New-York tribune., 1909-07-09
WISE ASSAILS MAYOR
RABBI CRTTICISES BING-
HAMS REMOT1L.
Calls Mcclellan "Unamiablc InUerte-
bratc and "McCarrCnS Manlh1n
-RaSsclES Return Demanded.

Opposition to the adoption of resolutions con-
demning Mayor Mcclellan for throwing the
police force into politics and demanding the
restoration of Captain Russell to Inspector
ship. following a caustic speech ia which Rabbi
stephen S. Wise scored the Mayor mercilessY,
produced lively scene at a meeting of the
Greater New York Taxpayers conference yes
terday No. 2G3 Broadway. After it was all
over. and the resolutions had been adopted by
q vote Of approximately two to ono. members OF
the conference declared that the chief obstruc-
tionists were connected with a rival organlza-
tion. the Congress of Taxpayers. which was re-
ported to have distinctly Democratic leanings
and some pro-Tanmany bias.
IA hhi Wise. who came down from his vaca-
ton in the Adirondacks especially to pay his
respects to Mayor Mcclellan. called the city's
chief executive ''McCarren's manikin." He Ia
mentcd the fact that the voters were ole to
use the power OF recall on the Mayor He said
that Mcclellan was the bosses concession to
public opinion. while Bingham's head was the
Mayors concession TO his bosses. lie urged the
voters not to he tolerant with tho Mayor be-
cause You believe there has been no cash con-
sideratiou, asserting that man Who sold ms
city out for Eovernorship judEeship was
no more 4 gentleman and no less CRATER than
the verest gutter bred boodler. Rabbi Wise
said:
Two things must he done. The honest. clean po-
Iiceman must understand that the Police Depart
has betrayed his trust In tho second place, since
this was done 70 prevent an honest election , 1nis
fall il is duty to get together and see tsiat
everv vote is cast and counted honestly, cespite
We have been too ienicnt TOO tolerant with this
Mayor because believed he was gentleman
stood for one thing after another-hs shameless
mGvsl OF efficient tried pn6iio servants his ;I sp
sore OF his appointments the magistrates bench
such magnificent debauchery the Cstskill water
supply project, which has thrust tts pernl0ious IN
fso'' Gitg into whole ooon'ry'de' outside Ne" York
You taxpayers should organize vigilance com
| mittee. Here this BinShsm removal and
Grds YOU asleep. It's taken week TO get together
Tfsn the next day there should have been indEna
| ton meetings Of thousands. Let II become known
| of our Mayor and determined to make erd Of
| such things. Organize gentlemen, orgsnizc
| FORCE DISCOURAGED. SAYS HANSON.
Ex-senator George w. Brush. president OF the
! conference called the meeting to order. lie
| read letter from ex-Deputy Commissioner
! Hanson in which he said the wrong 70 General
| Bingham ~.as wholly submerged in the injury
| wrought BY the Mayor 20 the general public.
| Hanson said that there was large proportion
| Of the force-honest. decent men-~ho "ere
wholly discouraged by the mad act which had
bagiea tah department INTO politics
| Or Brush said that the meeting Vas not an
| attempt 10 play politics or 10 take up the
| cause Of General Bingham or any othe: indi-
| viduaL save as any such case represented the
| principles for which the conference stood While
| nobody contradicted the Mayors right under
the charter 10 remove any department head, he
said il certainly was not contemplated by the
| charter that he should administer the Police
| Department from the City Hall
! Then Dr. Brush introduced Rabbi Wise. Be
| fore he could begin his address, nervous little
| man. with fuzzy beard and an alaI7ningly 6ig
voice began to shout out that the meeting had
been called without proper notice and attempts
/ were being made to jam through a programme
without proper consideration. He announced
! himself as Ira J. Ettinger. member Of the
! executive committee of the conference Rabbi
! Wise said that he had to get early train
out of town. and Mr.. Ettnger could talk all
he liked after the address for which he had
| been invited By the conference had been deliv-
| cred. Ettinger sUbsided
RABBI wIsEs CUTTING EPIGRAMs.
| DR. Wise. who has striking facility for cpl
| gram. instantly caught the interest OF the audi
! ence and held it to the end. he ridiculed Mayor
Mcclellan as a professor OF politics at Prince
| ton. declaring that students should boycott the
! classes taught by the Mayor, and saying that
| he'd hate 10 have his taught the duties OF
citizenship BY any such professor He continued
| as follows:
The removal OF General Bingham from the once
| light OF a midsummer diversion. Tor II Is very
! serious business The DEGRADATION o. the head @ OF
| the Police Department by the Mayor has come
IeP ft: r., sense 81 sjty 70 Sew York instead OF
being controlled by such corrupt politicians as have
| maintained their power by virtue Of their ability
to secure immunity for their criminal lieutenants
! and their eutenants in crime.
! Personally I feel that ] owe an apology 10 the
Mayor. TO whom in meeting at Cooper Union
/ vertebrate And I do herewith apologize. for the
| invertebrates but an unarpable invertebrate
nabbiy in the wrong as he Is feebly in the right
| nit that General Bingham, who incidentally have
! never seen, has made mistakes Of Judgment wish
| Bingham is no mans man but his own. and not
| McCarren's manikin. Either General Bingham or
! If General Bingham. We have the right know.
II General bingham be not guilt then the MayST @
have the restoration of Bingham or the resigna-
| ton OF Mcclellan.
| n General Bingham had consented to promise i'm
rnuuy 10 the election colonlEers and conducted his
| he would never have been removed, and might have
| been res pponted If the Police Department be
| 4Ie,or The power which ought 10 be The arm Of
| the law will become the agent and accomplice of
| what would think o< President Taft If he
| conducted the War Department from the White
| tarv Of war and making II adjunct OF the Re
| nubosn party-especisiy II the Secretary OF War
hsd ~ pbe department and II ali his more
| orer we're done on the eve of Presidential eIec-
ugn g e no -xsggeration-t say that stand to-
day Is for our lives cur fortunes and our sacred
| If the Police Department be manipulated as a
wheel in the political machinery Of our M city Il is
| ~ make the manly amend lie owes II to himself.
he owes IT the Police Department, he owes 1t to
| New York
TROUBLE OVER RESOLUTIONS.