New-York tribune., 1910-12-28
GAYNOR WILL NOT HURRY
Won't Pick Elections Board
Until Fosdick Reports.
eRlscoM CHOOSES M'kEE
Tammany Indorses Britt-klngs
Organizations Favor Present
Incumbents.

Methods that have prevailed in the boaro
of Elections will be severely dealt witn' II
| is understood by Raymond =. Fosoich'
/ Commissioner of Accounts, in his report oii
the investigation of the board. which viii
! be ready for the Mayor tomorrow IL VIII
be a somewhat lengthy document, and VIII
go fully into some things that the board
has done as well as those 1t has taheu
! to do The Mayor intends to go over the
report carefully before he decides on the
appointments of Elections Commissioners
! which he has to make before January l.
when the terms of the present fncunpeh's
| expire.
| Lloyd c. Griscom, president of the Ne"
York County Republican Committee, Flsl'eo
| Mayor Gaynors office yesterday AFTERNOON
| TO present the recommendation OF Moses NJ.
! Mckee to succeed Charles b. rage Inc
| present representative OF the hspuoiica"
! organization In this county. Inc seieo'io
| had been made at q special meetlhs oI INC
executive committee held at noon. 1ester-
day was the last day upon which the heaos
OF the political organizations in New YORK
and Kings counties could make their recon-
! ,uendatjon in compliance with the law.
Mr. Mckee is the Republican leader Oh
the 2lst District He holds the position OF
Speciai Deputy Excise Commissioned, IN
| charge OF the office of the State Excise LIS
| partment in this county. 1t had been uii-
! derstood that Mayor Gaynor was not III
/ favor of appointing district leaders TO me
| Board of Elections, but it is believed lhat
/ President Griscom had some assurances
! that Mr. Mckee would be satisfactory 10
! the Mayor before making the recommends
| ton.
Tammany Hall has already recommended
I
Counsel. to take the place of John r. Dool-
| ing. while the Republican and Democratic
organizations in Kings County have recon-
mended John Z. Smith and James Kane
| respectively. to succeed themselves.
| 1t is thought by some that Mayor Gaynor
| does not intend to reappolnt any OF the
| present members of the board
| Commissioner Of Accounts Fosdick COM
! pIeted his investigation Of the Board OF
| Elections yesterday by examining the tour
! commissioners. It Is understood that each
| commissioner with the exception of Presl-
| dent Dooiins shifted the blame for what
ever irregularities might have been o1S-
covered to the other members of the board
President Dooling took a more or less de-
| fant attitude it is said. When he was
called to the stand he read statement,
in which he maintained that he did not
sioner of Accounts to investigate the Board
of Elections. 1t was state Office, he said,
being provided for by a special act of the
LEGISLATURE rather than by the city char
ter Holding that the Commissioner had
no power to make any investigation, Presi-
dent Dooling declared that any report he
might make would not be privileged, and
declared that he would hold the Commits
sioner OF Accounts personally responsible
for anything that he might say in his re-
port that was not pleasing.
Despite this statement President Dooilng
did not refuse to take the oath. and Com
missioner Fosdick examined him at some
length. Commissioner Page was first on
the stand. He is said to have told Commits
sioner Fosdick that President Dooling and
James Kane, the Democratic members,
ran the board to suit themselves, and that
the work left to him and Mr.. Smith, his
Republican colleague, was we'll done Inc
replies OF Commissioner Smith to similar
questions are alleged to have been much the
same as that given by Commissioner PAGE.
When James Kane came the stand he
tried to hold the Republican members of
the board responsible for whatever trouble
there may have been.
The investigation by Commissioner Fos-
Gaynor after the City Club and the Citi-
zens Union had sent him Joint letter
asking for such an investigation. In their
letter they declared that the examination
Of men recommended for election officials
by the heads of the various organizations
was nothing less than farcical. They COM
planned of alleged arbitrary methods OF
President Doolng in preparing the copy for
the official ballot a year ago last Nove1n-
her. and specified instances of alleged par
tisan favortism.
In the course of his investigation COM
missioner Fosdick looked over number
of examination papers handed in by appli-
cants for places election officials. 1t Is
understood that different names had been
signed to papers that were apparently writ
ten by the same person