New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-25
Challenges Murphy's Nominee
to Answer 7 Out of 10 Ques-
tionS if He Wants 1t,
and Will Pay for Hall.
SAYS FOWLER GOT $4,000
Tells Brooklyn Audiences Glynn
Can Become Another Tilden
by Investigating 100000
Tammany Campaign Fund
Unaccounted For.

John A. Hennessy went to Brooklyn
last night and spoke to a crowd tnat
TANNED every nook and corner Of
Prospect Hail. The continuous strain
on his voice was beginning to tell and
the star speaker Of the fusion cam
paign was extremely hoarse. He
gained vocal strength as he proceeded.
however, and finally announced that he
would answer any questions, as he has
challe. ed Call to do. There were
no questions
Hennessy kept up his pounding at
tack on Mccall, with generous share
for Tammany in general and few
new particulars. He made one promise
! to Mccall last night, and that was that
as the Tammany candidate had not an
swered his challenge to tell where he
got the money with which he paid his
campaign assessment fee when he was
nominated for the Supreme Court he
Hennessy) would not ask him the
question again.
Mr. Mccall evidently does not want
to take you into his confidence on that
matter" Hennessy told the audience.
Mccall May Get Vote.
Then he made two new and startling
challenges, as follows:
l,o mt
for Carnegie Hall or the Academy OF
Music. and | will promise not To use
any of the material | have used so far
! in this campaign. IL Mr.. Mccall will
meet me in public at either place and
let me ask him ten questions about the
| city government II he answers seven
Of the ten I'll vote for him.
"(2) II Mr.. Mccall will meet me in
public and let me ask him ten questions
about the city charter. and IL he can
answer five Of them, I'll vote for him" ."
To emphasize the inference in those
challenges. that he has another lot Of
campaign material on hand. Hennessy
also said last night that II Murphy was
going To wait until he. Hennessy is
through before replying he would have
10 wait until after election.
He promised that Monday night he
would disclose some new sidelights on
| Tammany government. as a result OF
fve-hour talk he had with eX-Sen-
ator Stephen J. Stilwell in Sing Sing
rrison, on which a dictaphone was used
and a stenographer worked.
Wants Glynn to Act.
BY way OF adding a new burden to
Tamnany's load each night, Hennessy
made the fat charge last night that
Everett Fowler. Of Kingston, was the
| collector who collected the campaign
assessments against the road contrac-
tors in the last campaign, and the fur
| ther charge that Fowler handed that
money, more than s1Ss,O00. to Norman
| T. Mack.
He said that the Democratic fund
last year that was unaccounted for
was more than 100000, and declared
that an investigation Of that campaign
! fund would offer Governor Glynn a
| chance TO become second Tilden.
Now, District Attorney Whitman on
the one hand and Governor Glynn on
the other hand ought to get at these
campaign contributions" he said. and
IL they do then they will find perhaps
why Mr. Murphy can have nice suite
in the Marlborough Blenheim at Allan
tic City. and a nice suite in Delmonico's
\ in Manhattan. and "A town house and
nice room in the Shinnecock club
house on their golf links. and another
house in Good Ground. where he has a
palatial country estate.
And they may then be able TO find
why Murphy can gamble so heavily in
Wall Street. And they may he able
when you put in the fearless Mitchell,
to back Murphy up against the wall.
and when you do that-and | believe
YOU can do it-you remember old Bill
Tweed well, in future histories old
Bill Tweed will be called the lesser
Tweed, in contradistinction to the
Tweed of our own day who, under an
other name. Is running for the Mayor
atty"
Some Tammany Economy.
Challenging Mccall to face him in pub.
lie 10 answer ten questions about the city
government Hennessy declared that mo
more fundamentally ignorant candidate
in relation to the city OF New York had
ever been nominated for so high an office
in any generation" that he could remem-
ber. He ridiculed McCalls pretensions
as TO economy. and gave the crowd the
following example of what they might
| expect in the way Of 'Tammany econ
omy":
"They let road contract 10 Bush &
Perciyal up in Buffalo. Ii was let by
contract for $4,000 and odd dollars and
the contract was practically on the level
the lowest bidder got It, But overnight
John A. Bensel. Duncan w. Peck and Mr.
Murphy's personal appointee, Gordon
Reel changed the terms of that contract
I'D odded SlOl 900 TO II, making IL SIG 90