Evening star., 1941-11-02
La Guardia Victory
By 100000 Votes
Forecast tuesday
Both Sides, However,
Claim Edge in Heated
MoyoroIty Race

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MoyoroIty Race
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won by 25o,00O less than that figure
This years campaign started
quietly enough, but in the last week
tempers began to flare and words
began to fy-on both sides. Each
camp claims the other started the
mudslinging, but the preponderance
of evidence seems to place the blame
on Mayor La Guardia and his sup
porters.
The mayoralty election has as
sumed large proportions in this off
year" of political campaigns. 1t
has three aspects at least, which
all help to complicate the situation.
First, there is the strictly municipal
issue-that of good government ver-
sus machine government, with La
Guardia on the good government
end. Second, there is the national
aspect, with President Roosevelt
arrayed on the side of the Mayor
against his good friends. Mr.. Flynn,
leader of the Bronx, and Gov. Her.
bert Lehman of New York, not to
mention Democratic State Chair
man James A. Farley. Third, there
is the international aspect.
Mayor La Guardia is the Presi-
dents director of civilian defense.
with the Country on the verge of
war. He also is one of the most
vitriolic denouncers of Hitler and
has been for a long time No mat
ter that Mr. O'DWyer has pro-
claimed himself a supporter of the
Presidents foreign policy, Mr.
ODWyer is expected to receive the
support of the opponents of that
policy, which in itself helps to line
up the voters for La Guardia who
hate Hitler and go along with the
Presidents all-out aid to the British.
War Issue Held Aid to Mayor.
Indeed, there are those who insist
the war issue is what really will put
Mr.. La Guardia across for third
term-much as it did for President
Roosevelt in the last presidential
election.
The Mayor is the nominee of the
Republican party-though thou
sands of Republicans dislike him
personally. He is the Republican
nominee because the G. o. P. looks
on him as lesser evil than city
government dominated by the Demo-
cratic organizations of the five bor-
oughS, including Tammany Hall. He
Is the nominee of the American La
Dor party of which he is an enrolled
member, and he has the support of
many New Deal and independent
Democrats and a large number of
persons who have no political affilia-
ton whatsoever.
New York's two most prominent
Republicans, Wendell L. Willkie and
Thomas E. Dewey, are both in the
La Guardia camp They both be-
lieve the great bulk of the Repub-
lican vote will be registered for the
Mayor. Both have issued statements
for the Mayor. Mr.. Willkie has made
speeches for him and Mr. Dewey
spoke at the big rally in Madison
Square Garden tonight and will
speak again tomorrow night. Never
theless, there has been a revolt in
Republican ranks against the Mayor.
The party organization in two bor-
oughs has been adverse to the Mayor.
Some Republicans are not going to
vote, although few are expected to
go the whole route and vote for
ODwyer.
II the Mayor should lose, it will
be because he has talked himself
out of the office. A lot of people
have taken exception to his use of
such epithets as bum" crook"
cabbage head" double crosser"
and "goniff," Jewish word for low
fellow or thief. His greatest error
was his violent attack on Gov. Leh-
man, the Governors brother, Judge
Irving Lehman of the New York
Court of Appeals, and the court it
self, after the court had ruled there
would be no election of a State
controller Tuesday. Joseph V.
OLeary, an American Labor party
man, had received the nomination
for the Office of both the Democratic
party and the Labor party. The
Mayor charged there had been collu-
sion between the Governor, who is
supporting Mr.. ODwyer for Mayor,
and the Court of Appeals to throw
out the election.
Harsh Swords Are Swapped.
BY implication, if no more, the
Mayor called the Governor and his
brother double crossers" and "gon-
ifs in statement he made after
the court decision. Mr.. Farley then
called the Mayor a liar" cad"
and "mugwump." Mr.. Flynn and
Mr.. ODwyer branded the Mayor
'popinjay" and little man. and
threw in other uncomplimentary
remarks.
Gov. Lehman in a speech in
Brooklyn last night denounced the
attacks made on the court and him
self as Shameless and scurrilous. ="
He asserted that regardless of any
other considerations Mr.. La Guar
dia had shown himself unworthy of
being Mayor of the City of New
: York"
= In considering the election. it
should be remembered that about
. 78 per cent of the population of
= New York City is made up of foreign
born or the sons and daughters of
foreign born. The largest single bloc
is the Jewish vote and next is the
Irish-American vote. The Jewish
vote in the city is estimated as high
as 100000 when the registration is
high, as it was last year. This year
the registration is way off-9OO, 900
less than it was year ago for the
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