The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-28
MAY USE GAYNOR AS DARK HORSE
Democrat Says Republicans
 Will Stand Watching
IS NEW YORK WICKED?
Has No More Crime and Vice Than Any Other City if Populations Are Considered-Hotel Builds
 Child's Roof Garden
pr RoRERr LEE cARrER

1 New York, April Elf there should
 be long deadlock at the Baltimore con-
 vention and Q fast, competent dark horse
 Is needed by the national democracy, New
 York is prepared to furnish one which
 she believes is ideal in the person of Mayor William J. Gaynor.
 1 Mayor Gaynor Is not a candidate for i the presidential nomination. His hat is
 not in the ring. It may be that his
 name will not be presented at Baltimore
 at all.
 But when forecasting the result in Bal timore 1t would be well to remember that
 there is a bunch of 90 delegates from New York under no instructions except | to vote as a unit, and no living man,
 not even excepting Charles Francis Mur- | phy, knows today how they are going to vote.
 | When the combined wisdom of the
 New York delegation decides on the can
 didate who will add the greatest
 strength to the party in New York in November, whether it be Clark or Har-
 mon, Underwood or Wilson, those 90 votes will go to him. In case the convention
 finds a choice too difficult and New York
 sees,a a reasonable chance of having Mayor Gaynor accepted, his name will be pre-
 scented and the national democracy will l be assured that he can come as near carrying New York state with the sur
 rounding states as any man who can | be named.
 That is the democratic situation in New
 York today as it was outlined to me | hi AL. many.
 "Tammy,' he further declared, will
 support loyally any man who may be
 named at Baltimore. I believe we can carry the state for him. If anybody has
 the idea, however. that the democrats are going to have a cineh in November he should revise it.
 | It is true that just now the republicans | are badly split and the democrats are
 united. It's a long time before Novem- l Der though, and in presidential years | warning republican factions have an un-
 canny faculty for getting together. It may be that they will keep up the fight
 until election day, as they did in the
 Conkling Blaine fight, but it won't do to count on.
 I've heard some of our people express
 the idea that Roosevelt would be the easiest man to beat that could be named. Maybe so, but I'm free to say Pm afraid
 of the Rough Riders. There never was ! in my experience a man who could get
 next to the people like he can, and when he has fair chance at the voters there's
 no telling what will happen. would be | just as we'll satisfied to see the republi- | can nomination go to somebody else" i Every once in a while somebody, gen orally somebody who knows very little I ft.~ F11I- @1.-. | fully wicked New York is how vice
 f1ourishes here as it does nowhere in the world and that Sodom and Gomorroh | had nothing on the metropolis in the mat
 ter of degrading wiekedness. 1 The other day very earnest professor
 of a provincial university rose to make
 a few remarks on this line.
 l That there is vice and wickedness and | irpmorality in New York is not to be de-
 nied. But that it is any worse here | than 1t is in any great city is doubtful l Outside of London there is no city in the world anything like the population | of New York in character. Men of all nations gather here. There is hardly u | dialect in the known world which is not I spoken here. New York has a float | ing population greater than the total pop ulation of most cities in the country and
 men who are qualified to express an l opinion based on knowledge are almost
 unanimous in agreeing that in the mat
 ter of will the metropolis compares most | favorably with any of the great cities
 not only here but in Europe as we'll | "There's nothing nowadays that isn't capitalized is the pessimistic vail of the | average New Yorker. However, this statement, on being analysed, will not
 bear water. The biggest feature of New York's ever changing cosmopolitan pop | II iS ali ina of the year huge vans can be seen every hour of the day carrying the goods of New York's shiftless from one section to another, but at this time of the year the
 vans are taxed to the utmost, and it Is
 only by applying weeks ahead that they | can be secured.
 | Roughly speaking, there are between
 5000 and 10,00O of these vans doing bus
 mess around Greater New York, with an annual gross of over $10000,0O0. None of
 the capitalized express companies, Wells, Fargo, Adams, etc., cover this field con
 sequently the entire work is handled by
 small independents. most of them not having over one or two vans. 1 For a. million in it" scheme nothing l could be peter, and 1t could be pointed
 out that a well organized company could handle the enormous business of the
 hundred department stores in Greater New
 York, under contract which would meet | l the dividend surplus
 1 A movement is on foot in some of the suburbs about New York which should | be watched with interest by the whole country. It is to organize state con
 stabulary on the order of the Pennsyl- vania mounted police.
 Although the miners call them Cos
 sacks" not farmer or farmers wife | or daughter sees the little group of two
 or three mounted policemen pass along l the highway without sense of security
 at the presence of these representatives
 of the states strong arm
 l Numerous murders in our outlying sub
 urbs have driven dozens of families into the densey populated city, all want of | ordinary protection by the police power, | The Pennsylvania mounted police are | soldiers, not politicians or relatives of politicians The moment trouble brews l they are there to shoot If necessary. but
 to protect life and property from all | hazards.
 | The child problem in the hotel has. it | is believed, been solved This matter i that has caused so much concern to the management of these places has been | conquered by one of the big Broadway | houses.
 l The extensive roof of the building is to | be sodded and covered with glass in the l summer and protected in the winter. The corridors will be clear of children. Par l ents may go out sight seeing and shop ping and be sure that their children will | be perfectly safe Besides the natural