The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-10-30
THE ELECTION IN GOTHAM.

THE ELECTION IN GOTHAM.
This issue of the Irish Standard
VIII have reached it's readers before
the result of the New York election is
! determined. From the virulent attacks
upon Tammany by the unfriend!y
Hearst organs, the Evening Post and
McClure's Magazine, which charge the
Democratic managers with the intro-
duction of white slavery into the great
metropolis 1t is now the consensus Of
OPINION among shrewd politicians that
caynor will be the next mayor of the
city. There is such thing as chary-
ing too much wckedness against Tam
many and the voters who know the
actual facts will resent the imputa-
lions cast upon honorable men. What
ever may be said of Tammanv. Chief
Murphy and Judge Gaynor, they cam
not reasonably be held responsible for
any vice that prevails in New York,
That vice exists in New York and ev
cry other large city in the country,
there is no doubt. No matter who is
elected, whether Gaynor, Hearst or
Barnard, vice cannot be effectua,1v
suppressed in a city of over 4,OOO, 900
population. When. therefore, the Re-
publican politicians charge that the
white slaveNraffic, as it is called. is y
political ally to Tammany Hail. the
odious charge operates as a boomerang
against the opposition, and Tammapv
| Hall will be vindicated by TRIUMPH
ant majority at the polls
Though Judge Gaynor was not q
| taVorlte candidate for mayor of New
York, for reasons already given. we
cannot but admire his dignifed man
ner OF replying to the accusations OF
his political opponents. He could hav.
had the nomination from the Renuh-
means. and Hearst had promised to
support him on any ticket Now. he
Is abused on all sides and represente;7
as the upholder of wickedness The
voters of every party know whit man
ner of man he is. They know that the
ra1r name of the city is DETAINED and
that the Jewish and Irish women ore
slandered. Judge Gaynor declare
that the charges We're exaggerated and
that the women required no defense
at MS hands. He attacked the author
OF the ISLANDERS. George Kibbe Turner
of McClure's. and waved them aside
as preposterous and absurd, Mr.. Mur-
ply did the same and in a published
interview said:
THE whole thing shows the depth
to which the opponents of the Demo-
cratic party in this city will descend
IN the last days of bitter politics
fight in order to obscure the real ia
sues and by mendacity and calumnv
directed against both the womanhood
and manhood of the great East Side
to avert the ignominious defeat, which
the intelligent, liberal and sincerely
honest elements of our citizenship will
visit on the selfish and unscrupulous
defamers of this great city"
The charges made by NIcClure's
Magazine, which is published in Phil
adelphia. are of so scandalous a M
ture that we can only refer to them,
Why magazine published in the cor
rupt Republican city of PENNSYLVANIA
should participate in the municipa]
campaign of the great city of New
York Is more than we can understand,
But the Republican party of the nu-
ton is interested in the outcome 1vhr
should the Chicago Tribune give 4
whole page of seven columns to the
publication of McClures article be-
cause S. S. Mcclure asked the Tribune
to reprint it in Chicago? A page of
the Chicago Tribune is worth some
thing in dollars and cents, and those
who read the article in the newsna n.r
will not care to buy the November
number Of the magazine The Repur-
lican party, Of which William H. Taft
Is president, is doing everything DOS
sible, by hook or by crook, to carry
New York in next Tuesdays election,
1t will reckon without its host Hal
Roosevelt been home he would have
taken hand in the fray Taft is ii.
the South and has lost his voice from
speaking in the open air. Everything
at this writing looks favorable for the
unterrified and slandered Democra lev
of New York. and we anticipate for 1t
a glorious victory on Tuesday
Is. 5lI 4. ,5sa a4ai ,sal.a lyfs sAaus