New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-13
Democratic Candidate Says
Oratorical Contest Will
Not Help Issues
Bruckner Defends
McLemore Resolution
REPRESENTATIVE Explains
That He Is Advocate
of Free Speech


came at the very end Of his last speech
Of the evening. delivered at the Demo
cratic rally in Hunts Point Casino.
The Bronx. and was couched in such
language that only an official interpre-
a,.on could establish its full purport.
The judge said:
The time has come when Mr.. Mitchell
must meet the issues Of this campaign
and meet them with statements that
are truthful lie can no longer avoid q
reckoning. No mere oratorical contest
with this petu,ant young man, who is
smar.ine under deserved and almost
universal condemnation, will meet the
situation or satisfy the people This is
the case Of the City Of New YORK
against the Mayor and his administra-
tion. and his answer must be made TO
all the people. That case is presented
upon record that cannot now be
changed, and it is upon that record
that Mr.. Mitchell must seek 10 make his
justification TO tn, people. II is time
for the Mayor 70 make his defence. He
has delayed TOO long already
Bennett Issues Challenge
William ". Bennett, who won the Re
publican Mayoralty candidacy. yester-
day caught the joint debate spirit, and,
not content with issuing q challenge to
Judge Hylan for debate issued one to
Mayor Mitchell. Mayor Mitchell may ac-
ce7t the challenge. but Judge Hylan is
expected 20 give to il the same answer
that he gave to the Mayors challenge.
One OF Judge Hylan's fellow speakers
from the platform Of the Hunts Point
Casino was Representative Henry
Bruckner. candidate for Borough Presi-
dent Of The Bronx, who voted in the
House Of Representatives against the
tabling Of the McLemore resolution.
Mr. Bruckner sought last night to de-
fend his action in this matter by eX-
planning that he was an advocate Of
free speech and thought the resolution
should be debated in public.
Defends McLenOre Resolution
But he also sought to defend the
resolution itself, saying
Representative McLemOre, Of Texas
introduced in Congress a resolution
warning Americans or belligerent
armed vessels going to Europe, while
neutral vessels were sailing every day.
His action was in great measure predi-
Gated on the fact that several moaths
previous thereto the Department of
State at Washington. with the full
sanction and approval of the President
Of the United States. warned Ameri-
cans out Of Mexico for their own per-
sonal safety.
at wasn't because Americans did not
have the right to travel on the high
seas. for they surely do but because
McLemore +elt that one man, ten men,
one hundred or Thousand men should
not in any way involve the liberty,
prosperity and the happiness of ono
hundred million American people
Judge Hylan devoted large part Of
his speech to an explanation of his
specific charges, since riGiculed by the
Nayor, regarding the employment of
fake experts" by the Fusion admins
traton. Mr.. Hylan's original statement
on this subject had strongly implied not
only that all the men he enumerated
were still iu the employ Of the city. but
tha: they had been imported from out
Of town TO occupy their positions. The
Mayors reply disclosed the fact that
all but six Of the fifteen named had
either died or severed their connection,
n any, with the city payroll; that Of
the six remaining three had been hired
before the Mayor took Office, and that
IN all eases the men had leen residents
OF the city for some time before then
appointment.
Calls Mayors Reply False
The judge said last night:
In my speech Of Wednesday night
sad that Cut-of-town fake experts had
eoeen paid al least 100000 by the city
during the present administration.
"a ~ VT Ailt IdiAtS anu llNlNc "
Illustrate my point. and was careful to
ssy that among the so-called experts
appointed were the instances cited.
me Mayor has attempted to answer my
charges
Judge Hylan then named W. L. Sears,
o. Boston; W r. Smith, whom he
@hsraeterized as a foreign subject; Full
eoQ Colville, Of Atlanta. Ga. and others
Nhom he had in his original statement
paced among the fake experts" en-
yloyed by the Mitchell administration.
ne declared that. although the services
" 'hese men had ceased, their employ
ment was unjustifed.
The next Mayor Of New York CITY,"
Juage Hylan declared, has the ap-
poin'mont Of a new Board of Educa-
uoh' consisting Of seven members.
m1se th's solemn pledge. that | shall
seiect men and women for those places
without thought Of politics, creed or
racial antccedents" "
Mr. hylan's intimation that he had
women IN mind for some of the com
mlsslonerships on the small board of
seven Is the first Of the kind to come
'om any Of the candidates for Mayor.
III 3D., ,GhEENBRIER-WHI SULPHUR
o. MN1S, West Va Ideal time 70. ths cure
' '1s nisas from New York-Adrl