Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-03-10
GAYNOR TO FOLLOW TAFT?
Boom Under Way by Western
Democrats.
New York Mayor Landed for gy,s linn.
eSty-Plnns to snve sIc OOO.OO0
for City-PcndereastI Ia Work.
Ing out Mig budget Cut.

New York, March Henry n. Hughes.
WI" S"NS ne represents majority If
.ne democratic OF Missouri. will visit
Mayor taynor and invite him to be tho
principal guest at the Jefferson Dav
banquet TO be held in Springfield Mo.
on April IL. The Invitation extended bv
MT hushes. who Ia chairman OF the
dinner committee. will carry with II the
inference all invitation for Mayo-
Ihynor TO become a candidate for tho
democratic nomination for president in
isl1' While the dinner Ia the idea Of dem
ocrats or southwestern Missouri. Il has
been planned to make II national inscope
and prominent democrats from all Owe,
the United states Will be asked to pres
ent to pledge their support to Mayor
Gaynor II he shall consent to attend 4
Is believed In the west aud southve..
Mr. Hughes says. TINT MAYOR Gtvuor
occupies stronger position before hs
party than any man in It's ranks today.
al that II he will consent to r;n bfs
candidacy will have the effect or re-
uniting the party from coast 20 coast,
Mayor Gaynor," said Mr.. Hughes.
will have the hearty support Of Mr.
Bryan and Of men like Colonel Waiter
son Mr.. Bryan has never forgotten tho
aid he received from Mayor Gaynor in
1886 particularly Mayor Gaynors sneech
for him In that year. and being himself
out OF the presidential race VIII throw
the weight Of his great Influence to May-
or Gaynor's candidacy II he Will consent
to run.
In speaking OF Mayor Gaynor's stand
Ing with the democratic voters OF the
west. Mr.. Hughes said
He is as much discussed IN the ives,
and southeast as he is In The city Of New
York This on the score that actions
speak louder than words. Interest first
centered In him when he made hls
campaign for his present office and has
been growing keener every day since.
Within a week after he took Office yol
might say that every democratic eye in
the west has been turned on him ana
now he Is practically national tigure
When he was running last fall be cam
paign pledges were accepted as iuterest
ing. but probably misleading The car-
didate who was going TO clean Up his
city and put an end to graft was an oil
story and New York politics was az
Older story still. Democrats all over the
United States now recognize that Mr.
Gaynor has made good He Is nobody-s
man. he plays no favorites, and his ad-
ministratlon OF his office Is marked not
only by rtged honesty, but by high
efficiency. Again the recent scandal In
the republican party in this State would
make 1t seem hard that this organiza ton
will have hard time TO regain Its old
prestage with New York voters and that
II the right kind OF a candidate were put
up New York ought to go democratic at
the next presidential election.
TO SAVE sl2onTO FOR THE CITY.
Comptroller Prendergast in a statement
he has prepared on the present condition
Of the cit-'s finances showed tina, he ex-
poets to save more than 81, 900 600 on the
budget for this year. The appropriations
made in this budget amounted to 1888. 49,
go but Mr.. Prendergast expects to keep
down the expenditures at slJl,rO00. Mr.
Prendergast is also planning to exiting
uish about s3s 90 of revenue bonds
which are outstanding because taxes in
anticipation Of which they were issued
are uncollectable.
NEW YORK REVENUE Sl21IqcO
State comptroller Clark williams in his
annual report says that the revenue re-
ceipts during the last fiscal wear were
&3l III 80. The largest items OF these rev.
enues were: Taxes on corporation H.J7l-
va; tax on transfers Of deccdents. as
tatss. %*p,HS: stamp tax on stock
transfers. s. a8. 54s; excite taxes. E.l4o-
6A tax on recording mortgages lisa
sci. Inheritance tax law changes. which
istratlon Of this law, are recommended.
especially In cutting out attorneys fees
and hereafter attorneys will not be en-
ployed 70 represent the comptroller in
these cases except on appeal or in nom
resident estates The comptroller also
recommends that permanent appraisers
be appointed in the smaller counties ~
the state at salaries ranging from $50
to $500 each all under competitive civil
service
To FIGHT ADIRONDACK SCHEME.
The association for tho protection
Of the Adirondacks is wholly opposed
10 the concurrent resolution introduced
in the Legislature by Senator Coats and
asseublyman Merritt, proposing an am
endment to the State constitution which
would permit lands In fore., preserve 70
be used for water storage and develop
ment OF electrical power. ard for the
construction OF highways by the State
The proposed amendment also suthoriz
es the forest. fish and game commission
10 remove dead and down timber and to
lease camp sites on State lands The as
ISOLATION numbers among Its trustees J.
Pierpont Morgan. Harry Payne Whitney.
Alfred c. Vanderbilt, John q. Agar.
William II. Boardman David Mcclure,
Henry Phipps and William G. Rockefel-
Ter. Henry q. Rowland. New York
lawyer, is president, and Edward Hag-
aman Hall. secretary. A statement by
the association says:
AT one time and another each and al
of the provisions Of the Merritt amend
ment OF 1910 coming from the northern
New York power and water storage de-
velopment associations, have been put
forward and defeated, largely through
the constant watchfuness and oppos-
ton of those interested in the protection
OF tho Adronoacks. The association Is
totally opposed to this Merritt amend
ment, and to all schemes behind IT,"
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