New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-03
FUS|0N|STS HEAR LOW
Ex-Mayor Says WiIIett Case Is
Typical of Tammany.
R0USING HARLEM MEETING
Declares Gaynor Lent Aid to
Undo Peoples Verdict in
1909 Victory.

astic meetings OF the campaign, held last
night at the New Star Casino. In East lO7th
street. former Mayor Seth Low compared
tho present situation over the Willett scan
Dial to the workings of Tammany Hall UNI
der Richard Croker. More than fifteen nun
dred persons packed the hall.
ut is easy for every one now to see
what some OF us have always believed,
said Mr.. Low. that the inevitable result
of Tammany success is the sale Of public
office Croker said he was in politics FOR
his own pocket all the time. and when he
said that he said only that which is the
true Tammany conception"
Before Mayor Gaynors election, Mr.. Low
pointed out, he scorned the imputation that
he was the Tammany candidate, and went
to great lengths TO explain that he was the
Democratic" candidate. and that Tam
many was only part Of the Democratic
party in New York City.
Why? Because he knew that to be a
Tammany candidate was a handicap he
could not openly carry"
Three points Mr.. Low emphasized
throughout his speech. the first speech he
Has made i'm the present campaign, and In
his closing remarks he summed them up
to drive them home. A vote for Tammany
this year. he said. meant, first. an approval
Of the violation Of home rule as eXemplified
in the recent Gaynor charter; second, an
approval OF the attempted violation Of the
independence of the ballot as exempllhed
In the Levy law. and. third, an approval OF
the organization, which, when it has
power, always spells corruption"
Says Mayer Worked Against People.
Mayor Gaynor. said Mr. Low, lent him
self 10 the effort TO undo the peoples YER
dict In the fusion victory of 1909 and Muir
ply degraded the state when he went to
Albany and tried to dictate to and direct
the Legislature.
j. Hampden Dougherty, who presided,
opened the evening with a statement which
brought a thunderous round of applause
from the crowd
Murphy is but the representative OF the
Tammany system, and boss as he IS. II
properly robed, he would appear i'm the uni
, form of an office boy If Gaynor had pro-
posed before his election to back a charter
which would nulify the result OF the fusior
success, he would never have been elected
and yet that is just what he did when he
got into Office Mr.. Dougherty said
After telling briefly OF some OF the things
he had tried to put into the charter. Mr.
Dougherty declared:
you may look for another such charter
If there should be another such Tammany
| Assembly"
Controller Prendergast said that the indi.
| cations all pointed TO the fact that Tam
many was frightened now as 1t had neve,
been before. Calling upon their highest
and their best men for the closing meet.
| ings OF the campaign was one OF the sign,
| the Controller interpreted as of fear and
then he pointed to the recent message from
Governor Dix.
Governor Dix says that this election {,
but the skirmish OF 1872 lie saws that m,
election of a Democratic Legislature /,
necessary that they may carry OUT the re
| forms they have in mind" said tbe Con,
troller.
| What reforms does he mean? Does he
mean the Levy bill, or the perfect char
! ter, or the prizefight bill, or the paddlnf
| of this city's payroll by mandatory specia
| legislation? Or maybe he means IN,
wiping out of the Court of Claims. Thos,
are the reforms that the Legislature tried
to give us Are those the kind Of reforms
the Governor has in mind?
Tammsny Getting Ashamed
III Dix only knew what was good IN
him he would be praying that Tamman,
| would be defeated this year. because the,
| he would not have TO subjugate his bIg,
office to the demands and degradations q
a Tammany boss. Why, Tammany is eve,
getting ashamed of itself. 1t used TO stan,
up straight and openly, but now I see y,
advertisement, signed by the Democrat,
General Committee What IS that? Vb,
ever heard OF the Democratic Genera
Committee before? Tammany is not ,
Democratic organization. II is business
! President Mitchell of the Board OF Alder
men. reviewed the work OF the fusion mem
bers of the Board Of Estimate on subway.
and tho city budget, and made the nles
that support of the whole Fusion ticke
of this year was the only practical wa,
to register approval OF the work OF IN.
men elected by fusion I'm 1909.
John ]. Hopper. fusion candidate TO,
Sheriff; James X. Brown and William A
Cotter. Democrat and president OF IN,
| Sycamore Club. were the other speakers
| Mr.. Cotter declared that from the insid,
| Tammany Hall itself was getting tired anc
sick of ''Murphyism," and prophesied an
explosion from within In the near future.
He described In detail the workings o
"Murphyism' as he saw It. and said tina
| II 1t couldn't be proved In court of Law
! 1t was at least moral robbery"