New-York tribune., 1909-10-10
NO MONEY, SAYS GAYNOR
SENDS BACK CHECKS.
President of Coney Island Jockey
Club Contributor.

Justice Gaynor made public correspondence yes
terday showing that he had returned 70 Abraham
Abraham, prominent drygoods merchant OF
Brooklyn. check for $1,000 and another to schuy
Ter Parsons. president Of the Coney Island Jockey
Club. which indicted corporation few
DAYS ago In Kings County a charge of aiding
and abetting racetrack gambling
Astonishment expressed everywhere ttat
Mr.. Parsons should have assumed that Justice
Gaynor would accept his check. and now there is
great curiosity 10 know more about the relations
existing between the turfman and the justice.
Justice Gaynor in his correspondence switched
from the Bible to the Talmud. and in his letter
10 Mr.. Abraham quoted from the Hebrew law. He
said he expected the opposition Of every scoundrel
in the city. The Sullivans and friends of Justice
Roesch had comment TO make the Justices
latest deliverance. They merely smiled.
In returning the check to Mr. Abraham Justice
Gaynor said:
Your kind letter, with such a big check to help
sers with checks to-day.
PeTeance a @ Of breach Of faith and pghted word that
in the honor of men is kept alive by such letters
ana tenders OF assistance But have decided not
stand me in returning your check which it Was
II re Gaso 6ao,pe Pgolsr aF HC OF you 20 seno
me on my life record and my life work for good
ernment and those engaged in it 7 assure Sou
and YOU who have so long and intimately known
tent 7---7' ''-N' 0--='- OV '0ii-
long lN1nE and miSCOuStrUctiOH.
as YOU know, without baing affected BY it Noth-
ing that can say do will nov prevent those
from doing 50. Do you know feel like the pitcher
II that saving Of the Talmud:
pitcher: and If the pitcher fail on the stone, woe
oa T2to the pitcheT alas whatever befa the pitcher
Poor pitcher But we shall wait for the count
In his letter TO the president of the coney
Island Jockey Club Justice Gaynor said.
! cannot express 70 you how grateful 7 fer
ter and by inclosing the check for $500 7
to sur Se c 9H %e foRe c0 ES9 ~ 4Sw a%
mace up my mind not 20 spend dollar in this
have been constrained by demands from all
70 And now If m NV IGf life Mor for da o0S not oy ask
eminent, and 10 destroy low and corrupt govern
elect ne do not care to to be elec}sd 3s and Shall
You see The base lot who are already barking
ana lying al my heels I expect the opposition OF
and down II the people Of this city are content
TO let them put me down.
Asked yesterday If he had any comment 10 make
on the candidacy Of William r Hearst and what
Mr.. Hearst said about him and Tammany Hall,
the justice replied
! have nothing 10 say al this time on that sub
1ect- II concerns Ny Hearst far more seriously
than it does me. as will very be shown"
viii you make your headquarters at the Hotel
Cadillac. as announced?'
I have said before that should have no head
quarters, said Mr.. Gaynor. Tt is like nv state
rent. twice made, that shall devote four years
Of life 70 the service Of the people of the city
Of New York
Asked about his letter to Mr.. Parsons. Mr. Gay
nor said he did not remember him personally
He is not the only who has sent me-
money" said he
But it takes money to political campaign
these days was suggested.
Well, if that IS so, a goner in this election
OF course II takes money 10 hire halls and pay
for light and fuel but beyond that it is not
sary. It used TO be the boast of arbitrary rulers
that onehalf Of the people could be hired shoot
down the other half. and I am aware that some
say now that many people he bought to
down the rest but l am not Of that way Of think
ing"