New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-29
MAYOR ARRAIGNED IN
THANKSGIVING SERMON
Enough to Drive Any City to
the Bad" Says the Rev.
Harold |. Patterson.
BECKER CASE AN EXAMPLE
Much of That Affair Chargeable,
lie Says, to Gaynor, the Dis
ciple of the New Brand
Of Personal Liberty.

one Of the sharpcst arrangements -
Mayor Gayuor and his administration
to which public audience in this city
has yet listened was delivered last
night by the Rev. Harold l.. Patterson,
Of the Hamilton Grange Reform
Church. at l40th street and Conycn:
avenue. before big audience which
had gathered to hear his Thanksgiving
evening sermon.
=. Patterson said the Mayor was
enough to drive any city to the bad
ana hailed him as "a disciple Of the
new kind of personal liberty, with the
accent on the personal. He said the
Roscnthal affair had revealed how far
the present administration had fallen
short of respectability. and had eX-
posed conditions which were in the ma
iority of cases the direct outcome Of
his honor's attitude toward vice. He
went on:
pclled 10 live in New York during Cay
noI's reign Of the last two years ana
half can help deplOriug, as he Wou!d
deDlOre any open insult directed al MS
home city, the calamity Whlch that au-
miuistratiOn has proved. II has been uh-
fortunate for the city as MUNICIPALITY
hut the more serious aspects or the pre-
ent situation are not so apparent ,,,i IL II
had not been for the diSgIacetul VI ltoSeu
thai affair IL is doubtful II the StheIdl
public would have been able TO size up
Mayor Gaynor for the man we now hho"
him 10 be. .,.,, oaso nor
faps as closely as any one, ana ~
tended the trial Of Becker, ana 90 not
hesitate for the fraction of second 10
proclaim my conviction that muCh 0i @ tma.
AFFAIR was directly ChaTBeabie 10 ha!oii
Gaynor himself. The policeman VINO uIu
NOT nerform his honest public duty the
CRATER. the crook, the keeper OF the house
of prostitution-every yiolator Oh 5O.h
laws and public aeCency-hdd OHlE -
turn 10 city Hall for justification OF Iils
t lie Ene,y that Mayor Gaynor, the
disciple OF the new brand OF peISoidI
liberty-the kind that has the acSent In
the personal-wOuld wink at anythihs He
might have done. - a., ,,olica
have not dared TO invade an! oI ln5
strongholds of vice. They have not ii Iai I ca
10 make raids on brOthelS ana saIIpil"s
Joints, even though those places Hei 49,
c. 4. 4,
Rum sellers have thriyed on the Suh9aS
business. which the Mayors attitude mas
fostered ] know nothing about ue
MAYORS personal habits but he seems 70
he perfectly familiar with the details OF
the business and all that goes on III the
back rooms" Of these places.
Mayor GaynOT'S new religion o. pei
sonaI liberty does not grant the liberty
10 do right, but the license TO 40 Wrpis.
In Whitman and Judge GOff We strike the
deeper note in our municipal NE lhcg
are the kind Of men we want III our
nublic Offices and the only KIND, lhty
are of the right stuff. Mayor GaNho5'
however, would put any city 10 the Dad,
Whatever its past virtues and Whatever
IFS struggle 10 be decent and law abldlns'
"If one year from now" Mr. Patter-
son said i'm closing, the citizens OF
New York rise up and put this per-
sonaI liberty disciple where he never
can get back in public Office they VIII
have performed the most valuable ser
vice which the city and the country IN
general has received since Bryan ana
his free silver buncombe were put
aboard the political 'toboggan.'