The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-12
GaynOr Is Believed to Be After
Presidential Nomination.
Wall Street Said to Be Furnish
ing Wilson Fund.
HE WILL FAVOR TAFT
New York Believes Roosevelt
Will Endorse President.
Republicans to Favor Re-eIec-
ton, Holland Says.

blOl, 1OAIdUU Says
New York, Jan. 12@Some who
have watched very carefully the ca
reer of Mayor Gaynor, as that has
been made in the past three years,
have been suspicious that many things
he has done and much that he has
said have been inspired by deep
seated, but very strong, ambition to
become president of the United
States Now that there are some IN
d1cations, superficial it may be at
present, that Democratic leaders are
wondering whether Mayor Gaynor
may not, after all, prove to be more
available from the point of view OF
success as a candidate for president
than any other Democrat, these sus-
picions are strengthened. Mayor Gay
nor's personal and public life, since
he became mayor, seems as inscrut-
able as the greater part of his active
life, since he became a man of in
fluence in Brooklyn, has always seem
ed to be. Yet it is not 1nscrutable, II
his various professions, public and
private, of his purpose as a citizen
and a public officer and of his view
of life are to be accepted as absolute
ly sincere. According to these profess
stons, Mayor Gaynor looks upon sim
plicity, sincerity and perfect integrity
of personal and official conduct as the
guiding rules of life for any man. He
has often professed to believe that,
after all, character is the measure OF
success.
On the other hand. many persons
have thought they have detected
wonderfully subtle intellectual quail
Ity in Mayor Gaynor and an ablllty
& more profoundly to read human ma
ture, especially that of people who live
under a democratic government, than
others are able to do who make loud
sounding statements of their profound
sympathy with and understanding OF
the human nature, both of individuals
and of men grouped in great masses
If this view is correct, Mayor GaynOr
is the most adrOft, skillful, plausible of
all of those who have practiced dem
agogy in its higher forms, with intent
thereby to secure popular favor and
gain the highest recognition that the
people Of a government like our own
can give.
Men of Wealth Trust Him.
Whatever else may be said of Mayor
Gaynor, he has maintained and in
creased the great popular interest IN
him, which was so serviceable a factor
at the time of his canvass for election
as mayor of New York. He has been
more successful than any public man
of his generation in this state in Sc
curing the confidence of men of large
business associations without in any
manner destroying the confidence of
- e masses in him. His fondness for
exceedingly plain speaking at times re-
fleets no more than a very keen judg-
ment as to matters upon which he
may safely speak with blunt, epigram-
matte and unconventional language,
for 1t has been observed that he can
be the most taciturn of men when
questions arise that involve any state
ment of opinions which might lead to
embarrassme
How Far Has It Gone?
It is impossible at this time to obtain
any reliable information which would
justify a report that formal. earnest
and incere organization has been per-
fected having Mayor Gaynor's nomi-
nation in view. One fact, however, has
been disclosed upon inquiry. and that
is that the mayor will not permit the
use of his name for the purpose of
masking politics that have for their
obje the nomination of some other
than himself for the presidency. If he
permits the use of his name, he will
be a candidate in all sincerity. He is
an extremely adrOit politician, and, for
that reason, will be likely to secure the
support of the New York delegation
should he decide to become candi-
date. Some of those who have most
closely watched Mayor Gaynor have
alv avs been persuaded that he de-
clined to permit his friends to name
him as the candid tie for governor last
year not because he was in any doubt
of election, if nominated, but because
his singularly acute political vision and
reasoning persuaded him that, if high
er honOrs We're coming to him, they
would come more easily if he were
mayor of New York than governor of
the state.
New YorI1's Attitude.
While it is undoubtedly true that
some of the leading Democrats of this
city favor the nomination of Governor
Harmon, and on the other hand it is
equally true that hardly any Demo-
cratic leaders of influence in this state
have been persuaded to commit them
selves to the candidacy of Governor
Wilson, 1t seems also to be the fact
that our Democratic leaders. even
those who are associated with Tam
many-from which organization
Mayor Gaynor has, with amazing skin,
been able to free himself from com
plete Observation-Disclosures wonder
whether the strongest candidate the
Democracy could name for the presi-
dency would not be a man who Will
receive no fractional support, has been
identified with no quarrelS and who
has shown himself skillful in compos-
ing differences within the party.
We hear in this city much gossip