New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-03
Editor breaches Doctrine
of Hohenzollerns,
He Declares
Murphy Denounced
AS Publishers Aid
Hylan Only a Stalking
Horse, He Says, at Open
ing Rallies

rom She same platform at Cooper
r--.on where ne opened his victorious
...,raicp Of four years ago. Mayor
,r.che, last night launched the Fusion
..,rai-n I'M a stirring. patriotic. anti
,..rmany speech before an enthuS'-
audience Of several thousand
..Iens. u..,,
The Mayor vigorously assailed VIII
Hearst and Charles Francis
,..,rtv dwelling upon the statement
.....5 bv Mr. Murphy from Tammany
rsr earlier in the day in reply to MI
,,tchel's CITY Hall speech Of Monday'
NJ Hearst the Mayor designated as
.-. man who prints the Star-Spangied
e.,,o- on the front page Of his papers
I'D s+sbs his country in the back on
4c editorial page. Mr. Murphy anu
.,- Horst are Tammanys real canal
.., .-,. wear. rather than Judge
LAM the Mayor said
~Americanism the Issue
o,.stior that is presented TO
.o.o,s thf. vcar." said Mayor
,...cbol els whether they prefer 10 Ie
,,sblsh prof, eacy and waste PTos''A,
...r and bad service, dishonesty anu
..~ciercv in the service Of the city
. %ov. York; whether they want 70
hing back the days OF Tammany ana
,,.,rrbv Nurphy-controlled IammAny
g, New York, or whether they "a"'
,sa kind of service that ! have OUT
med to YOU tonight 10 continue ao-
-,iristered from the seat OF govern
,.ent nj the City Hall.
THAT is the city question and 'he
thor the broader national question:
,,hotber we shall have in the CITY
u,u government inspired by the
,1.als Of America and desiring only 70
.erve the people Of the United states
.r tho successful prosecution Of THIS
rsr 10 a victorious issue, or Whether
No are 20 have government lnsplreu
~ Influences that are not friendly -
,ke ideals of America government
a.. Hearst. of Hylan, and the hohen-
rolerns."
While the Mayor was firing the hrst
shot in the Fusion campaign az MS
.or;cal Cooper Union, Controller Prem
l.-c,st and Fire Commissioner koD-
.-- Ada,nson. candidate for President
o., the Board of Aldermen. simuitane-
.,.rv we're attacking the anti-tusloh
,,srchcs in Brooklyn from the plat
form Of the Academy Of Music. The
,lsvor hurried TO Brooklyn from the
C.o,er Union meeting, and his asso-
GATES rushed from Kings to Cooper
SQUARE 20 reinforce the Mayors re-
marks DO Manhattan
Cooper Union Crowded
,oorer Union was crowded to over
lowing ,ong before Mayor Mitchell ar
-vcd The old hall was surrounded
b. q phalanx Of police, who had their
hands full holding back several hun
ored men and women VINO clamored to
e., inside after the doors had to be
coseu.
Job T.. Hedges. chairman Of the
needing. SPOKE while the candidates
we're en- route The crowd took Mr..
Hedge seriously. and gave him a
,niThtv cheer when. IN defining the
local campaign issue, he said:
"Tbe Question is whether we want
CITY government for the people TO
i've under, or for 1ammany to live
The other speakers were Borough
President Marcus w. Marks and Will
lam l.. Ransom, the Fusion candidate
Tor District Attorney,
Navor Mitchel, early IN hls speech,
took occasion TO answer the statement
Of Charles F. Murphy yesterday: Inc
Gavor pointed out the unusual clrcuih, ,
stance that, although the campSishh ,%u Va
.csrcclv begun, he had competed VI
Nurpbv. for the first time IN ms poilu-
raI career. "to come out and declare
himself in the open for his own ticket
"Made Murphy Reply
"Be did so in statement that he IS
.ued to-day" said the Mayor, IN "hlcn
he said that my charge that the t,eheI
that Tammany has put in the held is
not 70 be associated with those forces
tbat have been working covertly ana
malignly 70 break down the eHec'Is e
ness Of q national government IN 'hIS
var because the rank and the ME OF
Tammany Hall are loyal to America
because their young men have gore
INTO the service Of the nation. VI
course. they have. OF course, the ram
and file Of Tammany Hall are IoyaI 10
America. Whoever would undertake 10
charge that this great group Of citizens
OF this city are in their hearts ana
minds disloyal 10 their country
"But Mr.. Murphy did not answer Joy
hose who have nominated this ucket
and who control these nominees: lie
oid not discuss with me the loyalty OF
the men who nominated Hylsn ana
Hearst.
"He did not discuss the consistent
uoGcv OF Mr. Hearst, beginning WIN
fhe outbreak Of this war, preaching tne
doctrine Of the HohenZollerns and the
uapsburgs, preaching the doctrine OF
the conqueror and Of the oligarch, thst
doctrine which began with advocauns
that this country merely stand by and
squceze all the profit out OF the war
ing nations that il could until Ger
many was stopped at the Battle Of the
Marine. and then began TO point out the
tor-or. of the war and 70 show how 1t