The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-06
GAYNOR WON'T RUN.
The Brooklyn Judge Declines
the Democratic Nomination.
Won't Associate With Men He
Has Fought.
GOOD WORD FOR HILL.
He Hopes for His Success at the
Coming Election.
GOOD WORD FOR HILL.

BRooKLYS, N. r.. Oct. e.-The fol-
lowing letter from Judge Gaynor, de-
clining the nomination for the Office
of judge of the court of appeals, was
made pu bic last evening
''Hon. j. w. Hinckley-
Brooklyn, N y, Oct 5--Dear Sir:
The reasons which publicly assigned
for not wishing to become the nom
inee for governor, precludes me from
accepting another place on the ticket
and am therefore constrained
to decline the nomination for
Judge of the court Of appeals
as grateful as / feel for it, and as
much as / should like to hold place
of so much usefulness. This would
suffice; but I feel impelled to say
more. The voice of the plain every
day people is to-day, for cause, an
actual living voice, yea, It IS, or It
never was "a the history Of the world
and, in a contest in which it should be
summed up, could not be a candi-
date for office and silent, as usage and
etiquette would require me TO do IN
my present case. The center
Of thought has passed from
a great peaceful political struggle
is now impe ndlng in this country
which is to decide whether the center
of power snail be and remain there
also. lit has more than once seemed
to me that I should have some part IN
this great contest when it came, but
if that is not to be, I still hope l may
be able to feel that have done, not
much, it is true, but yet something to
put my day and genera ton forward
at least q little and to better the con-
dItion OF this community IN which
my lot has been cast. might stop
here. but if I did it would seem to me
1,f al = ia
said in view Of recent events 1 am
not without feeling, and can not re-
frain from acknOwled ging a vibration
Of pain that organizations avowedly
working unselhshly for high polltl-
cal methods and for better govern
ment should afEirmat lively refuse to
indorse my nomination in advance of
my acceptance or refusal.
'sOn the other hand, the wholly
spontaneous manifesto ton of the
general Democracy of the state to-
ward me, which 1 never expected to
see, and which I can only interpret as
a full approval Of my past pu bile con-
duet has made upon me an impression
too profound to ever be etfaced- Cir
cumstan noes do not permit n e to ac-
cept the nomination they have
rendered to me, but my hand and
nv heart 90 out to them all the
same. 1T is now nearly i've years
ago that i openly objected as
an individual citizen to politi-
cal methods which I deemed low,
base and unmanly, and to official acts
which I deemed heartless crimes, in
volving as they did spOilation of the
peoples hard earned money for the
enrichment Of a few who had fol-
lowed politics as a trade and made
public officials their mere tools.
felt had a right to speak, for in the
face of gross wrongs to the people
among whom l lived. / had sat silent
for fifteen years. and silenced often
the right to speak. but, furthermore,
from an impulse which 1 cannot de-
fine, or a reason which IS too inscruti-
BILE to assign, / found myself I'M
able to sit silent longer The
history of the four years of eff
fort which ensued, BY appeal
to courts and public opinion / can not
even now summarize; but in this
hour in which my name is being
tossed back and forth by contending
political factions and in which / have
broken asunder the bonds of my per
plexity and seen my way clear, / beg
to say, in justice to myself, and I
trust with due mildness and without
any segotism. that throughout it all
was never helped IN money
or otherwise by any politician or po-
ltical organization or faction what
ever, and that if in the end I finally
prevailed, it was solely because the
stood me, and recognized that at all
events I was trying to do right
lowing nothing, therefore, to poll
ticians or political organizations, and
remem bering that whatever little I
have done to lift the government up
was done as a priva te citizen,.I do not
value any Office so highly as to wish
to achieve it against the oppo-
sition of those whom had sup
posed would be my friends. If l
thought the Withdrawn Of my name
would injure Senator Hills canvass I
would try to see some wav to allow it
to remain. for his recent development
in the national senate places him
with the fore most public men of his
day. Between him and his opponent,
he should, and / trust Will. prevail
Though this letter takes me away
from promotion in the line of my
taste, / have written 1t without re-
greet, for it keeps me in line with my
past / write it to the hurt of no
man, but in justice to all men, to
truth and myself
ITO thine own self be true.
And IL must follow. the nf1 ht the day.
Thou can st not then be false to any man
W. J. GAYNOR."