The Detroit times., 1916-09-23
Creates New Issue In
Mayoralty Campaign
Speech
BAYS CONGESTION
POINTS TO NEED
Continues to Arraign
Marx Administra-
ton Mistakes

!. which. he said. would at least be
started under bis administration. II
elected, was promised the people OF
= OgtrUit by Recorder william 4. Con
( holly, who injected this new issue
into the mayoralty campaign in two
speeches. Friday night. The judge
\ spoke FIRST In Aerial hall. No 1889
\ 1ort-st. west, and later in Eman-
4 Wel hall, Twenty -fourth-st. and Mich
a 1ean-ave.
Eventually we will have 10 come
4 20 what every great city has 70 come
\ to--the problem Of putting our street
4 midway system underground" Judge
Connolly said. You know the old
Trenchman who designed the city
4 had In mind a Partisan or some
& European idea. where In older days
The city had TO be so laid out that
\ i cannon in the center OF the town
could be turned TO sweep any street
sThat 10 the reason that oCr city,
With Campus Martius as hub. Ii
aesigned somewhat Ike a wheel,
with the streets leading out OF the
center like spokes. As a result
4 trAnlc is greatly conges,ed and be
\ eoming more and more hard 10
handle every day. We are forced 10
< Drepare 10 put in an underground
Z railway. Yet we talk. and talk. and
\ taik. and never think Of putting into
action the things we purpose to do
/ - safeguard the future.
what right has the public oficial
- take your money and not do
things as you want them dCne?" he
asked. His question was greeted
With . voiley Of applause.
Judge Connolly continued his ar.
soaGnment Of the administration.
4 mentioning the chlorided water, the
Incompetent police department and
\ The lack Of push" In the completion
q public enterprises. In response
+ D. the letter Of Dvie Dufheld, which
criticized HIS stand on the new pub
X 1lc library building and denied that
! ne Marx administration was respon-
{ oible for the slowness in erection
a. the structure. the candidate. al
thO mentioning no names. reiterated
{ kts criticism.
sPli take you up Woodward-ave.
ond show you what was TO be ulti-
ynAtely. or. TO put in common words.
ia the sweet by and by, a public
library. ! mention II because some
B enc seems to want 10 call this mat
s ter into question" he said. He men
toned again the site for the ART
museum and the incomplete nunici.
pal court building.
"Not Running on My Looks"
The candidate. warming up 10 his
subject in the Emanuel hall meet.
! ings, INDUCED in some BILLY Sun
cayesqre" expressions.
"No one seems to have the nerve
10 push public projects to compile.
t1on," he declared
Then again. Il don't expect TO be
elected mayor on my looks"
And. You know how the ratrol-
4 man on the beat uses bic club 10
rive a 'hot-fcot' TO tie sleepin.
I hobo? Well. be should give some OF
cur languishing municipal projects
b the hot-foot."
The present administration eeems
20 be drifting along in q sort OF
come-day. go-day, God-send-Sunday
auirtt" no declared
= His reiteration OF the announce
ment that he would appoint Frank
II. Croul police commissioner Il
4 elected was greeted by prolonged ap
Tlause in both meetings
ALREADY Il has been announced
10 soothe the public mind that the
present incumbent al the head oil
the police department will not &C
Y oept another appointment" the can
didate said. III is announced that
4 he will retire July /. 1917. I've got
3 stronE bunch that the load may
BE- too great to carry even that long.
he said. drawing laughter from the
crowd by his intimation that the
administration might sec NJ to call
J an the commissioner for his resigna.
ton, as a matter OF politics, before
election day in order TO sidetrack
criticism OF police methods.
Boosts Mark on city's Time.
"A friend Of mine told me OF talk.
ing to civil service employee who
had been taken from his work and
cent out. on the city's time. TO hans
up Marx pictures in barrooms "and
Y other public places" the judge con
tlnucl "My friend asked him II al
the ssioonkeepcrs were putting M
The cards. They'd better hang eu
up. or God hcnp EN- was the repl!
from the civil service employee"
The judge told also OF a theate
which. after displaying Connoll
banner across the front. was close
BY the police or the building Il
spector's department
II have not verified this matter 8
yet" he declared. "but Judging froi
other things that | have seen don
] can easily believe that Il Is true
AZ the conclusion OF each talk n