OPPOSITION TO TAMMANY

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 7 November 1933, Page 5

OPPOSITION TO TAMMANY

POSSIBILITY OF DEFEAT. ELECTIONS AT NEW YORK. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) NEW YORK, Nov. 5. For the first time for 16 years, or since Mr John Mitchell was Mayor, -there is a likelihood that Tammany will- be defeated in the New York municipal elections when the votersgo to the polls on November 7. ihe three-cornered fight quickly revealed the unexpected strength of Tammany s opposition. 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, and one of the largest votes in the history of the city is expected. The campaign has been exceptionally hitter. To-day thousands of persons stood in a line outside the Tammany club, where “a dollar and instructions how to vote” were offered every applicant. . . . A racial issue was early injected into the campaign when Mr La Guardia and Mr -McKee charged each other with being anti-Semitic, and only the interposition of Jewish . organisations with a warning that racial dispute befogged the real issue—the necessity for reducing municipal expenses and obtaining clean cjty government—prevented the campaign developing into a plain muck-raking contest. With a citv budget in excess of half a billion dollars Tammany organisations are likelv to feel the electorate’s wrath on Tuesday.