New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-27

your people belong to Tammany Hall; but
II they did, what of 1t?
CAT HOME IN RICHMOND.
He told eye Huguenots' that he felt at
home in Richmond, where he has held
court, much more at home than lac did in
Tammany Hall.
Sidney r. Rawson, chairman at the West
New Brighton meeting, had tried to defend
Judge Gaynor from attacks of the press"
The candidate deprecated the attempt. Not
one word of defence from anybody" ne
declared, mot one word. You must Judge
me from my record. On that l stand. and
on nothing else. Have l in the past been
subject to some miserable boss, We men
OF Richmond"
Judge Gaynor had given his thanks to
the audience and turned to sit down at the
Union Opera House, when he thought of
something
Il have just another word to say he
declared, which L should not forget by
any means There is another man here
who will sit in the Board of Estimate-Mr.
Charles j. Mccormack. l have known him
as an honest. intelligent and decent man.
Take good care and give him your votes
on Election Day"
Then there was some real cheering, for it
a
mack is the first man on any of the local
tickets whose election Judge Gaypor has
advocated in such a public manner.
At the meeting in Stapleton Judge Gay
nor again repeated his insinuation that
''The World" had sold its columns to Mr..
Hearst. He said. speaking of Mr.. Hearst:
land if I had the millions of this candi-
GATE + also could hire the columns of
other newspapers to puff me up and yell:
II did it,
Then Judge Gaynor likened himself to a
man who is attacked from an ambush, the
bushes on Staten Island. OF the bushes
he said:
l must just stand and take it. and am
willing to take it; l am willing 10 take
you people live out here in the open coun-
try, and along your dirt sidewalks there are
bushes, and l suppose some of you have
gone in the middle of the road for fear OF
somebody lying in wait in the bushes to at
tack you.
Well. gentlemen. l am Just in that posi-
ton. have just got to go by bushes and
they can hit me from the bushes and hit
me from wherever they like. l am per-
feety content to leave IT to the people, Of
that hits me from the bushes than it con-
Germs me. The fellow that hits you from
the bushes or your way home from here
tonight is bastard and coward.
tdyAOI 6eSCFIbeu Il sc6nS Oh people
paying taxes in Brooklyn as follows:
There they We're. the backbone Of this
great nation. many of them with their
bony hands and their bent bones showing
their lives of TOLL
To those who are familiar with the his
tory of Judge Gaynor's nomination. the
following story. as he told it. seemed naive,
to say the least:
| did not seek the nomination for May
or. Indeed, there must he many over here
who know that heretofore l twice refused
the nomination for Mayor of this great
city, and once fer Mayor of Brooklyn.
And three months ago If anybody told me
that I would be running for Mayor this
fall | would think him almost a little
out of his head, because / had no intention
of doing so. But somehow or another, lit
tie by little, inch by inch, as you, sir.
very well know, | was drawn into it, and
the first thing I knew I was in so far that
| could not back out. I had to stay In
whether ! wanted or not. | was nomi-
mated by little bodies all over, boards of
trade, little political bodies. little sociology
cal bodies, until they numbered l05 in all,
including some political bodies in Brook
Ign. The Bronx and Manhattan And then
! was nominated by two petition nomina-
tions bearing a large number of sigma
lures, one of them, ] think 1900 people.