New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-22
Said to Think Independent
Campaign Will Make Tam
many Take Him Up.
PLAN HAS FEW FRIENDS
Some Estimate Board Members
Lukewarm Over Gaynor's
Get Together for-Re-
election Plan.

election Plan.
Navor Gaynor. who has been quietly
nursing a second term BOOM as WAS
published exclusively in The Tribune
Yesterday. approached certain meih-
hers of the Board of Estimate recently.
IL was said last night, and asked them
if they would join him in plan >
have him and the entire Board OF rs
innate reelected next fall. some "
them. il was added, did not receive the
idea with enthusiasm. 1t is under
stood that he told them that he had
the necessary machinery to put ticket
in the field for the entire board-him-
self. Controller Prendergast Presiden'
Mitchell Of the Board of Aldermen ana
the five borough presidents-to run in
depcndently.
President Mitchell denied that thee
was any truth IN the story. i'm so far
as II affected him. but the fact re-
NAMED that William LustGarten, who
organized the Citizens Committee, was
provided with funds sufficient To carry
out such programme. Mr.. Lustgar-
ten. who has been used by Mayor Gay
nor in the past TO bring taxpayers
suits. is now busy building a political
machine to put MAYOR Gaynor in the
Mayors chair for another four years.
According 10 a story told yesterday,
Mayor Gaynor invited prominent Dem
ocrats To his office in the City Hall and
asked them 10 become members OF the
citizens Committee The membership
is limited TO three hundred. but as yet
ii has less than nifty members. In one
known case, according 10 The Trib-
une's informant. prominent business
man declined point blank 10 lend his
name Ia any such plan. In other cases,
il is said. agents OF Mr.. Lustgarten
who have approached business men
whose names would lend weight 10 any
such movement have met with re-
fusal.
Thinks Mayor No Winner.
This activity started early last DE
cember about the time Mayor Gaynor
spoke at Mr.. Lustgarten's East Side
clubhouse. in orchard street. nca- HiN-
ington street. and af;er the MAYORS
friends learned that Tammany Hall
would not renomnate him. \ lieuten-
ant o. Charles r. Murphy said yester-
day that Tammany Hall did not car.
Ia shoulder the Mayor next fail for
several reasons.
"Onc big reason" said this Tam
many man. is that the Mayor woull
carry the ticket To defeat"
Knowing that Tammany would not
voluntarily shoulder him again. politi-
cal wiseacres reasoned. the Mayor has
done the only thing possible-to try to
force Tammany to indorse him. He
has gathered around him hcnchmen OF
more or less anti-Tammany feelings
and started his own machine. calling il
the Citizens Committee. II. when the
time comes when Tammany must des-
ignatc its candidate for Mayor At the
next primary-for there will bc no city
convention. owing 10 tlA direct primary
lawn September. it sees that Gay
nor is determined to run, IL is be-
lieyed by those who are watching the
game that the Wigwam would not risk
its chances by splitting its vote.
"Tammany may be forced to indorse
Gaynor," said one Tammany man yes
tcrday, but We hope not. About the
only element We could poll for him
would be the machine men-and you
know they are not any too many these
Observation-Disclosures and a small sprink-
| ling OF others
Popular with Saloon Mon.
He went on TO say that the Mayor
order keeping policemen from going