New-York tribune., 1909-10-28
ON THE ROCKY ROAD
WITH G4FN0R MAYOR.
Ride to Dublin Guaranteed by
Candidate.


Road 10 Dublin. That reference has caused
a laugh every time he has made il. and
this persistence in carrying it around with
him was due TO the way 1t took at his first
meeting. 1t comes in when he talks about
tho closing. or threatened closing, of Coney
Island about the big Police Commissioners
who. Just about three weeks before the
opening of the season. threatens Ito shut
down the swan boats and-and-the Rocky
Road to Dublin" Great laughter)
It has never failed. 1t didn't fail last
night There was a German meeting at
Terrace Garden. in 5Sth street. where only
a half filed hail awaited him about five
hundred persons in all. Thence he went to
the Bohemians. Hhe were, assembled IN
National Hall. in East 73d street, and there
he got really cordial reception from
seven hundred men and women. At Cooper
Union the Italians who believed I'm him
numbered about five hundred. and empty
seats stared at the candidate: whereas up
al the Yorkviile Casino there was a crowd
ed hall, twelve hundred persons being pres
ent
NTADOO a NEW ADVOCATE.
Mr.. Gaynor had A new advocate last
night in William MeAdoe. vino was Police
the city conditions, he let his audience
infer. When Mr.. MeAdoo becomes impas-
stoned he has a real twang to his talk. and
he had it at the Yorkville Casino, where
the meeting was under the auspices of
committee of Jewish societies. when he de-
elared that Charles f. Murphy was as
good as SO per cent of lis defamers and de-
tractors This sentiment was eheered. Mr.
0IcAdoo has been enlisted to deny the red
light story.
The former Commissioner asserted that
there were as many virtuous women on
the East Side as in any other part of the
city, and he declared that morbid observers
and women IN silken gowns went down
into the East Side as they would into
menagerie or else to exploit themselves
under the guise of philanthropy. He said
that when he was first appointed Police
Commissioner Charles f. Murphy said to
him: II want you to use full police power
10 stamp out the cadets and prostitutes of
the red light district" He said that
Charles +. Murphy was 30 per cent more
honorable than the men who maligped
him" Speaking of the police, Mr.. McAdoo
asserted that there was more morality in
Mulberry street than there was in Wall
Street Throughout his speech he denied
that there was any white slave traffic
on the East Side.
The Tammany candidate for Mayor had
a good word to say for each nationality,
and told each what he would do fer it
if he became Mayor The Bohemians and
Germans heard much about personal lib
erty, and he assured the former that it
would not be amiss if at times the Police
Commissioner winked both eyes very hard,
a,,I might
it, There had been graft-plenty Of tin
former administrations. the candidate said,
but there would be none under him. He
made his long speech to the Germans, He
said
I thought | would say tonight s prellm- elm
munity and TO the other candldaIeSsma S.-5
the eandidates--on all the tickets. l found
that to-day ] received in all fourteen. iee-
ters with tickets for balls and enteftam-
ments Of all kinds, church iaFs anu
everything you could enumerate. ana l
have been receiving them ever since me
campaign opened. and l suppose every
one on every ticket has been receiving
them. and I have answered each letter IN
MY Dear Madam. OF. Ny Dear Sir:
Section 413 of the Penal Code. makes II
criminal offence to try to sell tickets to
candidate for Office, or 10 get money from
him i'm any way, and therefore l am
unable to take your tickets.
TOUCHES" TOO FREQUENT.
And ] have kept that up until now the
letters are becoming frequent as we
come toward the end OF the campaign
candidates running for Office / would point
not only to the absolute indelicacy OF peo-
pie standing candidates UP for money, but.
mere than that. to the fact that in this
stae II is made crime by Section 4lS of
the Penal Code
| say this for the benefit of all of those
be stopped, except, possibly, | may leave
Mr.. Hearst out, because he is promising
everything now before election, after ne
gets elected and maybe he wants so much
TO do something for the COED people that
elected. SO ! leave him free 10 get all
the tickets and send all the money from
now until the election if j he can & get
around that section OF the Penal Code,
which ! do not intend to try to do.
After assuring the audience that man
should be qualified for the office lie was
running for, the candidate declared ,hat he
knew all about the duties OF Mayor, while
some other candidate had no doubt never
read the charter. To illustrate, he said:
Would ] assume to 20 into brewery 10
Try and make beer and run a brewery, or
into a betting eSta blishment. with its ma
Chinery, and 20 10 making betting, or even
into a grocery store and try 10 run gro
ce1y store and know the prices Of things
and how 40 mark them and how 10 sell
them! Why. J would be bankrupt in a
week: I would know nothing about it. And
Yet We think We can take here i'm New
York and put a man in as Mayor who
knows nothing about the government of the
city and have him succeed. Do they think
that anywhere ia Europe? No nowhere in
the world, and VIC are getting oyer think
ing so.
And vet ther say. "oh. We Hill so right
in snd rnn il just we run our private
( business" Why. just think OF it! You
run your private business just as YOU like
mp or down. and You do with it just a s you
/ like. but the Aayor of New York cannot
do what he likes. He is hedced in on all
sides with all kinds of checks and con-
/ ditionS and he has got TO Slide and glide
and pick his way TO Them, aud evade some
/ Of them. and accomplish his duty i'm that
/ way. Why, if lie tried 10 do il without
/ regarding those things that bind him
about. or 3s he would conduct q private
/ business he would be in states prison in
= month.
THE "OLD DOG" AGAIN.
( Mr.. Gaynor said that.s candidates rec
ord. the record Of his life, should be clean.
( and added:
Do you know that when man does
! right and goes straight. up To forty or
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