Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-30
BAT TIE RAGt
FUR|0USLY IN
NEW YORK
CANDIDATES SCATTER
RED FIRE AND LURlD TALK
Attorney General WiCkersham
Enters Campaign in Behalf Of
Republican Ticket; Gaynof
Defends His Record.

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| GBy Morning journal Special Leased wirsI
! New York, oct @@.-With United
States Attorney General Wickersham
bitterly attacking William j. Gaynor
| in behalf of the republican fusion
| ticket, oratory. red fire ana invective
were scattered nearly all over Great
er New York tonight with the muncl-
pal election only two working days
away Hundreds Of minor mass meet
| ings were held IN the five boroughs.
while the respective heads of the
| three tickets-indepen Democrat
ic and republican--were the chief
speakers at larger gatherings,
| William Il. Hearst spoke three
times on the East side; william J.
Gaynor spoke in Brooklyn and then
came to Manhattan, while Otto L.
Barnard, beginning in the theater dis
trict swept down town, then up into
! Harlem. The candidates confined
| themselves rather To summing up
their campaign arguments.
Hearst keeping up his appeal to the
common people struck a popular
Ni'A Il WINS III w hHhbhil'ink ttANN IL
he was elected mayor he would hire
a spacious hail where he would ap-
pear at stated times for a hacking ut
the hands OF the people, to answer
| their questions and to receive their
| advice lie spoke also of ballot box
| stufilng. subject which he felt cspc-
cialiS competent to touch upon. he
said in view of his experiences in
4 4 N A
or Fraudulent votes defeated him
then, he has maintained ever since,
| and he said that he was prepared to
| meet repeating at the coming election.
"Forty-six Tiger cubs have been
sent to sing Sing" hc said, and we
| expect to send regular Hudson
| Fulton parade TO the same place dur
J ing tive coming month, But we are
going TO kal the llger Tins year
Kill him and skin him and nail his
hide to the wigNam."
| Mr. Barnard spoke principally OF
| the police and personal liberty, n sub
ject used principally by Gaynor. The
police department. he said should be
removed entirely from politics and
the enforcement of the law should he
reasonable, but not spasmodlc.
THE police can give US honest prl-
mares and honest elections" he said.
"They are in a position to do 1t. and
appeal to them for the sake of this
fair city to lay aside politics and do
it without fear or favor to any cam
didate."
Attorney General Wickersham.
speaking in Mr. Bannard's behalf,
added hit of national flavor to the
campaign,
Il am not here ns a federal official
or a member of the presidents cas-
met he said, but as q citizen ana
a tax payer Of New York In this ca-a
pncity despite my federal office, it is
my privilege and my duty to aid in 4
this effort 20 pat competent and hon y
est men at the head of the affairs OF
the city
"Preoccupicd with the intense COM
petition of their business. men are
prone 10 leave city government to pro-
fossional office seekers and to those
whose occupation l. of such character
that they naturally combine political
with businoss activity
"Only when confronted with condi-
tions, It's In the present campaign, is
the average New Yorker stirred from
his absorption in his private business
to turn to the affairs of the city. The
appalling revelations Of mismanage-
ment Of city affairs caIl urgently upon
every citizen to redeem the city from
It's present reproach. Every consid-
GRAFTON demands q concerted effort to
defeat tho Tammany gang
The mayor of New York is indeed
one Of the most potent executives o(
.hc world. To what kind of a man
then would a citizen of New York.
'onccrncd only with the selection OF
va honest. efficient administrator of
his vast estate. naturally turn Sure
N not tn q judge whose course upon
he bench has been characterized hy
political chicanery ANA dcmagogic ap-
reals To- popular favor. surely not 10
lac proprietor of H chain of news
,apcrs distinguished for their un-
'rldlci licenses. their gross abuse ot
he liberty ~ tho press
"No he naturally wonld turn as
hose who framed the fusion ticket
I'd turn. FOR then candidate for the
nayoralty. tu a man of wide success
al business experience. such man
hey find iu otto +. Barnard
Judge Gaynor in his addresses took
hr defensive and leaned on his rec
rd lie denied that he had ever been
n trial for violation Of the tenement
ousr law. as has been charged by tho
etra,tors.
A. 90 the charge that he had a
ionthly income Of 81 zoo from tene-
lent rents. the truth was. he said.
iat he owned property assessed at
6 600 and mortgaged for $4,000.
leldlng him three per cent on his
lVestment
Robert n. Moore. democratic can
idate for comptroller. brought suit
1day FOR 100000 for libel against
VILLAIN Il. Hearst. because of an artf-
e printed this morning in the Amer
AN charging that Moore has been