The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-10-21
GaynOr and Hearst Hit Hard
Blows al Each Other on
the Stump
GAYNOR CALLS HEARST
Believing DEMAGOGUE
Barnard Attacks Record of Tammany
Leaders in Office and Charges
the City Government With
Promoting Graft.

New York. October 20-This was another
night of whirlwind speech-making in the
municipal campaign, but the three candi-
dates brought out nothing new in the way
of personal attacks. William R. Hearst.
the independent nominee delivered four
speeches in New York; Otto l.. Barnard.
the republican nominee, spoke thrice in
Brooklyn and then appeared at Carnegie
hall, New York before a big fusion gath
ering, and William j. Gaynor. the demo-
cratic nominee, appeared at the Academy
of Music, Brooklyn, for his third speech
of the campaign.
Mr.. Hearst delivered substantially the
same speech at all four places He opened
with an attack on Gaynor and Tammany.
reviewed his efforts to behalf of the peo-
pie through his newspapers and colfcIud-
ed with this appeal:
In this campaign you should not vote
for any friend or favorite. but for man
who WILL in your opinion, do the most for
your best and honest interest, and the
most for the best and honest interest of
all your fellow citizens"
In his address in Brooklyn, former Jus
tice Gaynor referred smilingly to his first
visit to Tammany Han last night Il
have bearded the tiger in his den.' he
said, "and have faced that dreaded ami
NAL without a qualm, and I am now con-
vinced that nothing on earth can make
me afraid
Attack on Hearst.
Covering the same ground, SO to sneak.
as Hearst, he devoted the first part OF his
speech to an attack on the editor whe,4
| he eeferred to as a 'f3eiIowine dena-
gosuss Who never yet read the city cher
ter
/ OF Senator McCsrren's Illness he said:
| we send out our sympathy tonight to
| one who is not here. Though we have not
| all of us been able to agree with him at
| all times, we can remember the good he
has done
The ex-Justice again announced his
staunch support of his associates on the
democratic ticket. some of whom have
been criticised severely. particularly
George Roesch Tammany nominee for
justice of the city court.
The Bar association of New York of
office but Gaynor tonight stood by the
ticket in the following words:
Il can say tonight on my own be-
half and on behalf of my associates
on the democratic ticket, tha at IL electeS
We expect to lead New York city long
step forward and upward, toward good
government. New York city should be
the leader of the country. as the besf
governed city of the United States, and
1t shall be If we are able to make it
So"
When former Mayor Seth Low, a re-
publican who was one of the princi-
pal speakers at the Carnegie hall
| meeting. mentioned Hearst's name there
was an outburst of cheering.
Il am glad you applaud Mr.. Hearst,
said Mr.. Low. because he is fighting
with us in this compaign against Tam
many
Mr. Barnard said in part:
Speech of Barnard.
"Tammany is Just a society for the
promotion of graft. They are not dem
ocrats. They have lived by the peo-
pie, and on the people and for them
selves, but l think the people are go
| ing to kill it this trip. For example
! let me tell you a little tale of castiron
pipe.
Three years ago cast iron pipe was
| at its highest price, sS3 to s34 per ton.
| Business men held off and would not
buy it. Every one knew that price
could not hold.
"Tammany Hall bought $500 tons at
the top, a difference in this purchase
of just $227.500. The pipe was laid
north of and south of the Harlem river
TO the banks for s1.O85,000. They never
got a permit from the war department
to connect under the Harlem river. No
water has, or can be run through the
pipes. 1t all lies idle, losing $4,000 TO
$4,000 year interest on the invest
ment. no service and no income, and
now 1t is apparently forgotten You tax
payers don't see it because it is buried
and out OF sight
Let me ask one question, would not
business man get permit to cross
the river before he spent the million
dollars?
Now what do you tn ink OF this? The
borough president just. before he laid
the pipe, gave contract for $4,000
to pave the avenue above it, and as
soon the $4,000 worth of asphalt
was down, they ripped 1t up to put In
the pipe. VIII you wonder if the peo-
pie choose a business MANI
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