New-York tribune., 1901-09-28
TO SHOW WTAMMA INFAMY
CITIZENS UNION WILL USE PICTURES
FREELY-OPENING MASS MEETING
NEXT SATURDAY NIGHT

Seth Low. Edward NJ Grout. Charles V.
Fornes and other candidates the fusion ticket
will open the municipal campaign at a ratifica-
tion meeting on next Saturday night in Cooper
Union. All the indications point to rousing
rally. The tone of Mr.. Lows remarks in reply
ing TO the gentlemen who informed him last
evening at his house of his nomination is proof
that Mr.. Low and his associates are going to
force the fighting
There is no mistaking the temper of the
masses who hoping for decent home gov
ernment The feeling has taken possession of
them that they are in a fight for liberty of
speech and action and for the preservation of
common rights against political brigands who
already have the Police Department in their
grasp and whose further lease of power will
mean more open robbery and oppression The
opening gun of the campaign is expected to land
large sized shell among the leather chairs in
the Democratic Club.
Ten lantern slide men with about four hundred
different photographs and equal number of
epigrams will begin the campaign fight against
Tammany Monday at different places around
town. Some of the will have permanent
stands and use pictures and sentiments without
elaboration. In addition to these, there will be
a number of lecturers for inside work and these
men will tell about the dsgraceful enforce
ment of the tenement house laws by the Tam
many officials. while the pictures will be used
to emphasize the damaging stories they have
prepared There five lecturers on tenements
two the parks and their abuses and one each
on the police. schools, streets, buildings and
public works, recreation piers and Fairgrounds
1t has been discovered by the Citizens Union
that in some mysterious manner, best known to
the Tdmmany district leaders there sixty
six houses belonging to the city in Bronx Park,
most of which rented to Tammany men at
average price of S11 - a month each. Some
of these buildings are large and roomy, and are
Subet used that those who rent them
make great deal of money from the scheme
The lantern slide men have taken pictures OF
all these buildings. and they will be presented
to audiences of plain people on the lower East
and West sides who have TO pay much more
than 81 2J month for their dwellings.
Then there will be pictures of broken down
fire hydrantS in the tenement house districts,
tending to show that the Tammanyized Fire De-
partment is not giving proper fire protection for
the poor.
Pictures of four sides of a block at Houston
This block is a school site selected in the Strong
administration. but the Tammdny officials are
renting the buildings on ii, while children are
unable gain admission to lower East Side
schools.
There eight ten. pictures of school
buildings with hundreds OF children about the
entrances. They represent children who were
unable on the first day of school to gain admis-
sion TO the school buildings.
The Citizens Union will make more general use
of lantern slides in this campaign than ever be-
fore. The photographers have been kept busy
the work for more than a year, and now have
astonishingly large number of scenes which
portray the misgovernment of the city.