The New York herald., 1921-08-08

DEFENDS COPS FROM
HYLANS NIGHTSTICK
CurTan Scores Mayor for
WELDING Ten-Squad Club
to Gather Votes.
POLICE WANT ACTION
Fusion Designee Begins
Hot Campaign Tonight
in His Home District.
MURPHY TICKET HIDDEN
Tammany Dark Room Still
Does Business-Loose Talk
About Schools Decried.

Charles F. Murphy is following the
old dark room methods OF Tammany
Hall IN making up his hand picked city
and county tickets, Henry II. Curran
Republican and fusion choice for
Mayor. declared yesterday when he
opened his campaign by shooting a
broadside at Mayor Hy!an and Four
teenth street
The Mayor has begun his campaign
and is practising vote catching meth
ods by swinging his political night
stick over the families of the city's
policemen" Mr.. CurraN said, and de-
manded that instead of trying to make
political capital out of the ten squad
scheme for the police he restore that
system at once.
There Is little doubt that Mr. Curran
proposes to carry on one of the hottest
many years. He has his coat off and IS
rsady TO fight. Instead of waiting for
the issue TO develop or for the primaries
to pass, the fusion choice for City Hall
is going to shape the issues himself
and takes it for granted he will be in
dorsed in the primaries--regardless of
what F. II. La Guardla. Judge Reuben
l.. Haskell or any other candidate for
the nomination may think.
Starting in the district where he be-
gan his political career, Mr.. Curran
,,,fn nf,a NNi al NrIi i,, ~
night. He is going to make his first
speech in the MayoraIty fight at the
Republican Club in the Tenth Assembly
district. his home district, which he
represented for six years in the Board
of Aldermen. The club house is at West
Twenty-eighth street. He Will follow this
by speaking tomorrow night at Firemen's
Hall, Bayside. and will address rallies
to be held by the Thirteenth and Nine
teelth Assembly district organizations
in the Harlem section on Wednesday
evening.
HYMN Only Sure One on Slate.
''Nobosy excepting Charles r. Muir
ply knows whose names are to appear
on the Democratic ticket--excepting the
name OF John #. Hylan for Mayor" Mr.
Curran said. II would like the voters
in New York TO take careful notice OF
the way Murphy is making UP the
Tammany ticket. He has taken 1t into
his dark room and there he Is with 1t
alone. When he has finished it. he will
bring 1t out and show II to us. Then
we can take 1t or leave IL. That Is
Murphy's idea OF government by the
people. / think the people will send
the ticket back to the dark room.'
Mr. Currau wne asked xvhan he
pected Mayor Hylan would begin his
campaign.
"Hc has begun" Mr.. Curran said
"On Friday last he ordered the street
cleaning superintendents to City Hall
and told them how much a boom was
needed in the Board os Estimate. lie
Is right about that.
Then he talked publicly with a dep
uty comptroller about the ten squad
system for the policemen, which he
took way from them six months ago.
Under that system the patrolman en-
joyed one day a week at home with
his family, but now he gets only one
day home In every twenty-seven, al
though there are 500 more policemen
in the department than there were six
months ago.
THE Mayor said he would have a
talk with Commissioner Enright about
1t. Why doesn't he restore the ten
squad system now instead of waiting
until the campaign is on? The Board
OF Aldermen demanded two months ago.
unanimously and irrespective Of party
lines. that the ten squad system be
restored. Such things ought to be taken
cut Of politics. But the vote catching
season Is on and Mayor Hylan opens
IL by swinging his political nightstick
over the families OF the city's police
men,"