TAMMANY IN WAX.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 638, 15 October 1909, Page 7

TAMMANY IN WAX.

CHAMBER OF HORRORS. HOW W, R. HEARST FIGHTS A CAMPAIGN NEW YORK MAYORALTY. . (By Tclegraph.-PrcßS ABsoclatlon.-CopyrlghU ■ , (Rec. October 14, 9.30 p.m.) New York,.October 11. The campaign for thp Mayoralty, • in- succession to Mr. 0. H. M'Olellan; is causing great «cit(ment in Now York. Mr. Justico Gaynor —despito the fact that until lately he had denounced the evils of Tammany Hall—has accepted Tammany's nomination.;

Mr. W. It. Hearst, the millionaire nowepapcr proprietor, is anti-Tammany. Hβ is exhibiting a waxworks, with a chamber of horrors,,' showing Tammany bribing judges and protecting disorderly tfomen and criminals.! ;

[Tho. anti-Tammany candidate,. Otto T. Bannard, who is president of the New York Trust, ft. company with a capital of .3,000,000 dollars, i 3 well knowii in'financial circles, but as yet has not taken a prominent part in political affairs.. William Jay Gayuor, the Tammany nominee, was born in tho State of New York in 1851,. and after, engaging in journalism was admitted to the bar, where his rise wad rapid. He gained a national reputation for hie work in breakiiigup ' rings within , the Democratic party, and'lris action in 6eouring.the conviction of John Y. Kane for sleetion frauds. Ho is a Judge of the appellate division of the Supreme Court, and is a Democrat in politics. It is of interest to Uoto that ho was one of the first to bogin the crusade against favouritism in freight rates, an abuso of tho American commercial 'system which bed assumed serious proportions.] . •.. . . : ■ ' .. .