The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-27
ALL EYES TURNED
UPON HENNESSY IN
NEW YORK CAMPAIGN
Interest in Election Warns
Up as the Day APP
prOaches
CHARGES OF GRAFT IN
PUBLIC OFFICE MADE
Fight Develops Into Seething Battle
of Wits-Aside from Mayoralty
Campaign Contests for Minor
Offices Will Be Held

New York, October 26.-With election
day only a little more than a week off.
the campaign for municipal offices in
Greater New York which had been TAX
ing the course of a quiet canvass for
votes unmarked with animosity outward
ly expressed between leaders of the vari
Gus factions, has suddenly developed
within the last few days into seething
battle Of wits, of bitterness, of charges
of graft in public office and of political
triokery.
This new order of things was largely
brought about by the entrance into the
campaign of John A. Hennessy, "execu-
tive auditor" of tAe state, political ap-
pointee of William Sulzer, the deposed
governor, who himself has returned to
the scenes of his early 'triumphs in an
endeavor to return to Albany as mem
Der of the state assembly.
Eyes Turned on Hennessy
1T is on Hennessy rather than on his
late chef-the deposed governor-that all
eyes are turned, and from whose lips
come statements, charges and challenges
that have caused an awakening of in
terest among voters and led the Tam
many leaders to plan countercharges.
Fresh from Investigations of various state
departments as executive auditor, Hem
messy has entered the local campaign,
speaking several times nightly, telling of
what he alleges his Investigations have
uncovered and challenging the occupants
of state and city offices and their poll
tical associates to reply.
H~nnessy. the most picturesque figure
in the canvass, was born in Ireland "a
years ago and came with his parents to
Brooklyn when boy. He began his
newspaper training as an office boy and
rose to the position of managing editor
Of the New York Press. serving in the
meantime one term in the state assembly
during which he gained the lifelong
friendship of William Sulzer, then demo-
cratic floor leader. When Suzer became
governor of his early appointees was
Hennessy as executive auditor" a place
that gave him the opportunity to inves-
tigate state departments. Always op-
posing what he termed boss rule, Hem
messy entered the local campaign with
alleged disclosure of irregularity that has
come near overshadowing all else. Mean
while Sulzer is continuing his activities to
the sixth assembly district, where he
holds the progressive nomination and is
making speeches every day telling his
side of the Impeachment charges which
he declares his counsel would not permit
him to tell at his trial. Tammany leaders
| have expressed the hope that Sulzer $
advent into the campaign will be resented
outside the sixth district and that their
candidate for mayor, Edward e. Mccall
and other Tammapy nominees will benefit
in other parts of the city.
Although not as aggressively as Hem
messy. John Purroy Mitchell. fusion NOM
inee for mayor, is making his fight on
Tammany hall and Mccall. its candidate
as the alleged tool of Charles r. Murphy
Tammany leader Charles Edward Rus
sell, socialist candidate. is opposing both
Mitchell and Mccall as boss controlled =
Contests for Minor Offices
Aside from the mayoralty campaign
there are many contests for minor offices
and for the state assembly. With all
these candidates active and with Hen
messy promising additional disclosures:
with Sulzer's continued speechnaking in
the east side and Mccall, Mitchell and
| Russell speaking almost continuously ev-
| cry day, the present week bids fair to
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