigwam and
Ants Both Disappoint
Him in Selection.

going 10 play in the game of municipal
politics this year? That question is be-
ing seriously pondered by all who expect
10 have anything to do with framing
ticket for next November Just how
much strength Mr.. Hearst could control
is another puzzle that many politician
is trying to figure out to his own salts
faction.
There are many different answers given
10 these questions. 1t is not probable
according 10 those best informed as 10
what is really going on in Mr.. Hearsts
mind. that he will make any public dec
laration of MS attitude for some time.
They believe he will play waiting game
Those interested in organizing the anti
Tammany municipal committee suggested
that Mr. Hearst select some men TO rep
resent him and the independence League.
The suggestion was not accepted. There
viii b. no one on the committee TO spek
for Mr.. Hearst.
Mr. Hearst makes no secret of the fact
that he is opposed 10 Controller Prender-
CAST and Borough President McAneny.
lie holds that by placing them on his
ticket four years ago he was responsible
Tor their election. They have never con-
coded that he had any right TO dictate to
them, and he would probably be opposed
To them now even had the subway situation
not still further alenated them from him.
lie had thought he would be able TO get
their support against the dual subway
contracts. but being disappointed at
tackled both viciously in his newspapers.
lie asserted that he would do all he could
TO defeat any ticket upon which these
men might run for any office.
Wants to Support Wigwam.
How far Mr.. Hearst will so in his oppo-
sition he will not say His friends say he
intends TO keep entirely out of the slate
making. deciding on his course after the
states have been framed
OF course Mr.. Hearst would oppose
Mayor Gaynor. but political wiseacres do
not look upon his nomination by any
party as a possibility. Friends Of the
editor say he would like TO support the
Tammany ticket this fall; that he has
reached a point in his political career
where he believes he has more to gain
by running with the organization than
standing out as an independent SO II
Tammany should be forced to name for
Mayor a man who is above suspicion Mr.
Hearst IS more than likely to support
him.
. Mr.. Hearst. il is said. is far from con-
WINGED that fusion of the various anti
Tammany forces will be successful. He
can imagine an independent citizens COM
nittee ticket acceptable only in part to
Republicans and Progressives; hence if
the Tammany candidate should be one
he could afford to support, he might get
considerable political capital by helping
Tammany. If the Tammany ticket should
not be acceptable, there would be an ex-
rellent chance for him to make up an
Independence League ticket from the
others. with a possibility Of success for
at least part Of such a ticket.
Golf for Mayor
Mr. Hearst has been told that Charles
f. Murphy is seriously talking now of
the possibility OF nominating for Mayor
Justice Golf who has been associated
with the police graft trials Those who
remember the trick by which the Tam
many leader stole Controller Grout and
L
men from the fusionists in 1903, and ar
ranged To nominate Mayor Gaynor four
years ago after he was convinced that
the Mayor would be an anti-Tammany
candidate otherwise, believe that the
nomination of Justice Golf this year is by
no means an idle dream. Justice Golf
has told his friends that in spite Of his
age he believes he could stand the strain
of the mayoralty. and that he would be
glad 10 round out his public career in that
office
While Justice Golf would like TO be
Mayor his friends do not believe he would
run against District Attorney Whitman
If the latter should be the candidate OF
the citizens committee. He and the Dis
trict Attorney have worked in the great
est harmony in the prosecution of police
grafters. and the justice would be in
clined to support the District Attorney
for Mayor
Friends OF Mr.. Hearst say he would
find 1t hard not 10 give his support TO
District Attorney Whitman if he should
be the choice OF the independent ticket
trainers. Mr.. Whitman has always recog-
nzed the support he got from Mr. Hearst
when ne ran for his present office four
years ago. Several of the appointments
he made were in recognition of those SER
vices.
Might Run Whitman Himself
1t is possible, say friends of Mr.. Hearst.
that if McAneny should be placed at the
head Of the independent ticket, the editor
might try TO get Mr.. Whitman to head a