New-York tribune., 1909-10-30
Takes Up Questions Pit III
Letter and Makes Rambling
Dcnials to 1H

ITFinDleu Nnfn he 'oiiii" ~ ~ 'r'''-''
ton IN the communication which was
made 1t your policy while on the bench to
shield and protect certain well known
keepers of gambling rooms and houses OF
prostitution
When he began to read it he said he
could scarcely do it. because women were
present. Then he read the charge, and
said:
This is word for word what this man
wrote to me. When | sent back my repiy
to him. telling him it was a tissue OF
in the address to the letter at the bottom
the words. "A. B. Kerr" Involuntarily;
almost, | ran my pen through Kerr ana ana
put there Cur" Just think of my wife
and daughters reading that. ] viii pass
that over. I could not stop to discuss it.
l do not need to discuss it.
After living life of rectitude, as | have
here from boyhood up TO this hour, work
ing for good government. as ] did, even
beginning when ! lived in Flatbush as
time I went on the bench after driving
such people out of the community as l
have told you about a moment ago-one or
the best public works ] did in my life;
and then after my long period of fifteen
years on the berch. where my decisions
stand all in writing, bearing the test OF
all time, for anybody in this community
TO so degrade himself as to publish thing
like that for my neighbors and wife ana
grown daughters to read in the news
papeTs-what do you think of It?
USES CUR" AGAIN.
That was the answer to question No. 4.
To the others he made denals He started
I'm almost at once at Congress Hall TO take
up the letter which aroused his wrath lie
said:
got a letter Yesterday from the Barnard
campaign committee, signed by the chair.
A b. Kerr It is spelled kerr. hut cur
however. / Immediately sent my answer,
and il was a very short one, namely, that
the letter a tissue of falsehoods, and
that the writer Of it knew that they were
falsehoods, and that he was entirely caps-
BILE of writing such letter as that Well
they gave this letter to the papers this
morning, and II was published, but my re-
ply was not published. oh, no. They don't
do things that way. That would be fair
and manly way, you know. But 1t was
my good fortune that this committee took
the trouble TO collect ali the falsehoods
that have been said about me during this
campaign and put them all In that one
letter, so that. without reading up the
back numbers of the newspapers. l know
them all.
NOT SO VERY BAD"
Mr. Gaynor said that to collect these
questions was really great kindness and
he thought it was about time ne gave an
answer. He continued:
Now. it appears that they have a terrible
Indictment against me. One. two, three.
four, five. The first one is: 1t has been
publicly stated. That is The way they
started. Then IT goes on to say that own
tenement houses and that there are
eighteen prosecutions against me for viola
tions of the law. They sav that the
plumbing is bad. and that did not put IN
fire escapes. Now. let me give you the
facts. That is not very bad charge, to
be sure.
have some tenement property at the
books valued at $4,000. and l have nice
little mortgage of $40, 600 on II that they
don't say anything about: but there is not
single prosecution against me for any
thing whatever, not a thing. The man that
wrote this knows il absolutely; and the
whole community knows it. But they
wanted to say these things and publish
them. thinking that some of it would stick
As to the fire escapes. they are all there
for anybody TO go down and look at, front
and rear and everything else.
PLUMBING THE FINEST.
And IS to the plumbing they talk Of,
former Tenement House Commissioner of
the Borough Of BROOKLYN and the first one
of the city of New York under Seth Low,
who said IT was the finest plumbing ever
put in any tenement in the city of Brook
lyn and the largest and heaviest pipe.
Now: they wind up by saying that re
Geive $1,000 month out of the property.
do.i! ! have given XGn X the value Of It Why,
month I.carried it for years without re-
ceiving anything, and II doesn't pay me
to-day more than per cent on the invest
| $1,000. That would be % per cent on the
investment. lust think of it. why, they
The next one 1T has been publicly
stated, they start again, that YOU CON
spiled. Dear me; That is a Greek word
else-con and spire. That you consprcd
with the gambling interesta.' Just think
Of me as gambler if YOU can You people
. a h.a-- lst,n-
as gambler. That l conspired with tho
gambling interests to have a case brought
before me IN order that ] might render
decision declaring the Law of This state on
tionsl.
WHY, nobody in this community ever
amendment Of the Penal Code maIing making Bet ="
criminal offence the same as betting on
the outside of racetrack There never
has beer any question Of its constitutional
ity What dc you thiuk of such thing
as that-chargng me with that sort Of Z
tnnlns.I %ho have gone up and down here
IKE that that I conspred with the gam
bllhE interests! Why. | never had a race
track case before me in my life-uot one.
ABOUT TRACK MORTGAGE
Here is the second part of it: That at
/ the time when this betting case was
brought before you"-when none was ever
brought before me al all. mind you--''you
/ owned mortgage of ss.251 on the propertv
I OF the Brighton Beach Association" That
! y the rscetTack down At C'oney Island
/ Did YOU ever hear the like OF that? WHY
I never had a mortgage Of a dollar or
ANYTHING else, on the Brighton Beach Race.
/ track Associaton--neveT in ali nv life
But that is not all And at the time
! your brother-in-l was an owner OF the
! racetrack association. Well now some Of
you know my poor brother-in-law Mf
Linden can tell you who he is Why tho
/ poor man has not money enough TO buy
foot Of a racetrack. He is lust down at
the City Hall working hard every day as
lawyer to make both ends meet ana make
/ living And I wonder what hs thought
this morning when he read that he was
/ the owner Of the Brighton Beach racetrack
! And all vcuched for b. the chairman OF
the Barnard Repubican Committee lust
I think Of it-and published broadcast
IGNORANT ABOUT TENDERLoIN.
Naw here is the third one: You have
! publicly stated that YOU don't know wherA
/ the Tenderloin section Of New York is -
/ Just think Of that, Now. this chap seems
/ to know where the Tenderloin section Is
BNt I confess TO You that I don't know,
/ and never knew, where the Tenderloin sec
/ ton was. and l have no occasion to go
there for any purpose whatever [ live
over here in Brooklyn, and ] don't believe
an average in twenty years that have
been twice in the Borough Of Manhattan
of a night up 10 10 o'clock or at any time
during the night | simply don't 20 there
unless have occasion 10 go there.
SENER IN TAMMAEY HALL