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...call to decide for your city between John F. Hylan, clean and honest servant of your interest and yours alone, whose record of deeds contains no blemish, and "Little Jimmie Walker, slick and pliant politician, Broadway butterfly; advocate in public of mothers' pensions and paid in private for easing the sale of putrid and dis- eased meat to those mothers...
...Mayor Hylan has succeeded in so humiliating Walker during the comparatively short period the primary campaign has been under way that the prospect of his ever surviving another six weeks of excoriationtion is entirely remote...
...John F. Hylan 155,000 votes...
...Hylan announced that he was "happy." Mr. Hearst ran his picture with that word over it. "Mayor Hylan was the victim of as brutal a bludgeoning as modern politics ever devised. Way back last winter the plans for it were laid in the inner councils of Wall Street." The Mayor let it be known after a conference with Hearst representatives that he would not run on an independent ticket in the coming election?...
...York Times: "Mayor Hylan was originally a Yellow Hero created by the Yellow Press. He has openly appealed to the basest motives. But now the idol goes down together with its builder in political ruin. New York may breathe more easily this morning. It has got rid of a vulgar and debasing tyranny...