Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-26
GIRL TRAFFIC IS
AGAINST TAMMANY
Magazine Article, Scoring the Bus
mess of immortality, and Charg-
ing Murphy's Crowd With Pro-
tecting 1t, Used.

NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-Slavery became
q live issue in the municipal campaign to-
day-not the slavery which brought forth
Uncle Toms Cabin and the denuncla-
tory eloquence of the COS, but that lJtn
century system known as the white
slave traffic" which has afforded so much
material for the present day reformer.
The growth of this system under Tam
many Hall, as attested by writer for
the current issue of McClure's Magazine,
has laid the foundation upon which the
local press, hostile to the democratic tick
ct. headed by William j. Gaynor, is con-
Quoting a new attack, while the republic
can-fusion orators and the supporters of
w. r. Hearst have found new fuel for an
already heated campaign.
The article is printed in McClure's I'M
der the subtitle which says:
THE daughters of the para plain
story of the development of New York
city as a leading center of the white
slave trade of the world, under Tammany
Hail." and this is a sample of the charges
made:
CHARGES IN ARTICLE.
The story of the introduction of this
European business into New York under
the protection of the Tammany Hall po-
litical organization, which seems incredi-
BILE if it were not thoroughly substantial
ed by the records of recent municipal ex-
posures in half a dozen great American
cities, by two independent Investigations
by the United States government during
the last year, and by the common know
ledge of the people of the east side tene-
ment district of New York. whose daugh-
tiers and friends daughters have been
chiefly exploited by it.
THE operation of this system has a
double influence upon our large cities On
the one side, it has great political i'm
portance for the reason that more and
more with the growing concentration of
the slum politician upon this field, the
procurer and marketer of women tend to
hold the balance in city elections. This
| is true not alone in New York; anaIyzers
OF recent political contests in Philadelphia
and Chicago have been convinced that
the registration and casting of fraudulent
, votes from disorderly places in those
cities may easily determine the result in
close city election, for false votes by
! the thousand are cast from those resorts.
CORNER Justice Gaynor declined to
/ comment on the matter
II am too busy to go into such
, things now" he said.
This was another quiet night in the
campaign. Though the days before cleo
ton time, November ,, can almost be
counted on the fingers of one hand, Otto
, N"i4-i~A W. NiiS INSpuDnCdn nominee, was
: the only one of the trio of mayoralty
, candidates who spoke
He delivered several brief addresses in
New York tonight Judge Gaynor adj
dressed MONDAY meetings as did Mr..
Barnard, but Mr.. earst did not appear
OF the platform today or tonight.
GAYNOR SCORES HEARST.
In his monday speech, Gaynor whose
running fire on Hearst has been urin-
! terrupted since the editor repudiated
! him and accepted a nomination himself
said:
"A business mans word is his bond
| Even gambler keeps his word. But
Hearst's promise is good for nothing"
Barnard also took a shot at Hearst
| in his day addresses. AS both head the
fusion ticket, he refrained from person.
alities except at rare intervals. He said
today. however:
This Hearst vote does not trouble me
at all. I shall beat him by 100000 votes
at the finish, and 1 am not given to idle
talk.
What is Hearst going to get out of
| this? Well. the answer is nothing.
Hearst is the loyal citizen and the holy
martyr That is his new role and that
is all he gets out of It,"
SCORED BY BARNARD.
Touching on the white slave" question
during one if his speeches tonight, Mr..
Barnard said:
If there is in this city-as magazines
and newspapers are saying-an organic
cd white slave traffic, 1 wish you would
trust the fusion ticket to crush it, If II