Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-17
Judge Gaynor and the New York
Mayoralty.


1t would be a bitter pill for Tam
! many Hall 10 accept Judge Gaynor as
it's candidate for Mayor of New York
City. At the same time it is perfectly
| willing to accept him in case it should
| become necessary to do so in order to
retain the loaves and fishes of city
patronage. There is no question, but
| what Tammany peceives the spirit of
revolt that is in the air, and is
thoroughly frightened at the prospect
IF having to combat fusion ticket
headed by Judge Gaynor AS a mat
ter of fact there can be no
doubt but what, upon an honest
ballot, William r. Hearst was cleo
ted Mayor of New York at the last
election Tammany is no longer as Sc
cure in it's lease of power in the great
American metropolis as was the case
in the palmy days of Boss Tweed and
very largely through an elaborate sys-
tenn of false registration and repeating
in which it has the active and organ
lied assistance of the vicious and
criminal elements of the city. 1t is
estimated that fully $4,000 fraudulent
ballots were thrown in this manner at
the last election. Throwing out these
ballots, William r. Hearst would have
been elected Mayor of New York by
substantial majority. So well are
these facts known that the better ele-
ment of the New York Democracy has
become restless, and there are many
indications of a political landslide, at
the coming election, of such propOr-
lions that even the elaborate system
which Tammany Hall has built up to
defeat the will of the people as ex-
stand it.
The fact that Judge Gaynor has been
an outspoken supporter of Theodore
Roosevelt, of whom he is a sincere ad
mirer, and that he took a conspicuous
part in driving Police Commissioner
Bingham from office has made him
specially obnoxious to Tammany Hall
while endearing him to the opposition
elements. Under the circumstances it
is evident that all the forces opposed
to Tammany can be united in support
of his candidacy with degree of una
nimity not often attained in New
York elections. If he should consent
to head the fusion ticket there is q
very general feeling that he would
win out by a substantial majority It
is for this reason that Tammany, maxi
ing virtue of necessity. has intimated
to Judge Gaynor that he will be glad to
accord him a nomination if he will cut
Gaynor has been attracted by this bait
so craftily offered would seem to APP
pear from a recent letter Of his, in
which he adopts a very mild and con-
ciliatory tones. Not only does he re-
frain from casting any stones at the
Tamrany tiger, hut he even pats him
upon the head. Meanwhile the impress
sion grows stronger in New York that
Boss Murphy of the Tammany Organ!-
cation is playing shrewd waiting
game. Ii he can persuade Judge
Gaynor to wait for a prospective Tam
many nomination, until the Fusion
convention has met and selected an
other candidate, he will then be in DO
sition to give him the merry ha, ma,
and nominate a man of his choice-a
man after Tanmany's own heart, with
whom it's interests will be safe. This
is certainly a cOld-blooded political
game; but it is the kind that Tammany
Hall is entirely capable of playing.
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