New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
ScI1ectOr viii
Stay ON Ticket,
Says Haskell.
Designee for Comptroller
Is to Tour the Bronx With
brooklyn Judge and Hal
ligan, 1t Is Announced
Four Republican Mayoralty
Aspirants Speak at Head
quarters of Lockwood

At the headquarters of Judge Reu-
ben L. Haskell yesterday i. was said
reports that Morris Schector, the can
didate for Comptroller on his ticket,
would quit, as predicted by persons
who protested TO speak for Mr. Schec-
tor when he was designated on Tues
day, would be given a complete quietus
Tuesday night, when the Haskell
forces open their campaign in the
Bronx.
This is Schectors home borough,
and it was announced at Haskell head
quarters that Schector. together with
John j. Halligan, the Haskell candi-
date for President of the Board of
Aldermen, would tour the Bronx to-
gether.
Haskell and Halligan last night
spoke before four Republican district
organizations in Brooklyn, and also
before the League of Women Voters at
Public School d. All the Republican
mayoralty aspirants were invited to
Following the example set the previous
evening by Henry II. Curran, the Re-
publican Coalition designee, his OPP
ponents, F. H. La Guardia. William NJ.
Bennett and Haskell talked on schools,
in addition to the other issues that
they have been hammering home
nightly for the last two weeks.
Bennett Praises Lockwood
All four spoke at the clubhouse Of
Senator Charles C. Lockwood, who is
RI, ming on both the Curran and Ben
nett tickets for Comptroller, and who
This fact was made much of by both
La Guardia and Bennett, especially
the latter, who said in part:
1T is always great pleasure for
M to speak in Brooklyn, which 1 car
ried two to one in 1917, and which
borough for the last four successive
years had given me majority at the
primary in nineteen out of the twenty
three Assembly districts in the county.
1t is an especial pleasure to speak in
the clubhouse which is the political
home of Senator Charles C. Lockwood.
He was my colleague in the Senate and
was straight Republican during the
1917 campaign. He did not bolt the
out in front of his clubhouse and kept
it there throughout the entire CAM
paign. despite the denunciation of the
Fusion leaders.
"The people who will support me
are distrustful of the Fusion committee
of this year, realizing that it is COM
posed of the same people who con
nived at the stolen primary of 1917. A
committee was therefore formed called
the Citizens Committee Of Enrolled
Republicans Six weeks before the
Coalition committee acted, our com
mittee named as its ticket William
NJ. Bennett for Mayor, and Charles c..
Lockwood for Comptroller. Senator
Lockwood said at that time that he was
not candidate for Comptroller. We
uation than he did, and therefore kept
the place open for him on our ticket
Haskell Continues Dry Attack
Haskell. in discussing his principal
issue, prohibition, said
"Any condition affecting the social
and commercial affairs as prohibition
has is vital issue in this campaign.
at is a direct issue because the
city of New York is burdened with I'M
necessary expense in enforcing the I'M
necessary Miller Mullan-Gage act, and
because of clogging up of our court
calendars at the expense of celay in
trying the civil and criminal business
which should have immediate atten-
ton of the courts.
TOf the reasons SET IOItU, nave ~
hesitancy in expressing my judgment
| that on this prohibition indirect refer
endum, which is to be held or primary
day my nomination will he had by
more votes than the other three can
didates put together, and that on the
other indirect referendum. to be held
in the general election, the people of
this city, irrespective of political affili
alton, will register protest in such an
overwhelming majority for my candi-
dacy that every United States Senator,
member of Congress and member of
state Legislature who voted for pro-
hibition will be ashamed of himself"
La Guardia, discussing the city's
schools, said that his record was one
that would stand scrutiny and de-
clared that the city was waiting for a
Mayor who would provide seats for
every child, and that if the Depart
naent Of Education could not function
so that accommodations for all chill
| dren we're provided the Mayor should
remove these officials.