New-York tribune., 1922-09-22
Hearst Sure To
Be Nominated.
COnnel.s Insists
Editor Never Had Cold Feet
in His Life and Will
Not Quit Now, He Says
After Talk With Candidate
General Got Poke i'm Jaw
Publisher Is Counting
ON l48 Upstate Dele
gates and Murphy's Aid

After a conference with William
Randolph Hearst yesterday, William J..
Corners, the generalissimo of the
badly shattered Hearst forces, an
nounced on behalf of the editorpoliti-
/ clan that Hearst would be placed ia
nomination for Governor at the SYRIA
! cuse convention next week.
| Corners was grinning broadly when
he received newspaper men at Hearst
headquarters yesterday.
Good morning, gentlemen" said
Conncrs. "The general got poke in
I the jaw, but the army is still here and
/ hasn't surrendered"
! Conners playfully rubbed his jaw
and continued:
at was a good fight, and in the vot-
/ ing in the first two hours it was neck
| and neck race, but we didn't have the
inspectators. / thought we'd win, but
the organization held together"
( Conners rubbed his cheek thought
f9lly moment and said:
1--WE got licked, but when 1t came to
money bet them off the board. Why
( there was not a single cent of Smith
money when the polls opened"
/ Then Conners told of his conference
with Hearst in the editors home on
| Riverside Drive He explained that
F., Hearst had come from Chicago on the
/ same train, but in the second section,
/ which brought Conners from Buffalo.
Conners Sure of Victory
Hearst" said Conners, "will go into
7 u ha~ hat ha wa
/ nominated in 1905 without the aid OF
single delegate from Erie County,
and he'n be nominated again"
/ Don't you think Mr. Hearst will
! ret cold feet after this evidence at the
primaries of his unpopularityT" the
| Hearst campaign manager was asked.
"Cold feet?" snapped Corners.
"1Iearst never had cold feet in his life.
/ III guarantee you right now he wlll go
INTO the convention"
! "Will he be at Syracuse IN person
( VIII hs go to the convention Z?
81 cane answer that question o-day'
| but Hearst will be there If 1 want him
/ there" replied Conners.
| Conners said that he was counting
on Monroe County giving Hearst at
least twenty delegates, and nc also SAID
! that Chemung would 90 for Hearst,
But at least in the case of Chemung
J Conners is in error, according to dis
! interested observers, for the defeat of
/ the organization designee for District
! Attorney, Frank x. Disney, in no wise
! involved control of the delegates to
the state committee, who are said TO
j be unanimously for Smith. Disney was
beaten by Walter Herendeen who was
backed by Frank Ross, editor Of "The
EImira Advertiser"
Asked IA IN thp -Y1ftmhpr nf Hearst
delegates he now claimed he had up
state Corners said:
/ "We count on 145 delegates
Counting on Murphy
He would not say where they were
He is counting on Charles f. Murphy
and John H. McCooey to give him the
7ammany delegations here and in
I Brooklyn. If Murphy and McCooey1
the latter is controlled by MurphyN-
live up to Connerss expectations the
nomination for Hearst would be
cinched rs Brooklyn has 134 dele
gates and Manhattan 142, and Murphy
could also swing the Bronx and Rich
mond The total number of delegates
is 734, and 1868 would nominate.
The Hearst forces are making prom
ises all along the line to win over del
egations and the political l. O. US all
over the state are as thick as repeat
ers on election day. Coupled up with
this is a determination on the part of
the Hearst forces to beat Smith at any
cost and they are secretly putting
forth propaganda for various other
candidates. All the Hearst campaign
managers, from Conners down, insist
that they are not counting on Mayor
Hylan for second choice under any cir
cumstances.
a persistent bit of propaganda being
circulated by the Hearst forces is that
Jeremiah 7. Mahoney, former law
partner of Supreme Court Justice Rob
ert F. Wagner, said to be one of the
candidates acceptable to Hearst, is
drafting a platform which will be so
radical that Smith cannot run on it.
That is branded by Smiths friends
as malicious untruth. 1t is true that
the platform adopted will be radical
one, but it cannot be more radical than
those adopted four years ago and
again two years ago, when Smith was
candidate, it was pointed out. Those
platforms-this was before Justice
Wagner went on the bench--were
drafted by Justice Wagner, then law
partner of Mahoney, who now is the
chairman of the committee on plat
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