New-York tribune., 1911-10-26
PLAN TO "CLEAN Up" CITY.
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time the budget committee has not had
one single suggestion from the MaNo''
And Furthermore. II has asked for s'ls
gestions. personally asked the MaEo'
TO visit the budget committee To give "s
suggestions We are not responsive LOT
the Navor That Is something ! Wouiu
| not ask any man to he responsible ior-
tho Mayor. but Tammany Is responsip'e
for him and Tammany must s'ahd lor
him i'm this campaign.
The forty-two departments over Whi'n
the Mayor presides asked FOR -"
per cent increase In their allowance
this year. said the Controller. hut the
fusion members Of the administration
cut thom down. The same departments
were asked 10 keep down their estimates
10 per cent two years ago. but theE
said then that IL was Impossible. Inc
fusion heads Of the boroughs, however
had not found it impossible to keep the
estimates controlled by them down ana
II the heads of the departments appoint
Cd bv the Mayor. who was elected ny
Tammanv Han. would do the same thinG
the tax rate would not he so high TINS
year.
"Thc next time my friends In Tam
many Hall want to make speeches on
taxes they would better come arouhn
and get a few facts" said the Controi'er'
The Controller said that the budget
would be larger this year than it was
last wear. but that would be because the
fusion administration was paying OIL the
debts of the city that Tammany hao
been sfraid 10 face. The budget would
not he 500 OOO 600. however, he said. II
would be much less. IT would have TO
h, more than last year, because the city
was growing. as well as because the
Tammanv debts had TO be paid
Budcet To Be Best Possible.
we are going to give YOU the best
budget we can" he continued. 1T viii
MOI he perfect. No human action can
be But we are going TO give you the
best budget We can. We are going TO
give Won business administration and
tell YOU what we are doing and why we
do it."
Borough President McAneny discussed
also the business administration OF the
affairs Of the city. the attempt of Tam
r1anv TO folst the Levy law on the city
and the necessity Of returning an anti
Tammany Legislature 10 Albany. Mr..
NcAnenv said that this was not an off
wear in politics. but one Of the most i'm
portant elections that had been held in
many years.
Tammany had been restrained last
-car from many Of the things that IT
wanted to do, he said. but II the so
called good citizen took the idea that
this was an off year and refralned from
voting because there was no Governor
or Mayor or President 10 he elected,
Tammany would find the opportunity
this year TO do all the things it had
failed 10 do last year and fasten its
power on tho state. so that il would be
many years before II could he again
Ovcrthrown.
J ~ Levy ID NnE n N"i So i'i al Ah'
speakers. who included John J. Hopper
the fusion candidate for Sheriff. ex-
Judge William II. Wadhams and Herbert
II. Lindberg
John f. Cowan. the chairman OF the
meeting, said that he felt as a Democrat
that the conditions now existing I'm the
city were so rotten that any man who
pretended to he q good citizen should do
everything he could TO terminate them
and place a new organization in power.
Wants Anti -Tammany Assembly.
Mr.. Hopper said that to him the first
objec Of the campaign was 10 elect an
-Tammany Assembly. 1t was essen
tial. he said. to combine to check Muir
rhy's progress in the state and the
county.
<. StanWood Menken, after describing
the misd6cds of the Tammany legislators
al Albany, called for new leadership il
the Democratic party.
we want this new leadership" he
said. and if we elect this fusion ticket
we will get il. not because Of the issue
whether Cohaan'or Baldwin or Shcaru
will make the better judge, but because
q fusion victory will answer the question
of whether the present heads Of Tam
many Hall can or can not speak for the
great Democracy In its national conven-
ton next wear and whether they can
decide by trade and diCker, as in Room
212 who shall be the next President OF
the United states If Democracy is vic
torious.'