BITTER FIGHT

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 37, 7 November 1933, Page 9

BITTER FIGHT

Contest for New York Mayoralty TAMMANY IN DANGER By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received November 6, 9.50 p.m,) New York, November 5. For the first time for sixteen years, or since Mr. John Mitchell was Mayor, there Is a likelihood that Tammany will be defeated in the municipal election in this city when the voters go to the polls on Tuesday. The three-cornered fight has quickly revealed the unexpected strength of the Tammany opposition, and the “Literary Digest’s” “straw vote” has shown the mounting strength of Mr. La Guardia. Mr. McKee is second, and Mr. O'Brien is running a poor third. Two million persons have registered as voters, and one of the largest votes in the history of the city is expected. The campaign has been exceptionally bitter. To-day thousands of pe<mts stood in a line outside the Tammany .Club, where a dollar and Instructions "how to vote” were offered every applicant. The racial issue was early injected into the campaign when Mr. La Guardia and Mr. T .McKee charged each other with being anti-Semitic, and only the interposition of Jewish organisations, with a warning that the racial dispute befogs the real Issue — namely, the necessity for reducing municipal expenses and obtaining clean city Government—prevented the campaign developing into a plain muckraking contest. With a city budget in excess of half a billion dollars, the Tammany organisation is likely to feel the electorate’s wrath on Tuesday.