The evening world. Newspaper, November 2, 1901, Page 2

JEROME LAYS CRIME | AT VAN WYCK'S DOOR. “Man Who Has Been Mayor for Four Years Has Done More to Disgrace the Office than Any Other Man Who Ever Filled It.” SAYS UNGER WAS NAMED BY GAMBLING SYNDICATE. Asserts that the Police Force Is an Organized Gang of Blackmailers, and that Croker, Van Wyck and Devery Have Grown Rich Through Associations with Frank Farrell. The World herewith presents a review of the campaign, summing up the arguments and charges that have been made since the beginning. Seth Low, the fusion candidate for Mayor, and Justice William Travers Jerome, candidate for District- Attorney, have made the campaign one of bold charges against CROKER, UNGER, VAN WYCK and DEVERY. : Their charges have remained unanswered. Croker has resorted on ‘one or two oecasions to ridicule, but for the most part has kep! silent. Devery has failed to defend the accusations made against him His only extended utterance during the campaign was the interview pub- lished exclusively in The World Oct, 29, which consisted ma‘nly of, virulent personal abuse of Justice Jerome, Van Wyck's only response to attacks on his connection with the Ice| Trust and Ramapo scandals has been a sneering remark about Colum- bia’ s finances. Unger has denied the one charge, that he was nominated by the gambling syndicate, W, W. Ladd, jr., Tammany candidate for Comptroller, branded as Van Wyck's attorney in the Ice Trust case, has kept silence, Here are the charges formulated by Justice Jerome: CROKER. Justice WILLIAM TRAVERS JEROME, Fusion Candidate for District-Attorney, RICHARD CROKER. US. JUSTICE JEROME CHARGES THAT: ; CROKER © ¥. Richard Croker is responsible for gruss REPLIES: waste of public moneys and the de- bauchery ot public morals and Croker is in politics tor reyenue ouly. andidates only from whom he s. ment of New Y, rnment of favoritism, nt respects When only the strong and oppresses who can and will pay dd will not. 0 was It that sect ment to the “Ram v favors those | tribute; persecutes those who to Ko ab With the sa} 1 permins: my own party. Wa K Nicol who ‘went te Albany and acted vr not yet mouthplece. And who fs ring the thought it neces rarrell, Cs nie tary to ask. that WORKS tat wa permis Crokerism stands for two things tow! tepubll New Yorker ought to. be opposed sentee government and galn. Why doesn't someboly sue m: Rody Might? I call them th lective}, The answer in th and st it the same time. It stands § oligarchy hi 4s there that was in the i) 7 ff Tammany wins 8 1 will by the real power— Se and his friends Mochs Hochstim, Souny Smith, Ja- cob Hertz and Martin Engel. II, Every municipal department, save pos- sibly the Fiscal Department, is corrupt. | Respectable citizs elty department whic! artment DrrUpt, ex was present, but he sald not charge. ‘ontractors the present adm to get more for city work because the outside illegitimate claims mace Jead: who pre tration bave vet upon them ‘Our Grand Jury aystem tn dedauched and rotten 0 eon Our Grand Juries are a mockery rhe Haan uineicieenne fused to indict Gannon, the police PAI * parlor of H Sout mene t we ralded It. What can you ineleacroctec ae rhen there 1s a corruptlor as this In our TAEKIAR every bo 1 offering sf to. subata his etat nts foplty htm ald to-day that certain Justices o: owed thelr nomination and election to etropolitan Street Railway Comy If I'm pre to do so I'll name some of those Jistices before campaign ends. fou cannot by any cry of Democracy against Re- fpablicantern hide from Abraham Lincoln's plain people Teal issues of this campaign—decency against in- Gecency, honesty against “grafters, ‘against Anarctiy. the TIX, That the Tammany organization re- ceives lurge campaign contributions from gambling and other resorts and from blackmail. | Individuai Tammany leaders undoubtedly share tn Fotection money from Kumbling and other resorts ir districts, aij the tors of large resort Jarge campaign contributions to the organization Wk of the bribery money, however, is kept by | the in JUSTIC +) If I am elected I will see to It that the biackma stopped. I will stop tho ayatem of wiakedown among 10 poshcart men. If elected I will go to Al and fo have corrected the Jaws that were enacted to enable Tammany Hall to levy blackmail, VAN WYCK. WILLIAM TRAVERS OME; Fusion Candidate District-Attorney, ROBERT A. VAN WYCK, Mayor and = Tammany Candidate for Supreme Court Justice, US. | JEROME CHARGES THAT: fayor Van Week has disgraced his office, id is responsible for police corruption @ the spread of vice and crime. has been Mayor of this city for four o ce the office than any 4.4. In his