New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-23
GARDEN TO Be SCENE
OF BIG FUSION RALLY
Campaign Managers in Re-
Spouse to Demand Plan Mass
Meeting for Thursday.
BENNETT IN mitchell FOLD
Anti Tammany Nominee for
Mavor Promises if Elected to
Relieve Transit Congestion
in Various Boroughs.

Co strong is the sentiment in favor OF
the fusion ticket that at the earnest
solicitation Of many. persons the man.
ayers OF the campaign have given their
approval to a mass meeting in Madison
Square Garden. No attempt is ever made
N utilize this hall in campaign unless
Z, Is found the speakers or the cause or
botb have aroused such popular interest
ss 10 make 1t easy to fill the vast audi
forum.
The Business Mems Non-Partisan Anti
Tammany League, of which Henry r.
Towne is president. has undertaken TO
arrange for this meeting, and the man.
ayers Of the fusion campaign gave their
approval yesterday. Charles II. Sheriff..
former Minister TO the Argentine Repub-
lie. is in active charge of the affair.
This monster mass meeting will be
held Thursday of next week. John Pur-
roy Mitchell. Controller Prendergast. Bor-
o1gh President McAneny and other fusion
candidates will speak. One or two we'll
known speakers in addition TO the nom
inees will probably be secured. There
will be the usual parade. with red fire
and other features that go to make up
big political demonstration.
Mr. Mitchell received a letter yesterday
from former Congressman William s.
Bennett. who was active in the movement
10 secure the substitution of Mayor Gay
nor for Mr.. Mitchell on the Republican
ballot, assuring the fusion candidate OF
his support. He wrote in part:
u shall cast my vote for you for Mayor
and so far as / am able to learn. all my
friends will do the same. The issue now
is very narrow and very clear. The man
who fails to vote or who votes for any
candidate other than Judge Mccall or
yourself casts half his vote for Tam
many, and the man who votes for Judge
Mccall supports Tammany straight. l
am and always have been anti-Tammany,
and therefore II now becomes my duty
TO give you both my vote and support
1t is the more easy TO support you be-
cause Of my personal knowledge Of your
ability and uprightness."
The Community Forum. Jewish or
ganization Of considerable prominence.
came out yesterday in support of the
entire fusion ticket. Emanuel a. Obst-
field is president.
Mr.. Mitchell replied sharply yesterday
to the assertions Of Judge Mccall that he
McCalD will get the support Of citizens
Interested in transit matters because Of
what he has done while chairman Of the
Public Service Commission. He referred
TO the long delay in the Steinway tunnel
matter. for which Judge Mccall was re-
sponsible, and said If the Tammany can
didate really wanted TO do something TO
promote adequate transit facilities he
need not walt until he was defeated. He
added:
IF Mr.. Mccall would only sentence
himself and the other Tammany COM
missioners to spend a day or two. per-
haps with their chief riding to and
fro on some of the street railroad lines
in Queens. even Mr.. Mccall would want
10 retire from the campaign and try to
get his Tammany colleagues to do some
thing for the relief of these conditions.
II Mr. Mccall wants 70 do something for
transit relief In Brooklyn. Queens. The
Bronx and Richmond. why does he not
start now. when the need is great and he
has a great deal more power than he
would have as Mayor?
eff am elected Mayor OF New York.
as I am certain l will be. l shall find
way 10 secure a substantial measure OF
early relief from these conditions of tran
sit congestion in each of the boroughs.
] shall consider that / have a positive
public duty 10 act theoretically and eff
fectively TO that end. I will find a way
to do that effectively"
Mr.. Mitchell said one Of his first acts as
Mayor would be the establishment OF a
special bureau in the Corporation Coun-
sells office, under his supervision, for the
reception Of complaints against public SER
vice corporations and the presentation OF
such as have merit to the Public Service
Commission.
Il will personally see TO IT," he said.
that the facts as to such complaints are
adequately and effectively presented to the
commission and every effort made to sus-
tain well founded complaints. thus reliev-
ing the average citizen from the burden
Of expert counsel and expert witnesses
which the Individual may not well assume
but which could be undertaken by the city
well within the present budget Of the Cor
poration Counsels Office"
Representatives Of the German-Ameri-
can Business Mems Committee, after dis
cusslng the issues Of the campaign with
Mr.. Mitchell at headquarters. decided to
come out in support Of the entire fusion
ticket. They are to have headquarters In
the Fifth Avenue Building, from which
vigorous campaign will be waged for the
fusion cause.
Among the meetings at which Mr..
Mitchell, Controller Prendergast and Presi-
dent McAneny will speak tonight are
Public School &C, Ssth street, near First
avenue; Terrace Garden, 5sth street. near
Lexington avenue, and Stuyvesant Casino.
Second avenue, near sth street