The Washington herald., 1921-11-08
FATHER new YORK
GOES HYLAN-BENT
TOWARD ELECTION
Quietest Mayoralty Cam
paign Will End at
Polls Today.

NEW YORK, Nov. IA few years
ago when there was a saloon for
about every 1000 inhabitants ot
New York, election time was a sea-
son of more or less llveliness ana
the candidates for. mayor paid
acriminous personal respects to one
another at a respectable distance
until almost time for the polls to
open. Old reporters who covered
the campaigns dating back to 1894,
the year following the disclosures
by DR.. Parkhurst of graft in the
police department., have never seen
a contest so quiet and temperate
as the one5now coming to a close
with Mayor John F. Hylan a 7-to-1
favorite over the Fusion-Re publican
candidate. Henry H. Curran, and
Hylan money out begging for trade
at the price.
Never before on the eve Of an
election has there been so little
doing" in New York. and even to-
morrow night, election night, Is not
expected to be an election night in
the same sense as the night Judge
Gaynor defeated William Randolph
Hearst, who at that time called
himself The Civic League"
Hearst ''BehInd the Throne,
There is less fight in the 1921
campaign than there was in any
other within easy memory. After
two futile attempts by Hearst to
enter the city hall at the front
entrance. once against Gaynor and
another time against Mcclellan. as
the Municipal Ownership Party"
Hearst, has been accused of COL
laborating with Hylan in the ad-
ministration of the last four years,
because his newspapers elected
Hylan in 1917. Now Hearst is the
principal hacker of Hylan for re-
election and the other newspapers,
in patronizing tone, are asking the
voters If they can be really so
stupid as not to recognize the
colossal inaptitude of this man
Hylan, and the fine Italian hand of
Hearst in Hylan's works.
But the Curran people have
found very little on the police. de-
partment under Hylan, although a
legislative investigating committee
tried hard enough. The worst
charges against him are that he is
incompetent, has red hair and mis-
represents the traction issue of the
campaign, which charges. even If
true, do not compare with bitter
accusations Of previous fights.
Banners of Yesteryear.
For instance. in one of Hearst's
campaigns. banners were flung
across the streets saying that
Hearst's criticism of Mckinley was
indirectly responsible for the assas-
sination. And in 1903, afte1 Tam
many Hall had unseated the/Brook-
lyn Democratic leader, installing a
Tammany man in his place, there
were banners on the Brooklyn ap-
proach of the bridge, screaming
''Tammany shall not cross the
bridge" and Keep New York vice
out of Brooklyn"
In the very old days the Hoffman
House was the Democratic. head
quarters, and the Republicans held
out at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, each
Of which famous hostelries had
famous bar before which the lead
ers, great and not so great, were to
be found on the eve Of election, as
we'll as on the night after. Great
sums of money were bet in each
headquarters, and on election night
the merriment flooded along Broad
way to the Bartholdi Hotel, and the
Metropolitan and famous saloons
and cafes where no man carried
flask
Serving the dough"
But one famous old institution
that still survives at Tammany Hall
is Dough Day" Today was
Dough Day" and by all reports it
was a prosperous Dough Day" for
Tammany Hall has been running
affairs here for the last four years,
and when Tanmany runs things the
big chiefs are supposed to collect
much wampum. On Dough Day"
the subordinate leaders come in
from their respective baiIiwicks and
receive the cash for necessary ex-
penses" of election day. They did
SO Monday, and there is no really
certain way Of checking up on the
exact nature of. these necessary
expenses." It is understood that in
a prosperous year a faithful indi-
vidual voter Of proven loyalty, who
stands right with his district leader,
may expect a $40 bill for services"
to the party candidate in the cam
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