New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-05
His Respects to Hearst.

The Mayor then further paid his RED
spects TO Mr.. Hearst by saying:
This papers proprietor could nod
tell the truth If he wanted to-
Apropos of his attack on the editors4
he mentioned. the Mayor said:
Il have often thought that, begin-l
ming with the Chamber of Commerce off
this city and extending out 10 all thei
boards OF trade and neighborhood or
ganizatiOns. YOU should have coalesced
in some way, and. with some central ,
committee of 100 men, should have Of
fered 10 bring these scoundreis to book
and see that they were indicted, il wei
had a District Attorney who would try
them and convict them"
These remarks were literally ap-
plauded
/ Sooner or later. that will have to-
/ happen here" the Mayor added.
/ The Mayor arrived AT the dinner a
few minutes after Q O'Clock. and had
hardly seated himself beside tho
POSTMASTER. William ]. Maxwell, pres
ident of the organization. when former
| Police Commissioner Cropsey went up
and shook hands with him. This is
! said to be the first time the men had
/ greeted each other since their break,
more than a year and a half ago.
Subways Irk Him.
| IL appears that Mr.. Gaynor had not
| been invited 10 speak before the Brook
lyn Democratic Club, the Kings party
organization. and he started speaking
by reference to the Bull Moose element
before him in the South Brooklyn
Board of Trade.
Seeing Governor Woodruff here all
| most induces me To talk about Bull
Bull Moosism. (Mr. Woodruff, you are
pretty good one yourself) | do not
know whether ! am a good Bull Mooser
or not. but / do think / could say
few things about Bull Moosery that
would be quite entertaining. 1t has its
good points like everything else
Continuing, the Mayor said he hard
| ~ knew what topics TO touch upon, but
the chairman had suggested subways.
1t is such an old subject with me-"
he said, that it is irksome to say anv-
thing about it,
| However, he plunged at once into the
subway proceedings with various di-
versions at editors who had displcased.
him. He said in part:
| As left my Office tonight | saw on the
| pile of newspapers by the bridge a great
| hvading OF one of them. An Injunction
Stops the Secret subway Deal The pro-
pretor of that paper-or the two proprie-
| tors now, because their father died a year
| ago, | thnk-are prone TO not tell the
| truth. to say the least. They have
amassed great fortune by lying. They
! have addressed themselves To the under
| world and criminal classes So long that
| they are unable tn turn over a new leaf
and address themselves to respectable
people and tell the truth. Just listen 10
| 1.-THE secret subway deal ] thought
we had been discussing II at every board
! of trade and on every rostrum IN the
| whole city for two years and halt. but
| the Puitzcrs think it is "A secret affair,
| those two worthless who succeeded an
unworthy father. a.,
| cussed in this community and laid bare
before the public II is this subway mat
J ter Every phase of II has been stateu'
They have lied about II from day 10 DAY;
| They have an inheritence OF lying ana
| they are incapable of getting over ". !
think the public officials of this city ana
| the decent men of this city should have
no hesitation To speak plainly about such
| scoundrels as these.
| The other paper OF the same ilk lying
there In A pile also by the newsbov nad
another heading IN red letters. and that
| was. IAN Injunction Halts the Subway
Steal" This scoundrel could not tell the
truth II he wanted 10.
The other one having come here and
! started a newspaper filed with every in
decent advertisement, every filthy thing.
| every filthy picture, and having gone an
| i'm that course and until he had anassed
| a fortune of o.o0O,0 900 by blackmail and
indecency. this other fellow came to try
to rival him, and we now have the re-
suit in these two headlines that l tell
Won I saw as | came tired from the City
] Hall tonight. struggling over the mat