New-York tribune., 1909-10-24
AT CUTTINGS AGAIN
LE4VES MAYOR OUT.
E0ynor RenescS Attack =
Praises "Christy" SuLliUan.

William J Gaynor IN 8 speech at the
Acorn Musee. the Tammany rival OF the
hundreds Chamber OF Horrors in Union
souare. repeated the charges against r.
E,rIton Cutting and F. Bayard Cutting yes
,sr6av regarding which Mayor Mcclellan
rad asked him for a retraction. The Tam
r,snv candidate for Mayor did say he
wanted il understood he was not saying
that Mayor Mcclellan was "a knowing
Marty 20 The transaction. cor that he was
guilty C any wrong or moral turpitude
whatever
About seven hundred persons were gath
cred in the room, and the animals on ex-
hibition began to "cut up" soon after the
former justice began 10 speak The first In
terruption, as the candidate was making
lis declaration. Of independence. came from
the monkey, which chartered so persistent
Is thar an attendant had TO be sent TO shut
il up Then a photographer set of a fash
light. which SO disturbed Herbina Hearst.
the elephant that she snorted loudly and
also had 10 re Quieted.
Mr. Gaynor alluded 10 the Chamber of
Horrors. and hoped that after January l
the slanderers Of the city would be shut
I'D. Ii was positively indecent, he said.
and then retold what he said he had heard
in Europe about the city. The attacks on
M Hearst were renewed, with a little
establishment All the credit claimed for
sl-cedt gas was taken away from the can
didate Of the Civic Alliance and given TO
Governor Hughes.
INDORSES TAMMANY TICKET.
He gave a warm Endorsement TO the
Tammauy ticket, including Christopher
Sullivan. and IN speaking Of the latter ne
made the only reference to the vice
charges against Tammany Hall, and then
only IL an indirect way. There was plenty
Of enthusiasm, and every attack on Hearst
was literally cheered. Joseph Johnson, jr..
the Great Oak q the Order of Acorns, in
uoduced M Gaynor as the next Mayor.
slanderers about the city's health. Mr.
Gayuor said, were a. common as the other
sanderers, and he stuibuted the whole
thing 10 What he called contemplate, ly-
ilg newspapers. and continued passion
Etely;
Cannot you buy a decent newspaper and
the time al fever heat, exclaiming day
after DAY for the proprietor, = did II,
I'D IT, for everything that Is done in
The city My Cod lie gave the people
Tree gas; he gave them free ice; he gave
them free everything, and he is promising
papers every day-his name, think, ap-
peared I'VE hundred times two days ago
u
man cracking himself up Ike that.
The Independence Leagues struggle for
existence came up next, and he followed
this with reference 10 letters received be
fcre the nominations asking him. whether
he was for municipal ownership. He had
written al the foot Of these that II was like
asking Ct Paul whether he was Christian.
Ny. Hearst was again accused of breaking
his promise then. aluding 10 Mr.. WINS hs
said:
Another man that he has harnessed Up,
like two steers gong around this city,
Republican, had come ont In favor of Ban
narG and was advertised on the bills here
81 this Town 10 speak for Barnard, and in
rwenty-four hours that man broke his
word and left Barnard and these two
men, with their broken word, in the face Of
al this Intelligent city, are going around
now. me PAIR, teaching other people
what 10 do. and the morality of politics,
ard telling them what they should believe.
II ny, they had better learn TO keep their
word fOT -twenty-four hoiIrse before they
u X 70 the honest people Of this city Sup
pose l hau Done that2 What would the
newspapers say, and where would be? Do
you suppose I would be running at all?
y cv ] would 60 down On Long Island and
sink into the bushes somewhere until the
election Vas over, among the rabbits.
ANOTHER CALL FOR NAUSEA.
M Gaynor referred to the Civic Alliance
candidate loving the people at election
tine, and said:
meet people man fashion. 7 know that
you are not fools. and YOU ought to spew
o. NE 4 / came around praying favor of
sou about election time. 1 scOTn TO do IT.
Unless you have intellectually enough in
your heads 10 understand me, then ! am
through with you, but have absolute faith
y lie Intelligence and judgment Of the
East Side and tells them he got them free
gss What did Governor Hughes think
Nlen 1e read that in the paper next morn
H#HLr
lstlre appointed a committee that came
down here 10 New York to investigate the
co7L n the manufacture Of gas ana what
i ought 70 be sold for
The story Of the investigation was told
ana Gaynor said It was no sooner over
and the Legislature had no sooner enacted
The scent law than Hearst cried that he
Cd IL ali, and was telling the East Side
people that he did It. The candidate then
sald that the people there could not be
fooled, that there were more philosophers
10 the square acre down there than in all
the rest of the city, probably. He spoke
q praise Of his fellow candidates, and Of
Sullivan said:
Then you have AIr. Sullivan for Sheriff.
~ Tell the truth. il doesn't very much
matter whom you make Sheriff, whether
T. j. wooden man or not, because that
h about ali. ne is when he is Sheriff He
.sI signs his name a few times; that IS
Ae can take and nothing he can DO. But
ELo - 4lr. Sullivan? Isn't he one Of the
h--.lf e2s that went down into what was
ga--c The red Light district on the East
H-le- when vicious reforneTs We're exploit
--g Themselves over the city, sensational
ISIS Of al kinds-isnt he one Of the COM
nlLlee rla- went down there with Episco-
Ia- 1.erst men and with Roman Catholic
priests and with Jewish Tabhis and quietly
ana without q word did away with the
Ml1-e t1ng2 Isn't he one Of those men2
know r--aL much about MIN, anyway, and
I-al ls sI I Co know about him. I have
~ personal acquaintance with him, nor, in
IecL. with any district leader in the whole
y Manhattan, strange as that statement
H-aF sound 10 you: ! have 10 acquaint-
ance With them at all
ATTACKS THE CUTTINGS.
after repeating his declaration that he
CD not want 70 be elected If the Tanmany
nominees Tor Controller and President Of
re Board Of Aldermen acre not chosen
Also be made the assertion that none OF
Ire other candidates for Mayor had ever
read he city charter lie then spoke Of
|N Cuttings ~ follows:
Now probably this Is al I should say to
sp-- except TINS one thing. There are two
80 oFoulers ln this town named Cutting
-. iIe-r names are 50 nice, you know.
-haF. these BTgr1e~E EulfoU