New-York tribune., 1909-11-03
BANNARD TOGAYNOR.
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! vote to a greater extent than had been
expected, which. he said. threw a side
| light the vote Mr.. Hearst got four
years ago.
Mr.. Barnard. accompanied by Repre-
sentative Bennett, Henry w Taft and
others. came into the Republican County
Committee headquarters a little before
II o'clock. He went into Chairman Par
sons's room, where there were number
ot Republican leaders receiving the
! turns. He was applauded for several
minutes He apparently WAS much
| pleased with the fusion victory.
From his home in BROOKLYN William
! A. Prendergast sent a telegram to Will
lam r. Hearst thanking him for his sup
| port and adding that without that sup
port his election would have been i'm
/ possible
Mr., Prendergast. when asked for a
! statement, said:
Il am extremely gratified a my elec-
/ ton. and especially at the very fiatter-
! ing vote with which the citizens of this
! great city have honored me. AS stated
! when l accepted the nomination and all
! during the campaign. I will become the
! Controller of this city without the slight
! est pledge or obligation of any kind
! direct or indirect, and / am prepared to
| administer the office in the interest of
the taxpayers of the city.
Their rights and their concerns will
alone be consulted ty me. Wherever it
! is possible to institute economies in the
1rlcc NF
! undertaken without respect to persons
or politics
THE new bookkeeping methods al
ready instituted by Mr.. Metz have been
! evolved by very competent people after
! great deal of study of the needs of the
! department. ] will maintain those meth
DDS, so far as. in my judgment. they are
efficacious in actual practice reserving
| to myself, however, the right to make
such additions or notifications as the
business requirements of the office will
suggest.
My efforts will be directed toward
simplifying the character of the work
to be done, in this way rendering it
easy and pleasant for the public that
! portion of the public which has business
with the department"
Mr.. Parsons said later when he had
received further returns:
The Republican party made
! wretched showing. and l cannot yet de-
termine the reason for it.
Even in Mr.. Bannards own district
! the 29th, he received only about one
thousand plurality, whereas in the same
district three years ago Governor
Hughes had margin of 400 over
! Hearst.
we expected the detection on the
! East Side. but nowhere else. But we
made the best campaign we knew how,
! and Mr.. Barnard would undoubtedly
! have been elected if there had been
more perfect fusion
Eugene H Outerbridse. chairman of
the Committee of One Hundred, said last
/ night at 80 o'clock:
In so far as a majority of the voters
| failed to recognize that Nj. Barnard was
! by far the fittest candidate for Mayor
the result is disa ppointment. On every
| ether point, so far as the returns at this
! hour indicate, it appears to be a complete
! anti Tammany victory, with the election
! of substantially all the fusion candidates
running for the important Offices and
! particularly all those having votes in the
! Board of Estimate, for which the Com
mittee of One Hundred made it's chies
effort"
After Judge Whitman had been as
! sured of his election he issued the fol-
| lowing statement:
| I do not regard my victory as per
sonal, but as victory for the people I
thank my friends for their LOYALTY, and
all other believers in good government
1t shall be my aim TO conduct the Dis
trict Attorneys office upon such plane
as to merit the approval of the COM
munity''
At 1245, George McAneny, Borough
! Pfesident-elect of Manhattan Borough.
said:
My chief regret is that Mr.. Barnard
I was not elected My own canapgn I
made chiefly for the sake of Mr.. Ban
nard. AS it is. even though he is de-
! feated, he comes out of the campaign
holding the respect of all the citizens
of New York for the clean and busi-
nesslike manner in which he made his
fight.
''As for myself. / had expected to come
out at least 10000 ahead That was my
/ minimum figure. I have just talked over
the telephone with my opponent, Mr..
! Haag, and he comedies my election bv
| 1900 votes. 7 believe that the figure
! may be even larger.
Il have congra tuated Mr.. Haag on
the good. clean fight that he conducted -
Alfred E. Steers. who ran for Borough
! President Of Brooklyn on the Republi-
can and Hearst tickets. learned early that
/ he had been elected He had this TO sd "
! when seen at Republican headquarters
Il am grateful to the people of Brook
lyn, and pledge myself to give a busi-
ness administration. with the interests
! of Brooklyn always uppermost in my
mind. ] will not play politics. | want
only one term. / will serve Brooklyn to
the best Of my ability"