The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-02
HEARST DISCUSSES
GAYNOR CHARGES
He Makes Light of the Attack
Made By the Mayor
ONLY A PETTY QUIBBLE
Hearst Declares That Gayncr Is Wrong
la ryta Claim host fSc n-te o,, "a
ONLY A PETTY QU1BBLE
La Ills Claim Abo..t tie Date or
Certain Document Published
IN Paper

New York, May 1.--(SpecisD-w william
f. Hearst has returned TO New Yorl
after an absence of several weeks.
| In response to requests for interviews
from various papers Mr. Hearst hs.
given out the following signed statemer
in reference to the sensational Gaynol
charges:
II am not entirely familiar with al
the charges against Mayor Gaynor oil
his attempt to divert attention from
them by an attack upon the American
have just returned from Mexico.
at is obvious to any one, however
that the mayors defense is false upor
It's face. His attack upon the American
is entirely heterogeneous and wholly IN.
| truthful.
His only claim, when 1t is analysed
Is that the American failed TO print clear
| ~ a date on one of the Photographic
| fac SMILES of one of the documents
| against him, although the American car.
ried the same date of the same docu-
ment clearly printed in type in the text
| of the story.
What a pretty bubble for an import
ant man, or, rather what a bubble for
a petty man who holds an important Of
flee Anybody who knows the high char
acter of the gentlemen who edit the
American knows that no matter how
much they despise Mayor Gaynor they
would never seek to take an unfair ad-
vantage of him. Anybody who knows the
ability of the gentlemen who edit the
American knows that If they had desired
to omit the date of any document they
would not have been so childish as to
print the date conspicuously in the type
while they were leaving it out of the
picture.
Not an Important Date
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
date of January 4, a date in Mayor Gay
nor's administration upon which the pay
ment to Cohalan of $4,000 was finally
signed and actually authorized. The jan
uary 4 signature was affixed by the assis-
tant chamberlain in the office of Chant
beriain Hyde, Mr.. Gaynor's law partner.
signature was affixed by the assistant
chamberlain in the office of Chamberlain
Hyde Mr.. Gaynor's law partner.
This latter gentleman. who is popu-
larly known as 'Gaynor's thick Hyde
is not only Gaynor's law partner, but
Is the person who figured conspicuousiy
in Gaynors golf ball decision in favor of
race track gambling.
The two constitute the DR.. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde of law and politics. Mr.. Cham
berlain Hyde claims that his assistant
chamberlain is hold-over from the last
| administration.
But assuredly he is a very permanent
| hold-over for he is still assistant cham
| ber1ain, although the last administration
| has been four months out of office. Mr.
| Hyde might go so far as to explain why
| this same assistant was not allowed to
| sign the Cohalan warrant under the
last administration and why he was al
/ lowed TO sign the warrant under the
| present administration.
"Why do not Mr. Gaynor and his thick
| Hyde discuss the date of January 4
about which there is no question OF
| bad printing: about which there is mere
| " question of bad administration?
"Why do Mr.. Gaynor and Mr.. Hyde &C
earnestly seek to avoid the real issue
and devote themselves to the technical
ties of newspaper printing? Mr.. Gaynol
| says the American does not print clearly
| IT say that Mr.. Gaynor does not an
swer clearly. And the really important
| thing is for Gaynor, mayor of New YORK
guardian of the peoples property, tc
answer clearly and quickly.
| Paid Without Question
Say your law partner paid the war
rant. if you please, but at least say why
| the warrant which the former admins
| tration held up as exorbitant was paie
by your administration without question
| ANSWER, Mr. Gaynor, as a matter o.
| duty. as a matter of decency and as 6
matter of policy.
| WAS not Cohalan the intermediary be-
| tween you and Charley Murphy? Ano
was he not largely instrumental in get
| ting YOU the Tammany Hall nomination
Was not Cohalan concerned in the at
tempt to steal for you the nomination
of the independence League, which piece
OF political porch-clin2bing Justice Ger
ard, an honest judge, effectually stop
ped?
"Did not COMPTROLLER Prendergast, af
| lei, YOU had been seated as mayor, cal
| your attention to the warrant for Co
| halan's $4,000, which was in your office
Did not Comptroller Prendergast ex
| plain to you what it was and tell yot
| that if you would send the warrant bacl
| to him he would make a complete re
port on it and go to the bottom Of thu
| matter?
did you not thank Comptroller Prem
| dergast and say 1t was true that thes,
| la Wyers in such cases were getting too
much from the city?
did YOU not then fail to send thu
| warrants back to the comptroller ant
fail to ask for the report. but did YOU
| not on the contrary allow this padded fe'
to go through unquestioned on Januar!
l. 1910?
| int un6 words