New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-22

means that YOU can criticlse me govern
n. ny 70 your full will. from the President
~ me United States down to the littlest
Mayor in the United States: free speech
Goes not mean that you can breach seai-
tlon or violence, or force We vote in this
SS0 .. and We change things by vote. not
ng payonets or by muskets.
Those who have eny social ideas 10
propagate have the absolute right TO get
not be interfered with And VET 7 have
seen people IN this city IN the last four
years under big buffoon OF a Police
commissioner, driven out of halls-cordons
OF police put right across a room ia front
OF stage and the people driven out before
WORD was said. Why, the outrage OF f.!
Inc way TO treat such a situation when
SOMEBODY is going 10 speak is TO put a
government stenographer down there and
awning unlawful. arrest him. prosecute
him and convict him. But think of any
ofheer OF this government. especially OF
| TINS cosmopolitan city. think OF him going
/ into a hail and turning people out without
permitting them TO say one word!
Why, my friends. If that thing were to
] be allowed to continue the day would come
/ when they would be turning you and me
out Of here tonight
/ on SUNDAY OBSERVANCE
1t was at this time that the candidate de-
livered his view Of Sunday and Sabbath
observance, and backed II up with ex-
tracts from the Penal Code. a copy OF
which. bound in black leather. he carried
| with him en- this tour He quoted the
section forbidding work on Sunday and
! the next section giving freedom to work
on the first day without interfering with
! others il some other day is observed as
day OF rest II met with approval. He
| continued:
have read YOU the exact law about it.
| Now, / don't mean that we can throw
l everything 10 the wind. One man wants
TO keep the Sabbath. the seventh day, and
and another man wants to keep Sunday,
the FIRST day, as the day OF rest. Well,
nov. we have got 70 get along in harmony
with eacn other. II l want TO keep Sun
| day, why l only have charity for the man
who thinks I ought TO keep Saturday; he
! is Just as much entitled to his opinion as
I / am 10 mine
! To tell the truth. in the decalogue on
/ the Ten Commandments. Saturday. or the
seventh day. Is the day selected and pointed
out, and you have the right 10 stand to
thar II you want TO- ana nave no right
TO stop you. Our laws, therefore, recog-
| nizing all mems consciences and the rights
| OF al men, the laws OF our state, nave
| been passed 10 harmonic these things as
well as can be done. so that nobody may
have Just cause for complaint. because the
first principles OF our institutions that
no man shall be Disseminated against to
any extent whatever on account OF his re-
II would be better, of course. if we
| could all observe the same day, and then
| this trouble wouldn't arise down here; the
| $500 butchers wouldn't be pestered, and
! they wouldn't have some big police COM
| missioner coming down here TO tell them
/ 10 put I'D 500 q week or 800 a year
| they could just give him the toe Of their
| boot and tel him 10 get out. They can
| do IL now
You all have the prosoundest respect for
! these policemen whom you see among you
| here every day They are police to you;
| across the street: they see that your door is
| locked; they play the father to you I have
| only respect for these men
BUFFooN AND BUTLER AGAIN.
But what a sight II is TO see some big
| swagger and buffoon, as has often been
] done in the past, ne last enc even being
! imported from Washington. where he was
| head butler az the White House, come down
| here n New Yorl. and fOrfhvvifh rned.5le
| with everybody, prescribe religious thought
/ tell people whether they can go and hear
4 a lecture or not and drive people out of
] halls, and, what made me feel worst of all,
q nobody in authority in the city to say one
single word about st.
4 I couldn't say word about il because I
! held judicial Office, and might have the
| case before me Indeed. therefore the law
] olo not permit me 70 speak out about con-
/ crete case Of this kind, although in deliver
1 ing lecture read all that and I had a
| right 10 speak IN general about the laws
! ano the rights OF the people
Mr. Gaynor seemed to have il in for
the Mayor. He said that four years ago
l the Mayor couldn't find q man among
the millions in this city good enough TO
I put at the head OF the Police Department.
; He had TO go to Washington TO get him
1 and then General Bingham was attacked
! in the same old way He reverted to
Hearst when he said that there were
/ people going about saying they gave the
/ citizens So cent gas. but they had alto
gether too r9Ech gas themselves. He then
| thanked theezudience and went away
WILL ATTEND To EVERYTHING
Over at the Grand Music Hall there
u ere 300 enthusiastic people and they
/ gave Gaynor a rousing one-minute recep-
! ton, tinctured with the changing of a
! cowbell There he took turn al the
effort TO close the Coney Island resorts.
| and said that when he became Mayor and
/ a police commissioner should come down
/ 10 Coney Island and ask that 500 or so
be put up they should give him the boot
He reverted TO Essex Market police court
and prison, and again asked how many
had been in that place where in one year
| 2o0o0 persons had been locked UP, and
most Of them discharged the next morn
| ing
! Il looked as If things were all right on
The East SIDE, he said ar one time when
an attack on Bingham was oheered In
| connection with the imprisonment Of per
| sons in Essex Market prison he referred
! to the pUshcsrt pedlers and asked whether
| any Mayor had ever visited them. No one
answering. he said that when he was
! elected he wanted all TO call on him in
Brooklyn, even before he took up the work
| Of governing the city. From this meeting
! he went 70 Progress Hall. in % street
| near Avenue A which was only about q
| third occupied. He spoke II the same
/ strain there, and Ihen cut cut the other
! meetings and went back 10 BROOKLYN.