TAMMANY FACES DEFEAT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19640, 7 November 1933, Page 7

TAMMANY FACES DEFEAT

LIVELY ELECTION IN NEW YORK ELECTORS MAY CENSURE RULING REGIME United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received November 6, 9.50 p.m.) NEW YORK. November 5. For the first time in sixteen years, or since Mr John Mitchell was Mayor, there is the likelihood that Tammany will be defeated in the municipal election in this city when the voters go to the polls on November 7. The trree cornered fight quickly revealed the unexpected strength of the Tammany opposition, and “The Literary Digest” straw vote has shown the mounting strength of Mr La Guardia. Mr McKee is second with Mr O’Brien 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 bitter. To-day, thousands of persons stood in a line outside the Tammany Club, where a “dollar and instructions how to vote,” were offered to every applicant. The 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 the Jewish organisations, *with a warning that a racial dispute befogs the real issue, namely the necessity for reducing municipal expenses, and obtaining a clean city government, prevented the campaign developing into a plain muck-raking contest.

With the city budget in excess of half a billion dollars, the Tammany organisations are likely to feel the electorates’ wrath on Tuesday.