The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-08-16

clothes. Why he should want to wear
pea Jacket in the house may be diff
ficult TO figure out, but he has used
II as another man would use smok-
ing jacket. The golf cap is no beacon
light to the links; Gaynor wears 1t
not because Of golf but because Of Its
comfort and It's appropriateness to a
long walk.
Unconditional, but Polite.
During his campaign for the mayor
atty 1t was said by Gaynor's opponents
that he was a cold, unresponsive per
son, with little OF the human in his
manner. but the correspondents who
visited him at his city home and at his
farm painted a far different picture Of
his personality. One of them wrote:
"You are Immediately at ease with
him, not because of any effort on his
part to put you so, but rather the con-
trary-rather because he receives you
in 80 matter Of fact fashion that 1t
seems like the resumption of con-
versation ended an hour or so ago.
"He Is neither demonstrative nor
impolite. He hears what you have to
, say, considers 1t with that contempla-
tive look and either refuses in an un-
emotional manner to do what you
want or tells you to wait until he has
got rid of the visitor In the next room.
Then he goes into the next room, and.
despite the closed door, you can tell by
the sounds that proceed from It that
he is doing all the talking. While his
voice is not piercing, 1t has certain
resonant tang to 1t that makes its way
through doors, and there Is no mistak-
ing that slow, dispassionate, deliberate
delivery for that of any other man on
earth. IF Mr. Gaynor had to call any
body Il liar to his face 1t is very doubt
full If his tone of voice or his freight
car delivery would change an iota."
Immediately after Mr.. Gaynor sue
of New York in January, 1910, the gen.
eral public began to sit up and take
notice that an interesting individualist
was in the executive chair. As a jur-
list and a citizen he had criticised most
caustically the police sy3tem of tho
city, and he soon began to get after
this system in strenuous fashion. Plain
clothes men were sent back to pound
sidewalks in uniform. District and
precinct commanders were transferred,
and the police were gwen to under
stand that they were the city's serv-
ants, not its masters. The mayor
"snooped around" considerably, see
ing with his own eyes how the patrol
men and their superior officers were
| executing their duties Or assuming au-
thority which the law did not allow
them, He visited the night courts and
took notes, as a result Of which he
published letter declaring that most
| OF the arrests of persons brought into
these courts were wholly uncalled for
and that the policemen making the ar
rests were utterly ignorant of theiI
duties. This utterance of the mayor
was In line with his well known atti-
tude as to the government of men. He
Is for the least possible government
consistent with order and civilization
He espouses the cause Of personal lib
erty, and nothing makes Mayor Gay
nor more indignant than the unwar'
ranted arrest of citizen by an igno
rant or vicious policeman.
Early in his mayors term Mr.. Gay
nor created national sensation wher
he arose at meeting of publishers
and read fierce denunciation of W
II. Hearst and his newspapers, charg
ing Mr.. Hearst with having falsified q
city record in reproducing 1t photo
graphically after certain alterations