The New York herald., 1922-01-25
SEABURY DISSECTS
HEARST CANDIDACY
Former Judge Makes Bitter
Attack on Hylan-Murphy
Alliance to Aid Him.
NO CLAIM ON DEMOCRACY
Calls On EX-GOv. Smith to
Weld Cudgels Against
Newspaper Editor.
NO CLAIM ON DEMOCRACY

Samuel Seabury. formerly Judge Of
the Court of Appeals and Democratic
candidate for Governor in 1916. issued
statement yesterday denouncing the
earst-Hylan-M Murphy combination to
run William Randolph Hearst for public
office in New York as a menace against
the State, and called upon former Gov.
Alfred e. Smith to take the leadership
of the party against the combination.
He supplemented that appeal with q
cali to Democrats ito organize at an
early date TO secure the election of
delegates to the next Democratic State
convention who are opposed TO Hearst"
Mr.. Smith was confined to his bed yes
terday with a cold and could not be
reached for an interview
In his fight against the Hearst scheme
Judge Seabury is understood to have
the support of two former chairmen of
the State Democratic committee-Wil-
lam Church Osborn and George r. Van
Nance.
Judge Seabury's call is the first chal-
lenge from the independent Democrats
or recognition in any articulate way Of
the Hearst-Hylan-M Murphy maneuver-
ings which have been in progress for
several months. Judge Seaburys state
ment follows in part:
"At the moment when Democratic
prospects in the State of New York
seem bright. the shadow of the sinister
figure of Hearst is cast across the path
way that leads to success. The sugges-
ton OF his candidacy, either for the
Governorship, or Senatorship. is a
threat to the Democratic party, and
menace othe best interests of the
State.
Hearst's methods of procedure in the
effort to secure office for himself are too
well known to permit his present activi-
ties being misunderstood. He is now
forming upstate organizations friendly
TO his candidacy.
I'm 1918 Murphy agreed to nominate
Hearst for Governor, and the stage was
set at the Saratoga conference to place
Hearst in nomination. That disgrace
full program was defeated by the pas
sage of resolution which described
Hearst and repudiated him as a truck
Ter with our country's enemies That
resolution, which was unanimously
adopted, expressed what the Democratic
delegates thought of Hearst, prevented
his nomination, and made possible the
nomination of Gov. Smith.
Hearst has no claim upon the Demo-
cratic party. He has unjustly and viii
lainously assailed every man who has
been active in public life during the
last fifteen years. He openly supported
the national Republican ticket at the
last election. His newspapers assailed
Gov. Smith during his whole admins
tration. 1t seems Hearst's present pur-
pose is to support Smith for one office
provided Tammany will support him for
the other.
'In view of Hearst's record his une-
quivocal Reputation by the Democrats
OF the State in 1918 at Saratoga, and
his consistent disloyalty to every Demo-
cratic nominee in State and nation, it
would seem that his impudence in de-
mandng the nomination of the party,
either for Governor or Senator. ought to
be again rebuked. Democrats opposed to
the nomination of Hearst ought to get In
touch with one another, so that they can
cooperate in a determined effort to elect
delegates to the State convention in
opposition to Hearst and Murphy, and
thus avert the disgrace to the Demo-
cratic party that would be entailed il
it should yield to Hearst's latest de-
mand for his own nomination"