The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-29
NEW YORK HAS
 SHAKEN OFF
 IS LETHARGY

vl Tr,1v 2s-New york has shaken off its midsummer garthy to view the e12raoroliaiatS ast of ferest the preliminary sklrnlsihSs sti it's n,Iadrennial mayoralty elecIoh'
 Although the primaries Will noe , be1d nntil September Is ana tne election until November S' the tbs millions already engrossed in all tne moves moves presaging a cQQtest of unusual bitterness
 Mavor John F. Hylan. who was was svyent into office on a Tammany i. ndat tidal wave in 1918, foLoWifs 1ifion ra,ts is a candidate to succeed nm self. So far, no Tammany opposi. ton to him has appeared. 4o,g7 . city is normally Democratic strons hold in municipal elec.lon, tta usual publicans have adopted the .asing usua1 exnedient in recent years Of 1o1n!ns forces with other parties for a 1us'oh ticket.
 A coalition committee, headed oy Henry w. Taft. embracing in lts membership d number of civic and H Hdependent political organizatioHs, has endeavored to guide the desnnles of those opposed to the mayor.
 At recent '-Town meeting, the possible candidates: Henry H. cur ran, Republican, President or the Roroueh of Manhattan; State Senator Charles c. Lockwood, Republican, oI
  Frederick A. Wallis, Democrat; sam = I1rtar,oayer counsel for the Lockwood legislative committee m yestieating housing combines; George McAneny! Transit Commissioner anu United States Senator William M. Calder, Republican, of Brooklyn.
 The fusionists, who proclaimed that they must present a sohd 1ront lo win have been SOmwhat d1Stur Deo py reports that Major F. H. LaGuard1as n, nf the Board or Aldermen and former State Senator William M. Bennett, Republican, or Brooklyn, would seek the nomination in the primaries if they were not en- dorsed by the Coalitionists. Both have been big vote getters in preVl7 ous elections.
 The Socialists will have a full tick ct in the field and Magistrate Jacob Panken has been designated the may will pou much larger vote than usual because of the peoples dissat- isfaction with Mayor Hylan.s admln- istration. Mrs. Emily G. + saien' sn cialists' candidate for comptroller:
 Much interest has been aroused in the tentative platforms
 The mayors admirers-wtthout his knowledge, he asSerts-have been painting the sidewalks with the mot to of the "Hylan League" as follows:
 ssFIght- Fight! Fight! Fight in creases in gas rates from 80 cents to s1.5O; in car fares from five cents | to ten cents; in telephone rates or 25 per cent; in electrlc HSnl FsbleS oA | 27 per cent"
 The fusionists, in their preliminary platform, have met these issues by advocating a five cent car rare ana city ownership and managership of gas and electric light plants. The l coalitionists charge Mayor Hylan with | incompetence and lack of vision in the administration of the cfty's vast
 The Mayors friends, who claim the fusionists have stolen his thun- der for the platform, say he has been the best mayor the city ever had | and a defender of the common people against the "moneyed interests" The last legislature appointed a | committee headed by Senator Meyer to investigate Mayor Hylan's admin | istration. The investigation has been under way for a number of | weeks
 Friends of the Mayor charged that the committee was named for the purpose of making political capital I for the Republicans The commit tee, in denying that any political motive was involved, claims its pur- pose is to correct maladministration. | In addition to Mayor, other officers to be elected include a Comptroller. President of the Board of Aldermen and Presidents of the five boroughs | constituting the greater city. | The Mayors salary is $15,000 a year. He has the appointment of hundreds of choice political positions. | The budget of the city is greater than that of many states of the union. 1 This years expenditures called for more than 3,O00,Oo0.
 Mayor Hylan is the city's seth | mayor. The first executive was | ThimaS Willett in 1865.
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