The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-24
ANYTHING TO BEAT MAZET.
r.NNAHF,S DEsPERATE CAMPAIGN
IN THE NINETEENTH.

Came rB0th Ends ana the Mluuie''
STYLES Of Bait to Land tho Different Kinds
of Fish-CitiZsns' Union Men Helping.
The AUht between the Repu blioan friends OF
Issemblyman Mazet and the Tammany and
criz,ns' Union friends OF Perez NJ Stewart In
IN. Nineteenth Assembly district 10 fast APP
rrnaching the continuous red-irs oratory and
tr,s.. band stage. The campaign OF literature
Ia about at it's climax. Postmen are oVerladen.
p.ople who live In fiat houses have to dig out
x,ds Of cards and handbills from thor letter.
bo.es before they can see whether there Is
INV real mail for them.
The cam paign headquarters 81 the different
rartjes are oil abuste from sunset until long
,f,,r midnight-all except the Citizens
Union headquarters. at which the llRhts 70
ou,nt 10 O'Clock. Last night Mr.. Kline. the
I.ader OF the Citizens Union depart
want OF Tammany's work in the
di.trct. let the young men who were helping
rim stay up until quarter past 10 o'clock.
police Commissioner Sexton and Register Ike
rronns. at their Stewart headquarters at
si,tv.nfth street and Broadway. spent tho
,igbt in issuing humorous manifestoes
Tbey had seen q statement in some news
napers that the Repu blioane were complaining
=, inability to hire halls. because MIR. Sexton
mad hired them all for the season. said Mr..
Sexton: ~,
,i, have White Oak Hall. next door to the
sh.rmau Square Hotel. three nights in tho
,vs.I rent and lights free. provided only he
will arrange TO have Quigg speak there lust
,,r, and to have John Proctor Clarke repeat
tbsrs the speech he made at Durlands Riding
Academy last week"
It was reported that Mr.. Sexton was anxious
IA bstSl 600 that Mr.. Ma2et would not be re-
oIscted Aman who said he had $1,000 to bet
4 Ia "a
about It. Mr.. Sexton said he wasn't a betting
man. .- ,
I,aauush As this headquarters fronts on
proadyav and is prom IN emily forced upon the
.ight n, most 81 the well-to-do citizens on
The district who pass tho place on the
way TO and from their homes. everything
that would tend to remind the passerby
tbatitisa Tammany headquarters has been
carefully eliminated from the outside signs.
According TO all the sighs it 10 The United
Citizens Headquarters
But over at Tenth avenue and Sixty-third
,trset. where thers are no independent voters
10 be frightened away from Mr.. Stewart By the
name OF Tammany Assistant Corporation
Counsel Bach. his colleague. Mr. Crane. War
don Hagan and other Tammany ofiiceholders
were telling audiences Of laboring men that
Mr. Stewart was true friend OF the poor and
a thoroughgonE Tammany Hall Democrat.
while Mr. Mazets only object In life was
70 send hreling spies and assassins into the
homes Of hardworking citizens to insult their
wives and daughters and otherwise to drag
IN the mre OF pollution the fair tame OF the
Imperial city"
Mr. Sexton was ask cd how many votes he ex-
pected to get from his alliance with the Citi-
gems Union. He said he guessed he didn't
know. and grinned. The Citizens Union
didn't amount to much in ITSELF" he said. but
It gave Republicans who wanted to bolt
their ticket chance OF doing 40 without voting
the Tammany ticket itself OF course. their
votes in the Citizens Union column would be
counted Tor the Tammany candidate. but their
eonsciences ddnt mind that.
But DO you honestly think, Mr. sexton. that
you will get 10 votes out OF the Citizens
""Wen." said Nr. Sexton. II don't know, Oh
Collector Bidws!l. who e in charge Of
broadly when word was brought to him OF
Mr., se5tons conditional offer Of White, Oak
oF F fs oIsr %s TT NM ss.tSn Ths
IT. Bdsa s sn9 o 's every 1otsr
in the district understand that Mr.: stew
h.,sm Gt; st' -h9 in h hs Sne1 nS6n
that in voting for Mr. n ste ev they VIII be
to understand that MI stewart is Dir Cookers
%asr Is to s pc
every letterbox In the district received card
tsstJmon M b.ore Mr Iasst: ''' .f'A'f
nnde 1ns Cha. FAD sa5's with 1s,.a
assessed valuation OF real estate in the district
II. Vent abo g.s.r
day in the gray and gold full-dress uniform OF
the regiment. making a house-to-house can
4 reporte5 carried one Of the Republican
Th hs e. oof MAJ
Pf%a' yerf Tss 9o' S%ssS
and tSsS turning to tn. orce aroSnd f him he
said: Say wonder what those people think
in D pnga1 s K %b. 1tb
passed the door On ~ 4, translucent sides was
Assembly. Perez NJ Stewart" Everybody
went out to admire the wagon and Mr..
sexton question was not answered.
MI. Kline. the boss at the Citizens Union
headGuarsers at Broadway and Seventy ninth
speech that the Hon. Ike Fromms made to the
S2ch Ra eSst Ss nssssa
Ssaucuses at Albany, Mr.. Stewart" he said,
I'm sure o. It. why Mr.. Stewart is ' r1nni hns
from high sense Of duty not from desire for
olcN. ne tOl me IolOre ne was nominated
that he would rather spend thirty days in Jail
than go to the Assem- bly,"
Mr. Kline was also annoyed by the apparent
skepticsm Of Mr.. Sexton as to the vote getting
ability Of tho Citizens Union contingent.
seventy five votes" he exclaimed; we
ago
How many did you poll last year2" he was
AEk"d
We didn't have any candidate last year" he
> Last year tho Citizens Union nominated Mr..
EacDn for Governor. at the instance OF Mr.
hIine; In the Nineteenth bly, District
hr klincs district. Mr.. Bacon polled just ~
votes.
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