The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-09-24
MAYOR GAYNOR
PLANS VAR ON THE
YELLOW PRESS
Ready to Do His Share In
Stamping Out Papers That
Make Speciality of Ass.
assination
NOT SURPRISED AT
ATTEMPT ON LIFE

New York, Sept. 23.--Mayor William
j. Gaynor, in a letter to his sister,
Miss Mary Il. Gaynor of Utica, N. Y,
which was printed this afternoon In the
Evening Post, tells of his impressions at
the time he was shot on the steamship
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. The may.
or said he did not read a line of what
has been published of the shooting nor
did he remember the name Of the man
who shot him. Mayor Gaynor wrote:
81 was standing On the deck talking
with Commissioner Thompson, Lederle,
Edwards, Corporation Counsel Watson,
my secretary, Nj. Robert Adamson and
several friends who had come aboard
to see me off," Mr.. Mont, president
OF Chile, and Mrs. Mont had just pass.
ed by and l had spoken a few words
with them.
"Mr. Adamson pointed out that the
ship was dressed in flags for me, but
! said | did not think is was for me.
My next consciousness was q terrible
metallic roar in my head. 1t filed my
head which seemed as though it would
burst open. 1t sweIled to the highest
pitch and then fell, and then rose again
and so alternated lhtil it subsidized into
a continuous buzz. II was sickening but
my somach did not give way. / was
meanwhile entirely sightless.
al do not think / fell, for when /
became conscious / was on my feet. /
supposed they saved me from falling,
and they were supporting me. My
sight gradually returned so that after q
while / could see the deck and the out.
lines of the crowd around me-. 1 be.
came conscious that | was choking.
Blood was coming from my mouth and
] tried all i could to swallow it 80
those around me would not see it. But
| found | could not swallow and then
knew my throat was hurt. / strug-
gled to breathe through my mouth but
could not, and thought I was dying of
s%trangulation. / kept thinking all the
time the best thing to do.
sin some way l happened to close
my mouth tight and found l could
breathe perfectly through my noes.
then believed l could keep from smoth.
ering, but ! kept choking and my mouth
kept opening to cast out the blood.
81 was not q bit afraid to die if
that was Gods will of me. l said Ia
myself, just as well now as a few years
from now. No one who contemplates
the immensely of Almighty God and
of His universe aud HIS works and re.
allies what an atom he is in il all, can
fear to die in this flesh, yea, e"en
though it were true that he is to be dis,
solved forever into tie infnity of mat,
ter and mind from which he came.
"Though the thing had not entered
my head that morning, / was not sur
prised wen ! realized that I was shot,
I had had a feeling for some weeks
that I might be assaulted on account
of the anonymous threats l was getting
by mail. I had not received 80 many
nor so regularly since I was opposing
the ring control and the McKane con,
ditions in Brooklyn and Gravesend when
| was a young man."
Mayor Gaynor in his letter scored
certain newspapers for the manner in
which they had attacked him, saying;
"Such journalism is, of course, in alb.
solute defiance to the criminal law and
II did not enter my mind to publicly
call on the grand jury and the district
attorney to protect me from it, but !
was weak and feared people would cal
me thin.skinned. But the time IN a,
hand when these journalistic scoundrels
have got to stop or get out and l an
ready now to do my share to that end
They are absolutely without souls. II
decent people would refuse to look al
such newspapers, the thing would right
itself at once. The journalism Of New
York has been dragged to the lowest
depth of degradement and fair discus,
sion have gone IN unchecked. One can
not help sympathizing with the decen,
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