New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-27
Mayor Invades Camp
Of Hillquit, Appealing
For the Liberty Loan

Mayor Mitchell, in his address at the
Mount Morris Theatre. 10th Street
and Fifth Avenue. last night, carried
the war into the enemy's camp by at
lacking Mr.. Hillquit before an audi
ence made up largely of the Socialist
candidates followers.
The Mayor was booed and Kissed
when he appeared on the stage, where
upon he set to work to explain to the
booers and hissers what he thought of
Hillquit. He read an appeal TO the
people of the city for subscriptions to
the Liberty loan, written by President
Wilson. and then said:
president Wilson says he does not
doubt the patriotic devotion of the peo-
pie of New York. He was forgetting
Mr.. Hillquit. He forgot that there are
men in this community so lost to all
sense of patriotic duty TO the flag and
to the nation that they refuse to give
the utmost of their resources"
Applause and Kisses followed this at
tack. When the Mayor left the theatre
a large crowd of Hillquit sympathizers
who had gathered in front of it booed
him loudly as he drove away.
Before an Irish audience which filled
Bryant Hail. Forty-second Street and
Sixth Avenue. the Mayor earlier in the
evening launched bitter attack against
"the little pernicious group" of disloyal
Irishmen in the United States, while
his hearers shouted and cheered and
announced that they were with him in
his fight.
The Mayor was also applauded when
he announced that if it were the last
act Of his official career he would have
gone through the charities investiga-
ton. which gained him so many
enemies in the Catholic Church.
For one minute during his address
il appeared as if Mr.. Mitchell would
have an actual besides political fight
on his hands. He had just mentioned
the names of jeremiah OLeary and
Justice Cohalan, when a man in the
rear of the hall shouted;
"No personalities"
Mayor Welcomes Fight
In a second the audience was aroused
Yells of Throw him out" sounded
and one large Hibernian arose and bel
lowed:
"Stay with it, John. Well have an
elegant fight here yet"
"A fight is what | am looking for
Mayor Mitchell replied, and continued
1--WE all hope that some day Ireland
will win the liberty she deserves, yet
we know at this time that our first and
supreme loyalty is to this nation anc
to the stars and Stripes. We all know
that the Irish are loyal, but we must
admit with shame that some few Of OUT
blood have disgraced US to-day in then
attitude toward the United States. But
let il be understood, this little per
nicious group does not speak for the
great masses Of Irishmen in America.
In speaking of the charities investi
cation, the Mayor pointed out that i
included institutions Of every denomina
ton, and that no attempt had beer
made to discriminate against any one
Of them.
Again Assails Hearst
"The man who turns up the working:
of such an institution" he remarked
us a better friend Ct the great faitl
it represents than the man who hide:
its shortcomings. 1t is unfortunate
that the purpose of the Investigation
was misunderstood, but il IT were thu
last act Of my official life | would Dc
it all over again"
During his belligerent address a
Bryant Hall Mr.. Mitchell also took an
other shot at William Randolph Hearst
terming him "the most disloyal either
within the United States and the mos
dangerous enemy within the American
border"