Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-28
MAY Be A BOOMERANG:
"White Slave" Article May
Help Tammany.
NEW WORKERS ARE ANGRY
Indignation Not Confined to the
East Side.
JEWISH COMMUNITY AROUSED
Dark Hints of Sensations to Be
Sprung in Last Days of
Campaign.
NEW WORKERS ARE ANGRY
JEWISH COMMUNITY AROUSED
Special From 2 Star Correspondent.

Special From Staf Correspondent.
NEW YORK October 2S-The relative
merits of Individual candidates for mayor
% a theme of discussion among the peo-
pie of this town are subordinated to the
question, is there white slave traffic?"
and what will he the effect OF the recent
publication of the article. Has this cleo
ton been Burchardized by that publica-
ton?
The whole town is buzzing with the dis
cusson and for the most part people are
as mad as hatters. 1t seems the indigna-
tion is not confined to the East Side
where sense of outrage is mingled with
deep resentment. but is manifested all
over the city
Now, New Workers are proud of their
town. intensely proud. Likewise they
have a due amount of self-respect and
esteem for their own population. The
conditions painted In that article are so
vile and alleged to exist upon such a
scale would involve. If the allega-
tions were true, widespread moral OBJ
liquty. and this lis where the proud New
Workers vince.
The East Side people have had a heap
to put up with in recent years, which
they have borne patiently. 1t has be-
come quite the fashion for certain class
of reformers to busy themselves with the
morals Of the residents of that section
on the assumption that they were more
In need of moral uplifting than any one
else. when, in point of fact, they were
only poor. Those folk claimed that what
they needed most was an increase in
earnings. but. they said. added to their
poverty was the humiliation of having a
lot of reformerS pestering around their
tenements and making suggestions to
conduct a ten-dollar-a-d day home on a
t~o-dollar- -a-day income.
Denuncfation of the Article.
The Jewish community of New York
city, centraiS body Of some 600 congre-
Kaf'ons and societies, held a meeting and
denounced the defamation of their race
conveyed by the article. That means
That the Jewish men in touch with those
orSaniza tions are going to vote for Cav
nor as a rebuke to the republican man,
ayers. who are held responsible for the
circulation of the story
The Rev. Father Curry pastor of st.
James Church. addressed a meeting OF
$50 of his parishioners. in which he con-
tended that the girls of the tenements
are among the purest of the citys popu-
lstion and he advised the brothers and
sons to cast the lie back into the teeth
of the canting. slanderous hypocrites"
These are just two instances of public
action in the case. In order to appreciate
fully the extent of the feeling, one has
only to walk through some of the East
Side streets and hear the men talk see
their faces white with anger. the clinched
fists, and listen to the curses heaped
upon those who circulated the charges
Yet. as against this. the Woman'S Mu-
n1cfpal League. an organization Of women
prominent in upper social circles, has
issued statement practically indorsing
the statements made In the article and
holding Tammany responsible.
1t is the fashion to charge Tammany
with a great many crimes. Tammany Is
an organiza ton which undoubtedly con-
tains among its leaders some men who
exploit the organization for their pecu-
MARY profit But the membership of the
organization is made up largely of ordi-
nary. everyday decent men. To charge
these men with responsibility for a state
of affairs set forth in the article is to
assume a grave burden. and somebody
will feel their resentment.
Possibly a Boomerang.
The best Judgment of unbiased observ-
ers is that the white slave" story is a
boomerang and that it will make Gay
nors election sure, if there was any
doubt of it before
The campaign outside Of this touch Of
red given by the assertions regarding the
people the East Side, is becoming
more colorless election day approac ches
The candidates have about talked them
selves out. and anyhow they haven't a
great deal to say that is interesting to the
public The speeches leave no particular
impression the next day.
There arc dark hints of some sensa-
tions to be sprung In the last days of
the campaign, In the form Of attacks on
Gaynor. II Is wonderful how intmations
of this kind travel so that one hears them
everywhere. Something big Is coming
or is whispered, although no one is
able to say exactly what 1t 10.
The preliminary canvasses are being
made to show the probable drift Of opin-
ion They Indicate Gaynors election,
but with Barnard having made surpris-
ing gains in the past ten days and Hearst
losing ground.
Very little money-that Ia, real money
is being wagered. About this time Tam
many always sends out a bunch of bluff
money to bolster up the weakened
brother. but beyond this few real bets
are being made.
In the campaign of 1875 one could stand
in the Hoffman House lobby and see a
dozen chunks OF hundred dollar bills wav-
ing in the air at once, finding takers In
short order. When l dropped in there
last night there poor lone
''piker,'' hardly speaking above whisper.
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