New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-13
Fusion to Show Why the
Voters Should Reflect
Mayor
Hughes to Speak Later
Judge HyIan Again Called
Candidate Of Hearst
and Murphy

Fusion will start the biggest drive
of the Mitchell campaign tonight. IL
will be an old fashioned campaign Skin
mish 20 every nook and corner OF the
city. with the packing box (soap boxes
excluded, the torch, the transparency
and the spellbinder, ringing the bell Tor
the bull's-eye ticket.
Flying squadrons" of volunteer
speakers and at least one tank VIII
20 over the top to capture the voters
and intern them in the Mitchell concen-
tration camps. Squadrons Will fly by
automobile to every street corner where
voters can be gathered to hear cam
paign argument. Each night the auto
mobiles, with banners and bugles and
loaded with speakers and literature,
will strike out into the city.
To Visit Working Districts
The "tank" will be a truck carrying
four or five heavy guns"-skilled ora
tors, who will work as a team-each
tackling a campaign issue on which ne
is expert. The tank" will visit the
factory and loft districts. Sometimes
it will be used as a platform at street
corners; at other times, it will merely
carry the big ordnance to factories
where the meetings will be held inside
the buildings.
The Fusion Committees speakers bu'
reau has already organized and in
structed over two hundred volunteers
who have been gathering every after
noon at Fusion headquarters, Madison
Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street, foi
two hours Of training on the presenta-
ton of campaign issues.
The lists of the speakers bureau
show wide variety Of volunteer speak
ers. They are lawyers, professors, bis
business men, little business men anc
women. Far from taking money fol
their services, some have come bring
ing what campaign contributions they
, could afford The drive will continut
through the campaign.
Hughes to Speak
Charles Z. Hughes will be the prin.
cipal speaker at two big Mitchell meet
ings toward the close of the campaign
lie will speak at Kismet Hall. in Brook
Ign, on October %, at a meeting under
the auspices of the Brooklyn Young
Republican Club, and at the Academy
of Music on November 3, which will be
a general Fusion rally.
laa sol 70
ment from his headquarters, in the
Hotel Manhattan, turning the search
light again on the Murphy Hearst Tam
many issue.
THE people OF this city must choose
between government for them and a
government for Murphy" said the
Mayor. "Mr Hearst, the chosen guar
dian of Judge Hylan's national ideals
is willing now 70 clasp hands with Muir
ply, the man who hopes TO show Judge
Hylan now 10 run New York. There
was a time. however, when Mr.. Hearst
spoke his thoughts of Murphy and OF
Murphy government. On October 20
1905, a Hearst editorial said, speaking
Of Murphy's candidate:
"'He has spent more millions than
ever IN the history of the city cleaning
the streets. yet We have the filthies'
thoroughfares that this generation has
seen. Much Of the money has been
stolen; the rest of it wasted. Muir
phys firm, Of course, received most OF
II. In old times contractors received
pay for each load of snow actually re-
moved. Murphy's firm is paid on esti-
mates of the snowfall in the streets
lie is paid for all the snow that melts
all the snow that blows away
The past has proved that New York
City cannot have a good government
and a Murphy government at the same
time" he said. Judge Hylan stands
for a Murphy government; he stands
for a Hearst government. A vote fcr
him is a vote for the anti-American
policies of Mr.. Hearst and for the anti
New York policies Of Mr.. Murphy"
The Honest Ballot Association yes
terday sent letter 70 Edward F. Boyle
president Of the Board OF Elections
calling his attention TO the "impropri-
ETY." of permitting election officers now
under indictment for fraud in connec-
ton with the primary election to con-
tinue as such during the periods OF