The New York herald., 1922-07-12
Third Party Hint Seen in
yelled Attack on Lead
ing Democrats.
SEABURY GIVES WARNING
Says Murphy-Hearst Alliance
Threatens to Bring Party
to It's Lowest Ebb.

women at the Pennsylvania Hotel yes
terday urged William R. Hearst In the
highest terms for the nomination of
Governor, and threw slurs at Alfred
E. Smith so thinly veiled that the at
tack could not have been palmer had
he mentioned names.
The luncheon was given by the
newly organized Women's Progressive
Democratic Alliance, formed to offset
the effect OF the regular Democratic
womer who have come out against
Hearst. Prominent in the new organi-
| zation are many of the women holding
office in the Hylan administration.
They disclaimed that they were for
any candidate. but ridiculed women
who are trying to dictate to the men
who shall be nominated Then they
applaudcd the Mayors definition Of
Hearst as the kind Of man the women
should try to have nominated for Gov
ernor.
Following the action of the upstate
Democrats last week IN declaring for
Smith and against Hearst. the occa sion
| yesterday SHOWcQ now icdT 10 tne ODcu
| split in the party. The Mayor takes
his stand squarely with Hearst and
against Smith. The women indicated
they want one of the Hylan-H Hearst
creed for Governor.
Warns of Press Praise.
The set of principles they adopted
declared in favor of reshaping the Port
Authority legislation TO require city
consent. This was seen as a slap at
Smith. who has defended the Gov
ernor's Port Authority act. The Mayor
declared he was an independent. not
a partisan Democrat and that was
regarded by many as hint for third
possibility Of third party If Hearst Is
beaten for the nomination. The plat
form laid down by the Alliance for it's
candidates contains the familiar Hearst
Hylan planks.
This is the time for house cleaning
regardless of party, the Mayor said.
He sat down when half through reading
his address to the seventy-five women,
saying he was tired and the heat was
oppressive. and read the latter part
seated. He assailed parties and party
leaders who adopt platforms in the
interest of the people and then force
the nominations Of men who respond
secretly to the corporations. The Mayor
said:
You should not refuse to support a
man who Is hammered and maligned by
the corporation press. for they only ham,
mer those they fear they favor plaster
and lath emocrats. not real Democrats
who will drive through When the Re-
publication corporation press says, He
is good enough for u.s. 1t means he Is
good enough for the corporations"
His own experiences. the Mayor said,
proved what he was saying. He de-
nounced the indictment of Gov. Small
and said the corporations tried to
do the same thing to him through the
Almirall Grand Jury and criticized that
body, which he said misused its power
through prejudice against him and for
the corporations. This was cited to
show how the corporations were work
ing.
Miss Elisabeth Marbury said 1t was
waste of time for women to go around
worrying about who would be the candi-
date, and she suggested leaving that to
the delegates who will 60 to the party
convention.
Mrs. Louis Reed welzmiller. Deputy
~
the Alliance, which she said has enrolled
1900 members. Mrs George Childs was
chairman of the luncheon.
Seabury Den0unces Hearst.
AS he sailed for Europe on the
Berengaria yesterday Samuel Seabury.
former Judge OF the Court of Appeals
and one-time Democratic candidate for
Governor denounced william Randolph
Hearst, william J. Conners, the former s
campaign manager. and indicated a
further cleavage in the Democratic
party.
Last weeks Democratic conference
at Syracuse" said Mr.. Seabury. was an
encouraging development Of inde-
pendence within the party. Il plainly
indicated to Murphy, who will control a
majority of the delegates at the conven-
ton. that even II he Is willing to
stultify himself by nominating Hearst,
the independent element in the party
will not submit to this disgraccful
method of party suicide"
Not only had Mr.. Hearst no qualifica-
tions for the office of Governor. Mr..
Seabury said. but, IL elected. he would
simply use It as advantage ground from
which to seek to crafty other ambi-
tions. He added:
"Of course, Hearst cannot be NOM
mated unless Murphy assents If. there
fore. he Is nominated 1t will be solely
because Murphy has named him. Hcrs
we have fine trinity Of leaders under
which the Democratic party will make
its appeal to the conscience and in
telligence OF the State--Murphy. Hearst
and Conners.
''In the whole history of American
politics no party has ever sunk to a
lower or more degraded position thar
the Democratic party In this State will.
have reached IL 1t yields to the domina-
tion OF Murphy, Hearst and Conners
Murphy stands for a low order of COM
mercialism In politics: Conners for q
noisy pluguglyism. and Hearst for the
ability of unscrupulous wealth to COM
mand the support OF party leaders,
while his newspapers appeal to the
basest and most ignoble impulses in
men,
Asserting there Is general feeling
that Alfred E. Smith should be renom-
mated Mr.. Seabury regretted that up to
this time the former Governor had
maintained only timid silence" In re-
ply to questions as to where he stood on
the matter of the publishers nomina-
tion and as to whether he would con-
sent to run on the same ticket with
him.