Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-11
Outside Point of View.

Mayor Gaynor. of New York, is ia
coming to the front as another type
of the public man. all good citizens
delight in honoring. He is really car
hying out his prediction promises.
Many feared, and some hoped, he
would be the tool Of Tam7nany. The
press Of New York, City with one or
two exceptions during the city cam
paign, fought him savagely, and some
Of them with the best of motives He
has not forgiven them and even now
will not be interviewed" having so
little faith in the ubiquitous reporter
that Mayor Gaynor only gives out his
opinions and proposed future actions,
in the form Of type written copy, which
all papers share alike. Strange to
tell, his selection of a private secre-
tary was a reporter and writer for a
daily paper that opposed his election
and gave good reasons as it seemed
TO the editorial manager, for SO doing.
New York City has begun the in
stallment of the largest waterworks
system in the world. the cost probably
being in the vicinity of s50,0o0,0o0
Commissioners We're appointed at good
salaries for the preliminary work.
Mayor Gaynor soon after his inaug-
uration removed them. giving as his
reason they had already cost the city
Of New York, 100000 and had done
nothing. Mayor Gaynor found some
of the city aldermen allowed" the city
to pay for the telephones in their res
licences. He promptly sent these al
dermen bills for back pay" and re-
fused to allow any such future fnan-
ciai operations. Tammany recon
m ended certain appoin tments. He
turned them down A city missionary
asked for permit to preach in the
streets in the Jewish quarters. Mayor
Gaynor refused on the grounds it
would annoy the Jews, who were as
good citizens as we have when they
lived up to their faith and PROSECUTING
was unwise and unnecessary. New
York City has Sunday closing ordin-
ance. 1t was a dead letter insofar as
the saloons were concerned. Mayor
Gaynor issued orders to the police
force not to go into these saloons and
buy drinks to secure evidence, but to
watch these back door Sunday saloons,
get good evidence, swear out warrants.
Monday morning and see to it that
conviction followed. Mayor Gaynor
almost as soon as he became mayor
notified the fireworks manufacturers
that there would be "a sane 4th of
July, 1870" in New York City. That
neither the sale nor use OF the usual
celebration celebration sanpnwder and dynamite
explosives would be allowed.
OF course he has done many other
things not the least being the showing
up of Hearst and his yellow journal.
The foregoing have been mentioned to
illustrate this point. New York City
has now q mayor, that II governing
that big city in the interests Of the
people. Not the politicians. not one
class, not the rich and not the poor.
And better than all not in the inter-
ests of the republican or democratic
party. He fears neither the opposition
OF Tammany nor the 400" He caters
neither to tine press nor Iiis pulpit. &c
knows neither Broadway. nor the ten
derloin district. He recognizes condi-
tons and attempts control rather than
spasmodic prohibition. And mark this.
In every one of these mentioned acts
of power he has made hundreds IL not
thousands Of enemies. Powerful ones
among the wealthy, and equally SO