New-York tribune., 1909-11-02
GAYNOR In HARLEM
UNDER N4GLES WING
1T MASS MEETING.
Three Thousand Cheer Him
Ten Minutes and Induce
a Smile.
a Smile.

the aath District, engineered a mass meet
ing for William J. Gaynor last night in
suffers Harlem Casino. The Nagle cohorts
were on the job early When the Tam
many candidate for Mayor appeared the
district leader stood at the left of the plat
FORM on the main floor and directed his
men in a course OF noise that lasted all OF
ten minutes The band helped along, but
whenever there was sign of tagging the
heutenants of the leader stirred things I'D
all along the central aisle. Fully three
thousand persons were there.
Rhneander Waldo presided and one
of the things he said that pleased the crowd
,Tas that every word Mr.. Gaynor said about
,,,,sneral Bingham could be vouched for by
m, Waldo, because he was there-that is
Z, Police Headquarters a deputy COM
,isSoner. and under General Bingham
5hn Z. Calvin, the Tammany candidate
or President of the Board of Aldermen
was the first speaker. James j. Hagan,
Tammany candidate for County Clerk fol-
lowed. but never finished for Mr. Gaynor
came in and the Nagle noise was turned
loose. The former justice smiled for the
first time in the campaign.
Mr.. GaynoF went over his regular speech,
with few variations. To the statement
that the Mayor should be the vision of the
light, and that he should be able to smell
the needs of the city. His feelings might
be thought 10 have been hurt in the cam
paisn, he said. but they We're not SO much
hurt after all. Before he had been speak
ing a half-hour the persons who had
crowded the main aisle up TO the platform
had moved out, and the audience was thin
ming.
LIKES THE NOISE.
He said:
:l0.,-J opera up here TO get an audience
have heard great amount OF noise dur
place of All. II everybody in Harlem is
like you | would like TO sell out over in
Brooklyn and move TO Harlem.
a Voice: I'VE can't spare you"
There is somebody here from Blooklyn,
1t is very good OF you indeed and prob
ably you have some purpose in it TO greet
me in this way. Maybe some of you think
that my feelings are hurt. l do not deny
that am somewhat delicate Of feeling.
but ] have come through this campaign
so far without having my feelings very
much hurt after all.
He declared he had tried TO lift the cam
paign up and said in his cold, calculating
way that neither he nor any Of the other
Tammany candidates had said one single
word of any man on the opposition tickets
excepting in relation to the actual issues
before the people. He continued:
am sure that 1 do not want to be
Mayor simply for the purpose of being
called Mayor. That would be an empty
honor. indeed. | have no purpose in be-
coming Mayor except to do for the people
IN this city certain things which | have
long had in mind, and which believe
myself capable OF doing for them The
votes OF the three-Mayor, Controller and
President of the Board OF Aldermen-con-
Board l.
mate and A7portionment, whicn governs
the city. Why, if you divide that board
IL would be nothing but a political quarrel
from the beginning of the administration
70 the end; everything We desired to do
would be the subject Of compromise. and
our hands would be tied.
AT no time dtd Mr.. Gaynor say with con-
fidence that he expected TO be elected. He
knew he was a weak man. he declared,
and then tried to tell how he would handle
the city government. He decried one-man
rule and said this should be government
OF laws and then proceeded paint
picture Of autocracy in the City Hall that
filed Nagle's followers with delight
ON TRACTION STOCKS.
After speaking of the subway and general
traction issue he referred TO the sale of the
stocks and said:
And they were run up and run up, these
stocks, 10 80 and 800 and then they were
sold out TO you and other people who had
so little sense that they bought them. If
those VINO did it had kept the stock. you
and I wouldn't care anything about il, but
they did not keep il. They went on the
minute 70 buy such stock, and that you and
are the fools, and probably they are
right, for they sold il all out
This did not win any applause at all.
So Mr Gaynor. taking up his charge that
the opposition candidates were slandering
ai-b
cut or shut up and this got a cheer.
Hearst was roundly hissed when Mr.. Gay
ror referred 10 him and his newspapers
He said that the speeches he had made
tout the traction situation had caused a
tremendous stir among the traction in
rerests. and continued
WLy. when I began 10 say this in the
campaign l first began to get friendly let
tiers from people who were my friends,
saving You'd better drop off; that is past
bygones" But l didn't stop. And then
Iesau - get anonymous letters, threaten
ing al sorts Of things unless cid stop
I;ut ! haven't stopped. ! don't intend 10
stop. and Il I become Mayor I don't intend
TO stop for one instant about II.
The Tammany candidate won cheers
when ne said that If elected he would make
tsis city 4 tree city within the law of the
and. and that the HumbIest person in the
FhOie ny" n"rough% WIN a grievance Woulo
get hearing. Then lie said:
j. rs rifo duty Of lh" Mayor of this city
10 knosy 81 tie people Of this city, TO know
tne German mind, the Irish mind, the Hun
lsrlcn mind and all the people that go
- ra.4 1r ur this citT-and The American
InlU4. although we are all foreigners, II you
ouiK S..I-a tch deep enough in the back. You
Hav. onjs got to GO back two or three
genera tiouS with the best OF
n Is the duty OF tht Mayor TO know the
.hole people ana 10 b@ - light to them, in
one sense s." be tne;f VISION, 10 be their
oyes5ght 80 that tho whole people will
look out through the eyes of its Mayor,
Who xil come before them and talk 10
them II NECESSARY. who VIII get The con-
SenSIIe Of opinion the general mind of the
VIII lo cOIn5auultl- and then rule by the
consent Of the community ana nor against
the wishes of the community. 50 far as it
can lawfully bc done.