Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-30

formance inside. and the ''barker's"
promises have not been realized.
Here now comes John Purroy Mitchell
to take hand In the same game. He
proposes to lift the lid and go after Can
didate Mccall. In a statement given out
last night he said:
Il am simply going to cut loose with
material which [ have had in my pos
session all along. hut which / did not
want to use because j dislike to indulge
in personalities. But Mccall has opened
the door. and l am now going to lift the
lid. and this will be the end of Mccall
Aroused by Mccall.
Mr.. Mitchell was moved to this threat
ened sanguinary course because Mr.. Nc
Call. in his speech in Brooklyn last night,
asked Mr.. Mitchell to show that during
his connection with a Queens county real
estate corporation. his vote on the board
OF estimate was not predicated on the
fact that the vote was of value to the
You will notice that III most Of these
charges and counterch3rges Very de-
viOus course is pursued, making the charge
by inquiry. implication and Inference.
rather than by direct statement. 1t
leaves the charge in the position of hit
ting at an Elusive punching bag stirred
by strong breeze.
Refutation was given to one of Hen
nessy's charges last night by Judge
Beardsley. who is of counsel for the
trustees of the estate of Anthony n.
Brady. the man who was charged with
Offering Sulzer $4,000. and subsequently
giving it to Boss Murphy. In language
temperate in comparison with the lurid
glow that otherwise illumines the hori-
zon on every side. Judge Beardsley says:
But will say. without intending t.
take any side in the, pending political
contest. in order that there may be nc
construed, that campaign contribution
of $4,000 made by Mr. Brady IN the
campaign of 1913 was subsequently
returned to him..
One Charge Is Exploded.
So that explodes one of the Hen
messy charges. Judge Beardsley. law
yer Of reputation. has put his word
against the others.
The community has been waiting for
days for the divulgence of the stem
ographic reports from the ditectap phone
used at the interview between Sena-
tor Stilwell and his callers in his cell
at Sing Sing. Everybody's been all
worked up over that. The evidence
would have to be paid TO the Burns
detective agency for possession of it.
Mr.. Burns landed from abroad yester-
day in a dramatic manner. guarded by a
score of detectives, because of q rumor
that $4,000 had been placed upon his
head. He was to have been killed by gun
men to get him out of the way That
story didn't go down well, because $4,000
Is an excessive price -for work of that
kind in some sections of New York
Well. the much-heralded ditectaphone
notes are reproduced in the papers and
have failed to set the river on fire. After
reading through columns of 1t, one is
moved to ask, What is 1t all about?" At
the worst. it seems TO be the plaintive
protests of man against his fellow
workers for having been made a goat"
and left To languish. He was lickering
the goods in paying the p Ice of it. More
over. he didn't trust the people with
whom he was negotiating.
District Attorney Working.
In the meantime District Attorney Whit
mans Office is busily at work In an effort
to pin somebody down to affidavits which
would furnish cause of action In the
courts. The charges are altogether too
vague, up to this time, for the Issuance
of warrants of arrests
/ hear of a movement within Tammany
Hall designed to result in the possible
removal of Murphy from the leadership
You must remember that Tammany Hall
Is not composed altogether of crooks and
1t represents the democratic
of the town. and that or
ganization enrolls thousands of men of
high character and clean lives. They
have to suffer the odium of acts per-
formed by their leaders. After this elec-
ton there will be a pig shake-up in Tam
many, and some changes in leadership.
This will occur, i am told. whether Nc
Call is elected mayor or not.
The law Of the universe which brings
good out of evil will be demonstrated
for the Detterment of politics In thus EN-
press of all American cities, no matter
which party or faction wins, so that In
the end 1t will turn out that the game
was worth the candle to the plain citizen.