The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-03
Election Day I omorrow
In | hree Eastern States

By Carlton Ten Eyck. written for the
United Press.
qhere once were two cats Of Kilkenny
zach thought there was one cat too
many.
So they quarreled and they 1T
they scratched and they bit,
Til except for their nails and the tips
OF their tail
instead of two cats there weren't any.
Old Verse.
NEW YORK, Nov. "a Kilkenny
cat fight. That ancient verse most ac-
curately describes the New York may
orally campaign that will end when
The polls close tomorrow night. On
the eve OF the election one thing
stands out clearly. Tammany has had
run for its money. Chief c.
Francis Murphy has faced the most
critical situation in his career as
monarchical boss" and the tiger
knows 1t has been in fight. The YER
dict tomorrow night will show wheth.
er the most determined and organiz-
ed fight Father Knickerbocker eyer
waged on the discredited, pretty gen
orally hated, but greatly feared Tam
many organization has been success
ful. The fusionists today claimed
certain victory all along the line.
The joker in the campaign deck that
the Tammany wigwam tried to stack
was the Impeachment of Governor
William Sulzer at Albany. Murphy
thought he left political corpse in
the "Peepuls' House" The under
taker coublecrossed THE CHIEF and
let somebody get to the supposed
corpse with a pulmoter before the body
was embalmed. East side progress,
sives resuscitated the supposed corpse
even while the wake" was yet on in
Fourteenth street and the supposedly
discredited Sulzer turned out to be
the most powerful fusionist weapon
against the tiger.
The Tammany braves stayed at Al.
tany until they thought that Sulzer
was good and dead" and then re-
turned to New York to hold impress
siye obsequies and hint how power
full was Tammany in the destruction
OF those who don't bow to the Chief"
From their standpoint, they fell down
when they declined to bar him from
holding further office. No sooner
had they turned their backs than
Sulzer came out with the most virul.
ent attack on Murphy that has ever
haen made On a Tammany Chief He
told how the boss" offered him "all
the money he wanted" when he was
inaugurated. and then followed the
offer up with dictation on every a.
pointment within the governors power
70 make. Sulzer turned down both
the money and the dictation For this
s'ulzer was impeached. Suffers very
plausible story was, spread broadcast
throughout city and state, and the
result was the hottest fight that the
slger ever got into.
Edward E. Mccall; the Tammany
candidate for mayor was portrayed by
sulzer as Murphy's go-between. Sui
ser told how Mccall, formerly SUI
preme court justice and now head Of
the public service commission, always
referred to Murphy as THE chief"
New York never before saw such a
municipal campaign. The tragic death |
Of Mayor William Jay Gaynor, at sea,
cast a damper on the beginning of the
struggle, but this was soon forgotten
In the heat of battle. and early in
October the rival factions were at it i
hammer and tongs. That politics
makes strange bed fellows is no.
where more true than in New York
city, during mayoralty election Old
rarty lines are entirely lost sight Of
and democrats lose their
identity. In the present campaign 1t
has been fusion versus Murphy's
Tammany. Had Mayor Gaynor not
Gied, there would have been three
candidates. with Gaynor an independ-i
ent. When Murphy decreed. in the lit
lie back room at Delmonico's, that
Mccall should he "his' candidate,
Gaynor announced his independent
without endorsement by
any party, and crowd of more than
10000 Gaynor leaguers, voluntary
organization, crowded City Hall park
end nominated Gaynor by reclamation,
as he stood, too weak to speak, on
City Hall steps. The fusionists nom
mated John Purroy Mitchell, Wilson
democrat, for mayor, and on the same
ticket placed District Attorney Whit
man. a staunch republican, for re-
election. Whitman at the same time
accepted an endorsement of Tammany.