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Show Roosevelt - La Gaardia Confab Worries Tammany ' ; : : ' : : . : : - ' ; . . FUSION MAYOR, Subjects to Be Considered Con-sidered Are Not Announced NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (AP) President Roosevelt's conference confer-ence today with Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, fresh from a decisive de-cisive triumph over Tammany Hall, aroused new apprehension in the city's already disorganized disorgan-ized Democratic machine. The subjects to be discussed In the president's town house here were not announced, but In the past both men have moved In virtually vir-tually the same liberal path. Mr. Roosevelt arrived at New York from Hyde Park this afternoon. While Mr. Roosevelt stood aside . In the campaign for Tuesday's election, elec-tion, he waited only for early returns re-turns before personally telephoning his congratulations to the mayor, one of Tammany's most rigorous foes. Forte New Lineup Some Informed quartan. foresaw In the uncoriventional meeting of the titular head of the Democratic party and the Fuaion-Republican- American Labor party mayor a possible pos-sible wedge to bresk up traditional party lineups in the city. The president presi-dent and Tammany never have been verly friendly. Then, too. the American Labor party, a decisive factor In the mayor's may-or's victory, was shoved again to th; fore by a telegram from the head of the organisation pledging ' new allegiance to Mr. Roosevelt The Labor party polled more than 100,000 votes for the president In the 1936 national election and made certain LaGuardia's reelection by giving him some 450.000 votes in the municipal election. Tammany Desperate ?, Particularly disturbed about the I i postelection situation was Tammany k Itself, which found in a full survey I of election results that it position I was desperate. V The sweep on the fusion ticket saw f lesser officeholders of Tammany f. affiliation wiped out as their leaders n.1 went down to defeat. Besides the defeat of Jeremiah T. il Mahoney for mayor and of Harold X W. Hastings for New York county I district attorney by Thomas E. I Dewey, special rackets prosecutor. ft i Tammany and Its allies lost the con- , trollership. presidency of the coun-I coun-I eil, a borough president, ten assem-I assem-I blymen, two city court judges, seven V municipal court judges and other 'V offices. , Another significant after-cam-'1 psign development was the resig-(j resig-(j nation of Charles A. Schneider as II assistant attorney general of New I York state. Schneider, a Tammany I) leader, was attacked sharply during f the campaign by Dewey. (,J' Calls Charge False S Schneider, accused by Dewey of I accepting fees from racketeers for I ' defending a man charged with mur-I mur-I der in a 1834 labor war. said in his I resignation he did not want the J stun -sullied" by the "false-charges. "false-charges. f Yesterday Mayor LaGuardia pre-I pre-I dieted the "doom forever" of New .' York City machine government, ' adding: i i "Four years ago a nonpartisan f tionpolitical government in New L York City was a sort of experiment. but we have demonstrated that it is I I possible and also desirable." 1 1 He was speaking of machine poll-1 poll-1 . tics of Tammany Hall, defeated twice in a row by "reform candi-I candi-I dates." and which was -staggered by I' the blow dealt by voters In spits of U pless for Mahoney by Postmaster ill General James A. Farley, Governor f Herbert H. Lehman and other Dem-" Dem-" ocraatie leaders. Today, all Tammany had to say was to echo Christopher Sullivan, . its leader: "We face the future cheerfully and look forward to glorious victories vic-tories in 183 and the years to come." . |