Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-11

New York. Sept. 1l.-Mayor Gaynor
died on the steamer Baltic in mid
ocean At o'clock on Wednesday after
noon. according to a cablegram re-
ceivsd here today from Rufus w.
GAynor. his son.
News Of his death was received In .
message sent to Robert Adamson, the
mayors secretary. by Rufus Gaynor.
who sailed with him. The message
read ;aa follows:
Father died Wednesday at o'clock.
due 70 heart failure. Notify mother"
III When He Sailed.
Mayor Gaynof sailed away from New
York. q fast-failing man, on the morn
ing OF Sept. I. An hour before he sailed
only ono man. his secretary, knew Of
his plans outside Of members Of his
immediate family. The mayors an
nounced purpose was a brief vacation
on the sea. He felt that the tonic ef-
feet Of the salt air would restore his
health.
The Baltic was due at Queenstown
today. The mayor died as he was near
ing the other side. The news of his
death was sent from Cook Haven.
Candidate For Reelection.
Mayor Gaynor left New York at a
time when the city was seething in one
Of the ssrangest municipal campaigns
In its history. The day before his de-
parture he was notified by representa-
tives OF independent political organiza-
te<sa f,nl oA~ -;
their standard bearer in the mayoralty
at the city hall park to hear him ac-
was 10 weak he was unable to deliver
II.
sAsportssef illness Denied.
Before the mayor sailed his secretary
issued a. statement denying reports Of
the mayors serious illness.
The recent attack Of the old throat
trouble, due to the wound inflicted on
Aug. -. 1910. by J. ]. Gallagher. just
as the mayor was about to leave this
city for brief vacation in Europe had
entirely disappeared. according to Mr..
Adamson, and MT. Gaynor expected to
return and enter the campaign with
his old-time vigor. The mayor himself
SROAG VI AlD COA0AlAVA6 a. AS4AOWSs
Il have been nearly four years
mayor and have not yet had any vaca-
ton. suppose almost everybody will
concede may have one now. I have
been laid up a few days with one Of
the sharp attacks occasionally have
from my mishap Of few years ago.
but I am now over It,"
Prepared 10 Attack Tammany.
He was expected to attack Tammany
Hall sharply and politically as soon as
he returned to this city.
Before his departure he issued q
characteristic statement leveled at
Tammany Han leaders and other po-
liticaI opponents, in which he referred
to them az "miserable scamps," and
asserted that they were seeking his
moral assassination.
The bullet that lodged in his throat
three years ago had never been re-
moved. It was the mayors plan to
remain abroad less than a week. He
expected to- sail from New York for
LIVERPOOL Sept. Is and reach this city
q week later.
PoiiSieai situation ovsrturnsd.
Nayof 3aynors sudden death COM
pletely overturns the municipal politi-
cal situation. It removes from the field
a candidate for mayor who was ex-
pected to cut heavily into the vote OF
the fusion nominee. John Purroy Nit
ci1el, and leaves only the tickets NOM
mated by the democrats and the fu-
sionists. The former Is headed by Ed
ward e. Mccall. former chairman OF
the public service commission OF this
district.
The mayors denomination was