New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-16
HOSTS HAIL BANNARD
TRIUMPHANT TOUR FROM
BRONX TO BOHERY.
He Wdnts Neither GOUeTHOrskip
Nor Presidency, but WOUId Like
to DO City's HOusecIeaniHg.

/
/ tered all the way from Houston street to TIE
Bronx, Otto T. Barnard. Republican and
i fusion candidate for Mayor. was cheered by
i upward of ten thousand persons last night 10
was his busiest night. far, in the campaign.
| Harlen's BrOadway-125th street-was light
/ ed up for him with the fun strength of the
| Hudson-F'uton glare and The Bronx Camp
Fusion was gIaring with fireworks and noisy
/ with the shouts Of two thousand men ard
| women
At Jefferson Hail. No 9O Columbia street. on.
/ the lower East Side. and at No ia East
Houston street. he met other noisy adherents
but between these public meetings he ran in on
/ quieter gatherings of district captains and
/ Heutenants
In the 9th Assembly District Republican Club
Mr. Barnard found one such gathering. and in
their clubrOOm. No. 4OS West 10th street he
found George T. McAneny. fusion candidate for
Borough President Of Manhattan. going over
campaign plans with the district heads
To this smaller gathering. as to the larger
ones Mr. Barnard talked facts, straight from
/ the shoulder
What do you think of your OueensbO-o
Bridge with $S.O00OOO gone to waste on IT, and
which carries one single little trolley line across
| the river and runs nOwhere?'' he asked
And what OF yoGr subway loop" he went e..
built to connect the two bridges and the
Fourth avenue extension ia Brooklyn. and WON'T
earn dollar until tha, extension is built?
Money going to waste everywhere"
CITY NEEDS \ HOUsECLEANING
He told them that the reason was that the
Board Of Estimate stood in with contractors
Your territory is farmed out said Mr.. Ban
nard and what you need down at the City HaH
| is a good hOuseceaning"
I'm not much of campaigner: YOU can't
make good csTmDagner out Of q plain business
he OI
| into the Mayors Office and run things on a
| business bRsis"
/ The tour started at the Ivy club. No. $40 Elss
65th street, the 18th Assembly District Repub
/ lican Club. and there the candidate stopped
/ only for an informal reception, while he shook
| hands with three hundred members of the cIu,'
Going to the next stopping place the tire ut
the machine in which Mr. Barnard was riding
| exploded. but fixed up. while he went along
in the second ear to the Union Republican Club.
/ at No. PA East 104th street. the s4th Assembly
District organization.
There's only one issue in this campaign. Ea
told FIVE hundred members at the club. and that
! is Tammauy Hall Tammany Hall Is neither
Democratic nor Republican. it's just TammaEy
I Hail. and the issue is whether YOU want NOR. e
| Tammany Hall"
Then the automobiles whizzed ap 10 No 3IS
East I3Sth street, Camp Fusion, which was
opened last night in the SD Assembly District.
! William H. Ten Eyck. Aqueduct Commissioner;
John F. F,ustls Public Service Commissioners.
/ and Richard w. Lawrence and CYRUS c. Miller,
! candidate on the fusion ticket for BOrOu=h
| President of The Bronx, were on hand to grees
| Mr. Barnard here. with crowd of two thou
sand. every man with small lag- The candi-
I date started to tell this crowd about school
sites
You know it's funny how Tarlmany likes u
| buy land he said. They'd sooner buy and
j than build a school
Another thing. in the budget for 1908 you'll
find for automobiles S2i2Ots): for repairs %
| autos. S1S9.OeO That's poor management
Let me tell you a word OF the Staten Island
ferry 1t costs IS much to operate that ferry
as the total assessn mt of that borough Money
is just spilled into the water I'm in favor Z
| city ownership for subways and such things.
| but not city operation.
| CANDIDATE GETS CLOSE ATTENTION
/ Mr. Barnard wasn't declaiming. but the crowd
was hanging ON his words, and listened without
a sound. He was stating facts to them.
/ after another. and cries of That's the taIkr'
| Straight business the only interrupt
| ttOns.
| Camp Barnard. at I255h street was next and
\ the,tent there packed that the candidate
and his PARTY had a hard time pushing their
way in. Chairman Samuel Strassbourger intro
| duced Mr. Barnard to the crowd. and he told
I them that it wasn't a matter of politics now.
in this campaign.
/ I'm Republican, said Mr. Bannard "but
the Board of Estimate will be half Democratic
and half Republican. and it isn't a question OF
politics. but simply question f putting in an
| honest board"
RE told them briefly of mis- experience on the
Board Of Education and mentioned the fact that
he was acquainted with the needs or other crsf-
zens through his connections in charitable or
gani2atous
IF you want plain business man 20 run this
great corporation for tine next four years he
concluded. Il want to try il. It's up to YOU,
you're the directors But remember that yOu
can't change your directors every year. as an
ordinary corporation can; you'u have to wait tin
1919 want to pick carefully"
Down in the 9Th Assembly District Mr.. Ban
nard nailed one rumOr.
IF any one asks you If I'm going to with
draw" he said tell him can't, after tonight
Is NOT TINnD. HE SAYS
Then on to Alderman JoAnson's 25th Assembly
District Republican Club. whence. after a br,ar
word to the captains and IieuteDants. he whizzed
over 70 the East Side OF town again. and Jacob
Newstead introduced him to the Republicans OF
the 4th Assembly District at jefferson Hall
Max s. Grifenhasen. fusion candidate for
Register. was speaking. but he gave way to the
mayoralty candidate
This campaigning seems to be somewhat ss
an endurance test" Mr.. Barnard told this
crowd. People seem TO want 10 see how rnucb
u candidate can stand Wen. I'm not much 81
a camPaisner. but I'm not timid. I'm not afrai5
TO tell you where / stand
I'm for business administration. Tamman,,
takes no interest in business administrator
The desire OF most of them is TO feather their