Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1937, Page 14

A4« IAHONEYPRAES MAYORALTY FOE Judge Expected, However, to Lash at Tammany in Race. (This is the last of a series of stories about the candidates for Mayor of New York. Previous stories dealt with Mayor La Guar- dia and Senator Copeland.) BY DALE HARRISON, Associated Press Stafl Writer, NEW YORK, August 14—They are -aying today that with Jeremiah Titus Mahoney a candidate, the Jemocratic mayoral campaign is apt o see some choice skeletons and a amper full of political linen dragged 'ut of the Tammany closet. This seems at first blush rather -trange, for Mahoney is a jovial entleman not given to venom. He as only high regard, he will tell you, or both Senator Royal S. Copeland, 1s Democratic primary opponent, nd Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia. “I know Senator Copeland, and I >spect and admire him,” he said. “I ke Mayor La Guardia personally. m not saying anything about his dministration—yet.” Angles to Be Considered. Thus, with admiration for one foe | nd a liking for another, it would | ardly seem that New York Cit ontest for the mavoralty was d ined to be more than a good-natured | ame. However, there are some | ngles. Jeremiah T. Mahoney, native New “Torker and 62 years old, seeks the | fayor's job very much against the il of Tammany Hall When &/ “Jemocrat tries that in New York, he nows he's in for something more han & merry picnic to Bear Moun- ain. Tammany Hall is backing Dr. Jopeland. It would like to feel that vhen it makes a choice, the rest of Jew York's Democracy should put its houlder to the wheel of that choice. Tammany Minority Group. Actually, Tammany is a minority wroup. Its bailiwick is Manhattan. | Jour other great boroughs—the | Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Rich- | nond—have shown signs of late years that they are weary of Tammany | dictation. The New Deal of President Roose- velt is deeply concerned in the situa- tion, for one of the powerful per-| sonalities of Tammany Hall is Alfrel 3. Smith, the “Happy Warrior,” who nas been politically unhappy ever since the New Deal began operating When Tammany chose Senator Copeland to be its candidate, the selection riled other powerful ele- ments of New York democracy, for the Senator is not a red-hot New ‘Dealer, In the last few months he nas been anti-New Deal on several occasions. Postmaster General James Farley and Senator Robert Wagner, the two | sturdiest Roosevelt enthusiasts in the New York political field, could not look forward to the possibility of an | anti-New Deal Mayor with any de- | gree of satisfaction. Neither man has | said as much right out in meeting, but | there is no mystery about their feel- | ings in the matter. At first, it appeared that the anti- | Tammany strength would center be- | hind Grover A. Whalen who, if| elected, probably would have been the | most elegant and smartest tailored Mayor this town ever saw, not even excepting Jimmy Walker himself, ‘Whalen Steps Aside. ‘Whalen, however, stepped aside, and Jeremiah T. Mahoney, lawyer and former judge, took over. Who is this man who defies Tam- many Hall? He used to be a law partner of Benator Wagner. He was spoken of as Tammany's candidate for Mayor four years ago, but John P. O'Brien got the nod instead, and they say | Mahoney didn't like it 8 bit. They say further that subsequently, Ma- | honey took a leading part in dumping | John F. Curry out as leader of | Tammany. Frank V. Kelly, Brooklyn Demo- cratic leader and backer of Mahoney, has become so incensed over the situ- ation that he has made a public statement—something unusual for a New York party leader to do—in which he charges Tammany is com- mitted to a “rule or ruin” campaign. “The Tammany faction,” says Kelly, “apparently is more concerned about securing possession of the Democratic organizatior than electing a Demo- cratic Mayor, Sees Fight to Save Party. “Judge Mahoney knows the facts. He will tell the truth and nothing but the truth, let the chips fall where they may. This is a fight to save the Democratic party in the city from ruin and to preserve the autonomy of Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Richmond which Tam- many is making a desperate effort to dominate and control.” Tammany's leadership contends that the New Deal is not an issue in the mayoral campaign. Christopher D. Sullivan, chieftain of Tammy and a member of Congress, points