New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-26
GAYNOR AND LABOR
COOPER UNION TALK.
Has to Wait Until Smoke of
q. O.. Battle Clears.

Workingmens Poutical FartN. Inc hah
contained about fifteen hundred persons
who were not as enthusiastic as audiences
there have been. They cheered Mr.. Gay
nor when he came in. He was introduced
by Patrick Fl. Mccormick, the chairman.
a member Of Typographical Union No. g.
But George Gordon Battle, the candidate
for District Attorney, had been interrupted
and the candidate for Mayor had to step
back on the vociferous demand OF hun
dreds that Mr. Battle be permitted to fin
ish He did So and Mr.. Battle gracefully
said that Mr. Gaynor had insisted that he
go on.
Mr.. Gaynor treated Hearst, WINS Out
not by nance and General Bingham as
alphabetically as usual, and as the audience
had not heard this part of his repertory
before, it seemed to please. Daniel Stat
terry, General Binghams secretary. came
in for mention as a new exhibit, but Mr.
Barnard was not mentioned except by in
ference. when the speaker said that
business man would not be able to grasp
the intrioacies of city administration.
ON SUNDAY ADJUSTMENTS.
There we're the usual seemingly ingenu-
Gus pleas, and while the candidate said
that he would let his record speak for
itself, he did a lot OF self-eulogizing by
way of a reminder. The McKane prose
cution was mentioned and the Coney ISL
and incident, when an attempt was made
to close the places of amusement on Sun
days. Moving picture shows were praised
when he told of the attempt to close them
up, and while disciaimng any criticism
of the present administration. his refer
ences to its alleged shortcomings were not
veiled. If he became Mayor, Mr.. Gaynor
said, he would drag the city out of the rut
and hold it UP to the nation as an example
OF good.
Mr.. Gaynor came in while George Gordon
Battle, the candidate for District Attorney,
was speaking, and the applause was rousing.
Mr.. Battle stepped back, but there were
loud calls for him to proceed, and Gaynor
gave way. The applause was renewed when
the Tammany candidate for Mayor had his
turn. He said:
I assure you that come here to a work
lngmans meeting with very great feel
ing of delicacy. l cannot promise you any
thing, l cannot fawn on you. ] have never
done it. If for the last twenty-five years
people among you and the leaders of your
organization have manifested favor toward
me and confidence in me, / shall not say
that IT was for anything ever did TO you.
: shall boast of nothing. There is far too
much OF that being done nowadays, gen
tlemen.
Oh. there are some people that love the
Worktngnen so much, oh, so much! one
day in each year, but who do not know
them the other 1854 days at all, even when
they meet them! 1 shall not come before
you fawning. any more than | did as
young man in Brooklyn when l had the
favor of you all. when you enabled me TO
win great victories at the polls and other
and by your votes. I will not say any
thing that 1 have ever done for you. If
you know nothing yourself that l have
ever done, I am perfectly content. If you
wait for me to repeat II, never, never will
you hear q word from me.
Yes my. friends, came here with some
had to do that that I never did In my life
to do more than speak to you in the plain
est manner. That is what have done in
the past and what I shall continue to do
His references to Hearst we're popular
and again he spoke of Brisbane's column in
an evening paper, saying:
Why, I heard to-day through his pen
100000 a year. It did not read it before
until some one had called, my attention to
| IT, You know. I have very much to do
in this campaign and read the newspapers
almost none. but ] felt exceedingly rich
lor the time being-exceedingly rich
don't know how he must feel. He must
feel an exceeding great contempt of him
self to have to write a hifeling such
things about me or about anybody else,
for the things that he has to write about
the man who hires HIM to write them
LITTLE TAP ON THE HEAD"
The head of the city government. Mr.
Gaynor said, ought to he a man who could
run il in broad. cosmopolitan manner
He should know all the people; he ought
to he part of the mind of the people At
! this stage General Bingham was held IN
| and considered from the Gaynor point of
! view. The candidate objected 10 arrests
when summons would answer. and said
Of course, there are some people who are
! fugitives and all that, and have no resi-
dence' and II may be necessary to take
them. But Why take any of you that have
| home, for petty thing? Navbe Won
! give some fellow little tap on the head
Or something. and maybe he deserves it.
| can't II all wait until the NEXT dav9
! These things. my friends. come home cioSsa
| this city. ' III
The story Of the attempt to close conev
Island Sundays was repeated. and the Nc
Kane convection was rehearsed Then Mr.
Gaynor said Of Coney Island experiences:
! vas innocent enough TO think that the
| Rhole thing was dead and gone forever
But l nave seen the same thing a GOOD
| many years sinCe-these notices given out
a. me opening OF the season that every
pody was going to be closed up and mean
W Ie!is committee of five going around col
leCuHS What they called the defence fund
and a more enormous fund than I could
very wen teI, you here tonight and have
! your full belief Of IT. and nobody ever
| tund was collected all right, and II didn't
! go 10 any of these men around here eitbnr
! That man at the top got IT, and q feu,
! other people shared it with him And If Is
! lot us 10 absolutely kill such a thing in
the CITY or New York, and If it comes nv
way IL pr oBe to kill i deadsr than
lenient to each other. we have to respec1
each others rights And the Wavor ~
the city and those in authority ought TO be
! Just one of us.
SPARES MAYOR AGAIN.
The candidate recalled the attenp+ IN
abolish the moving picture shows, said that
the places We're conducted decentlv and in
order. and continued:
There was no charge against all these of
any lndecency- The ground was that they
ala not IN all respects conform to the FIRE
| ana bullding laws. Why my friends not
! one OF them could get q license until thew
! had the certificate of the Fire Commits
| sioner and the Building Commissioner that
| they had complied with every law neces-
! sary in order TO procure a license That
! has TO be produced before a license is
! granted at all. Yet every one of them wa e
! 70 these people-those miserable whisperers
! that we have in this town when ANYTHING
| like that happens, who come forward and
! tell how much they can get the license
| back for: Pay me so much, and l will gel
/ II back Not that those who revoked il
were in any such thing but it brought
forth this horde of people who do sHcb
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