The San Francisco call., 1909-10-25
TRAFFIC IN GIRLS
DENIED BY GAYNOR
Democratic Nominee for Mayor
of New York Replies to At
tack Upon Tammany
CharaCteriZeS Writer of Maga-
zine Article as Political
and Racial BigOt

NEW YORK. Oct 24-william j.
Gaynor democratic nominee for mayor
of New York. granted an interview
tonight in which he attacked the writer
of an article in the current issue of
McClure's Magazine. who declared traf-
nc in girls is fostered under Tammanv
rule. Charaeterizing the article as
miserable trash" Judge Gaynor said.
Now. none of your newspapers has
my permission to use this without say
ing YOU asked for it. am not volun-
teering it. You asked for it.
The writer is mere political and
racial bigot. Tt sticks out in almost
every line. He has the traits of ig-
norance. superhciality. reckIessness
and irresistible propensity to falsify
which are the characteristics of the
Hearst writer's and which people have
got on TO at last. What a grand article
could be written ON the subject of this
miserable trash.
AWAITING HIS HAND
He is just a vulgar. bigOted fellow.
trying to make political capital The
! fact is, every one knows who has
read or travelled that New York is the
most decOrOus Of the large cities of
the world. with the lowest percentage
/ OF thi svice OF any of them And yet
there are impure minded political and
race bigOts whose delight is 10 lie
about and slander New York in this
respect and in others. They are de-
testable lot and 1 hope for an OppOr-
tunity to make them shut up or get out.
I'VE all look with profound reverence
upon the great body of our clergymen.
/ Jewish Protestant and Catholic. who
are constantly working for the moral
welfare and uplifting of our people.
/ calling in the assistance of the civil
| government to aid them when neces-
sary. and who steadily. gradually and
constantly do so much good But
those few detestable sensatiOnalists.
notoriety seekers and political and
racial bigOts are deserving only of
contempt. This writer shows the mean
bigotry that fills his soul. He does not
scruple TO lay the evils he mentions
! TO the Jews as race. I believe I am
as familiar with the inbred and innate
virtues of women Of the Jewish race
here as any man. but I say that this
man is maliciously Untruthful of Jew
| ish womanhoOd and manhood"
WHAT MURPHY SAYS
Charles F. Mprphy. leader OF Tam
many hall who dismissed the charges
as ridiculous yesterday, came out with
/ a statement in which he quoted a few
historical facts" arguing II such con-
l ditions existed responsible officials
elected by the people should be held
to account
''The purposely general character Of
| every statement contained in the pub
| lication." he said. permits of no better
answer than to remind the people OF
! ar ha oil ina III
1 torical facts:
That during the time in which these
\ conditions are alleged to have existed
/ George B. Mcclellan and Seth Low
were mayors of New York; that William
/ T. Jerome and Eugene A Philbin were
district attorneys OF New York
I county; that Commissioners McAdOo.
Partridge and Green were at the head
/ of the police department.; that Charles
| H. Hughes. Frank w. Higgins, Benja-
man OdeIl and Theodore Roosevelt
were the governors OF the state with
the right to remove the mayor. the dis
| trict attorney and the commission any
/ time for failure TO perform their du-
/ ties.
/ Yet it has remained for man who
I is almost a total stranger to New York.
but who speaks as if from the intimate
| knowledge of a lifetime, to make n
statement which reeks with faIsehOOd
and is entitled to no credit whatever.
save such as would be given TO any
other grossly exaggerated partisan
campaign story"
/ General Theodore A. Bingham the
I recently deposed police commissioner Of
/ New York when asked today if he
I thought the white slave traffic really
existed here. said:
! That there is an immense traffic of
that sort in New York there is no
/ question 1t was nearly two years after
I first became police commissioners that
1 first began to realize the extent anG
peril of such traffic and took steps TO
/ suppress it. The police arrested many
women, but, when they found that the
men behind them seemed TO be wealthy
and of strong political influence, they
| became discouraged"