New Britain herald., 1922-09-22
HEARST NO GUTTER
 EVEN IF DEFEATED
Admits Getting Good Poke in the
 Jaw But Will Stick

New York, Sept 22,-It was witt . somewhat wry smile that WilHan J. Corners, generalssimo of tn Hearst pre- convention campaign, re turned to his Hotel MoAlpin head quarters late yesterday afternoon {, face group of inquisitive newspape men. He was just back from tn, Erie County front where his force fighting for Hearst, had been put tt iout at the primaries on Tuesday
 Good morning boys" said Mir Corners without prompting and ap parentlH ohivious of the time of inc day The old general got good poke in the jaw. but the army is ttil there and 1t has not surrendered
 Then in the manner of a soliloquS he wadei in response to many ques. toning glances:
 Tt was a good fight and am far from complaining or finding fault. am not the man to holler when get licked. For the first two hours it was neck to neck race I fig ured we would win when I went in but F'itzpatricks organization held to- gether But even though we got licked in the fight, in the betting we had the other side backed clean of the board. There wasn't a dollar of Smith money in sight when We were through"
 When Mir. Corners reached his headquarters at the McAlpin he had held a conference with Mr Hearst who arrived from Chicago shortly after noon on the Twentieth Century Limited. Mir. Hearst when he stepped from his train declined to be inter- viewed
 Hearst to Run, He Says.
 MT. Hearst is going in to the con- vention.' said MT Corners to the re- porters He was nominated the last time he ran for governor without the support of a single delegate from Erie County and he will be nominat- ed this time We did get four dele gates from Erie this trip. anyhow we elected 12o of the 400 members of the Erie county democratic commit tee and we nominated one of our own men for state senator from one of the Erie districts, defeating a Fitz- patrick candidate And we got ap- rroximately 3S percent of the vote so that we didn't do so very poorly after all"
 But don't you think that MT Hearst, confronted with new and cumulative evidence afforded by he primary results everywhere of his un- popularity with organization 1emo- crats, may get cold feet and refuse to let his name go before the con @en- tion?" MT. Corners was asked.
 "Cold feet" he exclaimed" He never was known to get cold feet be- now I can guarantee you right TOW that he is going into the convention, and I have just talked with MT. Hearst
 "Is Nr Hearst coming to Syracuse for the convention-ex Governor Smith, his opponent will be -here? ," MT. Corners was asked.
 T cannot answer that today: didn't ask him that question. was the reply I think MT. Hearst will be there if I want him to-
 Mfr. Corners insisted that he was neither downcast or dismayed by his experiences on primary day, but it was very apparent that both he and his lieutenants, as well as other attaches of the McAlpln headquarter IS were pre-occupied over something that had happened. MT, Corners ad- mitted that when, before leaving for Buffalo prior to the primaries, he had claimed 19o upstate delegates for Hearst that number included the 3S from Erie which he hoped to corral at the primaries but of which mum