Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-22
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SENATOR SULLIVAN MAKES DE-
NAL OF WHITE SLAVE TRAF.
FIG CHARGES.
BowERY POLITICIAN POSES
AS DEFENDER OF WOMEN
Popular Leader In Speech to His Con-
stituents penounces With Emotion
Many New York MayoraIty Cam.
paisn Statements as Cruel Lies.

Former Congressman Timothy d
tor, who is known in his Bowery dis
trict as big Tim" stood before an
enthusiastic crowd of his constituents
in Miners Bowery theater the other
night and, with tears running down his
big face at times. answered the
charges that were made in New York S
recent mayoralty campaign against the
methods of the Sullivan clan, of which
he is the leader, and with his voice
shaking with emotion, denied that he
ever had knowledge of, much less
countenanced, such a thing as is known
as the white slave traffic. He SAID:
THE trouble with the reformers is
that they don't know our traditions
down here. That's why they think be-
cause I've got a little money there
must be something wrong. that must
be getting money in some crooked way
or l wouldn't stay here. I'll tell you
why l stay here.
II was born in poverty. one of six
children, four boys and two girls. The
boys used to sleep in a three-quarters
bed, not big enough for two, and the
girls in a shakedown on the floor.
Some nights there was enough to eat
and some nights there wasn't. And
our old mother used to sing to us at
night, and maybe it would be next day
before we would think that she had
been singing, but that she had gone to
bed without anything to eat
Thieves From Necessity.
"That's the kind of people we come
from, and that is the kind of mothers
that bore US down here. II We can
help some boy or some father to an
other chance we are going to give it
to them. The thieves we have down
here amt thieves from choice. They
are thieves from necessity, and neces-
sity don't know any law. They steal
because they need doctor for some
dying one or they steal because there
amt any bread in the house for the
children.
There's something here written by
gentleman named Turner. He's not
so bad, even IL he has been writing
horrible stuff, but l can't say as much
for the people who have been paying
him. I've been looking Turner up.
>He's got three children and wife,
and they might have been starving,
and man who has children starving
will do anything.
j.. Nov we come to. the last of all
the white slave talk, My God! They
have put me lin between thieves, and
pilloried between thieves! I've been
living here all my life, and l never
knew a man engaged in this business,
and l won't stand for this. l am not
going to say anything, but this man
Turner had better keep out Of this
district.
Advises Mr.. Whitman.
1--WE never professed to be more
than the average man. l don't want
you to think I'm very good, for I've
done lot of wrong things. I'm just
an average man, but I've told you OF
that old mother of mine, what she did
for me, and want to say here before
you all that there is no man on earth
who believes in the virtue of women
more than / do
"Whitman says he believes in these
things, and he says that when he is
elected district attorney he is going to
start an office ON the east side. He
don't have to do that. He'd better
start one up by the Union League club
and get after the people who's trying
to form blind pools and who meet
there to shove up the price of meat a
cent or two pound.
How He Began to Give Away Shoes.
Eve do enough bad things. and
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