La Guardia or the Tiger?

La Guardia or the Tiger?

How to beat Tammany's bumbling Mayor John Patrick O'Brien in next November's elections? That is the question that has plagued every good Republican and every anti-Tammany man for months & months. Their only chance. they all knew, lay in fusion. Republican Charles Seymour Whitman, New York State's onetime Governor, backed Major General John F. O'Ryan, a political non-entity but a Democrat. Tammany's ablest foe, Democrat Samuel Seabury who drove one Tammany mayor into voluntary exile, would have none of General O'Ryan. Last week after weeks of bickering the Fusionists finally agreed on a candidate for the nation's No. 3 elective office. No neophyte in Manhattan's politics, Fiorello (Little Flower) Henry La Guardia was President of the Board of Aldermen 13 years ago, was the fiery little Republican candidate whom Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker defeated in 1929. But in the campaign he charged Tammany with most of the honeyfuggling which Samuel Seabury later proved in his famed probe. Last Autumn Mr. La Guardia, a radical Republican, failed to be re-elected to Congress. As a deft counterthrust Tammany promptly began to talk of running Ferdinand Pecora as the Tiger's candidate for district attorney. Smart counsel to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee and a Sicilian immigrant, Democrat Pecora would split the Italian vote which Italian-extracted Fiorello La Guardia would naturally draw.

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