New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-29
mitchell DEMOCRACY
NOT TAMMANY BRAND
Fusion Candidate Declares That
if Elected He'll Be Mayor
of No Party.
CHALLENGES M'CALL AGAIN
Calls Upon Tammany Candidate
to Give Definite Plan for I'm
proving Port Facilities
Littleton Raps Sulzer.

"If Tammany Hall and its boss rep
resent Democracy, then am not a DEM
ocrat," said John Purroy Mitchell at
large Democratic mass meeting at
Cooper Union last night. The candidate
decided. and the audience seemed 10
agree with him. that Tammany did not
represent the party. Mr. Mitchels asser-
ton was In answer to the recent attack
which Representative Fitzgerald maze
r,o, hin, IN the lower house at Washing
ton.
81 greet you tonight as a Democrat
said the fusion candidate for Mayor
land | am not an irregular Democrat
either.
You have heard OF Mr.. Fitzgerald,
Congressman from Brooklyn, one OF tho
'DeImonico Eight You have also hearo'
no doubt. what he has said ABOUT my
Democracy. / say to you tonight tnac
I am a better Democrat than ne Is OF
anv of his Delmonico associates
THAT YOU are here tonight Is PROOF
enough that you protest against the so-1
called Democracy OF Tammany Hall ana
tho Democracy Of its leader. Charles f.
Murphy. -.
.'Tammany Hall has always held itseir'
out as representing Democracy IN TINS
city and state. I say to you that us
principles its theories Of government ns
belief In the government Of this city ana
~ this state. by contract by graft. BY
political pull and by debauchery at the
polls is opposed TO every doctrine ana
tenet of Democracy and the Democratic
party"
Mr.. Mitchell told his audience that Tam
many had been Kissed and booed by DEM
ocrats from all parts Of the country at
the convention in Baltimore.
The candidate. in ending his speech, de-
MED that he had any intention OF lead
ing a fight for new Democracy in this
city If he were elected Mayor. Il shall
go into office, if | am elected" he said
! with no partisan purpose. I should like
to see a self-respecting Democracy grow
up here, but IL must be done by other
| hands. for II am elected / shall be the
Mayor OF no group or party"
Mr. Mitchels speech at Cooper Union
was the third in wide. sweeping tour,
which included the lower end Of Manhat-
! tan and a dash into Queens. His first
! appearance was at a labor meeting i'm the
Murray Hill Lyceum. Timothy Healy.
fusion candidate for Coroner, assured the
audience three times that " Governor
Sulzer was the best Governor the State
Of New York ever had
| he Lob he Var
raced to 18th street and Union Square
| West. where he spoke TO large audience
at the New York Young Republican Club.
He said here that Murphy and Mccall
had no constructive programme. Econ
omy and retrenchment' meant nothing.
he said unless backed with details He
challenged Mccall TO give a definite plan
for the improvement of port facilities.
AS he was speaking Tammany parade
doomed down the street behind the blare
OF "Tammany." The marchers and their
band halted directly before the door OF
the melting and put a deal OF fervor and
volume in their Mccall music and cheers.
THAT band" said Mr. Mitchell "is
probably paid for by Tammany plumber"
Martin W. Littleton. who was one OF
he speakers at the Cooper Union meeting.
had little use for Sulzer. although he de-
Tended the revolt against Tammany.
"Sulzer. a selected agent OF Murphy un-
der system OF privately run govern
ment" he said. got the simple big head
and wanted more power as Murphy's
agent not in order to make the govern
ment better, but TO make himself more
powerful in IL.
Murphy put him out, not because he
was unfit for Governor-because Murphy
know he was unfit when he put him in
but because Suffers big head interfered
with Murphy's undisputed leadership"
Mr. Mitchell then continued on 10 Pub
lie School 1T. in Ridgewood; TO Exempt
Firemen's Hall, in Ozone Park. and 20 ST.
Marv's Lyceum. Jamaica. At each place
he was cheered for many minutes. The
sole variation I'm his earlier speech was
ON the subject Of rapid transit. and Mr..
Mitchell said that Mr.. Mccall was respon-
sible FOR the delay in the Steinway tun-
mel artery
"He has held ii up for nine months,
said the fusion candidate, and IL seems
strange TO me that in view OF this he ia
constantly harpng on what he intends
70 do for the betterment of transit condi-
tons here If he is elected. Doesn't he
realize that in his present position he
has the really big opportunity to give you
the kind of service you want and need7
Doesn't he know that the Public Service
Commission can order and insist on these
improvements and that as Mayor he
md
power?
II would suggest TO Mr.. Mccall that he
take a ride through this borough on your
cars and bring his distinguished Chief
with him. so that in whatever he does hs
can have the approval of that august
parsonage"
Mention OF the names OF Mccall and
Murphy provoked chorus OF "ooos
each time.