The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-21
BRAVES uNPLEDGED.
Mayor Gilroy Says They Have No
Choice for Governor.
DELEGATES. He Says, will Be Free
to Choose for Themselves.
G,vnor's Boom Assuming Huge
Proportions In Brooklyn.

.rTammany will go to the Democratic
State Convention at Saratoga absolute
~ unpledged. Tammany will support
the nominee of the Convention, but 1t
has no choice of its own. Every dele
gate will be free to express his opinion
as to who the candidate should be-"
said Mayor Gilroy this morning.
The Mayor and Corporation Counsel
Clark will leave for Saratoga tomorrow.
Mr.. Gilroy was asked whether he would
consult with Senator Hill about the
slate.
81 have no appointment with Senator
HILL 1 am not going to Saratoga in
advance to consult with the leaders
My visit there will be in accordance
with an arrangement made several
weeks ago to spend few days quietly
Mayor Gilroy's words are significant.
They indicate that Tammany is either
keeping hands off the ,Governorship, to
not say we did IT, If the wrong candi-
date should be selected by Hill, Murphy
and Sheehan or there is hidden purpose
In Tammany's apparent inaction or in
difference.
Tammany's attitude may be part of a
plan to convince the people that the
machine has retired from business, and
thus stave off factional opposition.
With Croker in retirement, and Tam
many keeping in the background, and
Senator Murphy out of the State Com
mittee, It may not be SO difficult to har-
monize the ants. and induce them to
unite for Democratic victory. An
additional inducement to harmony is
the withdrawal of Gov. Flower.
IN the situation. Democrats have been
inspired with more confidence, and talk
that Morton will have walkover is no
longer heard.
In fact, 1t is believed that If the Demo-
Gratis nominate the right kind of man,
unfettered and untainted by machine
support. of the Republicans who are dis
satisfied with Platt's dictation.
There are thousands of Republicans
who would vote for the Democratic NOM
inee as rebuke to Plat.
Tammany men say that the man to
attract this Independent vote is Justice
Gaynor, Of Brooklyn. Gaynor meets
with more favor In Tammany Hall than
any other candidate.
The boom of Supreme Court Justice
William j, Gaynor as the Democratic
ing with such marked rapidity in Kings
County since Mortons nomination that
to-day 1t was talked about by every
politician in Brooklyn. -
Regulars, Independents and Mugwumps
who gathered about the public buildings
this morning were of the opinion that
he would make the strongest possible
candidate in the State.
Lawyer James d. Bell Chairman Of
the Democratic Committee expressed
| the opinion OF the rank and file in the
following interview this morning:
Judge Gaynor represents an aggres-
sive DEMOCRACY that would be very TAX
to wG ne maare en-
who has been nominated by the Repub-
licans So
not represent the money power in poll
tics-a power that, in my opinion, is
the source of the greatest evil.
"If he Is nominated l have no doubt
that the rank and file of the reorgan-
lied party would work and vote for him
Il am sure of It,"
1t was said that the regular delegates
elected tomorrow night would go to
the Convention instructed for Gaynor.
Among the leaders Of the Shepard De-
mocracy, however, there is no longer
any effort made to disguise the senti-
ment against Gaynors nomination.
The regulars are of the opinion that
their adversaries will make an effort
to have Edward NJ. Shepard nominated.
been a gathering in the Shepard head
Werters last night, at which there was
q vely time.
Led Justice Gaynor's nomination. The
rost prominent opposed to him are said
b be A. E. Orr and George F. Peabody
Their ground for opposition is that he
now fills the proper place the Supreme
1t was limited at the meeting last
hight that Mr.: Shepard would make a
Ironger candidate than Justice Gaynor.
As result of the meeting. politicians
believe that there will be split in the
&epard Democracy. and that Justice
Gaynors friends will get out.
The Tammany leaders prefer him to
tx-Secretary of State Frederick Cook, of
Rochester. Cook always ran ahead of
bis ticket. He is vote getter, but those
who know the two men say he does not
possess the qualifications to be Gov
ernor.
John Boyd Thatcher, of Albany. who
Is HIS choice, seems TO have no sup
porters here at all.
William c. Whitney and Daniel s.
Lamont have many friends, but neither
OF them Is understood to be a candidate.
The Twenty-ninth Assembly State
democracy Convention last night
elected John w. Goff Edward McCue
and James II. Lyon, delegates. and T.
Z. Wilson, j. H. Thesis and j. l.. Noss
alternates. Resolutions favoring the
nomination of Judge Gaynor for Gov.
erhor' were passed unanimously.