The sun., 1917-11-02
MAYOR LINKS TRILOGY
Shows Tammany Candidate
Indorsed as "Sympatheti-
cally Inclined to Kaiser.
THE COLONEL A HERO
Roosevelt Receives Ovation as
He Defines Real Issue
Hughes Also a Speaker.

Ont OF the mouths OF Germans them
selves Mayor Mitchell proved last night
! that John F. Hylan was rated as .
good friend Of Germany in the autumn
OF 1a1b-long after the Lusitania was
sunk, more than q year after the war
started. while the majority Of Americans
were boiling with Indignation over the
torture O. Belgium and murder by sub
marines.
In Madison Square Garden. where 49,
600 men and women were gathered for
the final big Fusion rally. q state
ment prepared by the Mayor was read
Mitchcl's voice had failed. 1t was the
climax Of the blazing mass meeting.
following speeches by Charles E.
Hughes. who presided; William A.
:, Pxandersast. Henry Morsenthau. Robert
Adamson and Theodore Roosevelt. who
iwas cheersd for six minutes and who
set the crowd wild with his answer to
man in the gallery who yelled while
the Colonel was picturing what would
happen to America II America hadn't
gone TO Europe to fight. why don't
you go over:
Connecting Link shown.
In Hesrst's Deutsches Journal, in Oc-
tober, 1915. when Hylan. appointed to q
County Judgeship by Gov. Glynn. was .
candidate FOR election to that office, ap-
pesrcd an advertisement in German
urging Germans to vote for him. The
reading Of this advertisement. with
identifisat ton of the men who signed II,
was the Mayors contribution TO the
rally. 1t completed trilogy of dis
closures showing, first, that Hylan was
an honorary yice-president OF the OBJ.
hoxious Friends OF Peace second. that
lie was on tho advisory board OF the
association that proposed to debauch tho
American public through newspapers
fed with German money, and finally.
that Hylan. running for office. supported
by Hearst, was also supported most
earnestly by Germans, some OF whom
were engaged in propaganda against the
neutrality OF the United States.
Tho advertisement in the Hearst Ger
man paper described Hylan as sym,
pathetically inclined toward all thing
German" He was described as "dvrin1
the last winter the only non-0erman
ofacial in Brooklyn who had GOOD
word for the German cause and 81.
pressed himself In favor Of strict
American neutrality"
The Il declaration was signed. FIRST, by
Henry esmann. president Of the Ger
man American Alliance. and indorsed by
Charles !. Froeb, Louis Brasx. Frank
Mann. John Pahls. Peter Becker. Joseph
shuman. Richard Chumacher, Dayid
Koos, F. w. V. Eggloffstein. Miltor
Hertz ard Edward Keszl.ng.
After reading this eulogium and the
Mayors remarks about It Mr.. Littletor
folded the paper and said: Lets &C
home" Which the Gardeners did, aftei
whooping cheer for the Mayor.
Everybody who entered the Garder
received an American flag at the door
Back Of the speakers platform. where
the furthest gallery denizen could see 1t
was mammoth reproduction OF the let
terhead OF the Friends Of Peace. with &
black arrow pointing at the nam'
Judge John T. Hylan' among the hon
orary. Nice-chairmen of tho convention
committee. Before the fusion parader'
reached the Garden 10000 persons wer'
there, All seats were eventually takeI
except blocks In the east galleriS'. whicl
would have been crowded. too. II police
men outside. supposlng the place wa
full, had not shooed away thousand
who tried to get in when the parader
arrived.
Ovation for Roosevelt.
The Japanese Parliamentary Com
mission had seats in the second row o.
The main floor right In front Of tn
stage. When Col. Roosevelt entefe
and touched off a demonstration tina
was r!valed only by the hullaballo
that greeted the appearance Of tn
Mayor, the Japanese stood and wave
flags AT him, and the Colonel. leanin
forward from the speakers rail- CAV
them a mighty salute. The visitor
seemed greatly tickled by this first sigh
Of an American political splurge
The crowd was all for Mitchell an
.usion. Its temper was proved when MI
Hughes. whose voice penetrated the ha
10 !ts last pillar. demanded: Shall W
elect Murphy's man for Mayor Of Ne'
York;
NO. no :" the crowd roared back.
Are We to turn out the best adminis
ration we have ever had and elect MuI
phys man. l say?"
The "No.' crashed even louder tina
before
Would Leave Nation Hslplsss.
Turning tn the subject OF Hillquit, fc
"hom ore lone man had shouted an
'een booed. Mr., Hughes resumed:
Shall we elect a man who present
as principle Of his campaign oppos
Ton ~ this war for the United STATE
"A man who would leave the city hell
less and PROSTATE before America
enemy; the man who refuses to buy
Liberty bondT'
Once more the tempest OF mo. n
no. no.
His is r. despicable. reasonable ph
Hsophy." said Mr.. Hughes when Il
Sarden would let him 20 on. Nv
ousnt 10 smother the man who dar'
~ ms time to utter IT,"
WITH a cheer that was heard far ,
.'sdlson Avenue the $4,000 men ar
women rose as one and waved the