The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-21
TRAINING HARDFOR WALKOVER
yOIrD THINK SOMEBODY WAS
RINNING AGAINST GOLDFOGLE.

lies Blessing the Babies. Kissing Their
Mothers, Rejoicing In the Triplets
and Does His Spellbinding by Might
No Republican Canvass BOthers Him.
The Hon. Henry M. Goldfoglc. by grace
NJ Governor Chairman Odell and his allies
In Tammany Hall, Is making runaway
canvass for reelection to Congress on the
Democratic ticket from the Ninth Congress
district. The Republicans of the district
wanted Charles S. Adler to oppose Judge
Godfogle because, with the possible ex-
ception Of the Judge, he is regarded as alto
sether the most popular man in the district
Adler ran against Goldfogle two years
ago and, although the district is largely
democratic, got 4,235 out Of 1900 votes.
This wear the Governor Chairman declared
for an Endorsement OF Goldfogle. The
Republicans OF the district raised row.
Then the Governor-Chsirman suggested
that nobody be nominated. There was
another row. SO Odell, having properly
arranged" things, consented to the nom
nation Of Joseph Levenson, one of his
tax collectors.
leyenson is the Tammany Republican
leader of the Fourth Assembly district.
He is a bookbinder by trade and an Odell
politician by profession. Not one out OF
fen persons in the Congress district, outside
the Fourth Assembly district, knows him
nv sight So far as the records show he
never did anything in particular for the
people of the district, as Adler has, for in
stance Furthermore, and by way OF
accentuating the dummy character OF
his canvass, the electors Of the district
have yet to learn that he Is doing anything
TO aid either his own election or to hinder
the election Of Judge ,Goldfogle. A fairly
thorough tour Of the district yesterday
failed to get single report Of any meeting
that Levenson has addressed or any effort
he has made to secure a single vote.'
He has established headquarters in East
Broadway, but that Is about all he has
done. The Republican programme Is, 80
thew will tell you in the district, to return
Democratic ma ority for Goldfogle and
cut Herrick's normal majority down as
much as possible.
Meantime Goldfogle is hustling just as
/, he had man, instead OF dummy, to
beat He starts his campaigning bright
and early every morning from his home
at 10 Columbia street The block In which
for these many years as political Row."
CITY Clerk Patrick j. Scully lives In the
same block, and Mr.. Goldfogle's residence
is next door to that in which Tim Campbell
lived and died.
Years ago Congressman Goldfogle's
mother established a custom of having
q talk with certain pensioners every morn
ing, finding out their needs and minister
ing to them as she thought was necessary.
Since her death her son has kept up the
IA l. to1l cxx-tth
sioners that he begins each days cam
paigning. He hands out 81 here or 10
cents there, or pays part Of the arrears OF
rent of some constituent, and then goes
over to his headquarters. at the south
wet corner OF Ludlow and Grand streets.
and goes over them as carefully as II he
thought there was really some doubt about
the result Then he talks with those who
may be waiting to talk politics with him,
and by the time he has finished 1t Is time
a personal tour of the district, winding
IN with a visit to his headquarters just
before dinner. In the evening he is SPELL
binding at dozen different meetings.
These daily tours OF the district are won
word OF new baby anywhere, there he
bobs up The infant gets his blessing, a new
coin Of large or small denomination and the
mother-well, IL she's good looking, insists
and the father doesn't object; she gets the
The other day the Congressman kissed
eeventy-nine babies and twenty-nine good
looking mothers In one afternoon. The
husbands will have to vote Tor Gofdfogle
or have a run-in with their wives.
future as well to the present He heard,
a day or two ago. that Rosa Pasternaoh,
living in the rear tenement at "a Ridge street,
had presented her husband with triplets,
two Of them boys. Goldfogle might be
their first vote. Their father, perhaps,
could vote this year. The candidate must
call on the family. He did SO and
Is now regarded as the patron saint OF
the house. The triplets are to be named
be there. The story was around the dis,
trict yesterday that the candidate will
present to the babies Autographs OF him
self with Parker and Herrick in the back
ground as well as dollar apiece and three
sticks of chewing gum.
ganizations: II he can help 1t he never
let's membership in an organization es-
cape him. Up to last night, here is his
organizat ion record: Past President Divis-
ion /, Order Of B'nai Birth; ditto OF the
Free Sons Of Israel; ditto and counsel In
Order of Birth Abraham; member Of United
Hebrew Communities; former director
Hebrew Infant Asylum; governor Home
for Aged and Infrm Of Yonkers president
member P'e Of Advisory Board Educational
Alliance; vice-president Temple Rodeph
Sholom; honorary member Hebrew Union
Veterans; Past Master Empire City Lodge, F.
and A. NJ. Past Deputy Grand Master, State
OF New York, l. o. o. F.; Past Chancellor
Liberty Lodge Knights of Pythias; patron
Rodeph ShoIom Sisterhood; member He.
brew Free School Association; member of
the boards OF Mount Sinai and Lebanon
Hospitals, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum
and the Montefiore Home for Incurables,
and thirty-two other organizations.