New-York tribune., 1909-01-10

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ablest of the group, was not convinced and under
his vigorous though secret urgings the ring re-
doubled its efforts to beat the
At the proper time the proposition from the party
in power to make a combination with the outs was
sprung upon the public. 1t created almost as much
of a sensation had Gorrny rejection of the sup
port of the opposition. 1t was hailed on one side
evidence of the fairness of the party in power
and of the Central Society, which many people imag-
ined needed alliance of that kind 1t was con-
sideredas testimony for the claim that the party IN
power had nothing to conceal, since 1t admitted the
outs to it's councils and that it sincerely deSlrOuS
of giving New York a business administration in
which all factions and parties should be represented
There was truth in the contention, too The only
faction party that would not be represented by
this alliance would be the common people.
Wiser heads, however, realized that altrulstlc
methods were inconsistent entirely with the real
spirit of either party and in the alliance con-
fesson of weakness. And the editorial contingent
OF the Gormly party seized upon this idea and made
the most of it In the beginning, GOrmlys adver-
tisements including his political manifestoS, had
been printed in every paper in the city. They were
paid for other advertisements are-and why
not? But the Central Society had put the screws
on certain journals that owed much to its influence
and because Of this pressure they had summarily
refused any of GOrnly' unique prOclamatiOnS.
They profesSed themselves entirely ready to print
his business advertisements at the usual rates.
GOrmly retaiated, of course, by withdrawing all
advertising of any sort from them and doubling
the space he purchased in the other papers. Nat
urally therefore the press divided sections
those that were controlled by the party in power,
and those that favorable to the candidate.
The abest editorial talent in New York
listed as never before in this campaign.
Incidentally, nothing that he could have said or
done could have increased the business of his
store His business rivals and associates indeed
suggested, and the suggestion quickly seized
upon by the administration papers that the whole
thing was a clever advertising dodge, and that
Gormly was simply using his candidacy to boom
his store. There no satisfactory answer to
this argument, which one of the best that could
have been devised, and it harped upon assidu-
ously although their leader vigorously defended
against this charge by his army of fighters
THE general counsel for the Gornly mercantile
operations was a very distinguished law firm
member of which had held a Cabinet position
in the national Government number of years back
The legal and political moves in the game well
known to them, and they afforded Gornly an. I'M
amount of valuable advice. They that
all the provisions of the law regarding his candidacy
complied with; they advised HIM OF the neCeS
sity for clerks watchers, and other minor officers
connected with the election; and carefully sought to
preserve the striCtest legality and to see that all
requirements of the election laws were fulfilled.
The expenses of the campaign enormous
Not cent was paid out for bribery for the pur
pose of influencing votes in any improper way. but
the hiring of halls, the payment of the expenses of
meetings, organization, transportation printing sal
aries and SO on aggregated an enormous sum. Even
GOrmly himself had not realized how great these
penses would be; but he paid them without biench-
ing. His resources vast He put at the dis
earnings of twenty-five years He saw that by the