Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-30
Accuses Him Point Blank Of Being Re-
sponsib|e for the $4,000 Draft
Payment and Shouts That People
viii Soon Find Him Out"

Il and the important thing is for Mr.
Gayncr, mayor OF New York, guardian
of our property, to answer clearly art
quickly.
say your law partner paid the war
rant, if you please. Mr.. Gaynor; say
your law partaers assistant paid it, il
YOU nlease. but at least explain why Il
warrant which the former administra
ton held up as exorbtant was paid by
you' administration without question
and without investigation.
Answer, Mayor Gaynor. as matter
Of duty. as a matter of decency and as a
matter of public policy.
| Was not Catalan the intermediary
between you aud Charley Murphy ana
was he not largely instrumental IN gel
ting you the Tammy Hall nomination?
| Was no, Conalan concerned IN the
| attompt 10 steal for you the hoHiihat ION
Of the Independence League which piece
of political PEI oh climbing Just Eou' an
honest Judge, effectually stopped?
Did not Comptroller PrendergaSt, at
| ter YOU mad been seated as mayor eau
your attention To the warrant Tor coma
hans x4s. Obo, hich was in Your office:
Did not Comptroller Prendergast ex-
| plain to YOU what it was and tell you
itbat If Won would send the warrant back
| IN hin, he would make a complete report
| ~, il and go to the bottom of the mat
tar?"
Did YOU not thank Comptroller Prem
dergast and say that it was true that
these lawyers in such cases were get
ting too much from the city,?
. l,ar
rant back to the comptroller and fail 10
ask for the report, but did you not, on
the contrary, allow this padded fee to go
through unquestioned on Jan. t. 1910?
Stop talking about the date that did
not print and say few words about the
date that did print.
ITO your blatherskite abuse am indf-
ferent. for in all such matters 1 consider
the source and the natural irritation that
IA public official feels in being exposed.
"A man or an expert that seeks sin
cerely to serve the people and protect
their rights and their property must al
ways expect the antagonism and abuse
of the public official who Is exposed and
pilloried.
When the San Francisco Examiner
in San Francisco that indignant individ-
, ual denounced the Examiner as a public
Enemy and had his tame board of super
Jisors pass resolutions condemning the
paper ana assailing me-
Still, everybody knows today what
happened to SchmitZ. And everybody to-
lay would rather have Schmitz's abuse
han his cOmmendation.
when the New York Journal first at
tackled and exposed District Attorney Je-
rome that outraged prosecutor rushed
into print to denounce the Journal, and
10 abuse and sue me.
Still, everybody knows what happened
20 Jerome and what happened to the libel
suit. and most people today would rather
be sued by Jerome than praised by him.
Now. | know perfectly we'll what is
going to happen to you, Mr.. Gaynor.
THE people are going to eventually
o find you out, and repudiate, and tan
both you and your thick Hyde
And even those newspapers that are
now trucking and lickspittling to you
n the hope of securing the city ad-
vertising, will in the end sacrifice those
lucrative contracts for the priceless
privilege of telling the truth about
YOU"
For the mayor, Robert A. Damson.
his private secretary, gave out a state
nent made before the mayor had seen
Mr. Hearst's statement. In part it
says:
The mayor is not required to sign
warrants at all. They are made out
md signed by the comptroller and the
'hief clerk of the mapOr's office under
an authority of the charter. over
$4,000 such drafts are signed in a
year, some days over 100. The mayor
has never signed one. The (Cohalan)
claim was for legal services in the
franchise tax suits. Several were paid
including Judge (Alton b. Parker
The claim was audited and filed last
December, after much evidence was
aiken and thereby became legal
claim against the city. Mayor Gaynor
never had anything to do with it,
Herman Metz, comptroller of the CITY
under the administration of Mayor Nc
Clellan, issued a statement tonight trac-
| ing the technical course of the warrant
| during his term of office and then says
in part:
| fApout the last thlng | heard before
leaving was that Chamberlain Martin had
refused to sign the warrant when It
reached him and had returned it to the
mayors office. of necessity. left it there
until after the new administration tool,
office"
IN brief. Mr.. Metz makes plain his belief
| that final responsibility for the payment
l rested with the Gaynor NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.