New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-23
LET PEOPLE BE JURY
Speaker Charges That Another
Man on Bench Put Up $780,
900 Note as Alterna-
tive Candidate for
Mayor.
SARCASM FOR JEROME
Whenever Tiger Henchman with W
easy Conscience Gets Into Trouble
He Rushes to Ex-District At
torney for Aid, Declares
Wigwam's Assailant.

He RuSheS TO EX-UlStrlCC Az
torney for Aid, Declares
Wigwam's Assailant.
John A. Hennessy, the Sulzer inveS
tigator who has apparently out-Sul'
zered Sulzer so far as making Mccall
and Tammany vince is concerned. was
not scared off by the Mccall threat or
intimation Of a suit for criminal libel
Hennessy spoke again last night at
Sulzer's Harlem River Casino (no con-
nection with the Ex-Governor OF the
same name), and having read the after
noon newspaper accounts Of the possi-
BILE libel suit. he pleaded earnestly with
Mccall, In his speech, to begin such an
action.
He said II Mccall would only promise
to start an action he would libel him
forthwith In any manner he would
select for the privilege of getting Nc
Call into court. Hennessy indicated
plainly that Tammany had picked a
poor way to shut him up when they put
out such intimations.
More Worry for Tammany.
Then he proceeded to give his Tam
many opponents several new things to
think about, chief Of which. was the
smashing statement that a Supreme
Court justice now on the bench
signed contingent note for $4,000
for the privilege Of being considered as
an alternative candidate to Mccall in
this years Mayoralty race.
This statement from Hennessy came
out In connection with repetition OF
his declaration of the previous night
that Mccall had borrowed his judicial
assessment from a police inspector, TO
pay over to Murphy and George w.
Plunkitt, a declaration which Hem
messy repeated last night
When Mr.. Murphy says 1t is nom
sense to say that c1cCall paid any
body" Hennessy said, "Mr. Murphy
lies. and he knows he lies. tell Mr..
7 Murphy that have held In my hand
the note for $4,000, and, more than
that, I have held the note for $4,000
signed by another justice of the Su-
preme Court, who was one OF Mr..
Murphy's alternative candidates tor
Mayor"
Hennessy was full Of fire as he shot
this new bomb into Tammany's camp.
and he declared that he would insist
upon answers to his challenge to Nc
Call until he backed him into a corner
and made him answer.
You are going to decide whether
Charles f. Murphy is 10 be the Mayor
Of New York. and so far as Mccall is
concerned I've asked him questions
which he hasn't answered, and I'll keep
on asking him questions until l make
him answer. He is before jury of the
people Of the City Of New York. and it
is 10 them he must answer. I'll make
him answer or I'll back him up against
a wall"
Reading from the evening newspapers
then, Hennessy commented sarcastic
cally upon the fact that William Trav-
ers Jerome had been brought into the
case. presumably to try to shut him up
by a criminal indictment for libel.
"It seems whenever Tammany Hall
man with an uneasy conscience gets
into trouble" said Hennessy, The rushes
TO Jerome. l want TO say to the Tam
many Hall candidate for Mayor that il
he is in a tight corner he has very
able counsel. Mr.. Jerome knows every
crooked lane in the law.
And my compliments TO the Tam
many Hall candidate for Mayor. My
commitments to his new lawyer, Je-
rome. Let them get me indicted to-
morrow. and | will be ready the next
dav because the only way TO prove
NV case against Mccall is to get me
IN a court. where l can put him under
oath. The only place TO do II is TO
get me into court before this cam
naign is over, and let the people de-
eide whether Mccall is telling the
truth or WnetneT L am Hdi' IL 'hN-
Call will promise to do that / will libel
him in any way he says, so that he
NAV get a criminal suit for them and
have the issues raised.
Mccall Avoiding Issue.
Mccall is going around stating that
his character has been assassinated.
and trying to get you away from the
issue. | came down here TO tell you
something about the doings upstate by
Tammany Hall. and l will tell you be-
fore the campaign is over. But. first, l
am going to force the candiate for
Mayor on the Tammany ticket to tell
you many things which l asked him.
and he must tell them"
He repeated then his challenge of the
previous night, asking Mccall to tel
the people whether he had not bor-
rowed the money from police inspec
tor to pay his assessment as judicia
candidate to Murphy and Plunkitt, say
ing that IL Mccall got the money some
where else he should name the mar