The sun., 1917-10-20
SCHOOL RI0TING
MURPHY PLOT,
SAYS mitchell
Some Teachers Also Party
to Conspiracy, Asserts
the Mayor.
HE FLAYS HEARST AGAIN
Defends Reynolds as Having
Sacrificed %5OO,OOO to
Benefit City.

Mayor Mitchell stirred voters at four
big Manhattan meetings last night with
some of the 'harpest words of the cam
paiGn.
lie wanted to know what Hearst
Bruckner and other apologies for sub
marine warfare" thought Of the sinking
OF the American transport Antilles with
seventy Americans missing.
lie charged Charles r. Murphy With
instisating the school riots for base po-
litical purposes" and said that some
teachers were party to tho conspiracy.
lie answered a heckfer who asked
who Is Reynolds" with such telling,
overwhelming effect that the heckler
stuck out his hand after the meeting and
said: "Mr. Mayor. you certainly an
swered my question"
He told OF Judge Hylan's going to
the cloak manufacturers headquarters
yesterday and posing for moving pic
lures He said he was proud Of the %.
position Of the cloak manufacturere who
by opposing a Just settlement Of last
years strike proposed by the Mayors
committee, had swung public sympa thy
away from themselves to the side Of
their employees. Judge Hylan. he said.
was welcome to the support Of the manu-
facturers. as for Mr.. Mitchell. he would
take his chances with employees.
stirs Great Crowd.
He stirred a great crowd Of men and
women in Turn Hall. the German centre
OF East Eigffty-fifth street. by an ap-
peal for the purchase Of Liberty bonds,
and. 1t is interesting to relate, got no
louder applause in the whole evening
than from these same German born citi-
zens when he accused Mr. Hearst OF
dis!oyalty and insisted that American
patriotism was one Of the three moral
issues OF the campaign--the other two
being Murphy and Hylan.
1t was in Turn Hall, while the Mayor
was comparing the record OF the present
Police Department with the days when
politics controlled 1t and graft was thick
In 1t. that plump man In q far cor
er shouted:
"Mr. Mayor. who is Mr.. Reynolds"
Hardly pausing to breathe the Mayor
raised his right arm and stabbing the
air with It for emphasis shot back this
reply:
Mr. Reynolds is an ex-senator and
real estate man. one Of tho owners OF
Dreamland. one OF the owners OF a por-
tion of the tract OF land taken for the
terminal yard In South Brooklyn. an ac-
quaintance OF mine. and a man who in
his transactions with the city govern
ment has never received one slightest
jot or little of consideration to which
any man under similar conditions was
not entitled, but who. on the contrary.
when he had obtained . condemnation
judgment Of the Supreme Court for
about 100000 for the Dreamland tract
had his judgment appealed under my or
ders by my Corporation Counsel. set
aside on appeal by the Appellate Divi-
sion OF the Supreme Court Of tho State
and half a million dollars cut out Of
that award through my activity. ZAP
plause.]
And. ladies' and gentlemen. II the
cowardly candidate Of Murphy and
Hearst were half a man he would come
upon a platform like this and debate
Mr.. Reynolds's transactions with me-"
"Give Him a Chance"
Somebody yelled. "He would also take
a chance"' and in reproof another man
r~s<fonnA lrth DnHa