New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27
OH! YE HUGUEN0TS
H4RK TO THE JUDGE.
4nd Yc Descendants of the
English In Richmond.

Judge Gaynor, the Tammany candidate
for Mayor, talked TO we Huguenots and
We descendants of the English" at two
meetings in Staten Island last night Both
halls-the New Union Opera House. in New
West Brighton, and the German Club
Rooms, in Stapleton-were filled, but Judge
Gaynor did not seem to make much of
hit.
In fact. Justice Gaynor got in bad" on
two things. First he talked of the poor
transit facilities of the island. and said he
was in favor of the Fourth avenue sub
way. AS he outlined the route, the Staten
Islanders were getting ready to "whoop er
up because they thought he was going TO
advocate the extension of the subway TO
Staten Island. But he left the subway
somewhere in the vicinity Of Fort Hamil-
tom and told the Staten Islanders that If
he lived there and the city could not build
tunnel he would advocate having the
borough build a tunnel connection with its
own money. The cheers died In the throats
of the audience.
Then Judge Gaynor said that he was
not in favor of having the borough presi-
dents vote in the Board of Estimate, that
II was a defect I'm the charter to have men
vote for appropriations which they were
going to spend. This doctrine is not popu-
lar on Staten Island AS a matter of fact.
c. j. Mccormack, who Is running for Bor-
ough President, got three times the APP
, plause that the candidate for Mayor could
arouse.
JUDGE FEELING THE STRAIN
Apparently Judge Gaynor Is feeling the
strain of the contest, for at the last meet
ing, after having described how he was
dragged into it 1.-THE nomination. little by
little" he paused reheetively and with
nervous little laugh, said, as If to himself,
ferhaps ] shouldn't have done it." refer
ring to his leaving his life on the bench"
Judge Gaynor found new smile last
night. He likened himself to a little
stream He was talking about his record
| and declaring that he could not change the
habits Of his life if he went into the
Mayors chair. He said:
1t is an old saying that you cannot teach
l an oId dog new tricks and l am too old
i low 10 negln to reverse my life and go
ndchWard- am just like stream, a lit
tie stream here on Staten Island that has
S cur us burrows maybe for. million years.
Ior anything know, or a hundred years or
| nfty years and flows right on through its
niue course, and you might just as we'll
expect mat stream itself to turn around
ana go back as to EXPECT any man of in
tegrlty In your community who has reached
ioriy or hfty years even to turn around
| n
he were disposed TO do it, and he cannot he
disposed TO do # because 1t is not in him
30 the question would still remain whether
am competent to be Mayor and [ am
! speaking to you with entire frankness that
! am competent to be Mayor and 7 am
HpsoIuteiy destroy every wrong in the gov
eminent II could know. Am l sou1pe-
! tent? l don't know.
When the Judge said he didn't know
whether he was competent or not those
VINO have followed his speeches were sur
! prlsen' FOR up TO then he had shown no
signs OF being in doubt. He said he had
studied municipal problems, and would trv
| 70 do his duty.
IN accordance with his recent policy. he
! spent much time advocating the electian
! OF Moore and Calvin. his associates on tbA
| city ticket. He declared he could not serve
cut four years with a hostile Board Of
APpraisement and Apportlonment. and
/ that they could not hold a Mayor resnop.
| sibie who did not have associates in SYM
| pathy with his policies. He said his sd-
| ministration would be doomed To failure
! unless Moore and Calvin were elected with
| him And this is the way in which he
cast sluFs on those running against them;
This fellow here would have Parsons
| or some one else. with his thumbs under
| his ribs to tell him how TO vote and Ga
| on. Now, let us have them ali OF one
! stripe, so that they will work together
/ For the first time In the canpaieI he
! brought in the religious issue but did n
/ In a roundabout way. not understood nv
! those who did not know that Prenderpast
| and Mitchell were Catholics He said
! why, some people are saving 10 votA
! against them and to vote for Prendereasf
| and PuTroy Mitchell and I declare 1ea
! sons are being given around i'm certain
| quarters that ought never 10 he heard in
! politics., never. Politics would he ais
! graced IL such reasons were 10 prevaII
His praise OF Moore aud Calvin was full
some. or the latter he said He in nroha-
/ bly, the most striking character, and the
man or the largest business that ever held
! the Office OF President OF The Board of AL
! dermen In the United States of America.
He started in I'm his usual pose abeut
| Tanmany Hall, but a man in the audience
| spoiled the effect by an unexpected answer
10 rhetorical question 1t went this way:
But there are some people over I'm my
/ town who say every day, "Why, they
! (Moore and Calvin are members OF Tam
/ many Hall Well now YOU have some
! kind OF hall over here what do YOU call
your hail or your party over heFe2 "a
! Voice: Borough flhnD Every borough
I has It's oGn ball or IL own party: Tam
! many Hal Is the nickname Of the pRrty in