The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-30
Socialist Candidate Will
Poll Enormous Vote;
La Guardia Is Goat.
BY GILBERT SWAN,
NEA Service Writer

NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-New York's
famous "late" mayor also will be its
next mayor.
AS usual, he will set style for
silk braided afternoon coats; he will
arrive late at all social functions;
his wise cracks will be passed along
from Maine to California, and his
most casual repartee will belong to
the wit of the year. In a word, he
will be Jimmy Walker.
Yet when James J. Walker takes
office again, it will be after a cam
paign in many ways unique in
American politics.
The ghost of a murdered Roth
stein, king Of the gamblers, has
haunted the campaign. And a muir
der mystery as a political ingredient
is something for the detective story
writer's to think about by way of
novelty.
Graft Is Charged
Then, too, Manhattan'S chief park
has been invaded by cover
charge night club, with prices far
above the common purse. Many
hints of "sell-out" and graft"
Norman Thomas, Socialist can
didate for almost everything up to
the presidency-will run up a vote
which will break all records. It
will, according to the best prophets,
be the voice of more than 100000
persons who are not interested in
wise cracks, or opening nights at
theater, or styles in clothing, or re-
ceptions for visiting heroes.
1t will be proof that New York
has a vast, solid citizenry which
goes home nights and turns on it's
radio. 1t will be a great vote of
protest, for it will drown out even
the well-known Republican ballot.
La Guardia in Bad
The chief opposing candidate to
Walker has been the Republican
congressman, Fiorello La Guardia.
La Guardia has opened several
freshly covered graves, all contain
ing skeletons.
But he ran against Manhattan
Indifference, plus what may prove
to be a bit of discipline from his
own party. La Guardia has not
been a regular Republican. Once,
when he was spurned by his own
party, he turned socialistic candi-
date and won.
Whereafter he was taken back
into the fold, only to go insurgent
on more than one occasion. BY
turning him over to the none too
tender mercies Of New York's Tam
many, the party may expect to make
him better boy.
Then, as further cog in the
machinery, has been candidate
Richard Enright, one-time police
commissioner of the city. Both En-
right and La Guardia have been
asking for weeks-''Why was the
Rothstein murder mystery never
solved?"
Rothstein Case to Fore
Their intimation, of course, was
that the gamblers associations hit
too close to oficialdom. A city
magistrate was shown to have held
"a $4,000 note from the slain
gambler, which had been duly re-
paid
A friend of the administration,
who went into bankruptcy only to
reappear as an official of the park
Casino, was mentioned as having
owed a healthy sum. For months
it has been limited that police and
officials borrowed money from the
gambler.
But the majority is little both
cred by the ghost of Rothstein or
the night club glitter of a public
park. They want New York to be
gay, and to be gay one must be
able to forget easily.
And Jimmy Walker has been and
remains a sort Of symbol of Metro
politan sophistication debonair,
wise, snappily dressed and capable
of handling his wit in the best and
worst Of company.
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