New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-18
END OF STRIFE THE START
Peace Promoters Moosette
Meeting TempeStuOuS.
WAR AT FRAMKLIN'S FEET
"Suspender Jack" Stirs EN- Up
by Calling Mayor Names
Our Mary's Hands Full.

The president OF the National Society
for the End of Strife got up Moosette
meeting that kept a thousand persons
surglnR around the statue Of Benjamin
Franklin In the open space between City
hall and the Tribune Building yesterday
from noon until 2 o'clock, and so, perhaps,
It was only TO be expected that there
should be more scraps than at any OF the
political meetings held in that spot since
the campaign began.
The Socialists. who have been spoutlng
around there so long that they got to
considering the place their property, felt
30 peeved when they saw John w. Bal
dorf. the End Of Strife man, chugging up
to Franklin with his automobile load OF
fair Moosettes that they set UP steady
fire OF questions, and met every boast
about the Progressive party platform
with the counter cry, Amt the Socialists
said that already7"
There was also a lot OF Democrats IN
the audience, who got fghting mad be-
cause Harold Lambert Allen, young
Bull Moose orator. announced that he
would not impugn the integrity Of Will
lam Sulzer.
You can't do IT," yelled fat man, with
Tammany Hall sarmarks all over him.
Crowd Dares Him.
Dare you to do IT," chorused other
members Of the crowd.
When MIR. Allen climbed down from the
automobile and started away he was
seized upon by these dissenters and In
volved in such hot disputes that Miss
Mary Donnelly, chairman Of the meeting,
ordered him to keep still or set away and
hire a hall"
But he was not the only one. All ovcr
the big and shifting crowd small groups
were losing their tempers over politics
and II the Republicans. who were holding
forth at the corner Of Spruce street, about
two hundred PAGES away, had taken II
into their heads to come over and heckle
the Moosettes there IL no telling what
might have happened. But they did not
They kept right on at their own corner
cheering for Taft
Tho meeting at Franklin's feet was sup
posed 20 be q straight Progressive meet
ing, and Miss Mary Dreier the frst speak
Ell, kept right TO the matter in hand. What
the Progressive platform promised the
working people was her theme.
But when "Suspender Jack" MCGEE and
Miss Donnelly came TO speak they simply
could not hold themselves to Progressive
doctrines.
"Suspender Jack and "Our Mary both
have grievances against the city govern
ment and finding themselves riGht across
from City Hall with Mayor Gaynor may
be listening at one OF the windows. they
dropped T. r and the Bull Moose instant
~. and devoted themselves TO laying out
the head OF the city government
Mayor In knaniss Club.
"Suspender Jack" elected the Mayor TO
the Ananias Club right away. and made
no bones about doing II In plain language
That lying. hypocrtcal, Exceptional
old Mayor he shouted. when "Sus-
bender Jack" can't find a word IN the
language TO express his emotions ne Just
makes one up
Il know that corrupt City Hail." he
added. for when was put of the police
force and sought TO have my case tried
wasn't I forced 10 take It right out Of
that door and up to Tammany Hall?'
That's right, jack sic EN-, jack
yelled the crowd
Miss Donnelly, who mikes her meta
phors when she gets excited. said that II
the Progressive party was in power at
Washington we wouldn't have that
pillar OF shame, Mayor Gaynor, lowering
like a dark cloud over the city OF New
York, and making 1t into community of
'Gyp' the Bloods and Bridge Webers."
Sounds the Tocsin.
She said that when the Bull Moose
party got IN II would recall all bad OFF,
cials. and she closed by adjurinEthe men
before her to wake up. for Gods sake
and vote the right way"
Miss Maud Ingersoll, the late Robert @,
1ngersoll's daughter, circulated through
the crowd and got enrolmeuts. With the
aid Of three other women and couple OF
men she got three thousand enro!men'h
in the course Of the two hours.