officia: chair he vulgar buffoon. . Justice Gaynor to be | VAN Wyck BEPLIES: boon THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, CHARGES MADE AGAINST a a BTN 8 3 NOVEMBER 2, 1901. _ “FOR MY OWN POCKETS ALL TH matter the ob- by tex asked If he had been practically stealing tn the Of fee, le permitted his lawyer to interjoxe might dneriminate timself he for the t branded by ly untit, asks for a te Tim to the 5 poltee sorrow by the munteipal administration prestd by Robert A. Van Week, It seems ty meat tm I-cannot understand how we have stood tt II, Mayor Van Wyck has accumulated wealth dishonestly during his four years in office through his associations with the gamblers’ syndicate. head of ‘Tammany Hall tled Van Wyek cand all of th nd out by means of ot tt fe head of the ap you ki: ey Ker ns being at a uohay Devery and V. ¢ five ‘again, 1 say eo thing, but 1 nam ‘ol, Sexton. D. , rp advinedly, f_clean and honest administration WIL Mr. Shepard answer that n't he tell us Where those fellows NO MAYOR OF THIS CITY, EVEN IF HE WE S FROM HOLLAND, EVER WHILE HE WAS IN DEVERY. WILLIAM TRAVERS JEROME, Fusion Candidate bs. for District-Attorney, 1AM JUSTICE JEROME CHARGES THAT: I. The police force is an vrganized gang ot black mailers, growing rieh by black- mailing unfortunate women, divekeep- rating the demoral- hown that tt ts tim. ts for felonies where per- are able to and do xecute warra arrest Is nou: Kons Whose bay Tae pollee foren ts groving rich from tribute 1 unfortunate 1 larke saloons t an pay an $80 Heonse, Vives that rit are allowed to . laws vks and the po- do thelr duty is an organ- knows It. et ou omMclals w! fit and wate felonies lzed gang of blackmatle Il. That the police are in league with the gamblers aud other violators of the law to defeat the ends ot justice. Things have reached such a polnt that not only the palles captain fuperiors inthe nay of Mur an agent of t atock society, \ vr ani everybody are rect 1 should nily would ) Who was t ghar with a draw est him unless i ad waked we have raided tn gambling this clty have been found to evidence in iny posse carried the tip squad that rald t Police Btation. Devery has proven that ymarket Just co from the IU, That grown through his associations with Frank Farrell, the head of the gambling syn- dicate, and is otherwise unfit to be the head ot the Police Department, wealthy men tog, I, the hea I name those five men to- ther—Carroll, Sexton, of the gambling syn- brutal rutfian Devery get his ere he Kot It, and if Tam elected ar to taking the public Into my con- ce and lettin them know where he # it. William 8. Devery never bought or leased, or what- aver han happened (o It, the house that he now lives in and which Frank Farrell does or did own. He never was able to live in the style he does in that house out of the money that he, saved from hie exlary, Devery is a coward. Ho sits in the trial court and strikes at @ man who is bound and who cannot reply, ch | Carroll, | MADE | 5. DPVERY THE POLICE, DEVERY Deputy Commissioner WILL- AND REPLIES; "tC golng them running here, Tmite Moses nd the f the Red District are all” hi ers Jerome ts natle; he's rhinoes a not minutes of feteh him the bar of justice, ri when snowed Jerome ou, be in a asylum, de w York. 7 too many un soldiers around of €1t- ery one all . Ty take sine him. by. the the neck they udge Jerome to rule There of Jerome, the a tue Uke a ros An. ould ten kee ck and before vo Chiet are under, ht to lunatic veverey TIME.” “UNGER GUILTY OF MANY CROOKED ACTS,” JEROME SAYS. Fusion Candidate Charges His Rival Was Named for the Otfice of District-Attor- ney by the Gambling Syndicate. ‘ACCUSED BY CITY CLUB IN THIRD AVENUE CASE. Justice, WILLIAM TRAVERS HENRY W. UNGER, Tam- JEROME, Fusion Candidate US. many Candidate for Dis- for Diztrict-Attorney, trict-Attorney. JUSTICE JEROME CHARGES THAT: UNGER REPLIES: Henry W. Unger \ named for District- ettorsey by t gamblers’ syndicate sand that while he was an Assistant Dis- trict: Attorney he was guilty of many “crooked” acts, Tlenry W. Unger was named for District-Attorney ‘amimany t ‘rank Farrell and other ‘To intimate that the honor of this nomination (Tam- many's nomin tion for Distric Attorney) was de- rivable ‘from any fourco but the up- right and Incor- ruptlble electorate of our party Is an {nault to your t Were crooked, o elty of character, to m: the pa i eosored by | antecedents and Inger? Ifhe to the public in- Ne because telligence. ‘hat prolonged experience with I get tired Mst- ening to the fool- fh yelping of a mad cur, crooks 1 to the conclusion that the key to the whole situation Hes tn the office of the