Evening star., 1933-11-03

seems to have subsidized a great deal
The word has been passed around that
If Mckee is beaten by the Jewish vote
it might lead at a later day to retalia-
ton against the Jews in this country
None of the Jews want it is said, to
see the building of Nazi party in New
York City. Furthermore, Nathan
Straus. jr., is the Recovery Party's
candidate for president Of the Board
of Aldermen, McKee's running mate,
and many other prominent Jews are
supporting Mckee.
At least four polls are being con-
Quoted by the newspapers and the
Literary Digest, in effort to sound out
the sentiment of the voters. All four
of them show O'Brien a poor third.
The Literary Digest poll gives La
Guardia 261,5l7 votes; Mckee, 2O7,169,
and only 60,129 to O'Brien. The latest
Daily News poll gives La Guardia 1923,
Mckee, 2,291. and O'Brien, 1404. A
poll by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle places
Mckee in the lead with 1925. La
Guardia second with 1894 and OBrien
third with 2967. The Bronx Home
News (the Bronx only poll gave
McKee-Who lives in the Bronx
12,70O. La Guardia, $3.50, and O'Brien.
1882.
Mud Flies Thick.
The candidates are all going at top
speed, with election day almost here
What La Guardia and Mckee and their
supporters have said about each other
amounts to some of the finest mud
singing ever staged in political cam
paign. O'Brien, on the other hand
has conducted a dignified campaign and
has left out the personalities. despite
the fact the other two candidates LAM
baSted him and the Tammany tiger
when they catch Their breath after
attacking each other.
Fusion staged its greatest meeting
last night at Madison Square Garden.
with $4,000 men and women turning
out to pack the arena and to fill the
streets for blocks around. La Guardia
declared himself today supremely con-
f1dent of victory, and certainly there
was enough enthusiasm to encourage
him at last nights meeting. Sup
porterS of Mckee, however, insist that
he will win by some 250,0O0 votes over
his opponents.
La Guardia, who has been denounced
as radical lacks the support of
many OF the wealthy Republicans and
the more conservative. Mckee, on the
",
these groups. and there seems to be
plenty of money to finance his cam
paign.
Moley for Mckee.
Raymond Moley, editor and long an
associate of President Roosevelt. in
dorsed the mayoralty candidacy of Jo-
seph V. Mckee in an editorial in the
current issue of Today.
In another editorial Vincent Astor
publisher CT the magazine, questions the
propriety of Bishop William T. Man
ning's Endorsement of "one faction" in
the mayoralty fight in recent sermon
in Grace Church. Bishop Manning in
dicated that he favored Fiorello H. La
Guardia, Fusion candidate.
Mr.. Moley in his editorial said that
a victory for Mckee would be interpret
ed generally as vote of approval for
the policies of the Roosevelt admins
tration and a vote of reputation for
Ogden Mills, former Secretary of the
Treasury, and others whom he charac-
tel.zed as foes of the Roosevelt pro-
gram He wrote:
Clearly the choice in New York City
is a choice between an erratic govern
ment for four years, followed by a re-
turn of Tammany in its worst form, or,
with the election of Mckee, a thorough
housekeeping not only of the govern
ment. but of the local Democratic par
ty. The choice really is Mckee or con-
fusion"
Parading from Madison Square Gar
den after the rally. thousands of Fusion
supporters completely tied up traffic In
Times Square and firemen were called
to aid extra details of police in con-
trolling the crowd.
The crowd poured cut of side streets
into Broadway from the West Side and
massed before a large speaking stand
from which speakers were campaigning
on behalf of Mayor O'Brien. There
they indulged in a series OF concerted
boos and catcalls which drowned out
the Ioudspeakers of the O'Brien faction.
normally audible for blocks. =,
As the curtain went down in the the