Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-12
UNITE IN
/. PRAISE OF GAYNOR
Laud His Work for Reform and
Discuss Effect of His
Loss.

NEW YORK, Sept. Theoretically
every newspaper in the city in COM
menting editorially on the death of
Mayor Gaynor praises his work for
reform and discusses the effect of his
loss on the political situation.
"Public Service His IDEAL"
The Times: Complex and often
contradictory as were the qualities
that made up the character of Mayor
Gaynor, it is not difficult to see that
throughout his life he was guided by
an ideal and an ambition, the wish
to devote his very unusual abilities to
the public service, the service of his
fellow men, of his city and it's peo-
ple."
Mitchell or Tammany.''
The Press: "with Gaynor alive,
Mitchell was dead; with Gaynor dead,
Mitchell lives. With Gaynor in the
running the Press was emphatically
for him and emphatically against
Mitchell There was no uncertainty
about the position of this newspaper.
Yesterday has passed; another con-
dition presents itself today. 1t is
Mitchell or Tammany, and between
ehooo tWo tAlo EEc<SS ~ LOT A1tCnci
'fHis Own Master.1
The Tribune: "Mr. Gaynor was his
own master in what he did, and no
boss's puppet. His administration,
barring his strange defense OF police
corruption, showed a marked advance
in efficiency on that of any of his
recent predecessors"
"BuIIet Warped Judgment"
II. I.
sible to measure the nervous infiu-
ally morbid temperament by the bull
let which Mayor Gaynor carried In
his throat for three years and which
Indirectly caused his death. This
influence must have been very grea'
and 1t helps to explain much in his
more recent political conduct thai
otherwise defies explanation. Ger
tainly 1t warped his judgment and
weakened his self-controi"
aHad nm Unusual Mfnd.s
The Sun: HE had a constituency
a public which took In most of these
United States. He brought thai
people,, as Zarathrustra would say
His letters, pithy, at times bitter
humorous, ironical, saturated In the
strong juices of his character, en-
riched with long, serious story and
experience, ranging without effort
from the so-ca1led heights or depths
of scholarship to the more difficult
and dangerous art of saying the right
thing to a child; there Is one monu-
nnent of his engaging and unusual
. mind"
"AIways a Fighter
The Evening Telegram: "Sympa-
kAxr &C.
out to the family of the dead magis-
trate, not alone from his friends and
adherents, but also from his political
opponents, who, while differing with
were bound to admire him for his
positive character and fearlessness.
From the time of his young man.
hood, through a career embracing
newspaper work, practise Of the law.
1.-THE bench and the Inayorality, to
which he was elected in 1909, he was
always the fighter, always in the pub
lie eye."
"Improved City Government"
The Evening Globe: Elm almost
every respect the government OF
the period that Mayor Gayner has
been at the City Hall. He tried to
be practical and to get along with
political elements whose motives he
understood and thoroughly dis
trusted, and this seemed at times II
make his course inconsistent. but
concerning everything that he
deemed vital he was stony deaf to
the advicesof the profit-seekers."
Death a Public Disaster.
The Evening Mail: 1.-THE death Of
Mayor Gaynor at sea Is great public
disaster. After a stormy and success
ooha ~ nj
rings and bosses he spent many years
on the Supreme Court bench, made
memorable by fierce denunciations of
habitual official lawlessness that for
a time stamped him as the foremost
champion of personal liberty on the
American continent There was no
drawer spirit, no keener and more
Independent mind"
"was Real Mayor"
The Evening Sun: only a few
days before in recounting the story
of his four years Of service in City
Hall, william j. Gaynor said: !
of the word William J. Gaynor has
been the mayor Of this town. Mis-
takes he made; who does not? Err
rors of Judgment stand forth, added
to errors of temper: but who ia
guiltless?"
Courage Dominant Note"
The Evening Post: death has
suddenly removed from the whirl of
this city's life the most striking and
extraordinary figure in it; and he
was snatched away at moment
when the part that his personality
was playing in the city's affairs was
at It's maximum of distinctiveness
and perhaps of Importance. In his
public career, whatever its faults
and in our Judgment they were many
and grave-the dominant note was
courage"
aNo Mans Man But His own"
The Herald: Eyes, he was mayor
One of the strongest characteristics
of the man who breathed his last on
board the Baltic in mid-ocean on
Wednesday was that he was no mans
man but his own. His opinions were
his own opinions. His policies were
his own policies. His virtues were
his own virtues. His faiiings were
his own failings. His successes were
his own successes. His life was just
what he made it.
Gaynor's Strength Landed