The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-07-14
THE MAYORS PREDICAMENF.
The Answer to Governor Dix's Let
ter To BE Ready This Week.
THE MAYORS SIDE OF the QUESTION.
The Politicians and Their Speoula-
tions as to the Final Result.

The Politicians and Their Speoula-
tions as to the Final Result.
The Governors invitation extended to Mr.. Have
meyer on Saturday to send him gooa long letter
| about the way he has been carrying out the work
OF reform" lately has apparently robbed the case
OF the funny old man OF much that had been up TO
that time but speculation among the politicians and
| mas brought the discussion by them OF the Mayors
official virtue down to solid facts. The great ques-
! tton up to Saturday had been, Would the Governor
take any notice OF the charges whatever9 The
mayors friends, whose wish was OF course father
to the thought contended stoutly that he would
not; the Mayors prosecutors and those VINO be-
lieved as they did asserted that the charges were
OF such character that he was IN duty bound to
move in the matter ana that speedily
NOW that the Governor has moved, 1t
can be readily understood that the quid-
nuncs on both sides of the house, so TO
speak, have been reduced to discussing the simple
question OF the probable removal OF the Mayor.
For some reason or other best known to them.
selves the Tammany pe0ple-that Is. those who
have been actively engaged IN the fight against
Gardner and Cnarlick and since their reappoint-
ment and final designations In the campaign
against the Mayor himseli-contend that the Gov
ernor's first move is q sure indication that he has
been not only profoundly impressed with the Sc
rious character Of the charges, but that 1t Is
sort Of fOrerunner unmistakable OF his determine
ton TO remove the Mayor. This view OF the mat
ter 1t needs no argument to make plain to any
body who Is at all acquainted with the law touch
ing removals Of snerltrs (Which is the law appi-
cable to the removal of the Mayor Is rather
Ridiculous for the Governor could not do other
wise than he has done, no matter what his opinion
may be as to the ''probable removal" OF the Mayor
The letter is mere form and by no means an In
dcation OF any thing that may follow, good or bad.
On the other hand, it Is equally absurd to argue,
as some of the politicians are arguing, that the
Mayor Is not
OBLIGED TO MAKE REPLY
He Is bound to answer, and upon the answer
Governor; for II 1t covers all the points IN the
case and shows beyond doubt that the charges
Bn ~ @ f1 aes the
answer satisfactory an investigation will be
ordered, either before commission or Judge OF
| the Court OF Common Pleas, the Attorney General
to conduct the INJURY:
the Mayor yesterday had long consultation
with his legal advisers In relation 10 the answer he
is to make, but nothing as TO the conclusion ar
rived at was dlvulged. 1t was rumoured that tue
denial OF Of the Charges s sss in
the FIRST place, =. and in the second
place, an "a, argument showing that the movement
therefore, which the Governor was In duty bound,
as an impartial Judge, to discountenance. 1t was
ation to the reappointmeEt OF Gardner and Char.
lick would be that he was legally justified IN re.
not as he had SIMPLY o
lowed the advice OF the Corporation Counsel. In
other words he Will contend that, had the opinion
stated that he had no right to reappolnt them, he
would have abided by the decision. AS to the
charges that he refused to proceed against The
Police Board, after the resolutions denouncng
them and calling upon him to investigate their
conduct had passed the Board of Aldermen, he viii,
say some his friends, argue that he was right
| charges
preferred against them and submitted to him;
the Board Afforded him no more justihcatIon 70 70
institute an investigation into their conduct than
in wou JUSTIFY the
in calling upon the Mayor for an explanation.
OFFICIAL ACCUSATIONS,
based upon specific charges could alone justify
either In acting officially 1t IS butJust to say that
the Mayor himself Yesterday, did not. when
was called to wnat some Of his friends asserted
would pc De-, the strong part Of his answer, indorse
himself what hls answer would be In the
main. He contented himself by saying that
to study up, the points Of the case 81 am IN no
very great hurry about the mattel" SAID he,
take some time yet to get II up, but you know the
world was not made in day. or course 1t will be
dallying over it, aud yet there Will be hurry.m
1t is said that the answer Will really be ready by
Thursday next at the latest and that the Mayor,
in pretending that there Is to be hurry about it,
simply wants to mlsead people, as usual, and then
give them another SURPRISE after his usual style,
when people the least expect 1t. Nevertheless,
the politicians are under the impression that
letter, but, as they know somewhat less about the
matter than the Mayor himself their specuiations
can be taken for what they are WORTH winch is
simply nothing at all II the question Of the an
swer was not very entertaining theme lor
them there was yet another which. TO certain ex
tent was part and parcel OF the offence for which
Gardner and Cbarlick were
OvERHAULED BY TAMMANY.
twas the rumored action taken To have little eX
Commissioner davenport removed from office for
having meddled with election officers last Novem-
Der in way that was not strictly legal reporter
| OF the HERALD, who met the little man yesterday
had heard OF any charges having been preferred
against him was through the newspapers. He had,
he said, teegraphed to Judge Woodrut, before
AND who IS "i now at his sAu country seat
at Fairfield, Conn.,, asking him whether
charges had really been preferred against MIN,
himself as utterly indifferent as to whether
charges had been preferred against him not;
but he IS indifferent IL is rather strange that he
should have gone TO the trouble, the moment he
heard that such had been preferred, TO tele-
graph to the Judge about the matter. Still he
may have done so simply to oblige his political
| friends IN the custom House, who are more anX
i0us than he is himself to know whether not he
IS to follow in the footsteps OF Gardner The DEM
ocrats were very juolant over the idea That
ing, and not few claimed that enough
OF evidence OF fraud at elections could
be brought against him to induce Jury. with
man, much less Davenport himself. The friends OF
'Johnny" claimed that If he has been proceeded
II this be so, 1t is quite possible that John Kelly
and other Wigwamtes became convinced. during
the trial OF Gardner and CharllcS, in which Daven-
| port was q OF fourth assistant counsel, tnat
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