New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-31
Will Accept No Office.

IN the audience was vincent AStOT, VINO
thought the show good enough TO stay all
through. although he had to stand IN a
crowded aisle. Mrs. John Aston was
with him. and four others. but Mrs
Astor was the only one who had seat
"Our friends on the other side are say
ing to-day-and they did say yesterday"
said Mr. Hennessy, that when Mr.. John
Purroy Mitchell should be elected Mayor
of New York | would get one Of two off,
ccs-eithcr would be made Commission
e. OF Accounts or | would be made Po-
lice Commissioner.
Let me say that not only am | not a
candidate FOR any Office under the next
fusion administration. but that 4 any
office were offered 10 me | would decline
IT, And no public eNigency could make
ne change my mind You know that
Judge Mccall said he could not be made
10 take the Office OF Mayor, not if they
stood up and shot at him-but he did.
Now. there is one Office in the City OF
New York that | would like 10 have.
would like 10 BE- Police Commissioner, just
TO show how policemen ought 10 be treat
ed Ike human beings. would like to be
Police Commissioner just 10 show that the
policeman has right 10 think about his
family. whether II be his wife only, or his
wife and children. or his sister, or his
dear old mother, and that the discipline
that belongs in an army does not belong
In an honest body OF men such rs the po-
lice of the city OF New York.
But your candidate for Mayor-and
have known him since he was a boy-your
candidate for Mayor understands that just
the same as ! do. and he won't put as a
Police Commissioner I'm the city OF New
York 4 man who will pound the policeman
or the officer above the policeman from
one post TO another: nor will he put them
I'm charge Of the police who believe in the
frs, place that the man accused Is guilty.
lie will put there man who believes that
the accused man is innocent and that his
guilt has got 10 be proved first"
Leaving his attack on Tammany, he
Swung into the theme Of new Democ-
racy.
Don't YOU. above all things he said,
want TO see In Tammany Hall a pure
Democracy that will stand by the other
elevating influences OF other great Demo
cratic states and by the President OF the
United States-a decent Democracy that
YOU won't be ashamed OF. Democracy
that won't have bad men every night
secretly I'm Delmonico's court, held by
Murphy. but will have men OF character
who are not afraid TO call their friends
around them. find out what Democratic
policies should be and have men able to
enuncate those policies against the oppo'
sition party?
we will move into Tammany Han on
the first of January. We won't ask NUT
ply 10 resign; We will move him out.
Tammany Hall belongs to the Democracy
OF New York city. and we will be the
Democracy"
Hennessy hailed Murphy as the greatest
humorist OF this day. But the story Oh
the return Of the 5000 seemed TO him 10
be not so amusing as the Tammany Lead
cr's Plea of inability to control the confer
ence at Delmonico's.
This thing OF sending back $4,000 ism
half as funny as what Murphy said to-
dav.' he said He is rapidly becoming
the real humorist of the campaign. lie
said to-day that i'm that little conference
they had in Delmonico's In August, at
tended by his lifelong friend and chum'
Johnnie calvin; attended by his clerk,
Tommy smith: attended by his 'vallie'
or valet Phil Donohue: attended by
himself McCooey. Metz and Mccall, he
wanted TO nominate Gaynor. but he was
ovcrruled