District- y of thin county. Think Avenue Railroad was looted, did jue individual, Asa Hird Gardiner," at- tempt to find out where thoso millions went? That trail led to a place where no man yet has been brave tt. un makes amd Jury refused to King the Third Unger went Into the Grand Jury r Itation with ex-Judge MoMahon, "The City y calla attention to the fact, also, ¢! Mr. Unger was counsel for Wardman Bissert, and also asaerta that while Asnistant District-Attorney he had enough to follow Haxe I went tnto the Bissert case to help out a brother lawyer, Mr. House hi been taken many pool-room indictments dismisacd. i. Fe a st Dt OD t “SHEPARD WILL WIN, F IS CROKER'S REPLY. + Proofs of the "Facts on Record” herewith presented were submitted to Richard Croker. After looking them over ho sald: early every newspaper in the ists, ‘The newspapers print tn full party and Democratic officials and take very Ifttle notice of what {s sald in reply. “The people, however, understand that the newspapers are one-sided in this fight. Viclous, uncalled-for and unwarranted attacks on candidates mpathy for them. In 1857 the attacks on Col. John R. Fellows, who was running for District-Attorney against @ fusion candidate, helped to elect him. “There have been more campaign Mes told and published during this campaign than In any campaign fn the history of the city, and the Demo- cratic party has been forced to refute them by the cireulation of literature. Wo hnve kept printing presses busy, and we think we have reached the voters. a “Tammany Hall has conducted a fair fight against falee witnesses, and tts candidates and speakers have not been forced to retract statements, We expect to have all kinds of charges hurled at the regular Democracy between now and election day. “However, Shepard and the entire Democratic ¢icket will be triumph- antly elected.” -Met Only by Silence, Ridicule or Abuse---The Facts on Record as Developed by Courts and Grand Juries. FACTS ON RECORD Against ROBERT A. VAN WYCK, Mayor, and Tammany Candidate for Supreme Court Justice. “Conspicuously Unfit.”— sw York Bar Association. } 4|IN THE GAMBLING SYNDICATE? Goa helg the clty, oC New ork. i win ininieleeinieieicieieiniebini-Hitisinin be nleleinininininininlninininininfelminielolefeiods | VAN WYCK WON'T DISCUSS THEM. { G ) a A copy of the “facts on record” herewith presented was taken to Mayor Van Wyck’s ‘home, but he refused even to look at them or discuss them. feb bine bielieiebieieiebiebiebeeteies leltntelefeleteleieiefelebsinleletetefetep | WHERE DID HE GET ITP . When Robert A. Van Wyck became Mayor on Jan.°i, 2898, 2! wealth was estimated to be $100,000. ent Ss He {8 now reported to be worth $},500,000. 4 e As Mayor he has received In sala-e during oN of or $15,000 a year, w ‘ents INVOLVED IN ICE SCANDAL. n Tee Compan a ample © Pa : Morse, In{t a scheme yi . was raised at one jump in the beginhing of the hot mer of 190 from 3 cents for 10) pounds to w cents ~ -flost The Ice Trust discontinued the s Ice of G-cent plecen in tho tenement ait fit tricts, making the minimum for even che poorest familles.'10-cent pieces. tints Mayor Van Wyck, by his own adrgiasion, got 5,000 shares ‘e t rock bottom price: MONOPOLIZED CITY DOCKS. _ ax | ( With Mayor Van Wyck in the “good thing’ Mr. Morse told him of were his : brother, Judge Augustus Van Wyck, John F. Carroll, Dock Commisstoners Cram ff and Murphy, and Commixstoner of Buildings Kearny, ‘The Ice Trust by getting a monopoly of the available city docks, controlled the ice business during the summer of 1%, Soon after the organization of the trust contracts were made on behalf of the clty by Commissioner Kearny for the fev supplies used In all of the departments and public institutions. GAVE THE CRIMINAL’S EXCUSE. On May 26, 1900, when The World first invoked the anti-Tweed law to uncover the Mayor's relations with the Ice Trust Mayor Van Wyck resorted to the legal privilege known as “the criminal's excuse,” pleating that to answer “might in- eriminate and degrade" him. Later, forced to answer under @ ruling of the court, Mayor Van Wyck ade mitted that: He had after the Ie got 5, notes for th ic mtod’ PH per cont on his notes and received 19 per cent. dividends on bis IGNORANCE HIS PLEA. The Mayor, in answer to questions, di That when he bought the Ice sto going to do businees in New ate tn other eltles. agreed with Char! w. nereed (ertniOn ‘les Morse to buy the stock about a month “0 whares at “rock-bottom prices," giving a check for $50,000 and _ 0, he did rat know the Ice Trust was York City: he supposed that it was golng to opere ‘That ho did not know of dock leases it had with the city. That