EAST SIDE DEMOCRATS FLOCKING TO HARDING

New York Herald, New York, 1920-10-18, p.2

Summary

Sub-head: "G.O.P. Opens More Branches to Accommodate Them." Two weeks before the November 1920 presidential election. The Democrats of New York are rushing to the support of Senator Harding and Gov. Coolidge in such numbers that the Harding Democratic League (organized to accommodate them) has been compelled to open more branch offices, per Rhinelander Waldo (league president). Latest branch is for the East Siders, at 1568 Second avenue, in the charge of **Samuel Baum**, a silk merchant of 225 Fifth avenue, "for fifteen years a lieutenant of **Charles F. Murphy, boss of Tammany Hall**." East Side campaign committee: Rabbi M. Taubenhaus, Mark L. Abrahams, Aladar Brown, Dr. Morris Schwartz, Joseph Teitelbaum, Marcus Landau, Jack Wildfeuer, Bernath Klein, Marcus Weiss, Rabbi Sol Brum of Temple Beth Israel. ARCHIVE SIGNIFICANCE. **No Murphy-family content** — but the Charles F. Murphy / Tammany Hall name appears in the body of the article. Charles F. Murphy was the legendary New York Democratic boss 1902-1924; not related to the user's Murphy line (different geographic and ethnic-political milieu). Useful as a 1920 national-political-context document. The defection of Jewish East Side immigrant Democrats from Wilson's Democratic Party to Harding's Republicans in 1920 is a documented historical moment (driven partly by post-WW1 disillusionment with Wilson, partly by Tammany factional splits). This clipping captures a specific slice — silk merchant Samuel Baum, the East Side rabbinical and business establishment. The user filed this under the JJM/Butte cluster, presumably for context on the 1920 national political climate that Butte's Irish-American Democrats were navigating. Same election year as the JJM Irish-bond-drive coverage and the Murphy-Softley March 1920 founding.

Also mentioned

Senator Harding · 1920_gop_presidential_nominee
Warren G. Harding (R-Ohio); won 1920 presidential election.
Gov. Coolidge · 1920_gop_vp_nominee
Calvin Coolidge (R-Massachusetts), the 1920 Republican VP nominee; later 30th president.
Rhinelander Waldo · harding_democratic_league_president
Samuel Baum · east_side_harding_dem_league_branch_chief
Silk merchant of 225 Fifth avenue. 15-year Tammany Hall lieutenant of Charles F. Murphy.
Charles F. Murphy · boss_of_tammany_hall_referenced
NATIONAL CONTEXT NAME ONLY — Charles Francis Murphy (1858-1924), longtime boss of Tammany Hall. Not related to the user's Murphy line. Captured here because the article refers to him as the institutional anchor of the East Side political world Samuel Baum operated in.
Rabbi M. Taubenhaus · east_side_campaign_committee
Mark L. Abrahams · east_side_campaign_committee
Aladar Brown · east_side_campaign_committee
Dr. Morris Schwartz · east_side_campaign_committee
Joseph Teitelbaum · east_side_campaign_committee
Marcus Landau · east_side_campaign_committee
Jack Wildfeuer · east_side_campaign_committee
Bernath Klein · east_side_campaign_committee
Marcus Weiss · east_side_campaign_committee
Rabbi Sol Brum · east_side_campaign_committee_temple_beth_israel

Themes

municipal_politics

Source type

news_item

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Transcription

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# EAST SIDE DEMOCRATS FLOCKING TO HARDING ## G.O.P. Opens More Branches to Accommodate Them. *The New York Herald, Monday, October 18, 1920, p. 2.* The Democrats of New York are rushing to the support of Senator Harding and Gov. Coolidge in such numbers that the Harding Democratic League, which was organized especially to accommodate them, has been compelled to open more branch offices, according to Rhinelander Waldo, president of the league. The latest branch is for the East Siders and has been established in 1568 Second avenue, in the charge of Samuel Baum, a silk merchant of 225 Fifth avenue, for fifteen years a lieutenant of Charles F. Murphy, boss of Tammany Hall. An East Side campaign committee has been organized to assist Mr. Baum, including Rabbi M. Taubenhaus, Mark L. Abrahams, Aladar Brown, Dr. Morris Schwartz, Joseph Teitelbaum, Marcus Landau, Jack Wildfeuer, Bernath Klein, Marcus Weiss and Rabbi Sol Brum of Temple Beth Israel.

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