New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-23
Judges Silence Proves
What Type of Man He
Is, Says Mitchell
Roosevelt Talks Nov. l
Colonel Will Make Address
for Fusion in Madison
Square Garden

| In statement issued from fuslon
headquarters, Mayor Mitchell returned
to his attack on Judge Hylan. the Tam
many candidate, condemnng him for
/ his lack of courage to discuss openly
/ the big issues of the campaign and
calling upon him to repudiate Hearst
and the treschery of Hearst's seditious
press"
The Mayor reviewed the charges he
had made against the Tammany candl-
date in recent campaign speeches In
view of the disclosures Of the judges
past.
efforts have been made and no
doubt will continue to be made" sald
the Mayor, "to divert me from calling
attention to Judge Hylan's total unht-
ness to be Mayor of New York. Let
me say right now TO Judge Hylan ana
to Mr. Murphy that until Mr. Murphy's
candidate comes out in the open like Il
man and submits himself to my ques-
tions and the questions of his audience
| shall pillory him day after day as the
sort of man his past actions and MS
present silence prove him to be.
Says Judge Refuses to Reply
az have called upon Judge Hylan to
repudiate Mr.. Hearst and the treachery
of Hearst's seditious press. And ne
has refused TO do so.
81 have asked him whether his opin-
ion Of Murphy and of Murphy's gov
eminent is the same as Mr.. Hearsts,
when Mr.. Hearst declared that the men
about Mr.. Murphy were a brutal lou
of private spectators and public plum
derers. On this matter also Judge
Hvlan has maintained profound
silence.
~ have asked him whether his con-
ception of American rights IS the same
as that of his running mate, henry
Bruckner. who defended Won 1irpltz
and German submarines from tie very
platform on which Judge Hylan spoke.
And again Judge Hylan's cowardly ST.
lence has condemned him.
"No doubt Mr.. Murphy and Judge
Hylan believe themselves extremely
cunning in refusing to come out IN the
open. where the public can secure an
impartial view of the man whom MI.
Murphy wants to make Mayor, but un.
less ] greatly mistake the temper OF
this community their cunning VIII re-
suit in Judge Hylan's deserved defeat.
The day Of the steam roller mas
passed forever from New York CITY
politics. No little group of professional!
politicians can control the actions OF
six million people, and the great mass
of honest and independent-mlnded
voters in this town are now silently
weighing and judging the men who ask
10 be intrusted with the vast powers OF
government.
"They are not interested in Mr.. Muir
phys desire for power, except to frus-
trate it. go
They are not concerned with Hy-
lan's cunning, except 70 make sure
that this cunning shall not be exer-
cised at the city's expense, and MOTH
ing that ] can say concerning my ad-
ministration will have weight with
them unless they are satisfied with the
manner in which public affairs have
been transacted in this city during the
last four years.
"To that great body Of independents
| am perfectly willing to submit the
record of my administration and abide
by their judgment"
Mayor Mitchell rendered an account
of his stewardship yesterday TO the AS
ISOLATION of Methodist Episcopal Min
listers of New York at meeting in the
assembly room of the Methodist Book
Concern, $50 Fifth Avenue. He assured
the clergymen that he had never danced
the tango, for the very good reason that
he thought the steps too intricate to
master at mis- time of life.
Mayor Mitchell, in a speech delivered
before the Central Brancn Y. NJ. c. A.
in Brooklyn last night, defended in de-
tail every item in the s240,0O0,OOO
budget for 1918. After explaining TO
an enthusiastic audience which crowded
the hall how the high cost of living,
increases in salaries and increases in
service to the city had made imperative
an increase of s2o 100000 in the new
appropriations, he challenged Judge Ey-
Ian, his Democratic opponent for Mayor,
to point out how this amount could be
cut down.
"Let Judge Hylan tell u.s." he cried,
"where the extravaganza and waste is,
and let him do it within the next nine
days, before the budget is passed upon.
If he keeps silent under Murphy's or
ders we won't have the advantage Of
his superhuman wisdom"
Taking up the Tammany charge that
this increase represented waste, he
said:
zone of the items, s,463, 900, is on
account of the direct state tax. | Won
der if Judge Hylan would change the
law and thus wipe out this item. An
item of $5,S45 900 is on account of the
city debt, interest and sinking fund
charges on il. wonder if Judge Hylan
could avoid paying that. The rest Of
the item is the interest on debt in
Cured in former years, most Of it in
the time of Tammany profligacy.
1.-TWO or three millions were added
on account of increases in the cost OF
food and supplies. The reason the
budget increased only s29,000,000 was
because Of the increases due TO salary
raises and high cost of living were Off
set by actual savings in administra-
tion.
Judge Hylan talks of this matter. as
of other things in the campaign, from
a profundity Of ignorance. Judge Hy-
Ian knows how the budget can be re-
duced Let him show US how TO reduce
il. and we will gladly do il.
~ wonder if Judge Hylan would cut
out the 81 100000 in widows pensions.
He may be prepared TO sell Black Dia-
mond automobile stock to widows but
don't think he'd dare interfere with
the widows pensions. | wonder if
Judge Hylan will propose cutting the
appropriation Of $3.50, 900 for private
charity institutions"
81 enjoy dancing because OF the exer-
else it provides" said the Mayor, but
must confess that the lure Of the
tango never attracted me. Mr. Hearst
says l dance every night. Probably ne
thinks so. because every time | dance