Ferdinand Q. Morton Opens Campaign with Rousing Speech at the Progressive Democratic Club

"A deafening roar of approbation from a sweltering, suffocating crowd at the biggest mid-July political rally ever staged in Harlem marked the finish, Monday night, of the initial campaign by Ferdinand Q. Morton, civil service commissioner, in behalf of his candidacy to succeed the present white Democratic boss of the Nineteenth Assembly District, Martin J. Healy. Speaking at the Progressive Democratic Club, 216 W 122d street, the commissioner, Tammany's spokesman on Negro political matters in Harlem for many years, was greeted by a ten-minute salve of applause at the outset of his three-minute talk"