New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-20
BURN LEADER LEVY
IN EFF|CY, IS CRY
Tammany AssembIyman Faces
Hornets Nest in East Side
for Part in SuIzer Affair.
DOWNFALL is PREDICTED
Friends Say He Will BE Re-
ferred To as Man Who I'm
peached Governor - Mass
Meetings Called to Protest.

What popularity Aaron j. Levy VINO
is "Johnnv" Ahearn's lieutenant when ne
is home. and Charlie" Murphy's leader
If tho ASSEMBLE when he n In Albany
has had I'm the past in the East Side is
on the obb Just now. From the Bo"ery
10 the East River Aaron j.. as he Is
popularly known. is being condemned TOT
the part he is playing In the hgnt on
Suzer. The tide OF resentment. when
set In as soon as the impeachment idea
was suggested. is now high among the
Jewish citizens. but his own bailiwick,
the ,th Assembly District. the one strong
Tammany stronghold on the East Side.
is the real hornets nest.
The resentment has reached such heat
that II is predicted that the Democratic
leaders figure will surely be burned in
effigy as an outcome in order TO show
the East SIDES disapproval OF his action.
In accounting for the strong antipathy
10 the Assembly leader. his neighbors
say tho confidence in Sulzer was such on
the East Side that the moment Levy
started 10 obey Murphy. In the effort to
bring about the Governors downfall. the
feeling against Levy began.
we don't object 10 Sulzer getting
beating" said one, III he deserves H. but
one thing we do object TO. and that is his
getting Il at Aaron Levys hands That
seems 10 be an epitome OF much Of the
pro- Sulzer sentiment on the East Side
although there is a large element who
feel that Sulzer has been the friend OF the
Jew. and for that reason Levy should be
condemned.
Whatever the underlying cause for
popular resentment. there was no reserve
in the scorn which the East Side populace
everywhere expressed against Levy.
whose personal popularity and political
strength have babe him something of a
"magnate" among his constituents in the
past
Levy is going TO be referred to as
the man who impeached William Sui
GER" said a prominent East slider yes
terday. "and even II the impeachment
holds. Il will be regarded here as very
little credit 10 Aaron. Everybody here
knows him. There is no man better
known in this assembly district than
Levy. and with all his Tammany affila-
lions he has had plenty OF personal
friends. but even these are arrayed
against him
Anti-Tammany politicians in Assem-
blyman Leyy's district were delighted
AT the turn in the tide against Levy,
and predicted his retirement from poll
tics Some OF these were personal
friends Of Levy. and they admit that
his political success was owing 10 his
personal popularity. But his allegiance
TO Tammany Hall. and his Willingness
to be Charlie Murphy's tool said a
leader among the Progressives. has
taken him move too far
other East Side friends Of Sulzer are ar
ranging for a larger meeting at Cooper
Union. 10 be 1cld some time next week.
AZ which persons OF national reputation
are expected 10 speak
The Jewish papers have been mercllcss
I'm their attacks on Levy for his devotion
10 Tammany Hall and what is referred
TO as HIS "perhdy TO Sulzcr.' The Jewish
press has done much TO fan the anti-Levy
flame. In view OF the allegiance TO Sulzer
because OF his pro-Jewish course in Con-
gress and because OF the confidence which
the ordinary East side citizen has in its
newspapers. These fay Tammany and
Levy as the central figure in the Sulzer
leaving Sulzer the martyr
In the East Side mind
Several mass meetings are to be called
I'm which a protest against the Tammany
Of the Governor is to be
made one has already been announced
for Thursday night AT jefferson Hall, on
Columbia street At this meeting MI.
Levy will come I'm for roasting Jefcr-
son Hall IL In Mr.. Levys district.