New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
MayorThreateningSc School
Principals and Helpless
Widows With Political
NightsticlS, He Declares
Charges Decency
Lost i'm Ambition
Observation-Disclosures
of Women a Cloak for
Hizzoner's Self-Praisc

Sensational charges of coercion and
indecent" methods in the conduct Of
Mayor Hylan's campaign we're made
last night by Henry Fl. Curran, Re-
publican-co ton candidate for Mayor.
in addressing four enthusiastic meet
'ngs in Brooklyn. Mr.. Curran's ex-
posure of some of the Hylan campaign
tactics aroused his audiences to high
pitch of excitement.
Mr.. Curran switched from the series
of indictments he has been pilng up
against Mayor Hylan this week for
broken campaign promises, to charge
the Mayor with "rapping his political
nightstick on the steps of our public
schools and calling out the teachers
and principals to vote for him or
take the consequences of th~ Hylan
Board of Eduction.A He charged
further that the Mayor had tried "to
terrify helpless widows and fatherless
children into believing that they must
get out and work for him or else lose
their PENSIONS
The publican-coalition candidate
declared that from the beginning of
the campaign he had sisted upon q
fair fight on the merits of the case but
that Mayor Hylan was not conducting
that kind of fight.
All Sacrificed to Ambition
"He is doing it in a different way"
said Mr.. Curran, "and doing it in such
way that his methods will not be
known to you unless | call them to
your attention. am going to do that
right now, and am going to call a
spade spade. l say to y~u that Mr.,
Hylan is sacrificing dccency itself on
the altar of his ambition to be Mayor
of New York once more"
Mr.. Curran referred to q letter
which is being sent out by one Of the
Hylan political "leagues' to public
school principals inviting" them to
become members of campaign COM
mittee to work for the Mayors re-
election, with the request that they
sign on the "dotted line" if they ac-
cepted, "as only those whose written
acceptance is received will be ap-
pointed"
Turning to the subject of the widows
and orphans, the speaker charged that
the invitations sent recently to all the
widows in greater New York whose
names appear on the rolls of the Board
Of Chi'd Welfare to attend the "Ameri-
canization meeting" last Tuesday night
at the Washington Irving High School
had grossly misrepre sented the pur-
pose of the meeting. The widows,
fearing the power over their pensions,
Mr.. Curran declared, attended the
meeting in large numbers, and then
were forced to listen for an hour to II
political speech and self-eulogy by the
Mavor
"Not once in that talk did he refer
to Americanization," said Mr.. Curran.
"What he actually did was to corral
the widows in a school hall under the
coercion of an official invitation, and
then make them listen to a political
speech"
The speaker declared that several
widows lad written to the New York
Child Labor Committee, and other well
fare organizations, since the "Ameri
canization meeting" desiring to know
where thev should go to vote for Mayor
Hvlan so that they would not lose their
pensions.
-Four Meetings Hear Charges
Mr.. Curran spoke last night at mass
meetings at the New Assembly Hall,
briggs and Graham avenues; at the
nues; Congress Hall, Atlantic Avenue
and Vermont Street. and at meeting
tho 9Th Assembly District Cub, A
Van Buren, Street-all in Brooklyn.
i. g CT fl ows;
From the time this campaign began
I have insisted that we fight it out
fairly on the merits and according to
the facts Our people are entitled to
that kind of campaign. Our city de-
serves it. For my part l am going to
stick to it.
"Mr. Hylan is not conducting that
kind of campaign. He is doing it in
a different way, and doing it in such
a wav that his methods will not be
known to you unless l call them to your
attention. am going to do that right
now, and l am going to call spade
a spade. say to you that Mr.. Hylar
~ sacrifcirr d"cency itself on the altar
of his ambition to be Mayor of New
,o~p once more.
"This job must be worth som ething
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