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Show 1 1 Y 2 LJll L A VviC.'.Ml .V, :: &i nadlru aVarflslfc. W. S. HEAEST. " ' - (Special to Th. Telegr.m.) SrBACUSE, Aug. 4. A spirited effort ef-fort is beinjf made to secure for this city the forthcoming state convention of the Independence League. The league is a new. force in politic with huge ambitions. Just now the main issue of the Independence In-dependence league is to boom W. B. Hearst for Governor. A full State ticket ia to be nominated, however, and the league promoters propose to be first in the field with their candidates. The convention will probably be held late in July or early in August. As Hearst is a Democrat the Democratic Dem-ocratic State convention will have the interesting choice of indorsing him or of having their candidate hopelessly beaten even before the race is begun. A leading member of . the league here has predicted that the Democrats will place a regular ticket in the field and that it will rank third when the Then he got 200,000 votes for Mayor in New York, and insists he was counted out. ' This year the independent movement move-ment is being spread over the State under the name of the Independence league. In the New York city contest it was the Municipal Ownership league. Two yean hence, promoters of the movement believe, it will be strong enough to blossom forth as an inde- fendent national party. They aver hat the regular Democratic organization organiza-tion is in a panic and that the great boom for Bryan at this time is due to fear of Hearst and his league. Every day brings the publication cf interviews with men of the old parties par-ties who declare allegiance to the league. Many such declarations are bv men who have been honored with office by the old parties. While a large majority of these converts are Democrats, there is a liberal sprinkling sprink-ling of Bepublicans. Two of the big newspapers in Buffalo Buf-falo make a specialty of digging up news and interviews favorable to Hearst and the league. Declarations of men prominent in the ranks of organized labor are especially welcomed. Union labor is probably the strongest and most available source of strength, in the opinion of the league I boomers. votes are counted. Whether or not they win this fight does not appear to be the important point with the leaguers. They have their eyes- on the Presidency. Hearst was a candidate for the nomination nom-ination at the Democratic National convention in 1004. He did not get it, but he mustered about 200 delegates. Branches of the league are being organized or-ganized in every part of the State. Literature Lit-erature is circulated by mail and by hand with the utmost freedom. Headquarters Head-quarters are established and the rounding round-ing up of members is prosecuted systematically. sys-tematically. There is apparently plenty "of money. The platform of the league calls for municipal ownership, ballot reform, direct di-rect nomination of candidates by the people instead of the convention plans, just railroad rates, good roads, pure food laws, recognition of labor unions, protection of legitimate capital, but the destruction of criminal trusts, regulation regula-tion of insurance companies and other financial organizations, and the election elec-tion of United States Senators by the people. : . There is a pamphlet - telling ' that when Hearst ran for Mayor he carried Brooklyn, but lost the Bowery. In order to get their ticket on the official State ballot the leaguers will have to file a petition bearing at least 10,000 names. They say they have a petition with 200,000 names. |