Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-30
HEARST CALLS
MAYOR GAYNOR
A wBLATHERSK|TE'
People Will Yet Find You Out"
Editor Tells Execu-
tive.
COMPTROLLER CONFIRMS
some OF THE CHARGES
Legal Action Rumored in 'FOrger
and Falsifier' Charges
Made at Dinner.

NEW YORK. April 30.-Mayor Gay
nor and William Randolph Hearst both
issued statements on the issue of verac-
ity raised at the joint banquet of the
Associated Press and the Newspaper
Publishers Association. when the
Mayor said that Mr.. Hearst was a
forger and a falsifer.
Supplementary statements were is
sued by Comptroller Prendergast. for
mer Comptroller Metz and the district
attorneys office, following rumors that
there was a possibility of future legal
proceedings as a result of the Mayors
address. Mr.. Hearst's statement. in
part, follows:
ut is obvious to anyone hat the
Mayors defense is false upon its face.
His attack upon the American Is en-
tirely disingenuous. and wholly I'M
truthful.
His only claim, when 1t is analysed,
is hat the American failed to print
s clearly the date on a Photographic fac
simile of one of the documents in. the
case against him, although the Ameri-
can carried the same date of the same
document clearly printed in type in the
text of the article.
What q petty bubble for an impor-
tant man, or rather. what a hubble
for a petty man who holds an i'm
portant position.
DR.. JekyK and Mr.. Hyde.
Finally, anybody who can read and
think can see clearly that the date in
question is not the important date, any
how. but that the important date is the
Of January 4, a date in Mayor
@Gaynor's administration, upon which
The payment to Cohalan of $4,000 was
! finally signed and actually authorized.
J The January 4 signature was affixed
by the assistant chamberlain in the
office of Chamberlain Hyde, Mr.. cay
nor's law partner.
This latter gentleman, who is popu-
larly known as .Gaynor's thick Hyde
is not only Gaynor's law partner, but
the person who figured conspicuously in
Gaynor's golf ball decision in favor of
race track gambling. The two con-
gtitute the DIR. JekyI.hand Mr.. Hyde
of law and politics.
MIR. Chamberlain Hyde claims thai
his assistant chamberlain is a hold
over from the last administration.
But assuredly he is a very permanent
holdover, for he is still assistant ham
berlain, although the last administra-
ton has been four months out of office.
Mr.. Hyde might go SO far as to ex-
plain why this same assistant cham-
berlain was not allowed to sign the
CohaIa warrant under the last admin-
istration, and why he was allowed to
sign the warrant under the present adj
ministration.
MIR. Gaynor says the American does
a not print clearly. 1 say that Mr.. Cay
Enor does not answerRclearly.
"And the really important thing is
%,r Mr.. Gayner. Mayor of New York,
Guardian of 1.-THE peoples property, to
swer clearly and quickly.
Say your law partner paid the war
ut, IL you please, MI. Gaynor; say
bur law partners assistant paid it.
please, but at least explain why
warrant which the former admin
a stration held up as exorbitant vas
l%,aid by your administration without
E,uestion and without investigation.
Hearst Demands Explanation.
Answer, Mayor Gaynor. as a matter
3f duty, as a matter of decency and as
pa matter of public policy.
was not Cohalan the intermediary
between you and Charley Murphy, inc
was he not largely instrumental in get
ting you the Tammy Hall nomination?
WAS not Cohalan concerned in the
attempt to steal for you the nomina-
ton of the Independence League, which
piece of political porch-climbing JUS
tice Gerard, an honest judge, effectual-
ly stopped?
did not Comptroller Prendergast.
after YOU had been seated as mayor.
call your attention to the warrant for
Cohalan's 4 5000, which was in your
Office?
Did not Comptroller Prendergast ex-
plain to you what 1t was and tell you
that IL you would send the warrant
hack to him he would make a COM
psete report on 1t and go to the bottom
of the matter?
"Did you not then fail to send the
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 A, 1910?
"Stop talking about the date that did
not print and say a few words about
the date that did print.
"BIathcrskite Abuse,
ITO your blatherskyte abuse I am
Indifferent, for in all such matters I
consider the ource and the natural
Irritation that a public official feels in
being exposed.
IA man or a newspaper that seeks
sincerely to serve the people and pro-
feet their rights and their property
must always expect the antagonism and
abuse of the public official who Is ex-
posed and pilloried.
Now, 1 know perfectly we'll what Is
going to happen to you. Mr.. Gaynor.
N"The people are going eventually to
find YOU out and repudiate you, and
tan both you and our thick Hyde
"And even those newspapers that are
now trucking ard lickspittling to you
in the hope of securing the city diver
Using, will in the end sacrifice those
lucrative contracts for the priceless
privilege of telling the truth about