Evening star., 1933-11-04
FEARFUL TAMMANY
COUNTING ON SPLIT:
Hope Division Between Me.
Kee and La Guardia Will
Re.eIect O'Brien. RI
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out. The Republican vote, they say,
will be split between La Guardia and
Mckee.
Then. too, the Tammany leaders are
| counting on the support Of the vast
majority Of the city employees, who hold
their jobs under Mayor O'Brien and
| under the civil service. These number
between las, 900 and 100000 The esti-
mate is that the city employees control
at least three votes each-their own.
plus that of wife. sister, brother or
parents. This would mean 100000 to
100000 votes controlled by the city
employees.
Budget Cut Pledge Helps.
One reason for their belief the city
employees will stick to the organization
and O'Brien lies in the fact that both
La Guardia and Mckee have promised
by $50. 900 900. The o'Brienites have
addressed a letter to the civil service
employees in which they point out that
such promises have been made by the
fusion and recovery candidates for
mayor. In the letter they call atten-
tion to the fact that the city budget
has been fixed at $555 .976 .996. Of which
S268, 946 is for personal service. 1t
is out Of the salaries of the city en-
ployeS-or their 1ohs-that La Guardia
and Mckee, they say, will have to cut
the $50, 900, and they ask the en-
ployes how they would like that
The cut will not be made, they say
out Of the funds for pensions and re-
tirement pay. out of the old-age pen
sions veterans relief. out of the funds
for charitable institutions or out of the
payments on the city's debts. The re-
form candidate for mayor, they say,
must strike the civil service. In con-
clusion the letter says: I'VE urge. there
fore, that all civil service employees,
without regard to party, who wish to be
protected in their rights and maintained
in their positions support O'Brien, Prial
and Solomon and all other regular
Democratic candidates"
Tammany is relying, therefore, first
on organization and old party loyalty
of the rank and file voters. second. on
the city workers and their desire not to
on the division In the ranks Of the OPP
position between La Guardia and Nc
Kee to swing victory for O'brien next
Tuesday. II Tammany should win. ana
a lot of the Tammany men themselves
don't quite see just how 1t Is going to
be done, then. indeed, the organization
will be on top of the heap in this
metropolis.
Pay Roll Is Defended.
With an air Of injured innocence,
Tammany leaders reply to the charge
that the city pay rolls are padded to
pay a host Of Tammany workers. They
point out that only 0.6 per cent Of all
the las 900 or more city employees are
not under the civil service. This, they
say, is a very low percentage Of strictly
patronage jobs in a city government,
and includes the heads of departments
and departmental mems Offices which
are not included in the civil service
rolls. They pooh-pooh talk OF graft
and favoritism in the passing out OF
relief funds to the needy in New York,
where thousands of families have been
on the relief lists. Indeed, they con-
tend that the Tammany Tiger Is just
nice pussy. after all.
The O'Brien, or Tammany. ticket has
not the support Of single daily news
paper in New York. The Hearst papers
and the Evening Sun are favoring NC
Kee. for example. while the World
Telegram, the New York Herald Trib-
une and the Times have been support
ing La Guardia. The very way IN
which the press has divided in the
mayoralty contest is one Of the Strang-
est of the mix-ups here. All the polls
taken by the newspapers have been
against O'Brien overwhelmingly. and so
has the Literary Digest poll However,
Tammany hopes to get along without
the support OF the press. 1t has done
so in the past on occasion.
In its effort to hold the city employees
and the district leaders in line, the
Tammany organization has not hesl-
tated to fire from the city pay roll
men who have come out for Mckee. |
They have been made to walk on the
plank without mercy. The Tammany
leaders are charging that. through an
advertising concern, the Mckee cam
paign managers are sending rS~h from
house to house, representing themselves
as coming from the district leaders and
telling the O'Brien voters to go over
to Mckee, that O'Brien is licked and
the leaders want them to get on tne
band wagon. That. they say, Is a dirty
trick, and they are threatening prose-
cutionS.
Ignore Farley Statement.
The strategy of the O'Brien forces
has been to make no mention OF the
Endorsement of Mckee given by Post
master General Farley. They contend
that Mr.. Farleys statement Is an anti
climax and not getting Mckee any
where. They believe the Mckee artl-
cles attacking the Jews written a mum,
ber of years ago and dug up by Samuel
Untermyer and published recently, have
rut a terrible crimp in McKee'S chances.
John H. McCooey, Brooklyn Demo-
cratic leader and ally of O'Brien arfi |
Curry, belIttled the influence Of the :
Farley declaration for Mckee.
81 think" he said, "that the voters
of New York City must resent the state |
ment of the Postmaster General and |
national chairman. They are capable |
of managing their own affairs without |
outside interference"
Opponents of O'Brien are playing up |
a report that the right OF Jay T. Fox,
assistant secretary to Mayor O'Brien, |
to register in the 45th election district |
of the 18th assembly district is to be
Fox should not be registered az Sea-
ford. Long Island. where he Is said to
have voted year ago
Charges that Illegal registration has
led Hsi to 52s indictments m by " the the grand Jury
already. and more than 1890 complaints
in Manhattan alone have been received
at the Office Of the attorney general.
Copeland Main Speaker.
It is a strange thing to see Tammany
rely for its final campaign speeches on
Senator Royal S. Copeland, who has
never been identified with Tammany.
although he has always been regular"
in place of AL Smith, who has always
been identified with the organization. |
But Senator Copeland is going the
whole hog for the organization. He
spoke in Brooklyn last night for the
wind-up Of the campaign there, and TO-
night he will be principal speaker at |
Carnegie Hall, where the last big rally |
for OBrien is to be staged. Senator
Copeland comes up for reelection next |