Evening star., 1933-11-05
LA GUARDIA GIVEN u
EDGE IN NEW YORK
H. MAYORALTY RACE
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while the Socialists have candidate III
the field this year. he IS not regarded
as much of vote-getter. But while ne
will receive a lot of Socialist votes, ne
is likely to lose many of the Republl-
can votes. A great many OF the Re
publicans do not consider La Guardla
Republican, although the Republican
organization in New York has peen
supporting him.
Mr.. Mckee put a series Of questions
to La Guardia, one of which was: Are
you Democrat, Republican. So
cialist or Communist" La Guardia's s
reply was: -.
Il am a progressive" An adroit
enough answer under all the circum-
stances, but not calculated to draw Re-
publican votes. One prominent New
York Republican. when he was asked
recently the reason he proposed to sup
port Mckee, answered: There are two
reasons The first is OBrien and the
second is La Guardia."
Tammany Speeds Up Drive.
The Tammany leaders have staged
vigorous campaign the last week, and
they insist that it has brought results.
They declare that the Mckee candi-
dacy has folded up" that the race is
and that they expect to win with
O'Brien. Indeed. it is understood that
when the O'Brien manager, Kaplan,
makes his forecast tomorrow he will
claim not merely plurality for the
Tammany candidate, but a majority of
the vote. 1t may as well be recalled,
however, that Tammany has been de-
feated in New York in the past when
the people became aroused, and it looks
as though Tammany was about as un-
popular with the voters today as it has
been in years gone by.
Tammany cited several polls OF dis
tricts in the Bronx and in Brooklyn to-
night which were said to show the
swing is all to OBrien. One vas the
twenty-second election district in Brook
lyn, where the leader, SinnOtt, went
over to Mckee. and showed O'Brien
with SIS per cent Of the votes, La
Guardia with % and Mckee with only
19. In McKee's own district. in the
Bronx, the Tammany spokesmen said.
too, that Dorothy Julig,. a Democratic
leader in Queens, who had previously
declared for Mckee, today jumped back
to the O'Brien reservation and would be
regular"
The Mckee managers take different
view Of the closing hours Of the cam
paign. The Recovery party candidate Is
to carry the Bronx by ya at naxs least 5000 10000
by another 5000. They hope for an
even break in Brooklyn and In Manhat.
tan. Richmond, the fifth borough in
small vote in the total for the city. but
they say Mckee will have a margin
there in his support.
All three of the major mayoralty
candidates are veterans in politics
and in the government service of New
York. O'Brien is a graduate OF Holy
Cross College and Mckee a graduate
of Fordham. Before he was nominated
for mayor, O'Brien was surrogate and
Mckee was City Court judge, post to
which he was appointed by AL Smith
when he was Governor. and later he
was president of the Board Of Alder
men. Mckee became acting mayor
when Walker went out last year. La
Guardia is a lawyer. too. a graduate
OF the Law School of New York Uni
versity. He served as deputy attorney
general of New York in 1915; he has
been seven times elected a member OF
the House from New York, but was de-
fested in 1882 He served as president
of the Board Of Aldermen in 1919. He
was the Republican candidate for mayor
in 1929 and was defeated.
Mckee Youngest Candidate.
Mckee and La Guardia have strong
driving personalities, while O'Brien is
more easygoing Mckee is the young
est. A years old, keen campaigner
with a winning smile, strong favorite
of the women voters. La Guardia Is 81,
is a human dynamo on the stump
O'Brien has reached 60 years OF age.
Despite the fact that the newspapers
have poked fun at him ever since he
was mentioned for mayor. he makes
good. clear speech. But there Is moth
the magnetism his opponents possess.
The race for district attorney in
Manhattan has aroused almost as much
interest as the contest for mayor.
Ferdinand Pecora, who has conducted
the banking and Stock Exchange in
vestigation for the Senate Banking and
Currency Committee. Is the Recovery
party candidate for district attorney, q
running mate of Mckee, while La
Guardia has with him on the Fusion
ticket for this Office Jacob Gould
Schurman, jr, q partner Of the law firm
once headed by Chief Justice Hughes.
The Tammany or regular Democratic
candidate for this Office is William G.
Dodge, q city magistrate. The Tam
many leaders are said to be turning
every stone to defeat Pecora. II he
becomes district attorney it will be a
threat to the system Pecora has
leaped into fame through his investiga-
tion of the bankers and is believed to
have a good chance to win. although
he has strong opposition. Incidentally,
what Pecora has been doing in Wash
ington, showing up the practices Of the
big New York financiers, has played
into the hands of La Guardia. for La
Guardia is regarded particularly as the
friend of the poor man.
If La Guardia is elected, the Mckee
Democrats say, it means black eye for
the Democrats Of New York City and
State, not to mention the Roosevelt ad-
ministration. It may mean defeat for