NEW YORK’S MAYOR

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 40, 10 November 1921, Page 5

NEW YORK’S MAYOR

MR HYLAND RE-ELECTED IN SPITE OF STRENUOUS OPPOSITION. (Rec. November 9, 8.15 p.m.) New York, November 8. Despite strenuous opposition by nearly all the newspapers, Mr. Hylan has been re-elected Mayor of New York by an overwhelming plurality of iOO.OOOy the largest ever obtained for the city’s Mayor.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [A New York message dated September 22 stated: "One of the strangest fights in the history of the city is ocearring between the newspapers and the Mayor, Mr. Hylan, nine of the eleven chief morning and afternoon newspapers attacking the Mayor bitterly. They point out that the city’s 'budget of 400 million dollars is due to incompetency; that 900,000 school children are housed in buildings which are fire-traps, and many thousands are without seats; that the Market Commissioner has accepted large graft sums; that the police aro inefficient; that robberies, holds-up, and murders aro occurring in large numbers, tho police catching few offenders, but 'clubbing innocent citizens, and recently charging into a group of old women who were attempting to distribute food to the unemployed. A State Legislative Commission is investigating the city’s administration, revealing countless extravagances, thefts, malpractices, and absurdities which the. newspapers are ridiculing and denouncing. In the face of the greatest crime wave in New York’s history, Mr. Hylan and the appointee of the Folice Commissioner, Mr. Enright, issued. statements that the number of crimes was extremely low, most of them being imaginations of the newspapers. Mr. Hylan capped tho climax by issuing a formal proclamation urging business men, merchants, and shopkeepers to withdraw all advertisements from hate-crazed newspapers who 'branded New York as a world s paradise for criminals, thereby attracting an undesirable element rather than peaceful visitors who would spend money here. 'Mr. Hylan was recently nominated tor Mayor for a second term on the Democratic ticket. Newspapers, both Democratic and Republican, have combined to work for tho nomination of Mr. Henry Curran, tho Coalition’s candidate.]