The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-16


 It was said that Gaynor had spent $15,0O0 in his election, all but $1 900 of which came from his own pocket, and recently a correspondent explained that the money was used mainly to stop registration frauds in McKane's bailiwick and in the prosecution that followed.
 wanted Gaynor to be the Democratic candidate for governor, but the de mands of the justices supporters were embarrassing to the state boss, and the Tammany delegates sought to under mine Gaynor's chances by circulating stories to the effect that he had been divorced. His friends said he had act ed chivalrously in giving his first wife her release.
 In 1895 an effort was made to induce Gaynor to run for mayor of Brooklyn, but he declined on the ground that the nomination did not come from a unit ed Democracy. The following year found him supporting the free silver platform of the Democracy. In a let ter he said it WAS ' time for moral courage and that the ranks of the peo- pie were not disordered by the shame less cry of anarchist and Socialist which was being thrown into their faces and which was about all that could be heard from certain quarters which might prudently refrain from vicious epithets.
 Gaynor on Wealth.
 He wrote, among other things:
 'There is no Jealousy against wealth m this country. On the contrary, those who accumulate wealth, how ever great, in any legitimate calling, professional, mechanical, mercantile, agricultural or other, are subjects of emulation and honor This is true of every locality. It is wealth got by this means and by that and by trick and device out of the public by means of public franchises and of laws de vtsed for aggrandizement of the few at the expense of the many which is under the ban of the splendid intellf- gence and moral sense of the people of this country"
 That was one of Gaynor's f1rst ex- pressions of opinion in regard to the accumulation of wealth.
 MT. Gaynor was a candidate against Mcclellan in the Democratic city con vention fin 1903. He received 219 votes, all but one of the Brooklyn del egation. Martin w. Littleton nomi- mated Gaynor for mayor, saying:
 "He Is great lawyer, a great judge and, beyond all, great man. He has the moral courage of a martyr, the profound learning of a statesman, the conservative wisdom of a judge, the controversial talent of a lawyer and the imperial intellect of a genius"
 In 1905 the fusion1sts nearly took Gaynor as their candidate for mayor, but the Citizens Union did not look upon him favorably and withdrew from the conference After that Gay nor publicly declined to run.
 He also had boom for governor in 1906, but Charles F. Murphy wanted Hearst that year, and the latter was the Democratic nominee.
 Judge Gaynor was elected mayor of New. York at the November election in 19Q2 defeating William R. Hearst, candidate of the Independence league, and Otto T. Barnard, the Republican nominee. He succeeded George B. Nc Clellan in January 1910, and at once began to demonstrate his unusual qualities as an executive who held all the reins of government in his own hands and was the responsible driver of the greatest tallyho coach of munic ipal administration in the world.
 The mayor pays personal attention to each department in his vast turis- diction. One of his first acts was to