Show WANAIY1AKER CALLED DOWN Philadelphia Mayor Defends Himself Him-self from Newspaper Attack Philadelphia May 2John Wan amakor having given out a slale ment In which he accused Abraham L English director of public safely of devising for use against him an Insidious In-sidious and terrorizing form of blackmail black-mail because at the meeting between I them yesterday he would not guarantee guaran-tee that the newspaper owned by his 1 son Thomas B Wanainaker would cease to print editorial criticism of Mayor Ashbrldge and the city administration f admin-istration Mayor Ashbrldge today authorized au-thorized the publication of the following follow-ing statement In relation to John Wanamakcrs letter published in this mornings papers pa-pers concerning Director Englishs i Interview with him on Thursday I i have to say that Mr Englishs call on Mr Vanamakcr was in no manner whatsoever as a publlo olilclal but to I call Mr AVannmakers attention to the I numerous vindictive and malicious personal I per-sonal articles published In Ills newspaper news-paper and to Insist upon a cessation of personal attacks which invaded the sanctity of our famlles I do not believe that any selfre specting man would do loss than protect pro-tect himself and his family against such vile nnd unjustifiable abuse as has been appearing Sn Mr Wanamak ers paper for nearly a year past concerning con-cerning Mr Erjjllsh and myself No one deprecates more than I do the practice now in voguo of denominated denom-inated manhunting but I would submit sub-mit to the Judgment of the public whether It Is I not the privilege and right of even man to defend himself I and his family from such calumnies and slanders l as have been appearing I In Mr AVanamukers paper for months I past concerning Mr English and myself my-self Both Mr English and Mr Plerlo have advised me that many of the ntatemenls contained In Mr Wanamnlc crH letter are exaggerated and untruthful un-truthful being Ingeniously written to r divert attention from himself and to I attack Mr English and me No one l knows this Better than Mr Wnn t amakcr I J14 < i |