The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-27

II Hanen, Tammany's Sole survivor In
1901. Had the Borough In His Yes,
Pocket Once He's beginning 10 Sus'
poet That His Pocket Has Been Picked
II the voters in Manhattan and Brooklyn
think they are having lively campaign
they ought TO go up in The Bronx and ST {
some political activity. Down here they
talk politics; up there they eat it. And
the ginger in the campaign has been in.
serted largely by Joseph l. Berry the can.
ddate for Borough President Of the fusion.
lists and about all the other citizens of The
Bronx who are not hidebound Tammany
men.
Mr.. Berry's opponent is Louis F. Haffer
who was elected Borough President two
years ago over James l.. Wells. tho fusion
candidate. He was Tammany's only sur.
vivor, about, in that election. MIR. Haffen
has been quoted in years agone as saying
that he carried Bronx borough in his YES,
pocket. He was reported yesterday as
saying that he was rather afraid that Berry
had picked his pocket. Mr.. Haffen has the
loyal support Of the Tammany organiza
ton in the borough and nobody else. Mr.
Berry is being supported by the following
organizations
The Republican organization. the Citi-
zens' Union, the Greater New York Democ-
racy, the German American Municipal
League. the German Reform Union, the
Young Mems Campaign Club and the Citi-
zens Central League, the organization
which the late Henry D. Purroy formed,
and of which he was the leader SO long as
he lived.
Mr.. Berry, who is a lawyer and about
40 years old, was Mr. Purroy's chief lieu
tenant in the latter years Of the veteran
politicians life. and was nominated for
Coroner at the suggestion OF Mr.. Purroy
and elected largely through the influence
OF the Purroy organization. MIR. Berry
has carried on such a canvass as the people
Of The Bronx never saw before, and they
are saying up there that If anybody in the
lower boroughs thinks that Jerome is Il
whirlwind campaigner they ought to come
up and camp on Berry's trail for one day
and they'd see campaigning by Cyclone out
OF Tornado.
A reporter of THE Sun went up to The
Bronx yesterday afternoon to get some
idea Of how the campaign was going. He
was a stranger in a strange land and con-
cluded the best way to find out was to
ask the voters as he met them. So far as
he could learn in the course of the afternoon
ana early evening there isn't anybody
in The Bronx who is going to vote for Mr..
Haffen. That probably isn't true but it
seemed like 1t. When you ask the voters
up there what's the matter with Haffen
they will reel of story something like
this.
I'VE pay the taxes on the public i'm
provenents up here, Hanfen is the boss
Of the borough and it costs us about 40
per cent. more to have the work done than
1t does in any Of the other boroughs. The
contracts all 60 to HafYen's friends and they
are permitted to finish them in any old
time and charge for the overtime irrespec-
tive Of the contract price. Berry is an hon
est young fellow with no axes to grind. and
that's why we are going to vote for him"
At the Citizens Union headquarters in
The Bronx last evening it was said that
reports of the canvass which they had re-
celved so far indicated that Berrys plu-
rality would be over I 900 Two years
ago Haffen carried the borough by 1900,