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...York, Incumbent Florello H. LaGuardia was returned to office as mayor. Democrat, Jeremiah T. Mahoney conceded the election at 10 o'clock last night...
...most amazing statements put out in the current political campaign in New York City is the assertion by Judge Mahoney that Mayor LaGuardia has destroyed the morale of the Police Department and allowed the administration of justice to sink to a low ebb. Aside from the fact that it is amusing to hear a Tammany candidate crying out for justice over privilege, and honesty over corruption, this statement focuses serious attention on the District Attorney's office, for it is there that the enforcement of all laws in the City begins. And it is there, where a lone Tammany stalwart...
Thus the Democratic opposition this fall has at best been half-hearted and disorganized. In the primaries Tammany Hall committed the political blunder of putting up Senator Copeland on an anti- New Deal platform and was soundly trounced for its trouble by Mahoney, the hand picked Farley candidate from the Bronx, so that even should the Democratic team come out ahead, it would be a sorry victory for the boys from Union Square...
Fortunately for the whole community, however, Judge Mahoney has been unable to advance a single valid reason why the incumbent Fusion administration should be turned out of office. Vainly searching for an issue, he has charged La Guardia with extravagance, with mismanaging the City's finances, with undertaking "expensive and disastrous" housing projects, with driving businesses from the city, with demoralizing the police, and finally with communion, spiritual and actual, with Communist Russia. In the face of the Fusion record it is hard to see how a normally intelligent man, a justice of the Supreme Court as Mahoney...
This is the record of the man whom Mr. Mahoney asks the electorate to turn out of office on the grounds that he is a Red. Mr. Mahoney fancies himself in the role of a new Messiah, a saviour of the city; he has promised, in his own words, "to save society." And to this Judge Seabury counters that he wants to save it "from the best mayor the city has ever had," and to save it for "that line old Columbian order . . . that certainly . . . believes that charity begins at home...