The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-11-01
TIGER" SEEMS A SURE
VICTOR IN NEW YORK
MAYOR HYLAN, TAMMANYITE,
IS PICKED TO WIN BY LARG-
Err MAJORITY THAN EVER.
ELECTION ON NEXT TUESDAY
Republican and Fusion Forces Have
Not Made Much Roadway in CAM
paign Against Man Who Is Popular
With Masses. Foes Bid for Women.

/ Az
With Masses Foes Bid for Women.
NEW YORK, N. Y-John F. Hy-
Ian, of Tammany hall, will be re-elect-
ed mayor of Greater New York on
Tuesday, November 9Th
The coalition against Hylan has
lacked enthusiasm. This week was set
for the beginning of the intensive final
stage and there has been accelerated
motion on both sides, but the average
New Yorker is taking less interest in
the fight than at any time since the
greater city was formed.
This lack OF interest is due to the
prevailing conviction that the mayor,
/ with every paper against him, save
only those of William Randolph
Hearst, will win by bigger majority
than he rolled up against John Purroy
Mitchell four years ago. At shat time
all of the New York papers except
Mr.. Hearst's were against the Tam
many candidate. They have been
against him ever since, but no matter
how bitterly they may write about
him no one of the newspaper men
assigned to the campaign believes
there is a chance of encompassing the
mayors defeat.
Women are voting in the mayoralty
election this year for the first time,
and the supporters of the coalition
candidate, Henry c. Curran, president
of the Manhattan borough, republic
can, is making strong bid for the
woman vote on the basis of the con-
dtions in the public schools. Mayor
Hylan promised "a seat for every
child" but there are now several hun
dred thousand children on part time.
Holds National Interest
While the issues involved are usually
local, the mayoralty campaign in
Greater New York always hold ma
tional interest. Tammany is tremend-
Gus power in the democratic party and
its success or failure in the municipal
elections here often have a national
bearing upon the destinies of the party.
What Tammany can do in a national
campaign was pretty we'll demonstrat-
ed last November, when Greater New
York gave a majority of $4,000 votes
for Gov. Smith, democrat, and ma
ing, republican. Tammany was willing
Gov. Smith, but failed when Mr.. Hard
ing carried the state by over a million
votes and swept the republican state
ticket into office with him. Gov. Cox,
the democratic presidential candidate,
knew that Tammany was out to knife
him. but could do nothing to avert
the disaster.
Hopes of defeating Mayor Hylan
4 ractoJ -,
disclosure of a legislative committee
The committee was approved by the
neatly has made big ado over the
fact, claiming that rural New York
state is trying to dominate the city,
where home rule" is so jea1ousiy
guarded The investigating committee
has probed deep into the city's affairs.
1t has grlled Mayor Hylan and all of
his subordinates.
But the investigating committee has
failed to produce the smash" that the
campaign against Mayor Hylan need
led il it was TO succeed The ordinary
man in the street does not remember
much that the committee has brought
out. There has been no body blow for
Tammany. And that is why the coali-
ton has had to fight on the public
school issue, and on the promise of a
good, clean administration.
Mayor Hylan and the Hearst papers
are charging that the coalitionists have
set out to secure another great slush
fund. They charged that $2,000,000
was used in the Mitchell campaign
four years ago. 1t was after his defeat
at the hands of Mayor Hylan that
Mitchell entered the flying corps of
the army and later was killed during
a flight at a Texas aerodrome.
Place Hopes in Women.
The anti-Tammany campaign man
ayers are laying great store by the
woman vote. They believe the women
OF the city generally are against Tam
many, but the Tammany men say that
tor every lonesome vote that comes
from a Fifth avenue mansion for the
coalition ticket they will get eight
from each teeming domestic home in
the Bronx. Mayor Hylan has made
special and deep plea to every foreign
element OF the city. He has for four
years been welcoming all the foreign
visitors to America. To Jew and Gen
tile, to Italian, Spaniard, Frenchman
and Englishman he has donated the
keys to the city. He has welcomed the
hrst timld travellers from postwar Ger
many. He IS III the movies every day
and every time he is shown upon the
screen he gets an ovation.
All OF which maks the betting on
Hylan three and four to one, with no
takers
Richard Croker, old Tammany chief
tain, was in the city this week and
predicted Hylan's election by a bigger
majority than the 100000 he received
in 1917.