The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-20
AUTOMOBILE CAMPAIGN IS ON.
MAYOR LOW TELLS THE EAST SIDE
WHAT FUSION HAS DONE.
q ,n,I,ds,e Mcclellan Promises to Keep
Down Graft n He Can-Lost FER .
while In Brooklyn. 4. D. Comptroller
circuit Is Lost In Brooklyn, Too.


Mayor Low, travelling in an automobile
with Nathan Blur, spoke last night at four
meetings on the lower East Side. At each
a. the meetings he was greeted by crowds
,ha, hacked the halls so tightly that the
rnl,c. had difficulty in elbowing lane for
Inc Mayor to pass to the platform. In
nil he addressed at the four meetings about
COO people. Several times he was hailed
as "Our next Governor
Mr.. Lows speeches last night were de-
voted to showing that the administration
lad Kept the promises made In 1901. He
described the many benefits the city had
received from his administration and
showed how revenue which had pre-
viou.ly gone into the pockets OF Tammany
craflrrs now went to the public treasury.
But all four Of his addresses were directed
10 combating the idea that Tammany's
principle Of government. a government
Of money and not Of law, was one Of free
dom and of Justice to the average citizen.
You cannot have freedom where the
rights of the humblest are not protected
equally with the rights of the rich. where
there is no even handed justice and where
the way Mr.. Low put it.
The first meeting he addressed was at
Pythagoras Hall, III East Broadway.
At this place the Mayor reminded his audi
ence that he had promised to close the
red light houses, and he asserted that
that promise had been kept, Cheers
greeted he statement, He said further:
also promised that there would be change
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determine what the law should be, and that
promise has been kept because the change
Systematic sale Of the law and i there is any
corruption it Is individual and It does not
occur with the ,connivanee Of those In
force has been done with similar success in
the other departments. Our endeavor has
been 10 give administration that would
nor money has been able to turn the adminis-
tration either to the right or to the left. No
corporation in the city has had money enough
to Obtain for il privileges that the meanest
citizen could not get
At Progress Assembly Hall, % Avenue
A. where he spoke next, the Mayor re-
ferred to the provision Of recreation places
and improved hospital accommodations
for the sick poor, and pointed out that while
every penny that the Board of Education
had asked for for new schools had been pro-
vided the fact that every clild In the city
had not a seat in school vas due 10 the
labor strikes and lockouts,
To a crowd of over 1000 reople at New
Irving Hall. 21i Broome street, Mr.. Low.
referring to the large sums Of money that
the PEI nsylvania and New York Central
railroads contemplate spending upon I'M
provements, said
Under Tammany these corporations used
TO 90 to the government heads and say:
I'VE are going to do good thing Tor the city:
30 let us have these privileges for nothing"
n administration
want these improvements and are willing
to pay for them. what they are worth;
when he first came to me that would sup;
Five his personal pledge that not one
offcial to get it through. ! told him that
the moment ] heard Of any money being
used in q corrupt way, either in Albany or
antasonism. and ! believe it to be true that
that great franchise was secured without
the payment OF one cent improperly.
During the Mayors journey, from one
In the course Of his last speech. at an Aus
tro-Hungarian meeting at the Arlington.
10 st. Marks place, he said:
There used to be twenty.ssyyen districts
for the collection Of wharfage from vessels
districts there was a collector who received
$1,000 a year, When Tammany last had
control OF the p9Gs pspartmen an 9ns OF these
paid out 81, 900 a year to collect 800. In Ave
districts they paid 81 500 to collect less than
81 500 The present Commissioner has re,
duCed the number of districts to twenty and
the collections have increased so per cent
What does this mean? I doubt very much
that the vessels did not pay wharfage under
d ID not get the Wharfage.
MI Croker has said that he was in politics
for his own pocket Mr. Murphy vas .t trained led
CITY is justified in taking il for, granted that
the present Tammany leader has forgotten
the lessons Of his youth? l have been told
was worth $50, 900 year to the police squad
connected with that bureau. ] don't know
getting from the bureau $50 900 more than It
used to get. Perhaps the pedlers and push
cart men did not, pay up under TammaIy;
but am more inclined to think that they did
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