Evening star., 1937-11-01
La GUARD|A PICKED
TO BEAT MAH0NEY
Challenger in MayoraIty
Race Makes II Speeches in
Day in Last-Minute Bid.
By the Associated Press.

oy the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-Jeremiar.
Titus Mahoney, the man who made
Tammany Hall climb on his band
wagon, today laid down a last-minute
oratorical barrage in an attempt to
capture city hall from Mayor Fiorello
H. La Guardia. .
The former athlete who heads the
A. A. U.-now engaged in the Bit
terest fight of his career-took the
stump in 12-speech marathon in a
desperate bid to defeat his rival. the
little flower" of fusion, and restore
tne city to the Democratic party.
Tomorrow an estimated 1000 900 to
2.500,000 voters will settle the city's
political question No /:
Can Mayor La Guardia defy the
Democratic organizations century-old
boast that it has never been whipped
twice in a row by any reform admins
tration?"
Mahoney, genial, blunt-tongued.
crag-browed Irishman who has served
on the State Supreme Court bench,
predicted he would win by half a
million votes"
100000 Victory Seen.
La Guardia's supporters picked the
mayor to win by 100000.
A majority of New York's news
papers also predicted the Mayor would
be returned to Office.
Three destinies apparently hung on
tho nJrfn0rop nf fho oil
Cd The political rise of La Guardia,
already mentioned as possible presi-
Dental nominee in 1850.
~ The future local and national
prestige of the New York Democratic
organization.
90 The public career of racket
smashing Thomas E. Dewey, men,
toned as possible Republican guber-
material candidate in 1910.
Discarding an old local custom of
concluding campaigns the Saturday
before election, both candidates re-
newed final appeals for support.
Mahoney, who made Is speeches
yesterday. in a dozen more today reit-
Grated his charges that La Guardla
had favored Reds" crippled the 30
lice force and increased taxes to carry
out extravagant projects.
Tammany Fights Dewey.
La Guardia, campaigning on a
good government" platform and
against "Tsmmanvism," planned to
wind up a lr Ious schedule to-
night at til. corner" at 11stb
and Lexington. avenue, where he has
concluded previous campaigns.
Behind Mahoney was the fuIl
strength of the powerful Democratic
organization, welded into city-wide
harmony by the need for victory. and
such Democratic leaders as Postmas-
ter General James A. Farley. United
states Senator Robert p. Wagner,
Gov. Herbert Lehman and Samuel
Untermyer, noted Jewish lawyer.
Although Farley was active in Ma
honeys behalf, the national admin
istration maintained an official hands
OF" attitude. since both candidates
have been friendly to it,
The peppery little mayor drew his
support from the most heterogeneous
group ever to unite on mayoral can
didate here-the Republican orgari-
zation, the American Labor party.
City Fusion party, Communists and a
wing of the Socialist party.
Second only in importance to the
mayoral race was the outcome of the
battle for the post of district attor-
ney of New York County (ManhAt-
tam in which Special Prosecutor
Dewey was opposed by Harold Hast
ings, Tammany candidate.
Dewey, running on the La Guardia
ticket, accused leading Tammany
chieftains of protecting racketeers and
the hall has concentrated its strength
to defeat him.