New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
Opens
Big Bankroll to
NOn1inateHearst
Indications Point to Nam.
ing Editor for Governor
by Democratic Convention
if Money Will Get Votes
Ready to Pay the Price
Buffalo Multi Millionaire
Tells ''Faithful'' the Hour
Is Here for Radical Move
By Charles T. White

by Charles | White
William J. c'Fingy") Conners. the
Buffalo multimlllionaire has started y
bank roll campaign in behalf Of William
h. Hearst for Governor on the Demo
cratic ticket, and the signs are multi
plying in Democratic circles cvervwher.
IN the state that if the bank roll will
do the trick Hearst will be the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor this fall
and # elected, two years hence the
Democratic candidate for President
Mr.. Corners is reputed to be one Of
the richest men in the state He says
he owns feet of twenty-five steam
boats on the Great Lakes and dominates
the grain handling at all lake ports.
Another boast is that he owns the
biggest truck farm in the world in the
Everglades section Of Florida, and that
within the next five years he will be
furnishing Northern cities with most of
their new potatoes and celery.
AS set forth in The Tribune ycster-
day, in Chicago dispatch, Conners
asserts he has twenty upstate counties
mailed down" for Hearst, and his pre-
diction, that when Tammany sees the
upstate counties for Hearst the tiger
will come along" is likely to be full
filled
Jolt for Tammany Men
Mr.. Conners's conference with Muir
ray Hubert in Chicago was something
of a jolt for local Tammany men.
Corners everywhere pursues tho
most direct method in attaining his
ends. He asks the price of the thing
and If 1t looks good to him he buys it,
right off the bat, and gets the business
ton to something else. He has been
out of politics for the last fifteen years,
but he is back in again, with Hearst
as prospective candidate for Gov
ernor and President.
Mr.. Hearst last week, OH depart
ing for short stay in Europe, said
he was not a candidate for Governor,
or anything. but that Mayor Hylan
would make an ideal candidate for
Governor. Then the Mayor rose in his
place and said he could not think of
accepting a nomination for Governor,
as he was elected Mayor by 418.000
plurality and was going to stay at City
Hall. But he said that Mr. Hearst
would be the finest candidate for
Governor possible, and other words to
the Same effect.
Democratic Split Threatens
This is all a part of the Corners
Hearst Hylan plan-to keep talking
Hearst or Hylan, but to say nothing
about former Governor Alfred E.
Smith. Every few weeks Mayor
Hylan hooks cap up with the "inter-
ests" through the Port Authority, Of
which Mr.. Smith is a commi sioner.
The plan is working out as Corners
and Hearst have schemed, but the op
position is organizing all over the
state, 1t is hardly going beyond
bounds to say that the Hearst-Hylan
Corners menace has split the Demo
not wide as yet, but the fssure is
spreading with every blow struck by
Conners.
Corners Is telling Democrats every
where he goes that both the Democrats
and Republicans are demoralized, and
that the hour has come for a new
radical Democratic movement in the
country, and that Hearst is the man
to head it. He is reminding them Of
1894, when the country was sick of
Clevelandism, and when Mark Hanna
got behind William Mckinley and
overrode all opposition, finally bring
ing about his nomination in 1896 by
the Republican National Convention,
and then managing his successful cam
paign.
"It's just like that now" says Mr..
Conners, "only the shoe is on the
other foot. It's our turn-that's all"
No Limit to Funds
"1here's no limit to expenditures by
a candidates. friends" comes pretty
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