New-York tribune., 1909-10-30
WORST BLOW OF ALL
TIGER KNOCKED OUT.
Cur" Letter Shoes Gaynor
Needs a Guardian.

Running amuck' is the way that even
some of the Tammany men at Tammany
Hall yesterday referred TO Judge Gaynor
and his outburst against \. b. Kerr. presi-
dent of the Blnnard Campaign Club. whom
the Judge without the slightest provoca-
ton, called a eur"
Tammany has a pretty strong stomach
for campaign epithets but even Tammany
is becoming sqUeamish over Gaynor- The
Tammany men thought he had gone pretty
nearly the Emit when he said he was stand
ing on ms head. and used the word ..puke''
in successive speeches. but yesterday they
were stunned by his latest outbreak in bis
letter 70 Mr.. Kerr.
The judge don't need campaign mana
ger as much as a guardian" was the way
one of the district leaders put 4 yesterday
Following up his platform declaration
that he did not want TO be elected unless
a friendly Board Of Estimate and Appor-
tionment was chosen with him. the judge
has made an appeal by advertisement for
votes for Moore and Calvin There il no
longer any hope on the part OF the we'll
informed politicians in Tammany Hall that
Moore or Calvin, or the Tammany county
or borough ticket, for that matter, has any
chance OF election. This would be bad
enough in itself. but the desperation Of the
candidates is aggravated by the daily bad
breaks on the part OF the judge.
The greatest astOnishment was mani
tested in and around 18th street yesterday
over the judges last outbreak-the one
against Mr.. Kerr. Democrats asked one
another yesterday. 'If he viii go OF the
handle and abuse a stranger who asks
proper question. what will happen II he Is
elected when the Mayors ofice is besiesed
from day to day with persons with an
sorts of exasperating requests?''
sigh Of relief win so up on Monday
night when the curtain is rung down on ths
campaigning The happiest men In town
will be the Tammany campaign managers.
who have had the toughest experiences
of their lives in trying to hold the ma
chine vote together
Charles F. Murphy is embarrassed over
the estimates turned in by the district Lead
ers- The executive committee win meet
this afternoon at o'clock The custom ls
for the leader to give out an estimate. The
canvasses seem to show Gaynor a winner.
but give little hope for Moore and Calvin
and the other candidates on the county ard
borough tickets. But Mr.. Murphy says
that everything is fine and that Gaynor
will get as many votes as the other two
candidates together.
Mr.. Murphy was asked IL he had any
thing more to say about the meeting be-
tween Mr.. Hearst and himself at the Man
haitian Hotel in 1904. and whether IL was
Hearst's bank account that was q candi-
date for President and not Hearst himself.
and he declared that he had nothing TO say
about any phase OF the matter. II was up
to Mr.. Hearst
Another big disappointment is Joe Cas-
/ sidy, in Queens. He was the first man tn
/ spring the Gaynor boom, and at the De
ginning everything looked rosy for him
/ Now il looks as if he would be beaten and
/ that Gresser will be his own successor. In
! Tammany Hall Cassidy is blamed almost
as much as Gaynor himself for the break
/ down in the campaign II is believed now
/ that Cassidy running for President OF
/ Queens viii cost Gaynor at least i've thou
/ sand votes
The College Mems Democratic League OF
/ the City OF New York will hold a mass
meeting in Carnegie Lyceum tomorrow
/ evening. Among the speakers viii be Rob
ert r Moore, John F. Calvin. George Cor
don Battle, Joseph Haag, Dudley Field
Malone and William P Burr. Professor
Leslie j. Tompkins viii preside