The Washington herald., 1912-08-08
'HELLUVA' MAYOR
IS MR.. GAYN0R
So Says Roddenbery, Georgia Fire
eater, in Discussing
. New York.
PAYS coMPLnGEHTs TO
ALLEGED RosEErHAL sIAYERs
Also Takes Fall Out Of House
Leaders for Immigra-
ton Attitude.

Mayor Gaynor. Of New York; the
slayers Of Herman Rosenthal. Tammany
Hall, Lieut.. Becker. the Democratic
Leaders. and the members of the House
Rules Committee were assailed yester-
day by Representative Roddenbery, q
Georgia Democrat. in one of the most
vitriolic speeches ever delivered In the
House. Mr.. Roddenbery characterized
Mr. Gaynor as "a hell of poor Mayor"
expressed the opinion that a police Of
hcial now in the Tombs In New York
should be executed, and denounced the
Democratic leaders In terms that will
probably result in Mr.. Roddenbery virtu-
ally being read out of the House organi-
zation.
Mr.. Roddenbery was provoked to ut
terance by the failure of the House lead
ership to permit consideration Of the
Burnett immigration bill
which prescribes an illiseracy test for In
coming aliens He declared that he had
no use for a leadership which carries
one way one month and turns to seek
to lead us another the next" by the
God, I, for one. will not submit
to such leadership" he yelled.
The speech Of the Georgian was dis
tinctly anti-foreign. He charged that
most of those involved in New York's
gambling scandal were foreigners. and
he insisted that the recent disclosures in
New York demonstrated the necessity
for more drastic laws governing the ad-
of immigrants. He demanded
capital punishment for those found guilty
Of the murder of Gambler Rosenthal.
He insisted that .'Gyp the Blood" and
others accused of completely in the muir
der Of Rosenthal furnished conclu-
sive proof that the immigration laws
ing to a question concerning his ad-
vocacy of the illiteracy test, Mr.. Rod
denbery said:
Against nliteracy Test.
This much Is so-that steamship COM
panies, the shipping trust, and advocates
OF the wide-open American door. the
'Gyp the Blood the Lefty Lewis. the
Jack Rose and those other assassins.
who, for the price Of gambling in the city
Of New York, will take human life;
that every instrumentality that walks
with glory and pride with human vermin,
nett bills. and that is sufficient for me-"
Representative Goldfogie Of New York
that the men named by Mr..
could read and write.
THE fellow mentioned a moment
ago may not have been able to read and
write when first they put their feet on
what ought to be freeman's soil,'' re-
sponded Roddenbery. ''They have come
here and obtained the benefits of our
Dense in their ignorance,
criminal in their hearts. they have taken
advantage Of opportunities OF Turing the
to their gambling dens,
In the midst of the vice Of the tenderloin,
and in collusion with high officers Of
tiger, they have brought
shame and disgrace on the. Empire
State"
At this point Messrs Roddenbery and
Goldfogle became involved in a colIoquy
relative to illiteracy in New York City
and in Georgia. Replying to Mr. Gold
fogle the Georgia member quoted from
Mayor Gaynor as follows: You have the
hardest police situation in the world to
deal with. We have in this city the larg-
est foreign population Of any city and a
large number of them are degenerates
and criminals.''
Refers Him to Murphy.
Representative Murray, Of Massachu-
setts. asked Mr.. Roddenbery IL he knew
whether Mayor Gaynor favored the
test ~ do not know" snapped
Charley Murphy is about
the only man who can tell you" Mr..
Goldfogle denounced this statement as
unjust and unfair Mr.. Murray remarked
that the New York Mayor was opposed
to the illiteracy test.
Il am going to answer that" re-
marked Roddenbery You take Tam
many's political FOUNDERS up of ward
heelers and go into the slums and dives
md this daoanarata
illiterate mass that extends like a pail
over the entire country and give them
the ballot, and you can make almost
any Tammany Mayor tremble and be in
favor of anything. l do not doubt that
Mayor Gaynor stands with Southern Eu-
rope and Southern Italy. and all coun-
tries against his own country. do not
doubt it."
WAS Mayor Gaynor acting as Tam
many's Mayor when he appointed Rhine
lander Waldo to the head of the New
York Police Department." asked Repre-
sentative Murray
L am not posted on those appointed"
Roddenbery, but IL he made
as bad a job Of 1t as he did in selecting
Becker, who went in collusion with the
thieves, he is hell of a poor Mayor"
Goes After Leaders.
Representative Roddenbery let UP on
Mayor Gaynor for a while to pay his re-
spects to the Democratic House leader
ship, whom he held responsible for throt-
Ting proposed immigration legislation.
He declared that in 1910 these same Demo-
cratic leaders had romped all over the
political form of Uncle Joe Cannon and
the Republican Rules Committee for pre-
venting immigration legislation, only to
adopt the same, or worse, tactics when
the Democracy came into the control of
the House.
Representative Bartholdt of Missouri a
German, brought the Geor-
gian back to the subject of the New York
gamblers. II venture to remark that
every one Of these gamblers is a native
American" suggested Mr.. Bartholdt.
They are just part of that crowd"
Roddenbery. who observed that
worth while come from all
Does the gentleman feel that his sweep
ing denunciation OF both the Jew and the
Italian. based on the newspaper article
supposed to have been given out by
Mayor Gaynor, is justified, in view of the
fact that every indication points to the
fact that these men who committed the
crime were hired to commit It by a per
son OF persons born In this country p,
asked Representative curiey of Massa-.
chusetts.
Yes; he might have been an American.
a Caucasian, and going back to the Teu-
tons, and all the rest" responded Rodden-
berry.
Up to Tammany.
: Instead Of condemning the Italians
and Jews as races because Of the crime.
continued Representative Curley. docs