Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-28
TAMMANYS BIC BAR'L
McClellan's Backers Holding
Up Business Men.
LOOT PUT AT 100000
TIGERS PROSPECTS BRIGHTEN
WITH THIS SLUsH FUND.
Contest Grows More Acrimonious as
Election Day Approaches-What
They Say of Each Other.
Special From Il Staff CORRESPONDENT t.

NEW YORK, October 2S-rammany is
| striking it rich every day In raising cam
paign Doodle, and the dollars pour into
| the treasury Tammany prospects brighten.
| Today there is decided swing of the po-
| litcal pendulum toward Tammany. The
fusion leaders are very much worried over
| the big campaign contributions which their
opponents are obtaining.
Tammanv is "holding uD' every possible
| interest in the city for contributions. Even
the subcontractors who are engaged in
building the electric subway have been
held up and compelled to contribute. The
brewers We're called to time yesterday.
and, although they protested vigorously,
| they had to put up the money. 1t is esti-
mated that nearly 100000 was obtained
from the subcontractors and the brewers.
No one but the Tammany leaders and the
| heads of certain corporations will ever
know how much money the public service
corporations have contributed to Tamma1y.
| but undoubtedly the sum was large.
To Run Down Illegal Voters.
Nine public-spirited men, members of the
Citizens Union. have agreed to pay from
their private fortunes $4,000 in rewards
| for the apprehension and conviction of flle-
gal voters or persons committing fraud
against the ballot Already there are evil
dences of attempt to colonize voters on
the lower East Side The $4,000 fund is
| to be used to prevent these votes from
being cast.
day. The old timers say that nothing like
| it has ever been seen. Candidate Mcclellan
goes about making spec cecheS when he
reads from a typewriter sheet.
1t is the same old speech for each tccaS1on
but in the last few days he has had to
| extend ii somewhat by making defense
of his position. He has been savagely at
tackled for heading the Tammany ticket
and is accused of being ut the head OF
gang of grafters.
Mr. Jerome in big meeting at Car
negie Hall last night, which was ATTENDED
by ZOO women who are lending their per
sonal efforts to the fusion campaign, mace
this attack upon McCielan:.
| This son of General Mcclellan he said
'who fought to keep our Union Mon
stands today on the discre''ited platform
of Tammany Hall. the work of men con-
demned not as whole. but hy name as
thieves and grafterS and who have never
dared to challenge this Judgment of them
in the courts, where there is ample redress
for them if the charge is incorrect. George
b. Mcclellan knew that the shame OF Wo-
men was the source of profit of TamnianF
| Hall under Van Wyck. He knew that the
honor of women was used to line the
pocket OF the politician with money. ana
vet he stood up in the presence OF the gang
two wears ago with the Murphys. the Sulii-
! we have done well; ours is the credit of
| the honor.
Bitter Words for Mcclellan.
| '"Will you say that is a clean man? No.
NcCielan has neE er cracked !. bank, and
hc never committed larceny. but he has
lent himself to a cruel, cruel wrong He
| lent himself ard his honOred lame to =
| gang of thieves when he lent them to Tam
| many Hall in an effort to bring the people
| of this great city once more under It's
| brutal rule.
Bourke Cochran speaking for the Tam
many ticket. attacks Jerome. and uses
very harsh language. Boss Mclaughlin In
Brooklyn calls Boss" Murphy a liar. and
! refers to his former democratic associates
! as thieves and ''raScals.' DeVery calls
all of his former political associates
| thieves and "grafterS," and nothing
| seems too bad for any of them to say
| about the other.
| 1t has been discovered that some of the
| republican captains of districts in Brook
| lyn are working for Mcclellan The fusion
| managers knew that this would happen,
and have been looking out for it. The
| reason that the captains are reVoting is
! because they make deals with the
! Tammany leaders for their friends. and,
! anticipating a Tammany victory, are
| fcatherng their nests in advance.
Claims of Tammany Leaders.
A preliminary estimate of the Tammany
| district leaders gives Mcclellan nearly %,
| $50 plurality in Manhattan and the Bronx.
| BY Saturday they may claim IJE0. A
| ma jorty for Low in Kings county is con-
| ceied, but Tammany will send over a large
| sum to be used in keeping the majority
| down. GrOut and Fornes have been aban-
/ doned to their fate and are no longer con-
| Sidered factors of Importance. All the
| Tammany money and energy will be de-
| voted to attempt to save Mcclellan
| and the borough and county candidates.
| Brooklyn will be the storm center of the
big fusion orators tonight. Nine big mass
| meetings has been arranged in the bo-
| rough across the bridge. Mayor Low is
scheduled to speak ut five of these and
| District Attorney jerome viii address four.
| Aside from the candidates and regular
| campaign spelbinderS number of Brook
lyn's prominent dvineS have consented to
| address various meetings in favor of good
government and against Tammany and red
lights
Where the Meetings Will Be Held.
| While the majority of the fusion ora
| torcal big guns are speaking in Brooklyn
tonight. more than hundred district
| meetings will be held in Manhattan by
it's chief oratorical efforts to the borough
| of Manhattan. Its big meeting will be
| held at Carnegie Hail. where Colonel Nc
| CIellan, John b. Stanchiield. Elliott Dan
| forth Edward NJ. Grout, Charles V. Fornes
| Charles A. Towne and w. Hepburn Rus
sell will be the speakers of the. evening