The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-31
E NTHU SIASM FOR
FUSION TICKET
At Height
MITCHELL, SETH LOW AND OSCAR
STRAUSS MAKE SPEECHES
AT MADISON SQUARE.
M'CAlL ESlSUlzER CHARGES
Tammany Candidate Says His Accus-
ers "lnstead of Winning Victory,
Will, BY Their RIGHTEOUSNESS, Damn
the Fusion Cause Before Election"

ANOW IOih N, OCI Ill lOT
the fusion municipal ticket headed by
John Purroy Mitchell, reached its
height last night at big mass meet
ing in Madison Square Garden. The
audience heard the mayoralty candi-
date himself; former Mayor Seth Low,
who once led the fusion cause to vic
tory; Oscar S. Strauss, former ambas-
sador to Turkey, and others attack
Tammany Hall, Edward E. Mccall, its
mayoralty candidate, and Charles F.
Murphy, it's leader.
Mr.. Strauss aroused the crowd to a
demonstration when he denounced
Tammany Hall for what he declared
was its recently displayed power to
conduct its own recall and make and
unmake a Governor.
Seth Low, as chairman, also caught
the crowd when, in answering his own
question, How can Tammany be de-
stroyed?" he replied, "By putting it on
hunger strike and not trying to fore
bly, feed it."
Edward E. Mccall addressed several
Democratic meetings last night at
which he departed from bis usual GUS
tom by mentioning by name John A.
Hennessy, Gov. Sulzer's graft inves-
tigator, who has brought many charges
against Mccall and Murphy.
"The charges of Hennessy and Sui
zer, instead of winning fusion vic
tory, will, by their perfdiousness, damn
the fusion cause before election day."
Mccall declared.
Hennessy continued his spirited
campaign. He devoted the greater
part of his talk to Charles F. Murphy,
reiterating charges he had made
against the Tammany leader, incident
ally heaping ridicule upon him for his
declaration that he returned to the
late Anthony N. Brady the latter's
$4,000 campaign contribution.
Statements, denials of charges and
the continued use of "the little black
book" said to contain the record Of
conversations with ex-senator Stephen
]. Stilwell in Sing Sing prison, which
was turned over to District Attorney
Whitman, were among the indictments
that helped keep the campaign in swift
motion during the day.
"The little black book" will be used
by the district attorney in John
Doe" inquiry of the Hennessy charges
against Charles F. Murphy and Ed
ward e. Mccall. This inquiry Mr..
Whitman ordered Chief Magistrate
McAdoo to begin at once.
Denies sulzer Charges.
Mccall denied statement made by
William Sulzer, the deposed Governor,
in which Sulzer charged that Mccall,
posing as his friend, tried to get him
to call off the Hennessy investigations.
Mccall pleaded that Murphy had prom
ioCu Aill Iue uOLlludIlOh AOi ShtSA
judge of the Court of Appeals, Sulzer
said, and that, If everything was "satis-
factory" Sulzer could name the man
for associate judge.
Mccall called Sulzer poor, mis-
guided man" with a "disordered
brain"
That even telephone device some
times records untruths was charged by
John H. Delaney, who issued state
ment in which he declared that some
"illiterate person" impersonated him
when the machine was alleged to have
recorded the conversation in the Ex-
ecutive Mansion at Albany in which
Sulzer is said to have insisted that De-
laney had taken Allan A Ryan's $1o,-
900 to Charles F. Murphy. Delaney as
serted he never could have used such
language as was attributed to him.
In what is said to have been the long