New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-28
'M'CA[L TALKS, BUT
NOT TO HENNESSY
Continues Attack on Newspa.
pers and Editors in City
and Queens Tour.
SPEAKS OF MURPHY ONCE
Audiences Moderate in Size
and Sympathy-Disappoint.
ed at His Failure to An.
swer Attacks.

Edward f. Mccall spoke in the rer,o,.
districts Of Queens, in Clinton Han ON N,
East Side, Carnegie Hall and the PLAN
Hotel last night, but he remained silep,
at all times on the action of John A. Hen.
Messy his accuser. who put his charges
in writing and defed Mr.. Mccall to hav.
him arrested. The Tammany candidate.
audiences were of ordinary size and mod.
erately sympathetic He mentioned
Charles F. Murphy's name only once dur.
ing the evening, but continued his
venomous attacks upon Mr.. PULITZER"
and The New York World"
The first speech was before the Dime,
Club at the Plaza. where he said he 70.
garded the conduct Of the newspaper bro.
prietors as the greatest menace TO IN.
personal liberty and the regulations ~
the upright in life. He SAID in part:
I'VE will have to show Mr.. Pulitzer and
men Of his Tx that this is community
that has risen to a point Of civilization.
and we are no longer living in a bar
barous or rude time. that marks the I'm
itations of his intellect; that we are a
peaceable community which wants to 1--we
In peace, and We desire 10 live our lives
in such fashion as become gentlemen.
and that we will protect our homes. we
will protect our families, and We will
protect the civic life OF this community
against the venom. the malice and the
degradation that flow from the mind such
as ne possesses"
A special Long Island train carried Mr..
f.na T.
On his arrival the leaders Of the distr!c.
met him at the station and told him that
there were not more than dozen persons
in the Lyceum. where he was TO speak,
so he continued on to Arion Hall, Ho-
lands. in Rockaway Park, where he de-
nounced the purchase OF Dreamland and
Rockaway parks by the fusion Board OF
Estimate. There was a small audience
at first, but when Mr.. Mccall had nearly
finished speaking the Seaside Democratic
Club marched in, about seventy-fvs
strong, and filled up some Of the vacant
seats
On his return 10 Far Rockaway there
were about five hundred in the hall.
They applauded Mr. McCalPs declara.
lions that he was not somebody's man"
and cheered when he declared for econ
omy. The special train sped into East
New York and the candidate went by
automobile TO Ridgewood TO speak TO
the Ridgewood Democratic Club in pub
lie school No. II. at Covert avenue and
George street. 1t was there that Mr..
Mccall said he would not be "Murphy's
The meeting in Clinton Hail. in Clinton
street, was brief. From there Mr.. Nc
Call went to the Waldorf to look in on
the ST Lawrence Hospital fair, and from
there 10 the Star Casino 10th street and
Lexington avenue He next attended the
mass meeting OF negroes In Carnegie
Hall and then visited ]. ]. Hagans club
No. 1871 West 64th street. Another attack
on the newspapers delivered at some Of
his stops was:
This man Pulitzer attacked Gaynor
during his life; threatened him, menaced
him, grossly insulted him and libelled
him because that brave official stood at
his place 70 defy him. And now that Gay
nor is dead and I stand as the repre-
sentative OF the Democratic party and
all my fellow citizens, irrespective OF
party affiliation, and. knowing that he
cannot make any greater progress with
me than he could with our late lamented
chief magistrate, he turns and hurls his
Walls OF wrath from Gaynor dead to
Mccall living And take 1t as the great
est badge OF honor that could be con-
ferred upon me. No matter what this
Pulitzer says, no matter what my OPP
ponent says, I will stand on my own
feet, will make my own decisions. Will
frame my own judgments. and will ask
no man. or set Of men. to share my re-
sponsibility for my acts TO you, my fe!-
low citizens"