he did not know that it had contracts to furnish fce to city depart. ments and institutions, ; ‘That he did not know st meant to raise the price to 6 cents per hundred { pounds, That he did not know that Dock Commissioners Cram and Murphy and other city oMclals were stockholders In the Ice Trust. if | CHARGED WITH MALFEASANCE. Sworn charges by citizens against Mayor Van Wyck were filed with Gov. Roosevelt, and his removal asked for on the ground that he was guiltyg? ¢ of malfeasance in office In béing a stockholder in a company which had cor: tracts with the city. nin Tie Maver was ven two months to answer, and in the interim sold ou cai stoc ‘ wee ; Hed ‘9! Hig sora reply to the Governor pre After a long delay. the charges were dismissed by. the Governoi ground that there Was not sufliclent legal proof. > vit FATHERED RAMAPO GRAB. The Ramapo W: per concern, with no reservoirs or pipe | steal th = tract with the elty. ponen | a/con, sident Holohan, of the Board o: ic romolution providing for we great robbers, sald on Auee ITT reed i MAVOR VAN WYCK ADVISED US TO MAKE THE CONTRACT, AND & j AM SURE WE OUGHT TO Do IT.” re aoe influential bodies to iill the Ramapo Grab jo part. jen one vote would have settled the matter, Mayor Van from the meeting of the Board of Public Improvements. SIONSOR FOR CHIEF DEVERY. Mayor Van Wyck appointed Col. Michael C. Murphy Poltce Commissioner, Feb, 22 bol, a few hours after Gov, Odell had alened the Single-flead Police Bill, Col. Murphy a few minutes later appointed William S$. Devery, against whom {he pill wax almed, Firat Deputy Commissioner of Police, making him the actual « force, rt Van Wyck eaid of Devery at the time the Red Light scandal was “DEVERY 18 THE BEST CHIEF OF POLICE NEW YORK EVER HAD.” When the Merchants’ Association @ month ago demanded Devery's re- moval for persecuting policemen, Mayor Van Wyck dismissed the complaint without Investigation. + Company, scarcely more than a , in August, 1899, planned a $200,000, layor Van Wy: May ered the charge that he fe Inte: with Frank Farrell and Chief Devery tn t gambling combine, reas Frank Mo! nly la inesday night mac TEC: (To-day, Mayor Van Wyck is worth $1,600,000. here did he get it? I aay that Van Wyck is interested {n the protection of the pool-rooms. I defy hi! to take action against me for slander, and 1 know what I am doing when make this charge.” PERMITTED GARBAGE STEAL. Mayor Van Wyck tn July last railroaded through the Board contract for the disposal of the city’s garbage that will cause a net Tone tothe taxpayers of $701,000. e The contract forces the city to pay $232,000 yearly for five years or §1,160,000 Company, a corporation alleged to con- in all to the Sanitary Utilization trolled by politicians. The rate fixed in the new contract is nearly three times that which the elty has paid for similar work in the paat. INDIFFERENT TO EAST SIDE VICE. Bishop Potter in an extraomiinary letter to Mayor Van Wyck tn RO tend never an le this chi 000, Wh last described the sickening conditions existing on the east side, the debau: of the children of tho poor through the connivance of the police with vice. it haa flect on the Mayor as far as removing the noxious condie tions complained of. . ALLOWED ASPHALT EXTORTION. Gen. C. H. T. Collis on Oot. 2 last in a letter to Mayor Van Wyck sharma” hee with being directly responsible for paying exorbitant rates tor asphalt pavii A squaro yard more than was paid during the’Strong Administration, “CONSPICUOUSLY UNFIT.” sociation at @ recent meeting called to consider the the judtelne pemmdidates in the present campaign for the places were nominated, adopted a@ resolution by a vote of 225 to 6 dectarin, A. Van Wyck was “conspicuously unfit” for service on the bench o! Court. VAN WYCK’S ONLY ANSWER A RAP AT LOW’S FINANCING. Mayor Van Wyck, after the nomination of Seth Low, at a meeting of the Board of Estimate on Oct. 1, when Edward M. Shepard and Edward Lauterbach asked for an increase in the appropriation for the College of the City of New York, asked: ‘Would you like to bave us entangl: o finances of New York City as those of Columbia College have been entangled?’ In his letter of acceptance, on Oct. 15, he sald: ‘You can rest assured that the Democratic peopie of this great city will not be decelyed by this insincere land dishonest twaddle of the Republican candidates,” Fe 7) ‘At a meeting of the Board of Estimate, Oct. 16, he sald: “I always get what I wast in politics. I never fall at the polls. My success will continue, If they, ever elect a Republican Mayor and ha' Republican Legisiature os eeenee wualifigations of \ ser aree Tiobert 1 the Supreme