New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-24
CALLS JEROME Il
LIAR.
Osborne also Says District attorney
Is q Tam,many Democrat.

me Mayor found 1t eXpedtent last night to make
speeches to a meeting OF Veterans at National
Veterans Hall, No. 14S East 42d-st and the
order of Acorns at Webster Hall. No. 119 East
! 11th-st He appealed to the veterans on his faith
| ers record, and also announced the houe that any
veteran who had any trouble with the head Of a
department would bring his difficulties to the
| Mayor This pleasing announcement to this
veterans and brought forth round of cheers from
them After the meeting several expressed the in
tention of calling upon him Immediately.
Mr.. Mcclellan proceeded thence to Webster Hail.
where he arrived just in time to hear James w.
| Osborne call District Attorney Jerome - liar.
Mr.. Osbornes statement made In these words:
| wrote Mr.. Jerome public letter yesterday in
which charged him with wilful and deliberate
fasehood | charge It now, again. I would go fur
Their than that. but don't know good nickname
Tor q liar.
Mr.. Osborne reached Webster Hall about half an
hour before the Mayor and received with much
enthusiasm. The burden of his speech was that
Jerome had called him a puppet and he announced
at the close of his remarks that in three days
he would prove that he not a puppet, but that
jerome was. He also charged that Jerome was
IaInmany Democrat and voted for the delegates to
the IafnTnany convention. He said:
l have had the records searched. and I have
found out that William Travers jerome at the last
primary election held in this county, put himself
Gy county and judiciary conventions of the
Jerome is a Tammany Democrat. have had tho
records searched and he voted for the delegates
Attorney A
Mr.. Osborne also called attention to the state
ments Jerome made about him four years ago He
said:
In the campaign of 1901 Mr.. Jerome called me an
honest man. If my memory serves me COZ rectly he
heid up my picture and said: Here Is honest
cause he is honest" jerome admits that the can
dIdates are honest, but says that his objection is
Pa Dg ser OF men who stood over and above the
OF single influence that helped my nomination
except that l was a Mt object for the nomination
I pledge you my word that have never spoken a
word TO Charles F. Murphy about the nomination
accident at Tamany 81! ae and b et him 6
eec sGOS to s oc Psdge yoS also that If
alike. Democrats. Republicans and independents
treat wtl g IrTtneE viii pledge you that will
wasng o desSat9 And charge that It is
by reason Of his wealth and position, to prosecute
a c TIN nal OF Tealth and power and social position
wealth. ana position, and he never Will.
Mr.. Osborne commented on the fact that Deverv
has come out for Jerome. and said that Deveryism
was the cause Of the overthrow Of Tammany in
1901 He added that he had personally done more
to kill Devery and Deverysm than any man in
NewYork. And in this connection" he said Il
see that Diamond. whom I convicted. has come out
for Jerome and offered to bet $500 that he will be
elected"
Mr.. Osborne continued his bitter attack on
Jerome at the Harlem Arcade. No. I'll East 124th-
St. where he spoke to about five hundred persons
He was warmly received there, he was at Web
ster Hail. and pitched right into his subject with
out preliminaries. After sarcastic reference to
Jeromes praise of himself as an honest man. he
said:
Well. II he hasn't got it. he's fool. If a Tam
New-York Central disaster half of the people would
have thought to themselves that he had It, and
the other half would have said that he had it.
If the Augean stables of the life insurance bust
ness in this city were to be cleaned OUT, he went
on, 'it would be done by Jerome who was
responsible to nobody but by District Attorney
who was nominated on regular ticket and was
responsible to great organization
Mr.. Osborne charged that even the conviction Of
AL Adams not the work of District Attorney
Jerome. 1t done on Captain Norton Goidard's
evidence. he said, and the trial was conducted by
special counsel employed outside the District At
torney's Office He continued:
A friend of Captain Goddard's told me- or
course | can't give his name. because he spoke |
to prove it, because he is dead: but close friend
trial of Adams ended in a disagreement Of the |
jury Jerome wanted to dismiss the Indictment and |
threatened TO appeal to the Governor.
The meeting at Webster Hall was conducted by |
the Acorns and Great Oak Johnson formerly of |
the Subway Tavern, presided Two years ago the
order was enthusiastically against Mcclellan. but
Mr.. johnson found difficulty in turning his
coat. Indeed, he went through the process with
expedition and every evidence of pleasure In in
Mr.. Mcclellan. he said that the entire
vote of the Acorns would be for him this year
II it is. will be the wiser. The Mayor was
concerned chiefly with the Mortgage Tax law. pub
&c franchises and the tax rate. OF the Mortgage
Tax law and the tax rate, he said:
Whatever doubt there may be upon whom other
whom the real estate tax falls. 1t falls on every
% nd a Tn PAYS bsnf hast
hat the city Of New-York was not standing all
then paying Ihe gbeaSr Ser part OF dne money
@ add little more, and so they passed the Mort
Now on it's face that law appears to be fair
enough 1t DEGREES that every mortgage shall be
axed half OF l per cent, and II further de-
rhe outcome is that the tax has been shifted to
he shoulders of the borrower who pays every
,ent OF IT. And so you men OF this city OF New
York pay rent and the tax in addition that the
tax law Whether ST You
o continue paying this additional S6W0,0OO to the
rebnte nj the coming election which will force
he Republican party repeal that tax in the next
a high tax rate means that every man that pays
must pay Teg tho no at E sooG 5hs
We authorized the issue OF corporate stock-that |
t we a 62Fg0Te o SsS or s6oo than
vas issued before in two years In other words
Now to meet that we Increased the assessed val
eton somewhat oyer r per the history on N
york and despite OF this despite the TACT that we |
n aI the tax rate fell in every borough very
materially and in this borough nearly per cent.
The Mayor repeated his familiar remarks on
franchises saying that they belong to the peopIe
hsoIutely and wholly and should never be parted
nth.