The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-15
Gaynor Bitterly
AssaiIed Tammany
Before: Departure

In view Of the unexpected death Of
Mayor Gaynor, the following state
ment, and account of his departure
from New York, published in The
New York Post of Sept. 4 is especial
ly interesting:
Mayor Gaynor surprised local poll
ticians today by suddenly announcing
his determination to take a rest Of two
weeks at sea, n departing on the
steamship Baltic, which sailed for
Liverpool at noon. He left in the
hands of his secretary, Robert Adam
son, to be made public: almost at the
exact moment of his departure, a
statement which is the most vigorous
and singing attack ON Charles F.
Murphy ard Tammany that he has
yet. made, n which indicates that
the main, issue of the Eaynor cam
paign for better city government will
be the elimination of Murphy and the
Tammany code.
Mr.. Adamson said that the trip was
not taken because Mayor Gaynor was
i'll, but solely to give him a rest. and
that he would return on a ship that
will and him in New York on Sept.
20. He will not leave the city of
Liverpool while he is on the other
side.
Mr.. Adamson added hat the reason
Mayor Gaynor insisted upon secrecy
as to his trip was because he wished
to avoid the excitement and publicity
at the pier which an announcement in
advance would AVE caused. Besides
Mr.. Adamson and Mr.. Smith and the
members of the family, no one knew
that the mayor was leaving. Even
Lieutenant Kennel, when he was
directed this morning to report at the
mayors Brooklyn home, did not know
what orders he would receive when he
arrived there.
McAneny Sails, Too.
Another element of surprise that
was injected into the local political
situation today was an announcement
that George McAneny, borough presi-
dent, and fusion candidate for presi-
dent of the board of aldermen, will
also leave for Europe on the Maure-
tania on Sept. 10. He will return by
Oct. /. He will be accompanied by his
brother, Leonard McAneny, and his
elder daughter. .,..s
In the statement left by Mayor
Gaynor, which is the first of a series
of b~roadsides that he promises for the
e~nlivenment of the campaign, the
mayor concentrated his batteries on
the political gulosity of Murphy and
his men, and from the fact hat he
omitted all mention of the fusion COM
mittee and it's candidates, the assump-
ton is that he will endeavor to keep
before the minds of the voters his
claim that he is the only man who
car keep Tammany hall out of the
local government.
Murphy and the chaps that sat
down with him at Delmonico,s and
guzzled and abused me until their
faces were red" the mayor wrote.
"were ready to eat me up; yet /
never did anything to them except
what tended to make them look
respectable" "t .G
Murphy's grievance, declared the
mayor, was because the city was not
turned over to him in the Gaynor ad-
ministration, and because the heads
of departments were: his, the mayors,
men and not Murphy's. The state
ment contained frequent references to
the miserable little political grafters
that, sat down at Delmonieo's," and
it gave an account of the gross frauds
that have been perpetrated in state
departments through the Murphy in
1uence.
The highway contracts are charac-
terized as frauds, and there is an
ob1ique defence Of Governor Sulzer,
whose breaking Of these contracts is
assumed by the mayor to be the "chief