New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-29
W|GWAM ROCKS WITH
CHEERS FOR M'CALL
Tammany Nominee Greeted
with Noisy Din, Which
Lasts % Minutes.
5000 BRAVES" IN PARADE
Candidate Says CLOCK Has
Struck for Licentious Press"
and Again Assails
Hennessy.

Edward f. Mccall spoke in Tammany
Hall last night. 1t was the long delayed
Tammany ratification meeting for the can
didates OF the city and county tickets, as
announced by n. Taylor Phillips, the
chairman Mr. Mccall surrounded by
Tammany leaders. including Charles F.
Murphy. 1t was said. reviewed the parade
of the various Assembly District organi-
zations about 5000 men. from a platform
in front OF the hall before he came inside
TO speak
The Wigwam was crowded with a typi
cal Tammany crowd, which fought for
standing room in the aisles and cheered
| the candidate for Mayor for twenty
eight minutes when he finally appeared.
The cheering was spontaneous at first.
| but after ten minutes was palpably
forced. 1t was estimated there were $500
in the audience. Thomas F.. Smith, secre-
tary of Tammany Hall. said it was the
| greatest night he had seen in the Wigwam
! since William Jennings Bryan spoke
there. He did not add that Bryan was
afterward defeated.
| Mr.. Mccall occupied a good part of his
speaking time with another bitter attack
on the newspapers The World" in par
ticular. and John A. Hennessy. He told
the audience, with show of real anger
that 1.-The clock had struck for Pulitzer
and THE World" and the licentious
press. The other speakers who preceded
Mr. Mccall. including DR.. Darlington, cam
didate for President of the Borough If
Manhattan; Herman A. Metz, candidate
for Controller; Maurice Deiches, candi-
date for Register; Congressman Michael
Conry and others, had evidently taken
their cue from the Mayoralty candidate
in his former attacks on the newspapers,
for they all spoke in the same vein.
Mr.. Mccall said in part:
"All along the line as Commissioner
or Controller Metz has said. from one
end of the city-and we have been from
one point to the other-the Democracy
is waiting, chatting at the bit to get up
and at them. Enthusiasm such as has
been in this campaign has never been
seen, l am advised in the outlying bor-
oughs of this city, We have been some
what set back by the ISLANDERS and the
, calumnies that have been injected into
this campaign, and while the individuals
can be named | do not hesitate TO place
the responsibility for the injection of
such creatures upon the fusion manage
ment, no matter whether they disclaim
1t or not.
ut was they who brought this man
Hennessy into the canvass. because In fol-
lowing the regular customs of leaders of
lost cause. when they run away from
the issues that should be discussed in a
campaign. they reach down into the gutter
for their filth and Islander. and the agen-
! cies they use are just such as this despic-
able, cowardly creature is. But I do not
, propose that through their scheming and
by the fundamentally Of such creatures
as that we shall be diverted for one mo-
ment from the real issues OF this cam
paign. and ask you to leave to me for
my own treatment both this man and the
licentious press.
, And now gentlemen, 10 pass to the
; line OF battle and the issues where gem
. tlemen can wage war-I mean political
war-if they differ honestly upon issues
and leaving the gutter for those who
seem TO thrive and wallow in II, let me
ask you what is the paramount issue In
: this campaign? Is il not the condition
of our real estate, burdened and borne
down until the owner of real estate feels
like saying TO the city authorities: Be
!, fore you make another imposition upon
. our tax, take my property We have
reached the point of confiscaton. and the
reason for It is reasonably ascertainable.
The speaker said the present admins
tration had raised the city debt in a riot
Of extravaganza. and yet they talk of a
contract form OF government, Tammany
Hall and bossism." he declared.
You read II In the head lines OF that
miserable World he continued. What
, an orgy Of JOY there would be in the
iPulitzer family II / should come before