New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-17
TAMMANY HALL FINDS
DEFENDER IN SULzER
Candidate Refrains from At
lacking Roosevelt, but De-
votes Himself to StrauS.
PRAISED NE ONCE HE SAYS
"Tammany Has Certainly Been
Good to the Straus Family"
He Adds; Record Shows
II Gave Them Much"

It Gave Them Much"
Theodore Rooseveit's name was not
mentioned at the meeting OF Tammany
Hall held last night 10 ratify the national
and state Democratic tickets. The house
was top-heavy with representatives. from
the East Side. Congressman william SUI
ger, the party's candidate for Govern 'r'
got q warm reception in consequence
every time he spoke about the part ne
played in bringing about the abroshtoh
OF the Russian treaty In Congress.
Mr.. Sulzer refrained from crtticising
Colonel Roosevelt, but he compensated
for this 20 some extent by his open at
tack On Oscar straus, the Progressive
candidate for Governor. He said that
Tammany Hall had been, good TO the
straus family, and that Mr. Straus had
better stop pratinG about the organization
and tell the people what he has done to
aid his race a: home or abroad.
The Bull Moose candidate for Gov
ernor ia CRYING In the wilderness OF De-
spair." cried Congressman Sulzer He Is
talking about Tammany for lack OF some
thing better 10 say. Only few months
ago Oscar straus spoke at dinner given
in my honor, and in the presence OF more
than n thousand persons he declared that
I was a statesman and that I had per
formed a world work. and that his race
owed me debt OF gratitude for all that
had done for tho oppressed Jews in
Russia !"
Tammary and tho strauses.
II have not changed since then, for
that was on March IS. last. my forty
ninth birthday. Mr. Straus knows that
He continued:
But more-Tammany has certainly
been good TO the Stratus family ne
record shows Il has given them mucn;
Has oscar Stratus forgotten when he
was A Democrat and appointed % Presl-
dent Cleveland Minister 10 turkey, on
the recommendation OF men In this or
FaniZatlOn7 Has he forgotten tnAt lam
NAM elected one Of his brothers 10 Con
gress and nominated another brother
for Mayor Of New York city? Has ne
forgotten when Tammany made one OF
his family a Park Iommiss!oherp s siIc
Health? Has he forgotten how Tam,
many recently nominated and elected
one Of HIS relatives to our Supreme
Cuurt7
comes with very poor grace from oscar
strauS Ito should stop prnunB aoout
TArnmAny and tell us what ne ever dld
10 aid his race az homo or abroad.
Or Thomas Darlington, former Health
Commissioner, the chairman. Introduced
Mr suzer ~ the true-hsartcd con Oh
nocracv." the great American CON
rnon,r" and the next Governor OF New
York State"
Mr.. Sulz.r replied that q was crafty
ing 10 him 20 know that hls nomination
for Governor cam. from free and open
convention Of independent delegates.
voice in the gallery interrupted him
with: They had 20 give II 20 you" This
apparsntly aroused considerable feeling,
for Mr.. sulzer followed IL up with the
remark that his public accomplishments
for more than twenty years would sue
cessrully challenge adverse criticism
from his political opponents.
Stands on His Record.
II stand on that recordr' he shouted,
with an eloqusnt sweep OF hls arm. A
voice I'm the gallary shouted: "Hurrah for
the only man who will be elected Gov
ernor without a Tsmmany boss back OF
biml" The cheers that followed came
from the top OF the house. Mr.. Sulzer
quickly motionsd for silence.
MY record kept me in Congress from
an Overwhelming Republican district and
know Il will send me 20 Albany-and
fcsr not. my friends, I shall be Govern
orr" ne shouted. "Can cay more"
ur su,zer said that Wilson and Mar
shall would sweep the country and that
Democracy was making good all along
the line. He rehearsed his party's record
in Congress and said that II spoke for
,trslt Ho said that the tarifr was a I've
Issue. and that the Democrats must keep
n AZ the front until II ia settled Justly by
the friends of tho consumers" He said
the Republicans broke their tariff pledges
and enacted tho Payne-Aldrich bill, Which
was worse than the Dirgley bill.
He insisted that he was the friend of
labor and Of tho old soldiers. lie declared
that ne favored real conservation and
such exploitation OF all natural resources
q, tho states as would benefit every one
and not n privileged few. He closed with
an attack on the Republican party, which
he said, had been welded too long to
selfish interests" which had ERASED
every motto from its banners"
Other speakers were Thomas Carmody.
candidate for reelection as Attorney
General: William 6ohmer. candidate for
reelection as Controller; Mitchell May.
candidate for Secretary OF State, and
George Gordon Battle. Among those on
the platform were Jefferson Levy. candi-
date for Congress-: ex-sherIT Grell and
Delaney Nicoll, former District Attor-
ney.