The New York herald., 1922-05-28
CONNORS SEES FORTY
COUNTIES HEARST'S
Editors Campaign Plugger
Tells Chicago He's Only
Touched High Spots.
SURE MURPHY WILL HELP
Alleges Wholesale Frauds in
Previous Polls-Women to
Be Active Factors.

Special Dispatch to THE New YoRK HERALD.
CHICAGO, May 27.-''W. r. Hearst will
be elected Governor of New York by the
largest plurality ever given a candidate
for that office" declared William j.
Corners of Buffalo here to-day. Mr..
Conners Is in Chicago In connection with
legal business of the Great Lakes Tran
sit Company. of which he Is chairman OF
the board.
"Mr. Hearst will be the unanimous
choice of Tammany for Governor" con-
tinued Mr.. Conners. Yes. and when
Mr.. Hearst returns from Europe prac-
tically every big Democratic leader in
the whole of New York State will be
there to greet him and beg of him to
make the race as their candidate
you remember the Hylan avalanche
the 8th of last November when he thun-
good. Well, wait until you see the
Hearst landslide. Hylan's friends are
with Hearst forty ways from Sunday.
''It will be Hearst, Hylan, Tammany
and the people against the interests.
There'll be nothing to 1t but counting the
votes"
but Mr.. Hearst has gone on record
with the statement that he does not care
to run for the nomination" was sug
gested.
Eyes. yes: that's Hearst's way Of do
ing things" explained Mr.. Conners.
You see he sticks to the old theory of
letting the office seek you. Put it down
and print 1t that he'll run all right. I'm
not doing all this missionary work just
to see my name in the papers.
why. run two papers Of my own In
Buffalo"
Says Hearst Was Counted Ont.
1t was suggested to Mr.. Conners that
Mr.. Hearst had been defeated several
years ago when he made the fight for
the Governorship.
mot defeated, counted out" snapped
Mr.. Conners. He then went on to ex-
plain that Mr.. Hearst had been the VIC
tim Of wholesale vote frauds when he
was the candidate for Mayor and the
Governorship.
"The first time that Mr.. Heart ap-
peared before the public was when he
ran for Congress. He was elected.
When he ran for Mayor he won. but the
other fellows counted the votes, and the
same thing happened to him when he
was up for Governor.
This time he can't lose. The other
fellow will have no chance to count
him out. Mayor Hylan and his assist
sures fair play for all the candidates
Certain papers In New York are
printing lot of gossip that Murphy
and Hylan have fallen out, that they
are enemies. Charley Murphy and Hy-
Ian are the best of friends. Why. just
before I left New York, Murphy told a
close friend of mine There never was
a Mayor like Hylan since Tammany
was organized
"Hylan has always played fair with
the organization. Tammany is better
equipped to-day under Hylan's leader
ship than ever before. Now let me
give you a little thought.
Credits Murphy with Power.
THE nominating power for New
York's next Governor so far as the
Democrats are concerned lies In New
York city proper-and that nominating
power lies with Mr.. Murphy himself"
said Mr. Connors.
Asked how many upstate delegates
were pledged to Mr.. Hearsts nomina-
ton, Sc said:
Il have only hit few Of the high
spots upstate so far and l have Sc
cured 40 out OF IS counties. When |
nominated Hearst for Governor in 1906
L had 26 delegates against Charley
Murphy's 100. You know what happened
at that election. Hearst got enough
votes to elect him, but lot of obliging
gents forgot to count all the votes
cast"
When asked IL he cared to make pub
lie what transpired at the conference
here Thursday between Murray HUI
bert, President of the Board of Alder
men and himself, Mr.. Cqnnors replied
with a smile:
Say, there's lots of things In the
political game you've got to gumshoe
IL you want to come out a winner. II
Murray wants to do any talking he's
free to tell the story about what we
discussed"
THE women's vote will be one of the
strongest factors in the coming fight"
asserted Mr.. Connors. Mayor Hylan's
plurality was doubled last time over
1917 mostly by the 'women's votes. l
have been making study of how Big
BIZ Thompson put 1t over here the
last time for his second term as Mayor.
1 find that he has well organized
Thompson for Mayor women's clubs.
I'll start the same thing for Mr.. Hearst
little later on. We have no big head
quarters yet. What's the use? II won't
be necessary TO spend money like New
berry to elect Hearst. He's too popular
with the rank and file all through New
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