New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-07
MA OR HEJVITTS ASPIRATIONS.
PLANS THAT HE CANNOT CARRY OUT.
HE WOULD LIKE TO HELP THE POOR. BUT HE is
NOT A CANDIDATE

HE WOULD LIKE TO HELP THE POOR, BUT HE is
NOT A CANDIDATE
Mayor Hewitt came back TO the city yesterday after
having passed Sunday at Ringwood TriDune IT,
porter called his attention to the newspaper sta'e'
mens regarding his candidacy for reelection, and
asked him II II was fact that no was to DO con-
sidered in the race for second term
"You want to know Dlr. Hewitt answered, III
am a candidate or not. wcll am not I don't
want TO DO Mayor don't expect to be Mayor. ]
shall not be Mayor again II can help It. But IL
Will be timo enough to decline nomination when u
has boon rendered TO me. So FAR no one mas as"u
me-no l won't say that, because indlviduas nave
been TO see me about IT, but no political organization
has asked mo be its candidate and IL VIII 10 timc
enough for mo to say what VIII do when the occa
sion arises. will say this, however; have felt
and do feel that II were strong enough would
like to be Mayor for two years more to finish up tho
business that has been started during my term Thco
are several things that would like to see done that
there is not time for this year. have nearly hvo
months left, but there is great deal to do ana am
going to finish many things as can and start a.
many more good things as possible In that time.
"Take the small parks for instance. DURING my
term we have started the Mulberry Park, Corlears
Hook Park and the extension Of the East River PARK
THAT'S three | want to get five more OF these
small parks and If tho Board OF Health ard the De
partment OF Parks will assist INC / mean TO have
eight of these parks started and under way this year
We are not limited TO number, you know although
we can expcnd but 81, 600, 900 year, and If the
Board of street Opening will stay by me-they may
not have the courage-I will have at least eight OF
those much-needed parks for the poor started before
nv term expires. / believe in small parks and /
believe I'm taxing rich people to pay Tor them. lheo
small parks are a necessity Everywhere you 60 in
the CITY, wherever thero Is little puddle from the
bursting of water pipe or any other cause you VIII
see the children hockng around it with their paddles
and sticks 1t is cry Of nature. These parks
should supply a play ground for the children
Another thing II were to remain In this Office
pwo wears more think could convince the working
men that am their best friend l know that AM.
But they do not-not all OF them. Some, few, do,
hero and there In the city, and are willing to rccog'
oize IT, but the larger number look upon me as All
onemy | am not. ! their frlond and they VIII
see It I'm time. l for the rights of property, but
also believe In the rights of men. Now, II the PEG
ple could hear say all this they would probably
want me reelected. And II, without any action on
nv part whatever, but leaving mo FREQ to go right
OH with my work here though no election was In
progress they should walk up to the polls and re-
elect me- what could dol l am not one OF the
kind to shlrk manifest duty.
:" But l am not consulting politicians or In any way
looking for a denomination, or even considering the
question of accepting one. with not get any. No
one wants tn give mo one When 1t was offered me
before l asked my Tammany friends what they OK
pected TO get. They answered nothne, put kne%
that they did and told them so, and that they would
lie greatly disappointed In me and would not get any
thing. They said that they we're satisfied ana may
be they But see that some OF the papers charge
that / promised TO appoint Charley Allen Cominls
soner Of Accounts and have In other ways hrohcn
| faith with Tammany. 1t is false