The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-02
CALLS 1T A PLUNklTT PLOT.
THE M'MANUS SAYS his VOTERS
ARE BEING DRIVEN OUT.

Mothers OF Families VINO Have been Dis
possessed Make Appeals to Him and
He Hurls Himself Into the Breach
Just Letting Himself Down. Says G. W.
The MoManus. deeply engrossed In plans
to counterfeit the effect Of the Plunkitt
picnic, was sitting alone in his boudoir
yesterday afternoon. Presently there
called the mother OF seven. Followed her
the mother Of eleven. Came after both an
even score OF other women, mothers OF
families. The counting was by the valet
Of The MoManus. "The" himself FASTENED
! to impart the news to the world.
"Call up every newspaper Office In town, v
he told Central, "and tell them that The
MoManus has discovered an inhuman,
heinous. dastardly Plunkitt plot Have
them send men around to see me. Then
call up all the lawyers In the Fifteenth ward
and tell them McNanus wants their services
in the name Of humanity. Get busy"
"Citixens who support me. said McManus
whom the reporters came to see him. are
being driven out OF house and home. Punk
lit Is playing his last card. Using his
influence with landlords In the district
he is forcing whole families to move outside
their election districts 80 that they cannot
vote at the primaries. People who are
loyal to MoNIanus may be turned out on the
streets to starve for all he cares.
DO I know what / am talking about?
Did not twenty-five women, representing
at least twenty-five families, come to me
and show me dispossess notices to-day
which compelled them to leave their homes
Sept. ~ Furthermore, every one of the
women told me she had the money to pay
the rent and most of them showed 1t to me 4.
Their landlords would not take 1t, they
said; u r ar.
so have all the families IN SIS West
Forty eighth street and exc West Forty
sixth street. But where get 1t worst is
in the row OF tenements from 500 to
sos West Forty ninth street, right near my
home. There are at least ninety families
and all Of them have been ordered TO vacate
throu Oh the disreputable tactics OF Plunkitt
u told the women who came to see me
that would defend their homes against
the transgressor until my last cent ives
spent. l don't need the votes. but can't
see poor women and children turned out
on the streets just because their husbands
and brothers believe in honest govern
ment."
hs ssndidsss went on to say t basa he
Ezekiel Thompson and p A. Duffy, to fight
them s he said, before Judge Moore of the
Eleventh District Court in the afternoon
and had many Of the cases set down for
next Friday
Leader Plunkitt was patrolling the side
walk in front Of Washington Hall when the
McManus denunciation was recounted to
him. :,
u am plain George Washington Punkits.'
Jacob Aston, william Waldorf Aston or
both or either of them, he's more of a sick
man than thought he was. l guess he
knows enough, though. to know that he's
beat forty ways and is just trying, to let
himself down easy by announcing before
of the district"
II Leader Plunkitt wasn't busy with tene-
ment house matters, John c. Dordan, the
candidate who Is supposed to be IN the
field in Plunkitt.s interests, certainly was.
Dordlan had five, and he announced proudly
that he probably had five times as many
cases to defend as did all OF the McManuses
This Is the Dordan staff: James A: Smith,
Leon Levy. Joe Rosenblatt. Henry Mooney
Lawyer Leon Levy said last night that
there could be no persecution in connection
with the dispossess notices.
IAN amendment to the tenement house
law goes into effect to-day said he. 1t
oompels all owners OF tenements to provide
more light and better toilet arrangements
than have been required previously. In order
TO comply with the law. accordingly. many
landlords have been Obliged to order their
tenants out while they make the necessary
impro vements. In some cases they have
NOT given sufficient notice. These are the
only ones there is any use of fighting
Lawyer Levy also said that most Of the
pro perty from which the tenants are being
evicted is owned by the Astors SO far as
he knew that estate was taking no part in
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