New-York tribune., 1918-11-02
Lunn axes Hand
Of Tammany That
He Oneti1ne Snote
F ormer Socialist Running
on Democratic Ticket in
a Protection District

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30th Congressional District, comprising
Schenectady, Montgomery, Fulton and
Hamilton counties, is one OF three
New York districts which the Rapub-
lican national organization tigures as
naturally belonging in the Republican
column. but which now are represented
in Washington by Democrats. The 30th
is distinctively a manufacturing dis
trict, and the isuc which looms largest
in it-Mext to the immediate winning
OF the war on the basis Of uncond-
tioral surender-is that Of the tariff
safeguards which it must look to to
protect its industries against the ter
rife competition to ue ushc,ed in by
peace.
The tour cities of the district are
Schenectady, Amsterdam, GioV1rsville
and Johnstown. Each OF .ner. depends
absolutely on the prosperity O. its fac
tories for its wellDclnG.
The Republican candidate tol Con-
gross in the Goth District is Dr. Frank
Crowther, of Schenectady, a lifelong
Republican. He is rurning against
George L. Lunn, who was elected TWO
years ago on thc Democratic ticket
Lunn started in life as Republican.
switched to Socialism and was twice
elected Mayor of Schenectady on the
Socialist ticket, was once defeated for
Congress on the same ticket and last
month was defeated in an effort to
again "break into" the Republican,
ranks, this time as Congressional
candidate on the ticket OF that party
AZ well as the Democratic.
Trades on Bakers Name
I.unn numbers Newton D. Baker. Sec
retary of War, among his friends, and
through Bakers interest was named to
the House Committee on Military Al
fairs in spite vi his Socialist antece-
dents and the IA It that he was brand
new member OF Congress. lie has traded,
and most effectively, throughout the
Baker connection. Schenectady knows
Lunn intimately. having seen him
first as pastor of one OF It's leading
churches, the First Reformed. then
climbing into political prominence on
the back of the Socialist party, which
he left to step into the Democratic
ranks
AS "a Socialist, Lunn said of way:
Beware Of the man who praises war
and in the same breath talks of pa
triotism.
"The great capitalistic combinations,
through the subsidized press or PAID
agents. talk of patriotism, but what
they arc thinking about and planning
for is profits.
They give the working class the
patrotism while they keep the rrofits.'
Lunn in those days was publisher
and editor Of weekly Socialist pa
per published here Of which his wife
now owns a big block OF the stock.
Dr.. Lunn Che is Il D. D.. among other
things) is now loud in his protes-
tions Of admiration for and support
OF Alfred +. Smith in his candidacy
for Governor on the Democratic ticket.
1t was not always thus.
Once Attacked Tammany
In a public speech here, not a great
while after he had been arrested as
the most prominent actor in, the |. W.
w. disorders in Little Falls in con-
nection with strikes in various mills
there, Lunn, denouncing the impeach-
ment of Sulzer, referred to Tammany
and Smith in the following terms:
eve witnessed Il proceeding where
CNe man WHO ucduS All w
known as Tammany Hall. whose cor
rupt influences extend like Shiny rep
tile over the affairs of the state. sits
in New York at the end of q telephone
telling his servile slave, Al Smith,
what to do, how 10 do it, and when to
60 it.
always Will lift my voice against
such an outrageous conspiracy as we
have at Albany. and always will / use
my influence to paralyze the Shiny
hand of Tammany wherever that shiny
hand shows ITSELF
Lunn. it is said, almost crushed that
same "simy hand" as extended by
CAP in Schenectady Saturday after
noon in the fervor Of his greeting as
a fellow candidate and Democrat
On the subject of tariff legislation,
Lunn to date has been absolutely mute.
This is the vital issue with 90 per cent
of the people OF his district. directly
on indirectly, but so far he has been
too busy with generalities to get down
to little matters such "a reconstluc-
tive legislation. The nearest 70 an ex-
preston from him on the subject came
in the form OF q declaration on the
editorial page Of The Schenectady
Gazette" his personal organ in the
campaign, to the effect that as an issue
the question of protective tariff is
"as dead as julius Caesar"
In this campaign Lunn is opposed
by the ablest man he has ever faced,
and reports from the four coun-
ties in the district indicate that Dr.