Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-26
BIue-Eyed, Red-Haired Hen
messy Also Hurting Bombs
at Murphy.
MCCALL FACES DEFEAT,
THOUGH ONCE FAv0RITE
Youthful John Purroy Mitchell
Seems Certain Of Mayoralty as
Result of Battle.
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

BY N. o. MESSENGER.
NEW YORK, October 25.-Now, first OF
ALL in this mayoralty campaign. don't let
US lose our heads and get excited over
Sulzer. New York, for the moment. is
going into Mysteries about him. but that
is New York's lookout Just remember
that he is ''the same old BILL and say,
that does express a lot. doesn't it?
Just the same. he and his cause and his
friends have created a situation here
which is giving Tammany Hall the scare
of lifetime. Ten days ago the Tam
many candidate for mayor Judge Nc
Call. was as good as elected. The death
of Mayor Gaynor had simplified the sit
uation for Tammany and it looked as II
Boss Murphy had everything his own
way.
Then came the conviction of Gov Sui
zer on the impeachment charges. his
exit from Albany in disgrace. his tri-
umphal entry into New York. his nomi-
nation for the assembly by the bull
moosers. his whir' wind campaign on the
East Side, attended by an emotional and
hysterical outbreak only possible in this
which bids fair to upset the most care
full calculations OF the most practiced pol
itician.
Murphy's Act Puzzles.
II will forever be amazing why Charles
F. Murphy. past grand master in the art
of politics as he is credited with being.
did not complete the job of destroying
Sulzer while he had the chance. He had
Sulzer down. but he did not put him down
and out.
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and then leave him competent to hold
on1ce again; was there ever such an
oversight? Having wrought the utmost
Of humiliation upon Sulzer and then to
turn him loose, with power to take the
most signal revenge upon him, to teke
il swiftly and inexorably. Why. it
looks like the working of fate, with
Murphy as the victim, when but yester-
day he was the victor.
There is nothing like 1t in American
politics. as you and ] can remember.
So here is Sulzer. our same old Bill, .
rampaging around the East Side, hand
in waistcoat. rumpled for eclat, under
study for Henry Clay, receiving the
driving nails into Tammany's comm every
hour.
Chief Fight for Mayoralty.
For his race for the assembly is only
part of the greater fight for the mayor
atty of New York. In this town, the
inayoralty campaign is more important
than the presidential contest. They have
only a vague idea of the presidency. but
they have a very practical conception of
the mayoralty. That means jobs, con-
tracts. and a thousand and one bread and
butter propositions.
Now. to take revenge on Murphy for
ousting him from Albany. Sulzer pro-
poses to beat Murphy's candidate for
mayor. II he can accomplish that he
Will be touching the Tammany boss on
ship.
To add to Murphy's discontinue, he
must contemplate the possibility of being
outdoae by u bipartisan candidate 1t is
not as If he were beaten in a straight
away fight by straightout political OPP
poient. It's worse than that This
young fellow. John Purroy Mitchell, is
really a democrat He holds a twelve
thoasand-doliar job by appointment of a
democratic President And right here il
might be remarked that he Is still on the
pay roll. although he has offered to re-
sign. That sticks in Murphy's craw
they say But there is one figure in this
campaign who. after all is said and done.
really towers above SulZer for the mo-
nent. lie is John A. Hennessy, the man
who has put Candidate Mccall on the
grill
who Is HennesSyP'
WHO is Hennessy?" everybody is ask
ing He has been on the job here for
many years, but only in the last few
days has he become figure of national
Importance. lie Is "A newspaper man, a
plain. hard-working. unostentatious fellow,
Who has played the game as the cards
were dealt him by fate, content to do the
IN hun a.
once he finds himself the most talked -oi
man I'm New York politics.
Picture a short, sandy haired, blue-ey
chap. quiet OF manner but determined OF
nten, who talks in crisp sentences til,
while he looks You squarely in the eyes
You kind of feel that you would like to
haye him beside you in a scrap confident
that lie would stick.
Dares Any Refutation.
Mr. Hennessy claims to have some in
formation about Tammany and its can
didate of damaging character He has
exploited the same and dared Judge Nc
t'ail and Boss Murphy. to refute it
Strange to say, no one has Yet "come
back" at him. He makes the charges
night after night in sDeeches, and there
Is no answer. Judge Mccall pooh poohs
iurn, Boss Murphy disdains him, but no.
body comes across
And. as sure as you arc a foot high he
Is eating the heart of Tammany's cam
paign day by day Hennessy is much
bigger man. a more potent factor in the
campaign than Sulzer. Our same old
Bilf' started the ball rolling but Hen.
messy Is the biue-eyed boy who Is pushing
it along.
The republicans, the progressiyes and
all the nti-Tammanyites are watching
the night with glee. IL Mitchell is eected