to his own record as pro-New Deal. But Ma- honey says: “A vote for Copeland is a vote #gainst the President of the United States. A vote for Copeland is a vote against the New Deal. A vote for Copeland is a vote against social gecurity.” Judge Mahoney—every one calls him judge—says he has the interest of the common man at heart because he was born poor, the son of an Irish cop, as he put it. But he didn't stay poor. Reason for “Sassiness.” “I made morey,” he said. “I've al- ways made good money, except in my first job down on Gold street when I was 14—107; hours a day for $2 a week. It is when you are well fixed that you can afford to be sassy and in- dependent. I think the trouble with ‘Tammany administrations has been too much centralization of control— but I'm not naming names, yet.” Mahoney is known nationally by reason of his presidency of the Na- tional Amateur Athletic Union. It ‘was Mahoney who headed the rumpus which threatened to keep American athletes out of the last Olympic games at Berlin. He objected to Americans going to Germany because of the Nazi attitude toward Jews. He failed then, but later he led the opposition that unseated Avery Brund- age from the A. A. U. presidency. In New York, any consideration of candidacies always takes into account racial angles. Mahoney, because of his stand in the Olympics matter, is considered by his supporters as cer- tain to win a good chunk of the “Jewish vote.” He also would poll heavily among the “Irish voters,” if the strategists figure correctly. On the other hand, considering that deals with requirements for ship con- struction Set for Fight JEREMIAH T. MAHONEY. —A. P. Photo. he passes the test of the primaries, he will find in Mayor La Guardia & foe- man who has been even more out- spoken about Naziism. much to the delight, assumedly, of the “Jewish vote"—andgmuch to the dislike of a large “German vote.” Mahoney is athletic, despite his 62 years. He was always active in sports, nd even today boxes a few rounds every week at the New York Athletic Club, or plays squash. The library at his apartment, over- looking Central Park, is jammed with law books and detective novels. “My wife reads the detective stories,” he explains. The Mahoneys were married in 1911. They have a married daughter and two sons. Mrs. Mahoney doesn't approve of his candidacy, the former judge said. “She thinks I'm crazy,” he grinned. “She thinks I ought to settle down and quit all this fighting. That's the missus for you.” He arises early—about 6 am—and | generally works a couple of hours before breakfast which, these hot | Summer days, he takes in his air- | conditioned dining room. A double | ice cream soda intrigues his appetite as a nightcap. He sleeps about six hours a night. “A good night's rest,” he has said, is the greatest gift to man.” New York City, he thinks, is no place to drive a car. He owns four. Although he is an “insurgent” Democratic candidate, Judge Ma= honey is the Tammany leader in aldermanic district 15—a Tammany stronghold. His defiance of Tam- many's candidate, Senator Copeland, has made it rather embarrassing; but whether for Mahoney or Tammany is not yet quite clear. Viewing the coming struggle, Ma- honey says: “This primary’s a set-up for me. I'm going to be a one-term Mayor. Four years is enough for anybody. I| believe in holding a job just long enough' until it becomes routine. “I know the New York situation. I've been counselor to the controller and counselor to the State Banking Commission. I've been General Ses- sions judge and Supreme Court justice. I'm a Grover Cleveland Democrat: ‘A public office is a public | trust.”” | The three things that lead to hap- piness, in Mahoney's opinion, are “exercise, hard work and a clear conscience.” SEA SAFETY BILL GAINS Legislation growing out of investi- | gations of recent ship disasters passed the Senate and was sent to the House vesterday. The safety-at-sea measure; The bill was a substitute for a mea- sure introduced by Chairman Cope- | land of the Senate Commerce Com- | mittee. SLansburghs VT, BOMTH wd ¢ s Ot 18 Healthfully Air Cooled A New Low Price! Rotary Electric SEWING MACHINES Regular $90 Value 4.50 Made by White This all-electric sews so lightly «+. full rotary . . . round bobbin . has a perfect stitch . . . “feather-touch” knee control . . at this price a sensational value. $3 DOWN 7 ene in your home. 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