New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-15
FIGHT TO GUST HAFFEN.
ppoNK FORCES IN LINE
pen,blicans Hope to Elect Hal Bell
Borough President.

or,rottan the three cornered fight for
-..,ob President in The Bronx holds forth
%" possibility Of the election of the Republican
!,so+e Hal Bell 1t is freely predicted that
-. +b;ra ticket placed in the field by the Mu-
Nre,,oI Ownership League, the Citizens Union
- +he Committee of One hundred WHICH Is
al-I bv coroner William O'Gorman for Bor-
-. president. will draw thousands OF Demo-
81 votes from the Haffen Tammany ticket IN
- I,on1 with an excellent prospect Of defeat-
= ryoffan IN his attempt to hold on to MS
once for four years more
-yaorst and his running mates on the CITY
.,,,s+ Will concentrate their attack on lam
-,or1 Hall. Murphy and Mcclellan in this Dor
,rb and O'Gor1nan is going TO make ms nshI
ro,nst Haffen. His campaign cry as an
-,ornced by himself, is Down with HanenisIn!
The Municipal Ownership League IN Inc
-. a. strongly organized AT this time 1t
hos an actual enrolment Of 1917 names oiio
.,-oe the nomination of OGorman hundreds OF
Tla-,oc-at,c voters are focking to the standard
:, the Tarmany camp all is not harmony.
,,I.a.tefsction with Haffen, long kept unoer
.o,.ar is beginning to be openly manifested
:. o known that Register John H. j. Ronner'
+,r5o,,s AZ being turned down for renomlnatlon'
,s 70 work against Haffen's reelection
- o55,+5oo the FFaffen administration faces
.-o,,s charges Of wrongdoing. In the eyes OF
t,onsrtial men they have not been SATISFACTORILY
answered. Specific charges OF maladninlSua-
zion have been met with evasive denlals Whlch
have failed to dissipate the accusations lhaue
ogstnst Haffen from the public records ana Id
- .o-,o If af47davits. Coroner O'Gorman is to
reneat the charges Of graft IN 1he f1diAeh
-sri-,a whenever he takes the stump, and will
ohouanea Haffen to meet him in public debate
IS ranl,- n the charges which he Will bring.
~, rau the Republican nominee for Borough
President. is one Of the ablest canpa1gners IN
.ba Republican party, and is preparing TO make
:, oc+iva and aggressive fight against Haffen-
,sro Mr. Bell will wage a campaign Of educa-
ton. IN each district in the borough he viii
roin+ ont the needs of that locality; will show
what Hsffen has failed to do for its residents
and tell them that If they hope for change
Haffen must be ousted-
The fact that The Bronx never had any otner
nresident than Haffen and that for years De-
fore he was elected 20 that office he held pupho
Mace. is lining up against him men who are
indignant at his attempt to perpetuate himself
in office for a term of four years.
"The Bronx Herald" Friday, October l3
in discussing editorialIy Haffen's long tenure Oh
office, says:
Mr. Haffen has been in absolute control OF
this borough politically, for many years When
Yhe neonle hogan 10 think Of running q new race
for the chief office in the gift of the people o ana
behold! he declares himself dictator, names ms
own DELEGATIONS and has since that time hetd I'M
questioned SWAY of the dominant political party,
and all the use he has ever made or thai power
is the naming Of himself, perpetually' 1or the
highest position in the borough.
Think of the great moral lesson in politics
this boobv politician Haffen is teaching! You
have heard of the dog in the manger, haven't
YOU? Well Haffen is in the manager! He VIII
not permit 2 to live. politically, II that I'M
fortunate aspires to the office he now holds!