The evening world., 1905-09-11
Sam Mass, Who Is Trying to
Wrest Leadership from Un-
der Sheriff, Says Jobs All Go
to the Family.

In the swirl of k~nockdown and drag
out Tammany district leadership hsH's,
that in the Tenth. OF which julius Har-
burger is leader. has been quite over
looked. 1t IS noisy enough and stroaS
enough. but the east side IS a noisy sec
ton, andj up to this time nothing but
echoes OF the cries Of the pursuers Of
hamburger have reached the rest OF
the community,
The MAJ who IS trying TO take the
leadership from the Astute and unctuous
julius IS Samuel Mas, who has lived
in the Tenth District for forty years
and has a big following, The battle
cry of Mas Is:
Save the Tenth"
Save the Tenth District from the
Hamburger family"
out OF the oratorical flights OF -elo-
quence in this campaign there has al
ready grown a $1,000 slander suit
against Hamburger. In a speech a
couple of nights ago ne said fierce
things about william ]. McManus,
standard bearer Of the William j. Nc
Manus Association, which is backing
Mas. McManus lost no time IN bring
ing "A SUIT Tor damages.
The complaint against Harourger is
that when II comes to passing out pa
tie will not recognize anybody
but relatives. Time after time he Is
said TO nave turned down boys of the
district who have applied to him for d
Job in favor of some person of Har-
burger blood.
TIhe hamburger family said Mr..
Mas to-day. lis a~ntl-race suicide.
From the way things have been going
In fhiG liCfriNf ~ tharA Nyu n rntintnn 81
the hamburger family held 1t would
hll Madison Square Garden three or
four times.
LAS soon as Julius Hamburger got his
claws on the leadership of this district
word went out to all the Harburgers 10
get in line. Outside OF julius and lis
son Leo, the Alderman, non of the
Harburgers live in the district.
They came In for jobs though, from
Kansas City. Kokomo, Kalamazoo. Osh-
Kosn, Europe n the Bronx. They
came from Brooklyn. Jersey. Cuba and
the North Pole. Every job that Has
a Hamburger holding 1t down. We. are
tired of having our young men over
looked simply that the Hamburger ! a
The candidacy of Mr.. Mas is backed
by the Home Rule Democratic Club. No.
6S Second avenue. He Is also Endorsed
n many other organizations in the
district.
Searchers for the picturesque in the
way of description should wander over
and hear the speakers at a Mas mass
meeting say things about julius Har-
burger n his relations.
Hamburger processes to be only mildly
interested in the aspirations OF Mr..
Mas. He took occasion to-day to deny
that he had tried to get the Nice-Presi-
dent of the Home Rule Democratic Club
dispossessed n run out of the Tenth
| n Sllr nrt ~NnlFn ht,a IN t.riN
Sure, he's laughing" said President
Alderman, of the Mas organization.
Why shouldn't he laugh? Why, on
the first of the month, when the city
employees are. being paid off, everybody
goes home untfi the next day when the
cashier gets Town to the HIS"
But Leader Hamburger was not laugh
World saw him at his desk in the Sher-
in's Office to-day.
How is 1t possible that the Hamburger
family is enjoying sinecures n a mo-
nopoly of the patronage of the district
when 1t is only myself n o who hold.
political ONCE; and Leo. was ne not
t elected ted by the votes of the people OF
"1 did o make him an Alderman.
He wanted to be one. n the people
sent him to the Aldermanic Chamber.
This man Mas is an migrate. He
from Billy Sohmer. and 1 have done
everything to keep him there to aid
him. He cannot point to a record like
mine. ] have been in public life for
thirty-three years, and have the conf
dence of the people. Mas makes fool
ish assertions and funny ones.
II will snow him under. will bet
29 votes. And McManus, pooh! I wish
The Evening World would print all / am
prepared to say about him; but l won
say more now h that McManus runs
a fake organization and has no strength
one way or the other in the district.
II only wish he would bring a dozen
suits. ] will give him and Mas every
opportunity they want. I wish they
would go to court and then they would
be put on the defensive with what I
would produce against them. Mas
hasn't a ghost ofea chance, and as for
worrying. me. why he can't do II, and
that Is all there ia to it."
The little Under Sheriff gestculated
and spoke v~ehemently. He did not APP
pear at all worried" or else outward
appearance is misleading. But Julius,
as the popular little leader Of the Tenth
Is called by his people. has been as
sured that Maas won't be heard from
on primary day, SO Loyalty will the lead
ers follower flock 10 his support.