New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-07
FIRST TAMMANY GUN
PROVES A BOOMERANG
GARDENERS Attack on Mcclellan
and Gaynor Resented by
Campaign Managers. .
COLLEGE MEN ARE ANGRY
Meal League of Diploma Hold
ers Incensed at Criticism Of
It's President-Plan to
Invade East Side.

Something went wrong with the ammu-
milton for the first gun fired yesterday In
the campaign of Edward T.. Mccall, the
Tammany candidate for Mayor. at the
monday meeting of the Travellers
League, of New York, at No $50 Broad
way.
Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner. president OF
the Edward T.. Mccall Association, with
headquarters at the Hotel Imperial put
his foot in it," according to some OF the
Tammany campaign managers, by incor-
porating in his address an attack on
former Mayor Mcclellan. who was re-
Gently elected president of the Mccall
College Mems League.
The Gardiner speech apparently start
ed something" at the central Mccall cam
paign headquarters. which are located
across the street from the Imperial
at the Hotel Martinique. AS soon as
Judge Mccall and some of the campaign
managers got wind of the Mcclellan at
tack the telephone wires fairly hummed
with forceful messages for Colonel Card
ner. Later in the day Colonel Gardiner
evidently decided TO take back some OF
the things he had said at the meeting.
and the following statement was issued
from the Mccall association headquar-
ters:
Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner, when seen
al the headquarters Of the Edward T..
Mccall Association, said that the reports
Of the MONDAY meeting held at No. $50
Broadway were garbled versions, and the
attacks on Mcclellan. Gaynor and Tam
many are absolutely false"
Colonel Gardiner was the principal
speaker at the MONDAY meeting Ii was
the opening meeting Of the Tammany
campaign. The other speakers included
Samuel Prince. Deputy License Commits
sioner; Charles V Fornes, Colonel John
T. Martin and Robert l.. Dick. Colonel
Gardiner referred TO Mr.. Mcclellan as
that little fellow who thought he could
elect himself Governor or President by
breaking away from Tammany Hall and
the County Democracy" He said that
Mcclellan. to prevent criticisms I'm the
press, had taken ADVANTAGE of clause
I'm the Catskill aqueduct law which per
mitted him 10 advertise IN the daily
papers. and thereby add $4,000 a year
for the four years Of one of his terms 10
the city expenses.
The speaker also criticised the late
Mayor Gaynor who. he said. some had
called the man hiSter up" Mayor Gay
nor had tried TO protect Becker he SAID
and had been called "a Tammany decoy
by John Purroy Mitchell, the Fusion can
didate for Mayor. lie attacked the Cay
nor administration as eXtravagant and In
efficient, and said it had Increased the
city debt 500. 10000. He assailed Mr..
Mitchell on account OF his youth and in
efficient business training. The speaker $
remarks were somewhat disconnected and
were received without enthusiasm.
The officers and managers Of the Nc
Call College Mems League were highly
incensed when they heard OF the Gardiner
attack on their president. Mr.. Mcclellan.
The college men have their headquarters
across the hall from the Mccall associa-
in the Imperial Some OF the leaders said
they knew Colonel Gardiner had been
prejudlced against the election OF the for
mer Mayor as the president OF the league.
but they did not believe he would attack
him in public. The suggestion OF former
Mayor McClellans name TO head the
league had been favorably received. ana
his election heartily approved by Judge
Mccall, they said.
J. Il. Truesdale Princetom, secretary Of
the Mccall College Mems League IS or
ganizing Jewish and Italian leagues of
young men. whose members are not col
lege graduates, in order to secure speak
ers for Mccall who are known i'm the dis
tricts thickly settled by those nation
alities. The speakers will be sent into the
Jewish districts on the lower East Side
and in the Brownsville section In Brook
Ign. in an attempt to overcome some OF
the Sulzer anti-Tammany sentiment In
those districts.
The first big Democratic mass meeting
Of the campaign will be held In Sulzer' 3
Harlem River Park tomorrow night.
Michael J. Drummond, Commissioner Of
Charities. will preside, and the speakers
will be Judge Mccall Democratic candi-
date for Mayor; Herman a. Metz. canii-
date for Controller; Joseph a. Goulden.
candidate for President of the Board Of
Aldermen, and George Gordon Battle