The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-21
CAYNOR'S BOOM
GROWING FAST
Tammany Leaders Say Mayor
Will Surely Be Named
for Governor.
EXPECTATION is THAT
HE WILL DECLINE HONOR
Can Then Become Leader of
New York Democrats and
Presidential Probability.
BY ROBERT LEE CARTER,
, Leased Wire to The Tribune.

BY Leased Wire to The Tribune
NEW YORK. Aug. 20,-Mayor Gay
nor will be nominated by the Demo
Gratis for governor of New York by ac'
clsmation This is the news brought
by the Tammany members of the Dem
ocratic state committee from the Sara
toga meeting of the committee, Here
is how one of the Tammany leaders
sizes up the situation:
''When the committee disposes of the
preliminary business in Rochester on
September % or 80 and the time comes
to nominate candidates, take it as a
prophecy that about half the men IN
the hail will rise up and begin to shout
the name of Gaynor. No other name
will be mentioned. No other candidate
will be foolish enough TO try to buck
against the sentiment that will be ap'
parent.
Increased Popularity.
"Mayor Gaynor was really the
logical choice before he was shot. His
serious injury, his game struggle and
his suffering in the hospital have all
served to fan into flame the popularity
that has been smouldering ever since
election. The feeling OF the people to-
ward Mayor Gaynor is reflected In the
attitude OF the New York press The
Republican papers which opposed him
most bitterly were most sincere in their
tributes to his character and ability
the day after the shooting.
"Tammany Hall does not want
Mayor Gaynor TO run for governor.
While the mayor has not been particu-
larly good to Tammany Hall in the al
lotment of patronage, he IS a Tam
many mayor Just the same, and Tam
many wants to get the credit for his
election and for the carrying out of
his policy. Tammany Hall suffers an
icy chill when considering the pros
poets of John Percy Mitchell succeed
ing Mayor Gaynor.
+" Now here is TammanY s hope Tam
many knows Gaynor viii be nominated.
Tammany- hopes Gaynor will refuse.
Then il would be necessary to recon.
vene the convention for the purpose OF
accepting his declination. There is a
precedent for this i'll the case of John
R"vd Thatcher. who declined to run
arier he was nominated The conven-
tion Ieassemblrd and nominated David
Bennett Hill
Ground for Declination.
''Rcmember that Mayor Gaynor had
pledged himself TO serve the people Of
New York City four years as mayor,
He could put his declination of his nom
ination on the high ground of the full
fillment of a solemp promise to 5.oo0,-
900 people,
Naturally. should Mayor Gaynor be
nominated. and should he refuse to run,
he would be given the privilege of nam,
ing the candidate. He would be the
dictator, for the time being, of the
Democratic party of the state of New
York.
''Should Mayor Gaynor sacrifice
what looks like certainty of being
the governor of New York for the pur-
pose of remaining in New York City
and carrying ont his common sense
policy, he would become the Tilden of
his party.
nThe road to the White house
would be open, because, with the united
party back of him. he would be accept
able TO run against even such a man
as Roosevelt The third term idea
would hurt Roosevelt in running
against man of Mayor Gaynor s
standing.
'EThere is the situation. You will
find the march of events leading the
inevitable nomination OF Mayor Gay
nor at Rochester, Wherever Mayor
Gaynor goes to convalesce from his
injury, that spot will be the mecca OF
the Democrats of this state, just as
Tilden's Gramercy Park home was
the mecca Of the Democrats of his
time -