Evening star., 1901-10-30
WOMEN IN THE FIGHT
They Take Important Part in New
York Campaign.
HAVE 100000 CIRCULARS PRINTED
Making War on the Police for
Red-Light District.
ACRIMONIOUS A EECH E S
peciai From STAFF Correspondent.

| Special From a STAFF Correspondent.
| NEW YORK, October 30.-One of the
most interesting features of the cam
| pagn is the fight the women of New
| York are making on Tammany. They
| accuse Tammany of fostering vice and
| making possible the hideous conditions that
| prevail in the red-light district. The police
| are charged with being party to the exist
! ing abuses. The police can only be reached
| through Devery, the deputy commissioner,
and Devery through the mayor.
] The principal reason for the unusual ac-
| tivity of the women in this particular cam
| paign is the recent revelations concerning
| the monstrous social evil known the
cadet system. Young girls of sixteen
| and sometimes younger are the victims of
| this system, exposure of which has shocked
| New York to the core. The police are
| blamed for permitting it. The Womans
| Municipal League has entered crusade
| designed to acquaint the people with the
unSpeakable atrocities of the system A
| pamphlet entitled Facts For Fathers and
Mothers" was prepared. and an order for
| Soo,Qoo copies given 1t is the largest single
| printing order of this kind for delivery
within six days ever issued in this city. 1t
| was necessary to communicate with thirty
| eight different paper mills. twelve envelope
| factories and sixteen printing offices before
| the order could be placed
Fostering Revolt in Tammany's
| Ranks.
The antiTammany forces are taking
every possible advantage Of the dissatisfac-
ton existing among the victims of Tam
many's alleged extortion. The fusion speak
ers have been directed to tell the working
men whom they address that no working
&C.
ing affiliated with Tammany in the past.
1t is not the laborers the reformers are
after, but the leaders of the organization
| who hold high office. This line is being fol-
lowed to offset the warnings that Tammany
sent out to the employees of the public
works that there would be wholesale dis
charges if the fuSioniStS win. Down town
In the great business and financial end of
Broadway an association has been formed,
called the Society of Acorns.' 1t numbers
principally business men. The object of the
association is to create pon-partisan po-
litical body which may hold the balance of
power and exert an influence in close cleo
tions. The association is to vote for candi-
dates representing municipal reform at all
| times. irrespective of party. This time they
are supporting the anti-Tammany ticket.
The Acorns" hold their meetings at mid
day in the business section. 1t is essential
ly silk hat crowd. Yesterday 1 saw 1000
of them crowd a side street at the lunch
hour to hear brief talk by Seth Low and
Mark Twain. The audience cheered the
hot shot that was poured into Tammany.
for there were men who knew the extent
of the abuses of municipal power many of
them coming in contact with it in their
business. This Acorn movement is sig
niflcant. as it shows that an element in the
community, which does not take much in
terest in politics, as a rule, is being
aroused.
Mark Twain's Unique Smile.
Mark Twain likened Tammany to bad
banana with a good piece at the end
Shepard being the good piece. In last
nights meetings throughout the town the
Tammanyites bought up the bananas from
the fruit stands and used them to pelt the
fusion orators.
Judge Jerome is frequently interrupted by
the Tammany heelers and has been warned
of plot to do him serious injury. l met
him last night in the upper end of New
York. through which he was making one of
his characteristic cyclonic campaign whirls
He is wonder a campaigner. He is a
slender, nervous fellow, with a magnetic
voice that moves his audience to great en-
thusiasm. He handles Tammany without
gloves and goes at the heads of the or
ganiZation without fear or favor.
Beginning with the Rev. DR.. Hills. in
Beechers old pulpit, a long list of Brook
lyn ministers are against Mr. Shepard in
men as Bishop Potter, Drs. Huntington,
Rainsford, Parkhurst, Savage, Jefferson.
Heber Newton and Peters and several
well-known rabbis are opposing him. Shep-
ard was put at the head of the ticket to
lend it dignity. but, like good old dog Tray,
he is being judged by the company he
keeps. He has already found it necessary
to disavow some of the talk of Chief Dew
cry.
1t will cost s1OO 900 to run the gov
ernment of New York next year. The city
budget is now being prepared, and although
New Workers are accustomed to dealing
with large figures, they are a little ap-
palled by the fact that their town govern
ment costs one-tenth the sum required for
the expenses of the United States govern
ment.
Tammanyites Dodge Facts.
Great efforts are making by Tammany
to obscure the truth as to the S4,500, 900
added to salaries paid by the city and put
by the present administration where it
would do the most good. That $400. 900 had
been added to salaries of employees and Off
cials already on the rolls, and that over
$4,0O0,O00 increase account was due to
non-mandatory increase of the city en-
ployes.
The New York democratic representa-
tives in Congress are taking an active part
in the city campaign. Amos Cummings,
George B. Mcclellan and SuZer are the
most prominent. Amos Cummings thinks
Tammany will surely win, so does Sulzer.
McClelland is not so confident. SulZer talks
on the east side, where the crusade against
arguments: 1--WE are not such fools as
these so-cailed reformers take US to be-
They think they can fool us because they
live in better houses, have more money
wear patent leather shoes and have Wallets
They live sumptuousiy in clubs. read
where this valiant reformer had his dinner
last night at the Union Club. If he is such
good friend of ours as he pretends he is,
why didn't he get his dinner where 1 got
mine tonight-on the Bowery." He at
tackled Justice Jerome with vigor II have
lived on the east side all my life," he said
"and hurl back into the teeth of the SLAM
derer the libel he has uttered. am a man.
10 not make war upon women. What are
they going to do with these women? Drive
them into the East river? They do not
dare to tell you. There is as much virtue
among your mothers and sisters as there
Is in 5th avenue
EusiOnists Appeal for Finds.
The anti-Tammany forces have issued a
frantic appeal for money. This delights
Mr.. Croker and his friends, who contem-
plateSkyith immense safisfacfion their own