New-York tribune., 1921-09-10
Old Home Nigllt
or Hines in
ManIlattanville
Anti-Murphy Candidate
Tells Boyhood Friends
He's Regular and Wants
I4th St. Regular, Too
Scores Hand-Picked Men
Says He Is in Favor of
Conventions, but the Boss
Uses Telephone Booths

1t was old home night for Jimmy
Hines, officially known as James J.
Hines, anti-Murphy candidate for Bor-
ough President. last night in Manhat-
tanville, and nhSttanville, one of
the old New York neighborhoods, made
the guest of honor feel welcome and at
home. For mile up and down Man
haitian Avenue north of 10th Street
the curbs were lined with people, and
red, blue and green torches and fire.
pots gave the welcome color.
The official reception was held at the
clubhouse of the Monongahela Demo
cratic Club, just above the corner of
Manhattan Avenue and 10TH Street
The men courteously turned the best
accomm odations of the clubhouse over
to the women voters of the district and
roasted on the curbstones themselves.
Spoke From Clubhouse Steps
AS the district in which the knight
of the Niblick of GOOD Ground tried
last year to displace Hines as leader
in favor Of Senator Abraham Kaplan,
the guest Of honor was more than glad
Of the chance to yell, "Fore." and tee
up for record drive. Speaking from
the clubhouse steps, he told the crowd
that he was regular, and that he was
making fight because he was a reg
ular, and wanted Fourteenth Street to
be as regular as himself.
Il am Democrat" Hines said, "a
regular Democrat, Tammany Hall
Democrat and better Tammany Hall
man than Boss Murphy himself. He
does not like conventions. | recall that
ne bolted the Tammany Hall conven-
ton that named the Hon. Tomas F.
Grady for Senator at Lyceum Hall, in
East Thirty fourth Street, in 1905.
i am IN favor of conventions. Muir
phy is not. He is fond of telephone
booths and dark holes, and he would
run Tammany obscured from the pub
lie view in places like those. I have
hlm on the run, and all we have to do
IS to follow that New York editors
advice and swat the boss"
Hines said that no one could con-
slider the fight against Murphyism won
Until the last vote was counted. He
then took up the charges made by the
Murphy crowd that he had been re-
sponsible for the defeat last year of
Charles j. Stuart, who was running for
the Assembly
Two Out of 10000
"ln his desperation ne (Murphy) re-
sorted to fslsehood and insinuations,
and out of nearly 10000 enrolled
Democrats in my district he finally
procured two to do his dirty work. I
need not tell you, for you all know
that every legitimate and proper thing
was done to elect one of them-Stuart.
Every district captain here knows that
not alone did l do everything to bring
about his election, but we even paid
every dollar of his campaign expenses"
Hines held up before the crowd a
bundle CT documents.
Here are the receipted bills for his
printing, for his Autographs, for cam
paign literature and for postage. Just
to-day l was informed that one more
bill due for some printing he contract
ed has been paid by this club. I need
say no more"
Regarding Kaplan, Hines said that
he had proposed him for the state Sen
atorship, and had worked to elect him.
Hines spent his boyhood in Manhat-
tanville. Present last night were dele
cations from the 7th, 9th. 11th, 14th,
21st, 22d and 23d Assembly districts.