New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-27
M'CALL ASKED ABOUT
MURPHY POLICE SNARE
Fusion Manager Tells Of "Un-
foreground" Bureau in Charge
of Ex-InSpeCtor Grant.
AFTER ALL CITY employees
Highly Improper to the Point
of Scandal" He Modestly
Puts It-Tablet in Del
monicos Suggested.

monlco s suggested.
The last week Of The campaign, WHICH
starts To-Day, promises to be a not one
in the fusion camp. The forces OF tne
fusion speakers will be largely increaseu'
and the last blows against Tammany VIII
be dealt. The reports which reacheo '''
fusion campaign managers yesterua'
were optimistic in the extreme.
Robert Adamson. the fusion campaign
manager, had something to say ABOUT
Tammany's effort in running an under
ground" campaign among the ponce anu
other city employees.
Murphy is conducting an underground
campaign among the police and city en-
ployes." said Mr. Adamson. His agents
are running around among the employees
in every department, telling them thal
IL Mitchell and his associates are elected
salaries will be cut, pensions VIII De IN
terfered with and many men VIII lose
their jobs. =
Yesterday a Mccall police campaign
Headquarters, in charge OF ex-lnspector
Donald Grant. was discovered on the
twenty-third or twenty-fourth floor OF
the Hotel McAlpin. / was told by the
man who found IL that Grant was send
ing for police officers regularly and pre-
sumably trying to line up the police
force against Mr. Mitchell and his as
sociates.
Believes Police Will Resent.
81 do not know what Grant Is doing,
but | presume he is doing among the
police what Murphy's agents are trying TO
do among city employees. III he Is trying
10 get the police into politics In behalf or
Mr.. Mccall his action is highly improper
TO the point Of scandal and 1t should be
resented, and I believe IL will be resented
by the officers and men of the police
force.
1T has been long time since an open
effort has been made TO establish cam
paign headquarters TO influence the police
I'm an election, and the fact that such
HEADQUARTERS have been established now In
dicates what we may expect II Tammany
gets control OF the police again.
Does Mr.. Mccall know about this head
quarters and does he sanction 1t. II he
does he has Ideas of propriety about the
notice and politics which should never
be admitted TO the City Hall.
"The police are not afraid Of the treat
ment they will receive from Mr.. Mitchell
as Mayor. They know he stands for pay
ing them proper salaries. for protecting
their pension system and for securing the
legal rights OF police who have been tried
and are on trial
The Tammany effort to stir up the po-
lice and city employees against Mr.. Mitchell
is already exploded. Neither the police
nor the city employees can be frightened or
controlled by Tammany. Fortunately, they
have known Tammany too long"
."Joe' Imposed on Again"
Mr.. hdamson denied the story sent out
from Mccall headquarters by Fire Com
missioner Joseph Johnson to the effect
that Vincent Aston had given $4,000
check 10 Mr.. Mitchell for his campaign.
The check was supposed to have been
given 10 the fusion candidate at recent
luncheon at the Hotel Astor. Some one
had imposed on Joe" again. Mr.. Adam
son said.
more than two-thIrds OF the thirty
Thousand negro NONtlo III NiNs
vote for John Purroy Mitchell and the
fusion ticket" said y. b. Marshall, a
lawyer OF the city and former champion
duarter-mile runner OF Harvard, at the
Headquarters OF the Business Mems Nom
Partisan Anti-Tammany League yester-
day. Mr.. Marshall is chairman OF the
Coored Mitchell Business Mems League.
Copies OF letter written by r. T. Nc
Clure TO W. J. Paupier, manager OF Del
monicos were given out at fusion head
quarters yesterday. In his letter Mr.. Nc
Clure offered to assume the expense OF a
suitable bronze tablet TO be erected In
the room where the eight sleek and
SNUG" Tammanyites as Mayor Gaynor
characterized them, met on the night of
August q and picked Edward +. Mccall
Mr.. Mcclure suggested the following in
scription for the tablet:
ION this site on August 81. 1913. Chief
Charles Francis Murphy ordered a Gov
ernor impeached. a Senator and a judge
whitewashed and laid plans to capture the
City Hall This tablet is erected to re-
mind citizens OF these events and to ask
them TO relieve Chief Murphy OF fur
Their public activities by voting for John
Purroy Mitchell for Mayor and the entire
fusion ticket"