New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-08
CALLS MAYORS REPLY
70 HIS SUIT COWARDLY
c,rran SAYS Answer in Libel
Case Includes lrreIe-
want Matter.
REFUSES TO BE CATSPAW
citv Executive Again Discusses
Police and Vice, Praises
Waldo and Attacks
Parkhurst

Henry n. Curran. chairman of the
sBernanic investigating committee. de-
.slired last night TO make public the
answer of Mayor >Gaynor to the 800 900
libel suit that the Alderman has brought
against the Mayor
The answer. which covers fifty-five
typewritten pages. was served upon
Samuel j. RoSensOhn, Mr.. Currans at
,orney Stephen Baldwin, counsel for the
Mayor said ne would not make the an
swer public until 1t was filed in regular
course tomorrow.
If I made public this answer" said
Mr.. Curran. after he had read the
lengthy document, 81 might be liable TO
libel suits brought by other Aldermen
whom the Mayor mentions. Let the
Mayor make the document public him
self and assume all responsibility.
Mayor Gaynor has taken a malicious
and cowardly advantage by including in
his answer to my suit all the charges of
alleged newsstand graft against members
Of the Board of Aldermen, past and pres
ent. with but an inhnitesimal mention Of
my own case, and I decline to be the
catspsw TO pull his chestnuts out Of the
ire in regard to others"
2 Mr.. Curran said the answer OF the
lsyor was not verified, although he Ohe
Aderman) had sworn to everything he
hld said in his complaint.
Mayor Gaynor discusses the police and
vie in this city in long interview made
pul yesterday. He declares the police
hen are the best in the world and that
Ca ain Rhinelander Waldo is a splendid
Pole Commissioner. He takes all the
credl for the detective bureau in pro-
duehg for the District Attorney all the
evidence upon which Lieutenant Becker
was Vied and convicted.
The Mayor says recently a man told
him II took crook TO catch a crook, to
which ne replied Sir. if I need to put
a thief or a CRATER at the head Of the
force il order to catch the thieves and
criminals Of New York. then 1 shall not
catch the thieves and criminals Of New
York. for shall never put such man
at the head Of the police force. You and
others who are talking like you ought to
be ashamed Of yourselves"
Il have disgust against all such peo-
pie Soma clergymen even came and
talked the same way with me. My no.
ton is that / want an absolutely honest
man and a gentleman at the head of the
police force and l am going. TO stick to
that notion. OF course, he must also be
intelligent Mr. Waldo fulfls these con-
dtions. For a generation the heads and
leaders OF the force have gone out of
Office millionaires. That is all at an end.
There are grs tiers left from the old re
gime They being retired one after
the other"
Discussing tht sources Of graft, the
Mayor says it zones from the enforce
ment OF the excise law and the laws
against prostitution and gambling He
repeats what he has said about his meth
DDS of enforcing these laws.
The Mayor refers TO his former state
ments that Commissioner Waldo was de-
ceived by Lieutenant Becker, and ADDS:
of the twelve who dipped the sop with
Jesus. one betrayed Him. II was not at
all astonishing that Becker betrayed
Waldo. II would only be weak and con-
temptible in a mayor TO sacrihce MS
heads of departments when some clamor
arises. and make a hero of himself.
10 not wish to be the hero of degenerate
newspapers. Let SOM who want to have
mat sort Of hero worship have it.
Continuing his attack upon DR.. Park
hurst. the Mayor repeats his charge that
the clergyman was responsible for driving
the prostitutes out of certain localities in
which they had congregated, with the re-
suit that they were distributed all over
the city.
Every one now knows the terrible in
jury which this clergyman did, the
Mayor cOstinues. HE is now hired out
10 a newspaper and has column, more
or less. every day. He prints his picture
at the head of the column. If Jesus were
here, do you think that He would print
His picture at the TOP. Of the column and
then write unkind. untruthful and unkind
and uncharitabIe and f1ippant things
about others?''