New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-22
GAYN0R; 0PTIMIST
TELLS EAST SIDE HE
WILL BE ELECTED.
attacks Hearst and Bingham
and Says What He'll DO
on Sunday LascS.

on Sunday LGSCS.
In tow OF the Campaign Committee OF
pus,pess Men Of the East Side. William J.
,ovnor Tammany candidate for Mayor.
made what was intended for a whirlwind
.our east OF the Bowery last night But he
cat so interested telling an audience IN
bennington Hall in East ID street about
municipal and police oppression and OF his
SUNDAY walks among the tenements that
a. hour passed and no one dared interrupt
rim. Then fifteen minutes more went by,
and he remembered with a start that ne
had 70 talk 70 four more meetings.
II was then s:l5 O'Clock. and after being
sulv demolished on the way 70 the next
gathering AZ Grand Music Hall, Grand and
orchard streets. he promised 70 speak there
sor only ten minutes. but spoke half an
hour.
thousands turned out 70 hear Mr. Gay
nor. He went first 20 the headquarters
az the committee. At No. Ia Canal street.
where there was q reception. George Cor
don Battle and Joseph Haag were also
there Mr.. Gsynor. so that he might not
get lost. came over in an automobile from
brooklyn. and the chauffeur knew where
Canal street was.
ABDUL AMGAkG nAAALc4 pEIcOlS were Al
The frst gathering They cheered when
Nr. Gaynor came IN. He talked about the
wrongs OF pushcart men and they cheered
some more. He held up Essex Market
Police Court and prison as a shameful
place 70 drag men, women. boys ana girls
for pushcart offences 10 spend q night
ir the filthy cells. and asked how many
present had experienced that. There was
laughter, bat no one admitted the i'm
parchment.
GENTLE POLICEMEN BLUSH.
The Tsmmany candidate for Mayor de-
elsred that he would be elected. But. he
said, he was at q great disadvantage be-
cause he did not own newspapers, and pro-
cseded 10 say the usual things about Mr.
Hearst They were not cheered. But when
ever ne spoke about General Bingham,
whom he again called White House but
Ter and ''bunoon,' there were ripping
shouts, and the many gentle policemen in
The place blushed. They aren't usually
kind 10 East Side audiences, but they were
consideraJe from the word go last night.
One was heard 10 ask pushing boy 10
Please stay where you are" The boy
gssped. Mr.. GaynOr said:
nave been here before, but not under
circumstances like these Many tine OF q
Sunday afternoon have / sIrolled through
your streets here. observed you men and
women as you went about your streets, and
Of al things. observed the great number
OF children you have over here
I feel that some OF you nave lamlllss
even larger than my own, and II may be
that I am better able 70 provide Tor my
large family than many OF you oyer mere
are 10 provide for your large families. But
they say that children are the poor man 5
riches and that the more children the poor
man has the richer he grows al the time.
Alas j fear there & great Elalv DEC-
PIE IN this city VINO never stroll through
your streets and who know nothing al all
about You ] am glad 10 be here
In all that I have said in this cam
paign. my fellow citizens, have tried 10
SPEAK 70 the intelligence Of the city Of
New York II ] cannot during this cam
paign say something 70 make people think,
say something 70 make my fellow citizens
have better understanding OF the cop-
citions IN this city, why. then my campaien
viii have been IN vain. whether be elected
OF not, ana ] believe that I shall be
excited
HIS SLAP AT HEARST.
Judge Gaynor said he stood on his past
A~Ord- as was coming 10 that period
called the infancy OF old age. he said-not
young and not old-and. trying 10 straight
e. this out unsuocessfully. he took up
Hearst He said
I Go not own any newspapers 70 puff me
Up DAY by day one candidate against me
mas the immense advantage Of being able
10 spend money without limit, having an
estate back OF him Of $6O,JOeGJ0, as you
know. as well as ! do. With great mines
throughout the West pouring into his lap
year by year an income that prince could
not spend and with that income. having
here n this great city. believe. four great
newspapers. and other neWspa peTs all over
the country, from here TO San Francisco,
from which place he came a few years ago
Re has that immense advantage, that
these newspapers have 10 print anything
thai ne says about himself. He may come
here and talk 70 you-and I DO not know
how he talks-but the next morning his en-
ploves. who run these newspapers. have 10
p1t speech n there that ne delivered
whether he delivered II or not.
Repeating the Brooklyn charge that
Hearst bought columns in other news
papers. the Tammany candidate switched
q another subject. He said.
The Mayor Of this city ought 10 be
Ensn-and Oh, how wish was absolutely
certain that this was al true OF nyseII-
who knows all kinds and conditions OF the
c.ty-not man who only knows certain
sc-. not z man VINO is above taking his
children by the hand and going out into our
public parks On Sunday afoot, not a man
coming down here and walking through
your streets on sunday or IN the nlghL 70
Sc what you people look like and see what
TIE Mayor who does not know the city
and he people Of the city. and who has not
mind as broad and e heart as big as the
big mind and the big heart OF all the peo-
PIE u the city. is not nj to De Mayor OF
the ctrv
Why there are some people IN this city
that almost think that the rest OF the peo-
PIE .n the city scarcely have right 70 live
They want 10 put you in a straitjacket
You cannot move unless you move IN their
dainty way, or go anywhere except by fhelr
perm ission Wei. well, my friends, 10 gov
err rtls city properly the Mayor Of this
town ought 10 conform himself 70 the viii
not u z few. but 70 the viii % all the peo-
pie % the city-by which I mean ali the
Eoo6 people OF the city.
SOP TO ANARCHISTS.
GayDor declared that the East Side peo-
pie We're denied freedom Of speech, and
sad
Now. free speech means that everybody
car EaH aruf hing he likes. tree Speech