New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
CAMPAIGN OF "GINGER'
NOVEL METHODS IN USE.
Particular attention to Bannard'S
Candidacy StetSon Supports Ticket

Extraordinary energy will be injected into the
campaign for Otto II. Barnard for Mayor this
week. The chances for the election of all the
fusion candidates below the head of the ticket SO
nearly approach the sure degree that the Re
publican managers think they can well afford
from to bear with special emphasis on
the necessity of electing Mr.. Barnard
Francis Lynde Stetson yesterday announced MS
advocacy of Mr.. Bannards election, and there can
be doubt that the latter is gaining ground rap
idly and is making friends wherever the people
come to know him he is. II is the special pur-
pose Of the Barnard Campaign Club to reveal the
fusion candidate for Mayor in his true character
TO as many voters possible.
The young men who are at the head Of the CLUB
will dispense with many of the old campaign
methods. and will wage an original warfare on
behalf of their candidate.
series of monday meetings Is being arranged
for the various industrial and commercial centres
in the city. There will be at least one every day.
except Sunday, until the end of the campaign
Mr.. Barnard has promised to speak at all Of these
meetings. in order that he may come more closely
into touch with the toilers Of the city.
For instance meetings will be held for the beer
packers at the Hudson River and 10th street;
for the longshoremen. in Christopher street, near
the Hudson River, and for general factory hands,
at 65th street and the Hudson River
At noon on Tuesday meeting will be held on
the ground floor of the F1atron Building, at Broad
will hold a meeting in the heart OF Christie Sui
livan's district in Pacific Hall, at No. 2os East
Broadway. Mr.. Barnard will speak there
One Of the novel features of the campaign work
for Mr.. Barnard will be the use Of large automo-
bile carryalls-"rubberneck wagons'-to bring peo-
nile 70 the meetings Half an hour before each
meeting one of these buses will tour the neigh
borhood bearing placards and megaphone man.
who will invite the people to ''steP aboard ana
ride TO the meeting
MT Barnard is sending out this letter to all
those who have written him IN regard to his can
didacy:
am greatly pleased with the interest you have
OF course, you realize as clearly do that
a question Of What we can do to help this great
city of out of the slough into which II mas
Tammany rule To this cause we well afford
to devote our best efforts 1t is our common ou'S
should like to hear from others who feel as we
do. When you meet them please get Iher Sls"0
lures and send them in.
Albert B. Kerr president Of the Barnard Cam
paign Club is sending out letter to all recruits
to the cause, in which he says
We want YOU to constitute yourself walking
delegate for Barnard Agitate for new osai LOr
coats off and hustle You will do your share Talk
Barnard TO your friends me CITY neeu2 O.
nard. You can help the city by helplhe Dania'u
Francis Lynde stetson, announcing his support
of Mr.. Barnard, IN a etter sent py MIN y0S'OlN"I
TO the Committee OF one Hundred, said that Jus
tce Caynors eccentricities disqualified him for the
mayoralty. Mr.. Stetson, who is an independent
Democrat at one time the law partner OF
Grover Cleveland. He a member or mayor
McCleIans advisory commission on taxatoh anu
finance Mr.. Stetson wrote:
No unbiased and intelligent voter need be in
donbt For sanity OF Judgment; for experience in
the conduct Of important analrs IoI psSteOt.laI
ability: for unquestioned and misunderstanding m
tegrity and independence of control: for human
and sincere Sympathy with the Sguggf t 20 Wbom
proper municipal administration is most hnpor,,
o o1 can 13 stand higher than Otto II Barnard.
In fitness end availability at the present Jgn Ss
erratic opponent whose nomination has been 7 eS3
tracted from sullen and resehtIui h adnnjn,stra
lion. for which Mr.. Barnard has dsmonstratea ms
capacitv. but not Judge Gaynor. whose eceentrlel-
ties of proclamation and procedure have made the
judicious grieVe.
Arthur Won Briesen, leader in many German or
Plantations in this city. who has taken an active
mart in the work OF immigration reforms denied
Yesterday that there was any truth IN the state
ments that the Germans would vote for Justice
Gavnor The German vote could not be "deltv-
cred he said efforts to that end in the past hav-
ing always failed
John Purroy Mitchell will speak at the People $
F1ornn in the New Masonic Temple, Lafayette
and Clermont avenues, Brooklyn, this afternoon.
His subject will be "CIty Government" and ne
! will be prepared to answer any questions
On Wednesday afternoon at o'clock Mr.. Ban
nard will meet the members of the New YORK
/ County Executive Committee and the Republican
members Of Congress and of the state Legislature
from this county in his headquarters. in the Fifth
| Avenue Building. The purpose Of the meeting Is
10 talk over the problems of the campaign as they
are seen by the leaders in various parts OF the
! county Similar meetings with the Republican
| leaders in Richmond and Queens will be arranged
! later In the campaign.
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