New-York tribune., 1909-10-31
JUDGE APOLOGIES
NOT TAMMANYS CAN-
DIDATE, HE SAYS.
Insists Nomination Came to
Him and Others Unsought-
Gets q Fec Shocks.

IeLS q Fe1C OhOCkS.
William j. Gaynor, Tammany candidate
for Mayor, got three distinct shocks at the
meeting i'll Duriand's Riding Academy last
night. The first was when he defended
himself against the charge that he was
Tammanys candidate. Some one called
out: Three cheers for Tammany!' and
they were given with will. Three cheers
for Hearst came soon afterward, and then
some one called for the same for Mr.. Ban
nard, and they were rolled forth. The
judge looked dazed. But in the main 1t
was a Tammany meeting-what was in
tended for a great outpouring of the un-
terrified adherents of the Tiger.
1t was after o'clock before the place
was comfortably filed. The first speakers
addressed empty seats. They attacked Mr.
Barnard again and again.
They're afraid of him. said a man near
the platform, and the whole tenor OF the
speeches was that way. All the candi-
dates were there. and Mr.. Gaynor waited
in an anteroom until after 10 O'clock before
he came in, so that he might have an
audience to talk to. When he came on
there were cheers. which, aided by the
band and rooters, extended Internationally
over three minutes He said:
l have heard great deal Of noise in the
last three weeks, but this is the nosiest
place Of all l have given you your full
turn, so now give me mine, and | shall
speak to you for a few moments. l have
teen speaking now for three weeks, day
and night, and / do not exactly know
whether i can make myself heard in this
vast place unless you pay good attention.
] was nominated for this Office, as you
knoN, without having IN any way sought 1t
from anybody on earth. That is also true
of my two associates. They neither sought
nor expected a nomination. In very fact
the nomlnation came TO US unsought, /
generally small bodies all over the city,
not merely in my own borough but in all
the boroughs OF the city-I believe by 105
bodies in al.
That was the way ii went at first, he
said, and then came the Democratic noni-
nation, which he declared was unsolicited,
without condition. without approach. with
out anything. People all over the city
who. he said. ought TO learn TO tell the
truth. said that he and his associates had
been chosen by Tammany. Then that or
ganization ripped out into three cheers. and
the former justice stopped speaking, both
arms extended as if beseeching silence.
He went on:
WHAT THEY CALL TAMMANY."i
were nominated by what they call Tam
many. Well, now, / come from the Bor-
ouGh, of Brooklyn, which in few years
VIII be as large in population as the bOr-
OughS OF Manhattan and The Bronx COM
bined. We have no Tammanies over there
at all. We have something else over there.
each borough has its own local organiza-
tion. The Borough of Brooklyn, the Bor-
ongh OF Richmond, the Borough Of Queens,
the Borough of The Bronx and the Bor-
Ough of Manhattan, each one has its own
local organization.
Then followed an incursion into the
primer of politics and Of the way things are
done at primaries and conventions in the
making Of tickets. He saw the many po-
lcemen around the walls and gave them
the warm words employed a. each meeting,
--TaInmany likes the pOlcemen.t' and there
was applause. He went on:
One of the issues which / do not wish TO
forget before this audience is the three
platoon bill for our police / mention it
because IN going around to all the meet
ings l have seen these policemen, so well
ordered and so we'll conducting things, and
the streets all my life. that l feel it incum-
bent upon me to say that if the Legis-
lat,re will pass that bill again it viii
we do not want any more Juggling with
ii. The police are entitled to square
deal about it. They do not want any more
they want to know ii will not or cannot
be done, but II is in the platform and
II shall be done.
FOR MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.
Mr.. Gaynor repeated what he had said
throughout the campaign about the subway
situation. and said that Il was owing to
the fact that conditions were as they are
that the people had determined to give
away these franchises no more. but to keep
them for themselves OF municipal owner
ship he said:
Why, some persons think this notion was
brought here from San Francisco by a
man who is now here. / beg 10 say that
l was preaching and teaching municipal
ownership and control before he ever hove
fall, when he and some around him were
SO good as 10 think of me a possible
iC nominee ss, for MayorIoh, when they met
they did not know whether | was In favor
Of municipal ownership and control and
they even sent me letters the subject,
and l wrote at the foot OF the letters, You
might as well ask ST. Paul whether he
question"
to know what the people here had been
doing. l had been here for thirty-fye
nen All these thhss aed for Rea good bee
ernment here and before these people were
ever heard of.
MULES, OXEN AND JACKASSES.
The Tammany candidate took back his
declaration that he would give UP the
Mayoralty If he had a hostile Board of
Estimate. He said:
Some people are terribly distressed for
fear l would run away next year and be-
come Governor. Just think of II! Let them
rest In peace. All the mules and oxen. and
/ almost had said jackasses, who are saw
ing these things in the State OF New York
could not pull me out of this Office for the
your years, that you put me into it, If you
do put me into il.
One Of the speakers, Dudley Field Ma
lone, early in the meeting referred TO the
office of District Attorney and was about
70 launch into eulogy Of George Gordon
Battle, when somebody in the rear of the.
place called for cheers for Charles S. Whit
man, his fusion opponent. They were given
with will. 1t was supposed to be simon
pure Tammany meeting but there were
strangers within the gates, and many of
them.
INTEREST IN HOOKWoRM FIGHT.