Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-08-10

WIS rcolncluent With the. ann1h1latfOn o
John 7. McKane, the deiant-Demo
cratic ruler Of Coney Island, who's,
padded list of voters was swung in an,
way that he willed.
In the campaign Gaynor had declar
ed that he would send McKane t.
prison II he attempted to debauch ths
ballot box again. On election day Gay
nor sent watchers to the polling places
having first procured am injunction
which forbade Interference with them.
MeKane's henchmen threw the watch
ers out Of the polling booths, and the
boss himself made the most famous
remark OF his life, "Injunctions don't
go here"
Tint remark practically sent Nc
Kane TO state prison. After election
got the governor to appoint
special deputy attorneys general In or
der to take the prosecution out Of tn,
hands of the boss ridden local dlstrict
attorney, and be threw himself init
the work with energy, thereby exciting
New York as well as Bropklyn. Nc
Kane was sentenced to seven years
sixteen Of his followers were impris
oned, and the value of the injunction
as a legal weapon was ~yindicated-
It was said that Gaynor had spen
$4,000 in his election, all but $1,000 OF
which came from his own pocket, and
recently a correspondent explained
TINT tfo Yanaau nyap y1raI n,o5rlJv ff
stop registration frauds In MCKINNEY
lbailiwick and In the prosecution tina
followed.
The following year David B. ELI
wanted Gaynor to be the Democratic
candidate for governor, but the de.
mands of the Justices supporters wers
embarrassing to the state boss, and thu
Tammany delegates sought to under.
mine Gaynar's chances by circulating
stories to the effect that he had beer
divorced. His friends said he had act
ed chfvalrously In giving bis first wifi
her release.
In 1895 an effort was made to induce
Gaynor to u for mayor of Brooklyn
but he declined ON the ground that the
did not come from n unit
ed Democracy. The following year
found him supporting the free silver
platform Of the Democracy. In a let,
ter he said 1t was q time FOR moral
courage and that the ranks of the PEG
pie were not disordered by the shame
less cry of anarchist and Socialist
was being thrown into theiI
and which was about all that
could be heard from certain quarters
which might prudentiy refrain from
epithets.
Gaynor ON Wealth.
He wrote, among other things:
There Is no jealousy against wealth
n this country. On the contrary,
hose who accumulate wealth, how
great, in any Legitimate calling
professional, mechanical, mercantile
or other, are subjects Oh
emulation and honor. This is true. OF
every locality. 1t is wealth got by
his ean and by that and by tricb
and device out of the public by means
IF public franchises and of laws de,
vised for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of the few
at the expense of the many which Is
under the ban of the splendid intelli
gence and moral III of the people oil.
this country ts,
That was one of Gaynor's first ex
.pressions of opinion in regard to the
accumulationlef wealth, .>, .-s
Mr.. Gaynor was a candidate against
Mcclellan in the Democratic city con
vention in 1903. He received 21s
votes, all but one of the Brooklyn del
egatien. Martin w. Idttleton nomi
Gayner for mayor, saying:
HE Is a great lawyer, a great Judge
and, beyond all, a great man. He has
the moral courage of q martyr, ths
profound learning Of a statesman, tls
conservative wisdom of n Judge, thu
controversial talent Of q lawyer an6
the imperial intellect of a genius"
In 1905 the ~fuslenists nearly took
as their candidate for mayor, u
put the Citizens Union did no look
lpon him favorably ana withdrew
rom the conference. After that Gay
aor publicly declined to@run. f"'-"
He also had a boom for governor In
1906, but Charles f. Murphy wanted
Hearst that year, and the latter was
The Democratic nominee. e@si ts4.. /
Judge Gayner was elected mayor CT
New York at the November election in
1909, defeating William r. Hearst |
of the Independence league
ana Otto L. Barnard, the Republican,
nominee. He succeeded George b. Nc |
Cleilan in January, 1910, md at once
began to demonstrate his. unusuali
qualities as an executive who held all
the retns of government In his OWE
hands and was the responsible driver
of the greatest tallyho coach of munic.
pal administration in the world.
The mayor pays personal attention
TO each department In his vast turis,
One of his first acts was to
issue an order that all EMPLOYEES in the
city offices should be on duty from 0
m. TO 0 p. m. and no clock watchers
be countenanced, He made
sweeping reforms In the police system.
visited the magistrates courts in ner-
son for first hand information and
endeared himself to the people by in
slsting that nobody should be arrested
without good and sufficient cause.
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