New-York tribune., 1905-11-03
MAYOR'S RECORD NIGHT.
Speaks at Eight Meetings FORKS
the Conscience Plea.

At a chain of meetings last night ranging from
Grand-st. to Zeltner's Hail. in The Bronx, Mayor
Mcclellan made tabloid speeches, declaring that hs
appealed for reelection not partisans but to citi
who wanted to keep unsullied the honor of tho
city. Between p. and 1880 p. m. he addressed
eight meetings-his record number far-the at
tendance at which approximated twelve thousand
persons.
The largest meeting was gathering of labor
men at Cooper Union, where Mr.. Mcclellan praised
John ] Pallas, the dead Park Commissioner, who
while in office was most generally known for his
signs the Bryant Park Library fence
The most picturesque meeting was at the PAIN
Garden, 11th-st. and 1st-ave, where he spoke In
italian assemblage of cheering Italians.
The most enthusiastic meeting was at the Hudson
River Athletic Club, organization for the promo
ton of the manly of self-defence. which meets
in old church in West 24th-st.
The Mayors first meeting at the Grand Music
Hall. where about one thousand persons had gath
cred to hear him. He told them 1t gave him much
pleasure to down into the district led by his
old and good friend Florrie Sullivan.
Il want you to consider the issues of this cam
paign calmly and dispasslonateIy' said the Mayor
Vote your consciences dictate You Ameri-
citizens with all the rights honors of that
citizenship. Cast your votes will best serve the
interests OF the city you love 1 don't claim that
In another term I could make perfect city. L
only say 1 would try my best to do my duty.
would treat every fairly. II you honestly be-
else in the City Hall. don't cast your votes for me
But we will vote for you.' yelled an old man in
the front row. You're the Mayor for US"
At Cooper Union. which comfortably filled.
the Mayor said that 1t would be unnecessary tell
intelligent workmen the benefits they had received
from this administration or TO promise that he
would continue to consult the welfare of the work
ingman in future when he had always done so.
Labor men. he said. had commended the appoint
ment of John J. Pallas Park Commissioner.
l1@y +ip,
own signature -hat the Mcclellan administration
had been friendly to the interests of labor
than any other In the history OF the city
If Mr.. Pallas had lived he would have taken an
active part in the campaign, said the Mayor show
ing how the present administration had recognized
the prevailing rate of wages law greatly beneftng
city employees. Workers IN the Street Cleaning De-
partment had received much needed increases, too
The new budget provided the money to raise the
drivers $50 a year. while in future the sweepers will
be paid for work Sundays.
When the Mayor got to the Hudson River Ath-
letc Club in William DaIton's district the entire
hall filed and hundreds of people had spilled
out onto the sidewalk A platoon of police made
with leather lungs had yelled out that the
Mayor wanted to get inside that way could be
once in, mounted on the platform where the bog
ing bouts are held, the Mayor attempted to speak
He couldn't for the cheers which shook the old
church. Again and again the applause died away,
mic mic repetition Of -Four, four four years more
Up to Tuxedo Hall. at Madison-ave. and 69th-st,
the Mayor. There he told small gathering
that he didn't expect to make the city a heaven
earth, il he reelected, but he would try
his hardest to improve conditions little bit
The next stop at Lion Palace. u0th-st. and
Broadway where the audience was mostly Column
bia students. who cheered and 'cheered, giving all
the yeIls Columbia ever invented. For five or ten
minutes Columbia men on the platform imagined
they were on the side lines. so earnestly lid they
root
Over in Little Italy, Fire Commissioner Hayes's
district, the Mayor read a speech in italian. The
hall was crowded, and each man wore huge
smile, which broadened and deepened as ne heafd
the Mayor rafting off the phrases of his native
tongue. If he. too had been born an itaIan;;
From there he went to Sulzers Harlem RIVER
Park where was gathered big assemblage, which
went wild when he appeared. One man created
much amusement by yelling, Look out Hearst
here comes McClellanF'
At ZeItner's 170th-st. and 3d-ave.. the Mayor met
his first hostile demonstration. Outside the han
was gathered a large crowd to watch the fireworks
which painted that section vivid red AS his au-
tomobiie dashed up cry rang out:
Here comes the gas man. "Halloo, Murphys
little man. .,.s -
pie The Mayor expressed to them liis conbdence COZ &c
OF reelection and said that next Trip ne u Try "
do better than he had in the past