The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-22
GLIMPSES OF GOTHAM

New York this fall. Not as many
as there were last fall. because
the registration is $1,000 less, and
al the voters can't vote. but 64f.-
5E5 is quite lot of ballot casters,
nevertheless.
With three mayoralty candi-
dates whooping around town, the
man that runs last ought to poll
vote that will equal the popu-
lIation of a thriving young city.
There are 344,451 voters in Man
haitian and the Bronx. 235,230 in
Brooklyn. 49,O1l in Queensbor-
ough. and 1888 in Richmond
borough.
And with the violent, lurid,
mud-slinging, undertaking, cut
throat campaign that is now on,
1T is going to be one big day In
the big city when those 100000
votes are cast. Toward evening.
liz one may venture to prophesy,
they will be burying the wounded
where they fall.
The great two-headed ticket
with Barnard frepublican-fusion)
and Hearst (Civie alliance) is
striving to defeat Tammany, for
which Judge Gaynor is standard
/ bearer. Barnard and Hearst
and their jointly-possessed tail
comprise the ticket which seeks
the deliveranee of New York from
the grip of vice, graft, plumber and
waste. Just as an instance OF
what New York needs to be deliv-
cred from. the following incident
may be related:
Detective McConeghy saw one
Louis Greenberg and another man
jostling people at the Manhattan
end of the Williamsburg bridge,
and he arrested them. Suddenly
the two men turned on him and
threw him in front of street car
which was close at hand. One of
them kicked him in the stomach
until he lay PROSTATE, while the
other stood over him with knife.
The motorman stopped the car
within a few inches of the detec-
tive's body. and McConeghy, who
/ is a determined and persistent per-
son, got up and ran after the
two men. He caught Greenberg.
In Essex Market court, Magis-
trate Herbert held Greenberg in
$500 bail. and in default of bail
Ereenberg was taken to a cell. AS
he was being led away. he turned
to McConeghy and yelled, "We'Ii
get you yet. We almost got you
under that car last night"
The reason a criminal dares to
threaten a police officer in open
court, in that fashion. is that in
this city there is a Providence
which watches over criminals who
cast votes for II on election day.
Men do not go to Jail who ought
to go there, and men are let out
of jail who ought to stay there,
because they rely upon that Provi-
dence, whose other name is Tam
many.
Already there is some fun in the
campaign up on Union square.
Some time ago the committee of
100, which stands for good gov
eminent and opposed to Tam
many, put a plaster of paris COW
in window at 20 Union square.
!, Signs stated that the people fed
the cow and the politicians MIXED
her. Many stopped to gaze upon
the pale COW, and ponder. Some
went inside. where anti-Tammany
literature was to be had.
Then came the Tammany folks
: and opened show next door, with
barker out in front barking his
head off. The Tammany show has
sad-looking goat. 1t is an
nounced that she is the fusionists
goat, and her name is Altar Barn
yard. The fusion candidate is Otte
Barnard. Joke. See
Also little figure with a crown
on it's head marked william Alst
Randolph Hearst" And three mon
keys. The fusionists, it is ex
planned, are trying to make mon
! keys of the voters.
Pretty bum humor, but the can
didates may do better than theil
advance agents.