New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
THRONG CHEERS mitchell
AS HE HITS At TIGER
Carnegie Hall Crowd, tanning
Auditorium, Loudly Greets
Fusion Leaders Attack.
LITTLETON ALSO SPEAKS
Democrat Joins Job Hedges
and Candidate in Attack
on Wigwam Theory of
Municipal Rule.

So great was the rush TO attend the
fusion rally at Carnegie Hall last night
that at o'clock police and firemen or
dered the doors closed to the public, every
available seat being filled at that time.
Almost three hours later every man and
woman In the house rose and cheered
John Purroy Mitchell. who was unable to
still the applause for nearly four minutes
The meeting was opened by Alfred T..
Marling, who asked the audience to rise
and sing The Star-Spangled Banner
This was done, the women in the two
tiers of boxes beating time with small
American flags.
And then for three hours the leading
lights of the campaign turned their shafts
against Tammany Hall and Charles f.
Murphy and kept the audience In contlnu-
Gus enthusiasm.
Mr. Mitchels attack on "Tammany's
Delmonico Directorate" the big Nine.
which included his Tammany opponent
and the leader Of Tammany Hall, aroused
the audience to even greater applause
than had any OF Martin w. Llttetons
caustic references.
zone hundred and twenty-four years
ago Tammany Hall was established upon
the principle that city government Is
great business enterprise" began Mr..
Mitchell For 124 years 1t has clung to
that principle and subsisted on 1t.
you business men Of New York. who
are here tonight TO support this fusion
ticket and declare your unalteraole OPP
position to Tammany Hall and all II
stands for. lay down the proposition that
the city government Is a business under
taking. to be guided and conducted &C
cording TO business principles.
Mitchell on Tammany Policy.
1T would appear. therefore. that tho
only difference between your position, our
position and Tammany's position is that
we have discovered this great truth
good deal later than Tammany discovered
Il.
"Tammany holds that the city govern
ment is a private business enterprise in
the interest of the gang. In which the
duty Of every Job holder is to produce for
the insiders all the loot he can. and in
which every dollar squandered means
more sugar for the tigers sweet tooth.
That is exactly the fundamental differ
ence that distinguishes the Tammany-
Murphy Foley Mccall conception Of bust
ness government from the fusion concep-
ton OF business government.
"One is business in the interests OF the
stockholders; the other. business In the
interests OF the directors In big business
we know what that means. In Tammany
II means business In the interests OF the
Big Nine. Tammanys Delmonico direc-
torate. who most OF them without visible
means Of support. have grown aiiiuent
serving the people according to Tam
manys ideas OF service.
"Now, | promise you. II you elect me
Mayor, that / will give the city genu-
inc business administration. for the SER
vice OF the people. But 50 does Mr.. Muir
phys proprietary candidate. The COM
munity must Judge between us. Perhaps
he will return to the economies Of Ahearn
and Haffen. Haffen permitted and pro-
NOTED the purchase of Hunts Point
park by the city for S247c 900 whose tax
value on the city's tax maps was 1890.
"Haffen maintained hordes OF political
parasites upon his payrolls to man his
political machine. In the last year ! was
Commissioner of Accounts We cut his
appropriation 10000. and he did more
work than he had ever done before. These
were Haffens conomies-Tammany econ
omies.