Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-30
MAYORALTY WAR
GROWS WARMER
NUMEROUS MASS MEETINGS
HELD IN NEW YORK
eAYNoR, HEARST AND BANNARD
CONTINUE SPEECHES
Oratory, Red Fire and InvectiVe Fea-
lures of Closing Battle In Gotham.
Doodle=Dee Leader Is
Denounced
tBy Associated Press. ]

NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-With United
States Attorney General Wickersham
bitterly attacking William j. Gaynor
in behalf of the Republican fusion tick
ct, oratory, red fire and inVect1Ve were
scattered nearly all over Greater New
York tonight, with the municipal elec-
tion only two working days away.
Hundreds of minor mass meetings
were held, while the respective heads OF
the three tickets-Independen Demo
cratic and Republican-were the chler
speakers at larger gatherings.
William r. Hearst spoke three tlrnes
on the east side; William ]. GaynOr
spoke in Brooklyn and then came 10
Manhattan, while otto 7. Barnard, be-
ginning in the theater district, swept
down town, then up into Harlem. Inc
candidates confined themselves ratner
to summing up their campaign argu-
ments.
Hearst, keeping up his favorite ap-
peal to the common people, an,
nounced tonight that II he was electeu
mayor he would hire a spacious nan
where he would appear at stated times
for a. reckoning at the hands OF the
people-to answer hteir questions ano
to receive their advice" etc. He spoke
also of ballot box stuffing, and salo ne
was prepared to meet repeating al
the coming election.
Bannard's Speech
Mr.. Barnard spoke of the police ana
personal liberty, a subject used prlncl-
pallv by Gaynor. The police depart
ment, he said, should be removed from
politics, and the enforcement of the law
should be reasonable, but not spas
modic. -
ATTORNEY General Wickersham, talk
ing in Mr.. Bannard's behalf added a
bit of national flavor to the campaign.
II am not here as federal otfcla
or as a member of the presidents cap-
met" he said, "but as a citizen and a
taxpayer of New York.
I'm this capacity I feel it my priVl-
lege and duty to aid in this effort tc
put competent and honest men at tne
head of the affairs of the city.
"Preoccupied with the intense COM
petition Of their business, men are
prone to leave city government to
professional office seekers. Only when
confronted with conditions as in the
present campaign is the average New
Yorker stirred from his absorption III
private business to turn to city AFFAIRS
Appalling revelations of mlsman-
agement of city affairs call urgently
upon every citizen to redeem nthe city
from it's present reproach. Every con
sideration demands a concerted effort
to defeat the Tammany gang.
"The mayor of New York is indeed
one of the most potent executives OF
the world.
Not a Doodle-Dee
'To what kind of man, then, would
q citizen of New York. concerned only
with the selection Of an honest, effl-
Client administrator of this vast estate
naturally turn? Surely not to judge
fI,o hnnT
characterized by political chicanery
and demagogic appeals to popular
favor; surely not to the proprietor of a
chain Of newspapers distinguished foi
their unbridled license and their gross
abuse of the liberty of the press.
mo, he naturally would turn, as
those who framed the fusion ticket did
turn for their candidate for the may
people-to answer their questions and
crafty to a man of wide, successful
business experience. Such a man they
found in Otto T. Barnard"
Judge Gaynor in his address took
the defensive and leaned on his record
He denied that he had ever been on
trial for violation of the tenement
house law, as had been charged by his
detractors.
AS to the charge that he had a
monthly income of $1200 from tenement
rents, the truth was, he said, that he
owned property assessed at $4,000 and
mortgaged for $4,000, yielding him
per cent on his investment.
Robert H. Moore Democratic candi-
date for comptroller brought suit to-
day for 100000 for libel against W
r. Hearst because of an article printed
this morning in the American charging
that Moore had been used as q
dummy to obtain large loans fol
charles W. Morse.