The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-28
COALITION MOVEMENT
AGAINST HYLAN
Opponents of Present Mayor of New
York Planning to Put Up a
Candidate.

New York, July 2S.--New York ha!
shaken off its mid summer lethsrgy I,
view with extraordinary interest tn,
preliminary skrmishes of its quadren
NAL mayoralty election.
Although the primaries will not be
held until Sept. ID and the election un.
til Nov. s, the eity's millions already
are engrossed in all the moves presag
ing contest of unusual bitterness.
Mayor John F. Hylan, who was
swept into office on a Tammany Hall
tidal wave in 1918, following split
in the Republican and coalition ranks,
is candidate 90 succeed himself So
far. no Tammany opposition to him
has appeared As the city is normally
Democratic stronghold in municipal
elections, the Republicans have adopted
the usual expedient in recent years of
joining forces with other parties for a
fusion ticket.
A coalition committee. headed by
Henry W Taft. embracing in its mem
bership number of civic and indie.
pendent political organizations, has en-
deayored TO guide the destinies of those
opposed to the mayor.
At r recent town meeting" the fol-
lowing names were presented as posi-
BILE candidates; Henry II. Curran, Re
publican, president of the borough of
Manhattan; State Senator Charles c.
Lockwood, Republican. of Brooklyn;
immigration Commissioner Frederick
A. Wallis, Democrat; Samuel Inter
meyer, counsel for the Lockwood leg
islative committee investigating hous-
ing combines; George McAneny, transit
commissioner; United States Senator
William NJ calder, Republican, of
Brooklyn.
The fusionists. who proclaimed tina
they must present a solid front to win,
have been somewhat disturbed by re.
ports that Major r. H. LaGuardia, Re
publican, president of the board Of al
derman, and former State Senator Will
liam NJ. Bennett. Republican, of Brook
lyn, would seek the nomination in the
primaries if they were not endorsed by |
the coalitionists Both have been biz |
vote getters in previous elections.
The socialists will have a full tick |
ct in the field and Magistrate Jacob |
Papken has been designated the may.
orally candidate. They claim they will
poll a much larger vote than usual be.
cause of the peoples dissatisfaction |
with Mayor Hylan's administration.
Mrs. Emily G. Balch, widely known
is the socialists candidate
Tor comptroller.
Much interest has been aroused in
he tentative platforms
The mayors admirers-without his II
knowledge, he asserts-have been paint
ne the sidewalks with the motto of II
he "Hylan league as follows:
Fight! Fight Fight Fight in.
reases in gas rates from so cents 90
] 80; in car fares from five cents 10
en- cents; in telephone rates of p per
ent; in electric light rates of % per
emit"
The fusionists, in their preliminary
'latform, have met these issues bv
dvocating a fve-cent car fare and II
ity ownership and managership Of gas
nd electric light plants. The coalition
IS charge Mayor Hylan with incom.
etence and lack of vision in the sd-
Of the city's vast enter.
rises.
The mayors friends. who claim the
nSonists have stolen his thunder for
he platform, saw he has been the best
layor the city ever had and a defender
the common people against the
interests"
The last legislature appointed a com
iittee headed by Senator Never to in
estigate Mayor Hylsn's administra-
on. The investigation has been under
ay for q number Of weeks.
Friends Of the mayor charged that
he committee was named for the pur-
'se Of making political capital for the
epuhlieans The committee. in DENY q
z that any political motive was in !,
lived. claims its purpose Is to correct
administration
In addition to mayor. other Of T.
'ers TO be elected include = comptrol-
:. president OF the board Of aldermen 4
u presidents OF the five borourhs
nstiiuiing the greater city
The mayors salary Is $4,000 a year
? hzs the appointment al hundreds Of
dice political positions The budget of
? city q greater than that Of many n
stes 81 the union. This years expcn-
lures called for more than $4,000.
Mayor Hylan is the city's 2sth may
The frst executive uzs TAomss
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