The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-30
Mayor and Editor Cast.
Aspersions on Each
Others Veracity.
STATEMENTS ARE
ISSUED BY BOTH
Hearst Reiterates Charge That
Mayor Permitted Padded Fee
to Be Paid-Latter Claims to
Have Known Nothing of
1t, or to Have Signed
Warrant.

New York, April 2s,--Mayor Gaynof
and William Randolph Hearst both Is
sued statements tonight on the issue
OF veracity raised last night at the
Joint banquet OF the Associated Press
and the Newspaper publishers Associa-
ton. when the Mayor said that Mr..
Hearst was forger and a falslfier.
Supplementary statements were issued
by Comptroller Prendergast. former
Comptroller Metz and the district at
torney's office. following rumors that
there was possibility OF future legal
proceedings as result of the Mayors
address last night. Mr.. Hearst's state
| ment follows:
| Il am not entirely familiar with all
| the accusations against Mayor Gaynor
or his attempt to divert attention from
| the issue by an attack on the Amer.
lean. I have just returned from Mex
leo. 1t is obvious 10 any one, how
ever. that the Mayors defense Is false
upon it's face. His attack upon tho
American is entirely disingenuous and
wholly untruthful. His only claim,
when 1t is analyzed is that the Amer
lean failed to print clearly the date
on a Photographic fac-simile of ono
of the documents in the case against
him, although the American carried
the same date of the same document
clearly printed in type In tho text OF
the article.
"a Petty auibblc."
What petty quibhle for an inn
portant man. or rather what a quib-
lble for petty man who holds an inn
! lnortant position.
| FINALLY, anybody who can read and
| think can see clearly that the date
/ in question is not the important date
tanyhow, hut that the important date
| is the date OF January 4, date IN
/ Mayor Gaynor's administration upon
| which the payment to Cohaian OF $4s,-
| 900 was finally signed and actually au-
| thorized. The January 4 signature was
I affixed by the assistant chamberlain
| In the office OF Chamberlain Hyde. Mr..
| Gaynor's law partner
This latter gentleman. who is
popularity known as Gaynor's thick
Hyde. is not only Gaynor's law partner.
uousl; In Gaynor's golf ball decision
In favor OF race-track gambling.
Say your law partner paid the
warrant, II you please, Mr.. Gaynor; say
your law partners assistant paid it.
II you please: but It least explain why
q warrant which the former admins
tration held up as exorbitant was paid
by your administration without ques-
ton and without investigation.
Answer. Mayor Gaynor. as a mattM'
of duty, as matter of decency and as
matter OF public policy.
WAS not Cohalan the intermediary
between you and Charles Murphy. and
was he not largely instrumental in
getting you the Tammany Han noni-
nation?
"was not Cohalan concerned in the
| attempt to steal for you the nonlina-
| tion of the Independence League,
which piece of political porch-climbing
| Justice Gerard. an honest judge. effects
ually stopped?
.Dtd not Comptroller Prendergast,
| after you had been seated as Mayor,
| call your attention to the warrant Tor
| Cohalan's $4,000, which was in youS
| office?
| Told What 1t Was.
| "Did not Comptroller Prendergast
| cxplain to YOU what 1t was and tell
! Won that If you would send the war
| rant back to him he would make
| complete report on 1t and so to the
| bottom of the matter?
"Did you not thank Comptroller
Prendergast and say that these law
| yers in such cases were getting TOO
much from the city?'
'Did you not then fail to send tho
warrant back to the comptroller and
fail to ask for the report. but did
YOU not on the contrary allow this
padded fee to go through unquestioned
on January s, 1910?
stop talking about the date that
did not print and say few words
about the date that did print.
ITO your blatherskite abuse am
Indifferent, for in all such matters I
consider the source and the natural
irritation that a public official feels IN
being exposed
NOV. I know perfectly Well what IS
goins TO happen to you, Mr. Gaynof.
''The people are going eventually to
| lind you out and repudiate you, and
tan both you and your thick Hyde
And even those newspapers that
are now trucking and lick-spitttng 20
| You in the hope or securing the City
advertising will IN the END saorluee
those lucrative contracts for the price.
less privilege of telling the truth about
YOU"
Gaynor's Statement.
/ For the Mayor, Robert Adamson, his
private secretary, gave out the follow
'The Mayor Is not required 70 sign
warrants at all, They are made out
aNQ SlSneu W WIG S-p''iftt, - -,
i then BY the chief clerk OF the Mayors
office, under authority OF the charter.
over a75,ooo such drafts are aignet In IN
1 a wear, some days over 1000, Tho
4 lMayor has never signed one, The (Cp-
Inalanl claim was for legal services In
1.-The franchise taN suits, Several Law
yers We're paid, including Judge NJ
ton n. y Parker. The claim was audited
land filed last necember after. much
Eevidence WAS taken, and thereby be-
z came a legal Claim against the CITY,.
4 Mayor Ciaynor never had anything to-
+ do With H."