Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-09-13
Gaynor on Wealth.
He wrote. among other things:

| There Is no Jealousy against wealth.
in 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. 1t 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-
vised for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the few
at the expense of the many which is
under the ban of the splendid intelli-
gence and moral sense of the people of
this country"
That was one Of Gaynor's first ex-
accumulation of wealth.
MI Gaynor was a candidate against
Mcclellan In the Democratic city con-
vention in 1903 He received PIG
votes. all but one of the Brooklyn del
egation. Martin w. Littleton nomi-
mated Gaynor for mayor, saying:
''He is a great lawyer, a great judge
and, beyond all. great man. He has
the moral courage of martyr, the
profound learning Of statesman. the
conservative wisdom of judge, the
controversial talent of a lawyer and
the imperial intellect of genius"
In 1905 the fusionists nearly took
Gaynor as their candidate for mayor,
but the Citizens Union did not look
upon him fayorably 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
1909, defeating William R. Hearst,
candidate of the Independence league.
and Otto T. Barnard, the Republican
nominee He succeeded George B. Me
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 juris-
diction One of his first acts was to
issue an order that all employees in the
" Sh no fu
a. m. to p. N. and no clock watchers
would be countenanced. He made
sweeping reforms in the police system,
visited the magistrates courts in per-
son for first hand information and
endeared himself to the people by in
sisting that nobody should be arrested
without good and sufficient cause.
Mr.. Gaynor Loves Horses.
Mr. Gaynor takes much pride in his
horses. He likes to stroll into their
stalls and rub and pat them. This
one took a prize this year." he always
tells his visitors, patting the TANKS of
beautiful creature that bears the I'M
romantic name of Lemons. Then he
stood with his hands in his pockets
and contemplated Lemons for minutes
at time.
you see," he Is fond of telling his
| visitors, II was raised ON farm. I
have always been fond of farm life. So
l got this place to live the simple
| life"
Mayor Gaynor has a big library
! two rooms of his house in Brooklyn
being crowded with books. And the
books are not for ornament, but for
use His favorite reading Is in the
direction of political economy and his
tory. He has pretty extensive ac-
quaintance with novels but never read
modern fiction very much He is fond
Of Fielding and has followed the great
novelists from Fielding's day.
OF late years he allowed even his
relationship with the old noveliSts to
lapse and did very little reading in
| that line, although he regretted 1t.
There were lot of old books that he
read time and again. The list of those
| DOCKS makes curious JuXIapOSltl0n.
They are Don Quixote" the works
| Of Rabelais. Shakespeare. Paradise
host" Franklin's autobiography and
the autobiography Of Benvenuto Gel.
Uni.
Mayor Gaynor has liking for old
clothes Why he should want to wear
pea jacket in the house may be diff
ficult to figure out, but he has used
II as another man would use a smoli-
ing jacket. The golf cap Is no beacon
light to the links; Gaynor wears IL
not because of golf. but because of its
comfort and its appropriateness to q
long walk.
Unconditional, but Polite.
During his campaign for the mayor
atty II was said by Gaynor's opponents
that he was cold. unresponsive per
son, with little of the human In his
manner, but the correspondents who
visited him at his city home and at his
farm painted far different picture of
his personality. One of them wrote: