Show HURST AT AUBURN Bitter Attack Upon New York Elec Election tion Board Auburn N K Y Oct R B Hearst in iii his speeches at both Syracuse and Auburn devoted much of his atten tion to an attack upon the New York elec tion board and a discussion of his views of the effects or of the decision ion of the ap division on the Independence league nomInating petitions if that decI sion sian should be sustained b by the court ox of appeals He said In lart HAs As election day approaches it be comes omes evident that we will have to meet this year all over the state of New York the same corrupt opposition and the same criminal election methods that we had to meet last year in New York City Accuses the Trusts Certain great and powerful trusts and L Corporations which secured their great wealth through governmental favoritism L and political protection are lre determined to tc preserve their special privileges and to tc maintain their public political pull Wo Wc should realize what and what whal will happen and we must prepare to meet it H Against liberty and corruption we wc must oppose honesty and public and pa duty I have just come from Greater New Ne r York and there the fIght against us has ha already begun The same old election hoard board that last year helped McClellan to tc steal the mayors office is still sUll in power The same old election board which helped L McClellan to fight against an honest of ballots actually In the boxes which within the last two months has ha gone into court and asked to have the th ballots destroyed in order that there may ma never ever n be an honest count of the peoples votes otes v is now It at this moment prosecuting va an a n appeal in the hope of somehow being able a ble to destroy the ballots wherein lies the t he proof of their own guilt and the guilt of o f their appointees the election officials Corrupt Election Board This corrupt board has begun to exer exercIse cIse e lse Its power still further in favor faor of cc corrupt c Interests that control and hope to continue c to control our government When the petitions of the people veople were filed f with this board they were allowed to tc tobe I be marl marked ed and mutilated and in some cases ases c destroy destroyed d Scores of them were thrown t out altogether and the action ol of this t his board was sustaIned I re regret regret gret to sa say 30 b by the appellate division oJ of the t he supreme court I assert publicly that this board is cor corrupt rupt r I assert publicly that one member of this board has been under indictment s times I have moved today to tc indIct I this election board and I have re retained reamed amed t Governor Hill HUl and oth others rs of the ablest law lawyers ers throughout this state to tc appear before the court of appeals and anc I reverse if possible the action of this thu m corrupt election board boar Not Fighting for Himself I assure you ou he continued that In Inthis It L this matter I am not fighting merely for foi myself I am not fighting merely for the th i candidates that have been thrown off the th ticket but I am fighting for the funda fundamental fundamental mental right of American citizens to nom nomInate mate candidates by petition I am fIghting to preserve for you ar an t avenue of relief it if hereafter both of Your parties shall shaH be controlled b by the corpor corporations corpor corporations no hope shall remain to the peo people pie themselves except through an Inde Independent pendent movement In conclusion let me say that if an ar L honest election can be had I am sure that arI I we wIll carry the state of by r from to Speech of Attorney Clarence J Shearn Mr lIr at attorney attorney torney who followed declared that he lu had learned of one dastardly scheme that thai had come to light through a man high higi 1 In Republican circles uIt It Is planned he said to employ a half a dozen lozen anarchists to t hold a series of meetings in as many see sec sections of the state late in tile tHe we week k nt a t which inflammatory speeches will be hi made denouncing President Roosevelt and am I calling upon anarchists to rally ralty to tin the support of Mr Hearst These speeches 5 and resolutions are to be played up in ina ii i ia a series of sensational articles an all over evet 1 the state and offered to voters as proof t of the charge made by the Republican I candidate for governor that Mr Hearst Hears rc represents presents in this campaign n the fanatics fanatic i of the United States and the forces of in r c decency and mob violence Just remember he continued that tim the halls and the speakers for these an anarchist meetings will all be paid for by in 7 Tim Woodruff with money collected by in Shipbuilding Trust Sheldon with the ac active ad five tive cooperation of Cornelius Vanderbilt whose railroad has just been fined for rebating as a result of the pernicious activity of W R B Hearst o |